Tag: Usability

FastLane and E-ZPass troubles: Part 2

(flickr tag: traffic light)
[Read Part 1 here]
In Part 1, I described the problems my husband and I had when we first got an E-ZPass (which works just like FastLane). We received 3 violations and had to pay $5 in administrative fees for each one even though we had a perfectly […]

FastLane and E-ZPass troubles: Part 1

(flickr tags: ezpass, fastlane)
[This is Part 1 of what will be 2 or 3 posts about the problems with FastLane.]
A while ago, my husband and I got an E-ZPass (the New Hampshire equivalent of FastLane), thinking that it would save us a lot of time. Not too long after, we […]

Leave the cursor alone

I think he’s talking about Yahoo!. Their website is the default home page for a lot of people (especially those who installed the Yahoo! Toolbar), so it does get rather annoying when the website steals your cursor as you’re typing something in the address bar. Surprisingly, I haven’t been able to find any information about […]

A click-free interface

This is an interesting concept — an interface where all you do is controlled with the mouse pointer. There’s absolutely no clicking involved.
One of the problems I came across was that I often selected things without meaning to. For instance, I was playing one of their games where you have to move the mouse a […]

Don’t push that button

(flickr tag: popcorn)
Like many microwaves, my microwave comes with a “Popcorn” button. Also like many other microwaves, the button doesn’t really work. I tried using it once and ended up with about 10 popped kernels. After some experimentation, I finally found a time that works (4 minutes) and have never […]

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