User Interface Annoyance
If I click a button marked “Save and Exit,” there’s no need to pop up another dialog asking me if I’d like to save the changes. One would think that the “SAVE” in “Save and Exit” would be sufficient to indicate intent.
If I click a button marked “Save and Exit,” there’s no need to pop up another dialog asking me if I’d like to save the changes. One would think that the “SAVE” in “Save and Exit” would be sufficient to indicate intent.
We’ve been dumbing down the interface for at least twenty years now, and it seems we’ve arrived at absurdity.
Maybe now we can smart up the users?
We need to smart up everybody.
I ran into one of those annoying “Unknown Error” situations with my online banking application yesterday. As a software designer and (occasional, these days) programmer, I know that this error usually means that either the designer wimped out and didn’t specify all the error conditions or, if delegated to the programmer, the programmer got lazy and didn’t document all the errors.
On the other hand, this can also indicate a rushed project team that cut corners by not specifying all the errors as they did the coding.
Either way it’s poor practice.