Usability derailed
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
I love Redux (we developed it, of course I love it) but the piss poor frustration that is the voting system makes me S-C-R-E-A-M and want to strangle the genius who came up with the system.
TWO LOGINS!?
Are you trying to deter people from voting at all?
Do you have any idea how unfriendly it is to tell them you have to log into railsrumble.com to vote -and- not the app itself while they're on an individual app's main page that has its own login page? Yeah, read that again.
Well heck, to quote some feedback, "I'd vote for the app if I knew how to vote."
What were you thinking?
And for the record, the star thing is snazzy, cute and all... but you know people are going to start asking, "Did my vote count?" when the stars just stay there after they've clicked it.
The expectancy for something -anything- to happen once those stars go through the click process is EXPECTEDLY high. It's addictive really, the little prompt that decides the queasy fate of your (un)certainty.
And you deny us voters the satisfaction of unquestionable confirmation! So cruel. So very, very cruel.
What can I say? I'm insecure that way...
And now for a shameless plug: vote for Redux today! <3
I love Redux (we developed it, of course I love it) but the piss poor frustration that is the voting system makes me S-C-R-E-A-M and want to strangle the genius who came up with the system.
TWO LOGINS!?
Are you trying to deter people from voting at all?
Do you have any idea how unfriendly it is to tell them you have to log into railsrumble.com to vote -and- not the app itself while they're on an individual app's main page that has its own login page? Yeah, read that again.
Well heck, to quote some feedback, "I'd vote for the app if I knew how to vote."
What were you thinking?
And for the record, the star thing is snazzy, cute and all... but you know people are going to start asking, "Did my vote count?" when the stars just stay there after they've clicked it.
The expectancy for something -anything- to happen once those stars go through the click process is EXPECTEDLY high. It's addictive really, the little prompt that decides the queasy fate of your (un)certainty.
And you deny us voters the satisfaction of unquestionable confirmation! So cruel. So very, very cruel.
What can I say? I'm insecure that way...
And now for a shameless plug: vote for Redux today! <3
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Just a bad all around system.
and what the hell, making me enter 'atmvnpgt' to post a comment?? I hate word verification.
so did you win anything?