| human computer interinsanity |
[May. 31st, 2004|01:17 am] |
Hello, and welcome again to another episode of "I fucking hate Livejournal." I'll be your host, Adam "Why the Fuck Am I Even Writing This" Mathes.
At first, my question was what kind of braindead idiot would design and implement the top navigation bar like the one used on Livejournal.
In case you haven't noticed, it's user hostile. Let's say you move your mouse over to "Journal" and then a sub-navigation bar appears under it. Then let's say you decide to click "Friends." So you, as a normal, functional human being using a mouse in the most natural way, move your mouse towards "Friends."
But then that sub-navigation bar is GONE.
It's gone because since you are a human being, and not a robot, you moved your mouse towards Friends in a diagonal, the shortest path. But since this is a horribly designed navigation tool, "Journal" is not selected anymore, since your mouse moved over some of the other top level navigation elements. Just TRY and select options with that menu.
Oh sure, you could, if you move your mouse vertically ONLY, then horizontally ONLY, but you won't do that naturally, because you're a human. Not only are you a human, but you are a human who has likely been using computers for a few years, and has built up expectations about how to use a graphical user interface.
This thing ignores so many basic tenets of HCI that I decided my question was not so much what kind of braindead idiot would design it, but what sort of antisocial asshole could hate users of a web site so much, they would design it.
Eventually I realized the answer: a fat one.
Either that, or it was designed by robots. Robots that hate people. Or stupid robots.
Or people who have not ever bothered to use a computer in the past 20 years, except to design that thing.
The point is, why the fuck do you people use this thing? Seriously. Stop. |
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