[Sigia-l] Re: President's Choice?

[Steven Champeon]

on Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:34:35PM -0500, Lucilla Madamba wrote:
> >http://www.presidentschoice.ca
> 
> >By sheer chance, does any one know who designed it or
> 
> >might have had some involvement in the IA?
> 
> This site was designed by the Amicus in-house User
> Experience team.  Amicus is a subsidiary of CIBC
> (www.cibc.com). 

Wow. Took almost fifteen seconds to finally display properly over a
high speed connection, the markup isn't valid, they use javascript:
pseudo-URLs in most of the href attributes with no fall-through, it
obscures content if you mouse over the picture of the pie, and the
UI is just teeming with affordances that don't do anything (the 
President's report "tab", the little red arrows, dog-eared page
areas, the arrow pointing to "timesaving tools").

And if you visit with a browser it doesn't recognize (to say nothing of
whether it can actually handle the site's markup, etc.) it sends you to
a page explaining why they don't care about you as a customer.

 http://www.presidentschoice.ca/browserNotSupported.html

Good work.

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