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

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Steven Champeon
>
> on Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:34:35PM -0500, Lucilla Madamba wrote:
> >
> > >http://www.presidentschoice.ca
[...]
> > 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

It is a reminder that "user experience" is too often a code word for
"creator experience".


> (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

The site was so fragile, it could look terrible even if visited with a
supported browser. Here is how it looked on my NN7 setup:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/boniface_lau/images/presidentsChoic
e.jpg


> (to say nothing of whether it can actually handle the site's markup,
> etc.)

Looks like it was "designed by painting".


Boniface