[Sigia-l] Usability Horror Stories

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"Emily Leahy" wrote:

> I work in the User Interface Design department of my
> company

What industry?

Incidentally, one *generic* class of silent but incredibly widespread UHS is
the obnoxiously inept 'sniffer' scripts that detect a specific browser
version/OS/JavaScript/Flash/QuickTime/etc. They refuse entry to the site for
millions of users daily, even though their client-end is perfectly capable
of handling it. They either make really silly programming errors or get way
too specific in detection or they still check for outdated stuff, etc.
There's no usability blunder there because the potential user doesn't even
get to first base to use anything.
 
Ziya
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