Comments on: Don’t Annoy Your Users http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Olivier http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/comment-page-1/#comment-9269 Olivier Mon, 13 Dec 2010 21:06:58 +0000 http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/#comment-9269 It is interesting to revisit this posting two-and-a-half years later. Superfluous, bandwidth-hogging Flash animations are still there but usually there's an option (not necessarily very prominently displayed but let's not quibble) to skip them. OTOH now we have the horror that is geolocation: some sites (e.g., winzip.com), after inferring (perhaps wrong!) your location, will trap you in a local version w/o so much as an escape hatch to the international version, while others (e.g., springer.com) do offer a choice of language but equate it with the choice of country, which can seriously mess up your experience if they're a retail site: you are forced to choose between the correct country and the (for you) correct language. In addition geolocation just plain reeks of the Stasi. Plus ça change... One wonders who is really to blame for all these bloopers. It is interesting to revisit this posting two-and-a-half years later. Superfluous, bandwidth-hogging Flash animations are still there but usually there’s an option (not necessarily very prominently displayed but let’s not quibble) to skip them.

OTOH now we have the horror that is geolocation: some sites (e.g., winzip.com), after inferring (perhaps wrong!) your location, will trap you in a local version w/o so much as an escape hatch to the international version, while others (e.g., springer.com) do offer a choice of language but equate it with the choice of country, which can seriously mess up your experience if they’re a retail site: you are forced to choose between the correct country and the (for you) correct language. In addition geolocation just plain reeks of the Stasi.

Plus ça change… One wonders who is really to blame for all these bloopers.

]]> By: Bubble Foundry » Destroying the UI http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/comment-page-1/#comment-464 Bubble Foundry » Destroying the UI Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:10:42 +0000 http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/#comment-464 [...] Since the HEMA ad was made a year before the Wario Land one, it’s safe to assume that the latter was built with full knowledge of the HEMA ad and sought to improve upon the concept. I would say they have and would love to see more such ad campaigns. Of course, these ads only work because they’re fun and novel, and I would the first to find them incredible annoying if they become common place, just like page takeovers have become. Everything in moderation and don’t annoy your users! [...] [...] Since the HEMA ad was made a year before the Wario Land one, it’s safe to assume that the latter was built with full knowledge of the HEMA ad and sought to improve upon the concept. I would say they have and would love to see more such ad campaigns. Of course, these ads only work because they’re fun and novel, and I would the first to find them incredible annoying if they become common place, just like page takeovers have become. Everything in moderation and don’t annoy your users! [...]

]]> By: Mary Francis http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Mary Francis Fri, 09 May 2008 21:47:49 +0000 http://www.bubblefoundry.com/blog/2007/10/dont-annoy-your-users/#comment-42 Good lad, you've taken my complaints to heart! Love this site, good promo. . . Good lad, you’ve taken my complaints to heart! Love this site, good promo. . .

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