https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/ Web apps and computer software that somehow fail to function as desired, that are better to avoid, or wish you spend your money elsewhere. en-uk Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:00:00 GMT Thu, Mar 18 2015 11:00:00 -0500 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Textastic failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) webmaster@omegajunior.net (Webmaster) (c) 1993 - 2014, A.E.Veltstra, for OmegaJunior Consultancy 43210 Failure Notes User Experience Mistakes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=livejournal-email-validation-requires-login And it really should not. The link from a validation email should validate immediately, without requiring the additional action of a log-on. Wed, Mar 18 2015 12:30:00 -0500 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=livejournal-email-validation-requires-login&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes User Experience Mistakes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=tweet-opens-twitter-card-under-finger Potentially causing a crash of not only the Twitter Client, but also the Mobile Device. Tue, Mar 17 2015 12:30:00 -0500 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=tweet-opens-twitter-card-under-finger&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes User Experience Mistakes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=media-query-cut-off-fails-at-ets-org Unfortunate CSS decisions forcing visitors to put in more effort to achieve simple tasks. Mon, Mar 16 2015 10:30:00 -0500 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=media-query-cut-off-fails-at-ets-org&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Information Architecture Review Content Strategy Review Web Site Review https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=tlc-ministries A look at the content strategy, navigation structure, load speed, mobile device preparation, and social sharebleness. Advice based on experience. Tue, Feb 17 2015 15:30:00 -0500 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=tlc-ministries&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=biggest-webdesign-mistakes-of-2014 Daily usability problems on the web distilled to Most Problematic Usability Issues of 2014. Mon, Feb 2 2015 09:42:00 -0500 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=biggest-webdesign-mistakes-of-2014&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=opera-10-61-still-hates-visually-impaired-users Accessibility for the visually impaired on MS Windows is still an issue for the latest version of the Opera web browser, 10.61. It has been for several versions. Fri, Aug 13 2010 09:02:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=opera-10-61-still-hates-visually-impaired-users&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=windows-mobile-6-lacks-unicode-support-by-default On the cell phone, Opera Mobile 10 as well as Internet Explorer showed small rectangles instead of unicode characters in web page texts. Fri, 28 May 2010 09:01:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=windows-mobile-6-lacks-unicode-support-by-default&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Internet Tech https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=use.my.browser Highways built for Volkswagens, excluding Corvettes. Ridiculous? Yet that is what many a website does! Fri, 9 Nov 2012 01:51:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=use.my.browser&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes drive passion https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=about.me Software should help. You should know whether your product or service helps, or irritates. And so should everyone else. Sat, 26 May 2012 22:58:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=about.me&story=2 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss Javascript Required https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=twitter.no.signup.without.javascript When you go to the Twitter.com sign-up page, it looks normal, like you could actually sign up for an account. Fail! They require you to enable javascript to sign up, but they forgot to mention this. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:25:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=twitter.no.signup.without.javascript&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=plus.google.profile.edit.on.ipad.fails More conversion loss through device bias: Google Plus programmers knew that their iPad-using customers would be unable to edit their personal profile introductions, so instead of fixing the problem, they omitted the button altogether. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=plus.google.profile.edit.on.ipad.fails&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss Plug-ins Required, But We Won't Tell You https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=tele2.nl.no.birthday.card.for.ipad Conversion failure by device bias. Tele2.nl, one of the Netherlands' larger internet and telephony providers, ignores iPad users when creating birthday cards. If they neglect you, why should you give them your money? Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:22:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=tele2.nl.no.birthday.card.for.ipad&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss Plug-ins Required, But We Won't Tell You https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=bol.com.no.birthday.card.without.flash Conversion failure example. Your favourite book selling site sends you a birthday greeting by mail, containing a hyperlnk with the promise of a nicer birthday wish and a surprise gift. After following the link, you see no birthday card, no surprise gift. Why? You use an iPad, which by default doesn't support Flash. You just became a victim of device bias. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:26:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=bol.com.no.birthday.card.without.flash&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Dead End https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=essent.mail.no.service Why call an e-mail address 'service' when you don't actually provide any service via that address? Just use the noreply address you use in other communication and let your customer know onbeforehand that you don't want their feedback. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:10:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=essent.mail.no.service&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Categories Dead End https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=dead.end Who wrote the Failure Notes and what makes him an authority on his subject? Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:08:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=dead.end&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=about.me Ever experienced moments on the internet where people deliberately caused a dead end? You expect a way through, but they just cut you off? This category highlights exactly that failure. Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:27:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=about.me&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=myopera.blog.no.photo.upload.for.ipad We've blogged at MyOpera for years. Today we recognised that it does not allow us to upload any photos when using an iPad. Ever heard of cross-load from a URL? Sat, 16 Dec 2011 00:30:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=myopera.blog.no.photo.upload.for.ipad&story=1 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Javascript Required Plug-ins Required Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=folder.gamma.com Surely the brochure is unimportant on the dedicated brochure page... at least this DIY store web site fails to tell its visitors how to view the brochure... Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:30:00 +0100 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=folder.gamma.com failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Javascript Required Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=asus.com This manufacturor of computers and peripherals hides its product specifications and fails to indicate how to retrieve them. Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:34:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=asus.com failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Javascript Required Plug-ins Required https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=sixtysymbols This university web site fails to educate, because no-one thought to build accessible navigation, nor indicate what is needed to watch the movies. Sun, 6 Sep 2009 18:19:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=sixtysymbols failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss Plug-ins Required https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=note.x No-one will buy a laptop stand if your web page offers no picture, no description, and no contact information. Sun, 6 Sep 2009 17:09:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=note.x failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=babypark.sunday How much money will you make, when the only way people can order your goods and spend money in your store, is closed for business, because it happens to be Sunday? Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:22:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=babypark.sunday failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=profit.loss The download page for CoderTools TotalEdit provides a download link in case javascript fails to start the automatic download... but to get there we must have javascript activated... something which isn't indicated anywhere. Sat, 30 May 2009 01:45:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=download.codertools failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=profit.loss Your company wants to sell stuff... but makes it as difficult as possible for their customers to buy it. If a car company wants to sell a car to you, they will want to make sure you have the money. However, they should not refuse to accept your money based on you being female. That's not only considered discrimination, but it also means they sell less cars... which isn't a very commercial attitude. Sat, 30 May 2009 01:15:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=profit.loss failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=wap.nu WAPped versions of web sites are expected to offer less bling than their desktop counterparts. So what possible reason could a news agency have to deny access to its articles for people who access those articles via mobile phone? In the category "Your Money Isn't Good Enough", a Failure Note for the WAPped version of Nu.nl. Mon, 19 May 2009 06:23:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=wap.nu failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes) Failure Notes Profit Loss https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=register.mswindows7 When going to download MS Windows 7 RC from the official Microsoft product page, Microsoft forces us to register first. That registration page however, shows up empty. Turns out that javascript and iframes need to be enabled, but there is no indication of that, anywhere. Thus, in the category "Your Money Isn't Good Enough", a Failure Note for the MS Registration Center. Fri, 15 May 2009 21:25:00 +0200 https://www.omegajunior.net/failurenotes/?id=register.mswindows7 failurenotes@protonmail.com (Failure Notes)