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Tag: bad design

  • geoffand

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    What drives me nuts: Windows installers putting shortcuts on the desktop

    Nothing screams the 1990’s like every time you install a piece of software that it puts an icon with a shortcut on your desktop. I know that most software asks you if you want one placed on the desktop, and I ALWAYS uncheck that box. But all too often, the software installs it anyway, or it…

  • geoffand

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    Bad UI of the week: VMWare’s “my.vmware.com”

    Continuing on the theme of bad UI, this week’s hall of shame goes to VMWare. Sad, because they used to “get it”, or so it seemed to me. Background: I have long been a VMWare user. I have (purchased) a license for Workstation and Fusion, the deskto…

  • geoffand

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    UX, an example of lousy design and usability

    While I am no longer in a realm that has to integrate with MFP (multi-function peripherals), I now use them more than ever. For the record, I am talking about the upper end HP office printer/scanner/facsimile machines. The ones that integrate with…