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This does not surprise me. I once worked for a automotive vendor. “We” were designing a website which had a user registration portion (I put “we” in quotes beca
by mirkules 8y ago
This does not surprise me. I once worked for a automotive vendor. “We” were designing a website which had a user registration portion (I put “we” in quotes because as I later discovered, all my work I’ve done up to that point was treated as a set of suggestions rather than engineering solutions by our HQ in Japan).
Anyway, we discovered that pushing the back button in the browser completely messes up the form, to which there are well-documented and easy fixes. A few weeks later, the HQ says they solved the issue, and I watched their presentation in horror as they explained how the only good solution was to disable the back button on the entire site.
So, to answer your question “what were they thinking?”:
Obviously, if you need to turn down the volume in the car past the minimum level, you should turn off the stereo instead.
- jackhack 8y agowow. And as a result the kludges just keep piling up, one on another. >>Obviously, if you need to turn down the volume in the car past the minimum level, you should turn off the stereo instead. Yep, you guessed it -- that's exactly what happened. I'd just switch it off entirely. I didn't realize until the next car that I had developed an aversion to using a stereo at all as a result of this experience. It was a few years before I learned not to flinch when turning down the radio. Sure, in the larger scale of things, it was only a minor irritation, but once it gets under your skin it's impossible to ignore. I think the fact that I'm still thinking about it more than 15 years later, is testimony.
- mirkules 8y agoSometimes there may not be huge glaring problems, but rather so many little ones that it makes using the product insufferable. Death by a thousand cuts.