Unbelievably Asinine Usability Problem in Word Press 2.0
Posted on January 24th, 2006 in Usability | 7 Comments »
This photolog problem in Word Press 2.0 is so bad that MadMan thought some settings on his PC were the problem. In his opinion, this is an excellent example of why coders should not also be given usability testing responsibilities.
p.s. This is why I try to stay away from the cutting (bleeding!) edge of technology. I’d rather not fight the bugs and issues. Too frustrating.
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I’ve had problems like this in other products where the designer is using hyperlinked text for a toggle switch. Is the text supposed to show the current state of the system or the desired state? The logon/login toggle on web sites work very much like that described by MadMan for the Word Press settings. When you’re logged on, the link is Logout. When you’re not, it’s login. It works for logging in because your state is usually obvious to the user. It’s not working for the Word Press settings because the user doesn’t understand the current state of the object before applying the toggle.
I’ve stumbled upon this bug myself and felt the frustration you talk about (as a wordpress user): Is this supposed to work like this? Is this on purpose? Is this a bug?
It turns out it’s a bug and it’s fixed for wordpress 2.01 http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2199
via Ryan on Wordpress
http://ryan.wordpress.com/2006/01/13/201-in-the-works/
…I’ll wait a bit longer until I adopt. I’m sure there are more bugs. ;-)
I’ve moved the blog referrenced in this post – can you please update the link to:
http://www.sparkplug9.com/art-n-artifice/index.php/2006/01/12/wordpress-20-image-uploading-broken/
Thanks!
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