Comments on: “Oops” UI of the Week http://noccrit.com/Steveblog/2010/04/oops-ui-of-the-week/ Not everything must be a CCrit. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Paul Easton http://noccrit.com/Steveblog/2010/04/oops-ui-of-the-week/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Paul Easton Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:26:38 +0000 http://noccrit.com/Steveblog/?p=184#comment-128 Web-form annoyances account for a number of my pet peeves. Their number increased when I moved outside of the United States. Perhaps the biggest is forms that give you an option for selecting a country other than the United States or Canada, but still require you to select from a list of U.S. states and Canadian provinces, without even giving an "other", "foreign", or blank option. Another one that I'm seeing more of is in country lists where Taiwan is not not listed or is listed as "Taiwan, Province of China." You can bet that the company outsourced part of the web-site development to Chinese programmers. Then there are the forms requesting common information (name, address, phone) that don't work with my form-filling application (now Lastpass, in the past I used Roboform) because the form-fields are poorly named. Ah, venting in the blogosphere is therapeutic. I feel much better now. Web-form annoyances account for a number of my pet peeves. Their number increased when I moved outside of the United States. Perhaps the biggest is forms that give you an option for selecting a country other than the United States or Canada, but still require you to select from a list of U.S. states and Canadian provinces, without even giving an “other”, “foreign”, or blank option.

Another one that I’m seeing more of is in country lists where Taiwan is not not listed or is listed as “Taiwan, Province of China.” You can bet that the company outsourced part of the web-site development to Chinese programmers.

Then there are the forms requesting common information (name, address, phone) that don’t work with my form-filling application (now Lastpass, in the past I used Roboform) because the form-fields are poorly named.

Ah, venting in the blogosphere is therapeutic. I feel much better now.

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