20 December 2007

Just plain awfull (Holiday Rant)

Decided to go to the eBucks site today to register, and sincerely regret it.

Not only did I have to wait while each keyword list refreshes (I'm on a 1Mb+ line here), but the [Back] and [Next] navigation didn't retain information already captured. So when I had to use the [Back] to correct an earlier choice for Postal Address right at the end, I had to recapture everything.

The error depicted in the image was the last straw, and I gave up, muttering about a certain class of JSP developer being prime candidates for culling.

Idiot JSP developers aside, this sort of UI design was barely acceptable back in 1998 and definitely isn't in the new century.

Unfortunately this is just another sad case of a South African company falling short on the internet because management are just too short-sighted to see the cost-justification of proper UI Design. Yes I can see they got a graphic designer in, but it seems it ended there. Did they actually try using their site on anything other than their LAN?