[dundee] Bad design examples...

[Axel]

Quoting Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>:

> Apropos of nothing at all, other than a desire to have a moan, I'm wondering
> about your experiences of annoying small design issues with software or
> systems that you use.
>
> The one that set me off is my accounting package: if I decide that I want to
> see (say) all customers, and don't enter a search condition, it whirs for a
> short time and then pops up a modal dialogue box warning me that I have
> selected to view (say) 260 customers, which might take a long time, do I want
> to proceed? It actually takes more time to move the mouse and click OK to
> proceed, than it does to select and display the customers (grr...). Not only
> that, I know, from checking the logs, that the software has to run a query to
> find out that there are 260 customers...and it only has to do this  
> to populate
> the dialogue box.
Solution: Use the enter key on your keyboard. :-)

That's nice. There a to many developers, which forget the user and the  
usability. Software and Devices with a bad usability are annoying.

There are a lots of design mistakes in everyday things as well. An  
interesting book about usability is http://tinyurl.com/2b3po56

>
>
> Don't even start me on the implementation of a system that thinks that 200
> customers is  a lot of records. I've looked at the code for  
> searching and that
> didn't improve my temper, either:  select * from customer, then loop through
> each record for matches, rather than SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE  
> (some search
> condition).
>
> ...and relax...
>
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