Why annoy your users through bad UI?

Posted At : June 5, 2008 10:01 AM | Posted By : Terry Schmitt
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I have to enter my work hours in a cheesy ASP web app. It functions OK, but every single freak'n time that you save your timesheet it comes back with a JavaScript prompt telling you that your time was saved. Why on earth would you force your user to acknowledge, by clicking the prompt button, something so obvious?? Wouldn't it be quite adequate to simply have a "Record Saved" info block on the returned web page?

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I've seen a few apps that do that... there's a reason why it's uncommon. :) Though bad UI is all over the place - you should check out the comments I made about developers' attempts to improve the DeviantArt UI on the onTap framework blog. :P
# Posted By ike | 6/17/08 11:29 AM

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