Annoying Interfaces of the day - Outlook/Word and the grocery store
The Grocery Store:
Why is it at the grocery that we simply adapt to terrible user interfaces? Better yet, why do they even reach the market? Aren't they tested?
Case 1: The self checkout line. You have to run your credit card through a completely separate machine, but have to bounce back to the checkout interface at the end to signal you're done.
Case 2: How am I supposed to know hitting the big green button marked enter INSTEAD of my PIN will allow my card to be run as credit, not debit? I mean - I DO know it from repetition, but they look at you like you have 2 heads if you act confused. If you ask me, we as a grocery consuming culture are all bonkers.
MS Outlook/Word
I am sure you have noticed that Word will red squiggly underline misspelled words for you. Great. But it doesn't do this until you move the cursor off the word. I would think Microsoft, in its business devotion, would have come up with something by now that would allow you to contextually click a word before you've moved off of it and get several close spellings to what you might be trying to type. But nope, all you get is a formatting menu if you right click on a word before the re squiggle shows up.
I dunno, these things annoy me.
Why is it at the grocery that we simply adapt to terrible user interfaces? Better yet, why do they even reach the market? Aren't they tested?
Case 1: The self checkout line. You have to run your credit card through a completely separate machine, but have to bounce back to the checkout interface at the end to signal you're done.
Case 2: How am I supposed to know hitting the big green button marked enter INSTEAD of my PIN will allow my card to be run as credit, not debit? I mean - I DO know it from repetition, but they look at you like you have 2 heads if you act confused. If you ask me, we as a grocery consuming culture are all bonkers.
MS Outlook/Word
I am sure you have noticed that Word will red squiggly underline misspelled words for you. Great. But it doesn't do this until you move the cursor off the word. I would think Microsoft, in its business devotion, would have come up with something by now that would allow you to contextually click a word before you've moved off of it and get several close spellings to what you might be trying to type. But nope, all you get is a formatting menu if you right click on a word before the re squiggle shows up.
I dunno, these things annoy me.
posted by Lawrence W. Gallick at
8:18 AM
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