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Usability Mistakes
- pclark 18y ago3 uncommon usability mistakes.
- potatolicious 18y agoThe "usage bar" mistake is something I see fairly often in the general case - quantity readouts that are anything but clear.
- Angostura 18y agoI've also seen the dreaded 'Too many characters' error a few times.
- pclark 18y agolike on hacker news?
- potatolicious 18y agoFor most "too many characters" errors it's a Javascript error, which means I can at the very least backspace until it fits, without doing a submit each time.
- dfox 18y agoWhat's the matter with these length limits on text areas? As I see it, usability mistake is that these limits exist, not that they are not clearly displayed. It is probably wise to have some internal limit of size of text saved somewhere, but such limit can well be something like 100k, which normal user has no real chance of exceeding and thus you don't have to present it to user in any way.
- felideon 18y agoCopied & pasted my text into my trusty text editor, where I found out I'd written 170 characters. Interesting choice of a "trusty text editor".
- DTrejo 18y agoThat site visually overloads me. Lesson learned: simple is nice
- snprbob86 18y agoI agree. The nav bar is too cluttered and too close to the content. There doesn't really need to be any lines between the text of the buttons, just make them look like buttons on roll over. Additionally, the bottom of that column is loaded with noise. The content could use some more whitespace, particularly around headings and between paragraphs.