A screenshot from Maingear’s website when you click on a product that is no longer available. The text color of the links are so close to its background color, even tilting the screen won’t allow me to see it.
This is… Such an obvious problem. How can the web admin not notice it?
“… Attractiveness is a visceral-level phenomenon — the response is entirely to the surface look of an object. Beauty comes from the reflective level. Beauty looks below the surface. Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and pleasure. Objects that are unattractive on surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.”
pp. 87, Emotional Design by Don Norman
letterboxd - Uses famous movie quotes as their Captcha during sign up.
… Except I rarely watch movies?
This afternoon, I heard my coworker complaining about how difficult it was to open an Apple accessory package, which he had resolved to open it from the opposite side instead - That is equally difficult, since the layers are sealed with glue.
He then offered me another package that he also needed to open. I was suspicious at first. As it turned out, it was indeed an uneasy process. Assuming the steps I took were correct: First you have to pull off the hanging seal, then you have to peel off the rest of it (much easier to do if you haven’t cut your nail for a while) from the cover before you could open the package… Trust me, it sounds easy, but it really was not, especially for a palm-sized product package.
How could a task of opening a package requires so much mental effort?
My coworker then handed me an one-step instruction sheet for the thunderbolt adapter, and jokingly said that “if they are giving us an unnecessary instruction for this thing, they might as well just print the instructions of how to open the cover on the package itself.”
There are a lot of poorly localized smart phone apps out there, especially with game apps, with ambiguous instructions and badly translated texts, it simply ruins the overall experience.
Some people might argue that if the game itself is well executed, it doesn’t matter whether or not if the instructions are ambiguous or the scripts are badly translated.
Imagine you’re a novice adventurer, whom had just left your random-in-the-no-where village to depart on a great journey. Now compare these two lines:
A.) “There is a brand new world awaiting in front of me, and I am no longer (your name here) the village brat, but (your name here) the great adventurer. I will not be a part of the history… I, will make the history!”
B.) “i am happy to get out. now is adventure”
You get the idea.
…
Words less than 12… How does 11 sound like?
By the way, I end up with a character called 6. I like the number and it is also less than 12.
So proud of myself.
The honeycomb:
http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000029.php
“What does alphanumeric even means?”
I am sure someone must have asked that before. It means alphabets and numbers.
Blizzard customer support: is going the extra mile sometimes.
Via Quora.
Last week, I had to accompany my girl friend to go to the dentist clinic. During her check-up, I spent some time looking around the interior setting of the waiting area. Albeit the dental posters and the on-going horror video starring various kinds of teeth on the wall mounted TV - The overall atmosphere was pleasant and comfortable, mostly because of the home furnitures and the small beverage station.
I was sitting beside the beverage station. At one point, a little girl of about 6 or 7 years old approached this mini fridge to grab a drink (they are free for children patients). The fridge is approximately 130 cm, while her height is approximately 120 cm.
It took her 2-3 mins before she was able to open the fridge door. First she attempted to pull the door from the wrong side, then she backed up and stared at it for quite a while, then she noticed the pivot on the top right of the door… Before she could manage to get the apple juice out of the fridge.
Considering the frequency of young patients who visit the clinic, I wouldn’t be too surprised if other children have ran into the same problem before. After all, the door has handles on both sides, while only one side is openable.
One visibility issue. Two steps become four.
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