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justdrew
Interactive musings from a creative technophile
Don’t make me think!
Now, I suspect this online movie rental company failed more because of the success of Netflix and Blockbuster than its horrible interface- however, they certainly were doing themselves no favors when they rolled out this gem:
Clearly, that last checkbox label is one of the most confusing things I’ve seen on the web (which is why I saved it). Just came across it today so I thought I’d share.
When thinking of the million or so better ways to represent this option to users, a few clear winners stand out.
Why not this, for example:
Use new Drag-and-drop Queue Format?
…which has the advantage of needing no code changes to the front or back end.
But really, this is probably better served as a radio button set as in:
Queue Format
Standard
Drag-and-drop *NEW*
Really, this stuff shouldn’t be so difficult. But time and again I come across interface elements that seem to have been put there as a joke.
Of course, with this example, we can’t rule that out entirely. Who knows how many disgruntled developers they had on staff.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:20
Funnier example of labeling silliness on a web form:
More pwn and owned pictures on failblog.org