Comments on: Insight: the path of least resistance in user-interface design is… http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1547/insight-the-path-of-least-resistance-in-user-interface-design-is/ Experiments in tech entrepreneurship Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian Armstrong http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1547/insight-the-path-of-least-resistance-in-user-interface-design-is/comment-page-1/#comment-6280 Brian Armstrong Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:39:35 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/?p=1547#comment-6280 Yep great point - making data input conform to a database instead of a human is so common! Yep great point – making data input conform to a database instead of a human is so common!

]]> By: Greg Moreno http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1547/insight-the-path-of-least-resistance-in-user-interface-design-is/comment-page-1/#comment-6279 Greg Moreno Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:24:34 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/?p=1547#comment-6279 Same with forms that require your credit card number or any account with letter and number combinations. They should allow spaces so users can verify their input. Similarly, these numbers should be chunked when being displayed. Hypens and spaces can be used. Same with forms that require your credit card number or any account with letter and number combinations. They should allow spaces so users can verify their input.

Similarly, these numbers should be chunked when being displayed. Hypens and spaces can be used.

]]> By: Erica Douglass http://www.startbreakingfree.com/1547/insight-the-path-of-least-resistance-in-user-interface-design-is/comment-page-1/#comment-6274 Erica Douglass Fri, 04 Jun 2010 04:01:59 +0000 http://www.startbreakingfree.com/?p=1547#comment-6274 My LEAST favorite is when you type in a phone number and it errors out the whole form, saying something like "Must be 10 digits. No hyphens." I run into this a lot since I use a form-filler and it auto fills the form with a hyphenated number. As a programmer, I know it's ONE LINE of code to remove the hyphens and then check! This laziness makes me want to punch the programmer in the face. It's the most egregious one I've come across. -Erica My LEAST favorite is when you type in a phone number and it errors out the whole form, saying something like “Must be 10 digits. No hyphens.”

I run into this a lot since I use a form-filler and it auto fills the form with a hyphenated number.

As a programmer, I know it’s ONE LINE of code to remove the hyphens and then check! This laziness makes me want to punch the programmer in the face. It’s the most egregious one I’ve come across.

-Erica

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