#bad usability

[thecatladyknits]

I legit have like nothing to do at work today so I was trying to look up and save exercises and workouts on bodybuilding.com, and I hate to sound whiny but why is it so hard to navigate? I am a search engine and information science and usability person BY EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND PROFESSION and I usually am able to work around even shitty designed sites, but I *cannot* figure it out. I can’t just save an exercise. I can’t figure out how to see the actual exercises contained in a program. It took me 15 minutes to figure out how to add new measurements yesterday. And I’m not even sure I could do it again if I tried right now.

They have a pretty and shiny website, but it is just not usable. I cannot figure it out. I ended up Googling “bodybuilding.com exercise database” because I can never find it by navigating around the site itself. It’s always taking me to articles about “6 ARM WORKOUTS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF” and shit. The BodySpace app is even worse. Unless I’m only finding programs that are totally blank and empty of exercises or something? I’ve tried adding a bunch of programs just to troubleshoot it, and I’m still stuck.

It’s frustrating, because the database is excellent itself; I just want to be able to SAVE a damn exercise to favorites or something, yanno a simple and well-established user functionality...

[objc-diamonds]

Domain creep

"Yes, I now have a domain for my techie blog", I was happy, when registering objc.diamonds. Now, some weeks later I got 3 domains more, I really do not wanted to register. So, why did I registered three domains more?

My providers user interface was so useless, that I was not able to delete my pre-registered new gTLDs. Got no time for a phone call, so I am now the proud owner of following domains, someone may want to use.

cocoa.coffee

objc.codes

coder.codes

Do you want to use one of these domains for the net cost price?

[uxthis-blog]

Quale di questi tipi di interruttori potrebbe farvi confondere sul suo stato (on/off)?

(Non) pensateci bene.

Quali usereste per progettare i settings di un'interfaccia?

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Che cos'è 

Lo switch trova applicazione in vari contesti, sia web che mobile. Il suo scopo è sostituire il radio button o la casella con la spunta nei settings, per tutte quelle feature che possiedono la qualità “enable / disable”. L’interruttore mimerebbe la proprietà “acceso / spento”, e si propone pertanto di rinforzare tale concetto facendo leva su un elemento ben noto nella nostra realtà non virtuale.

[interruttori pigiati furiosamente da Luana]

[uxthis-blog]

Gioco di tabs.

Nella prima immagine è selezionato il tab "documenti", nella seconda immagine è "presentazioni" e nella terza... ?

E' ancora il tab "presentazioni", ma adesso fa il timido.

Che cosa succede? L'etichetta della scheda selezionata ritorna allo stato non selezionato. E andrebbe bene, se non fossimo ancora in quella scheda...

[Tabs che hanno burlato Luana]

[uxthis-blog]

"Vedo-non vedo" con Astrid Task

Applicazione: Astrid Task [Android, iOS] - app per impostare e gestire task e reminders in modo piuttosto flessibile.

In foto: versione per Android, Samsung Galaxy s3. Modalità non landscape.

Nella schermata che consente la modifica dell'orario del reminder per il task in questione, possiamo sia premere le freccette (dove incontreremo un problema di usabilità in quanto premendo sulle superiori andremo a coprire l'orario), sia modificare in modo diretto con tastiera.

In questo caso, abbiamo scelto la modifica diretta. Per un po' di secondi, se ho premuto sulla casella dei minuti, apparirà l'indicatore della barra di stato, e contemporaneamente apparirà la tastiera dal basso.

Vorrei cancellare i minuti preimpostati ma...dov'è il tasto delete?

Oh..guardalo, è nascosto sotto il segnaposto della barra di stato.

Se provo a premere il pulsante cancella, non accadrà nulla; dovremo pazientemente attendere che il segnaposto egocentrico esca di scena.

[vedo-non vedo by Luana]

[saribrooke]

Riddle me this: Why let users choose the priority of their issue if the form only submits for something that's routine?  

Bonus Round: It doesn't even check for errors until the priority is set to "routine".

[luu-an-aa-blog]

Lo sforzo immane di compilare un form sul sito dell'INPS:

per ogni campo compilato bisogna cliccare su "applica". Mi sembra ovvio; suvvia utenti, siate generosi coi vostri click.

[alexasamuels-blog]

Am I missing something??

While not officially diagnosed, I'm fairly convinced I am susceptible to the occasional migraine (if not a migraine, a wretched nausea-inducing, head-throbbing diabolical headache) brought about through extreme weather changes.

As an early-warning device I subscribed to MediClim, a web site that alerts possible health compromises driven by the weather. Not surprising I just received one today, given the rain warning under which Toronto labours (and it is indeed raining relentlessly):

Alert Message Your migraine is more likely to be aggravated in the next 24 hours. Please follow your doctor's advice as closely as possible.

Ok, noted. The email also offered a link to weather alerts for the past 30 days for my area. Curious, I bit. Here's where I landed:

[caption id="attachment_616" align="aligncenter" width="855" caption="Sign in to view alerts. Sign in - where?"][/caption]

So I need to sign in to access what I'm looking for.

Do you see a sign-in button? A sign-in link?

Nope, neither do I.

The sign-up link is easy to find. But why not the sign-in for existing subscribers?

Eventually I realized that "MyMediclim" on the top was where I was to sign in.

Obvious? Maybe to others, but not to me.

Why make me work so hard when it could be so easy?

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