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The worst 12 usability problems – give us your ideas for Bad Usability Calendar 2007 17
A new year is just around the corner, as well as a new edition of the (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar. The past two calendars have both been successful in distributing examples of bad design. We have recieved lots of e-mails and calls of people requesting if we will make one for next year. To make a calendar for 2007 that has the same level of unusual unusefulness, we would like your feedback.
Give us your best examples of bad usability!
The best idea will get an honourable mention, as well as a numbered limited edition of the 2007 Bad Usability Calendar. All suggestions that make the final cut will get a prize.
If you need inspiration, check out the Bad Usability Calendars for 2005(jpg), and 2006 (pdf). Thank you in advance for all your help.
Jesper Rønn-Jensen, 09.11.2006 14:39
My first suggestion is that you announce to release it under some sort of Creative Commons license. This way, it could be translated into even more languages and benefit more people.
Thanks!
Martha, 09.11.2006 14:58
We are planning to do so for the 2007 calendar; we just have to look into it a bit more. We are happy that so many enjoy our examples of bad usability,- we hope it can contribute to increase awareness of usability problems in a positive way. Thanks for your help, Jesper!
Dov, 09.11.2006 18:01
Here are some ideas:
#1 Forcing the user to make too many decisions and/or technical decisions:
e.g.:
1 _Configure display_ >> 2 Show month
Display month:
Display year:
Font:
Font Color:
Font Size:
Align:
Start from:
Show holidays:
Hide weekend days:
Show trivia:
Encoding:
etc.
[Next]
#2 Bad error messages
e.g.: unknown error, using codes, technical errors
#3 Paradigms that confuse the user because they don’t match their mental model
e.g.: days shown vertically
Sun 7 14 etc.
Mon 1 8 15
Tue 2 9 16
etc.
Christian Watson, 10.11.2006 07:04
How about this?
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Robin Laurén, 10.11.2006 15:40
A variation on the consistency would be to show one month with the weeks going downwards instead of left-to-right (indeed i have seen such calendars). Or you could just make it right-to-left for effect, though it might be seen as overly comical.
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sebastien billard, 11.11.2006 14:40
- Use plain language : not “the month of the god of war” for “mars”
Efrat, 12.11.2006 10:03
Match the content to your target audience.
For example, the week in a Hebrew calendar begins on Sunday, but if a calendar with “Sun Mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat” is intended for a Christian audience it can cause confusion, and vice versa.
Same applies to dates in a US format: 12.11 is December 11 or November 12?
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Thor, 16.11.2006 11:43
We’ve got a Slovak translation of the Bad Usability Calendar made by Spravodaj. Thanks a lot!
Simon North, 20.11.2006 18:22
Make sure that content that is the same, looks the same;
make sure that content that is different, looks different -
completely different.
Mo Tu We W Th Fa Sa Su
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Anitha, 12.07.2010 11:36
Thank you for the information…….