Showing posts with label expectations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expectations. Show all posts

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Let's Get Web 101 Right First

You know, before everyone goes jumping over to "Web 2.0," I'd suggest getting some basics right, like making sure you know how to set the field focus. I mean really, is it too much to ask a programmer to put my cursor in the right place, when the entire purpose of the login form is for me to enter information? C'mon, people.

The Statesman form above is just one of a ridiculous number of examples of usability violations in web applications. Call me crazy, but when I work on usability for an application, this is one of the first things I look at. I'm keyboard driven. When you tell me I have to enter information on the next page, I'm ready to type. Do they not teach this stuff?