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Stark example of poor user interaction

September 25, 2009 10:40 a.m.

Today, I was searching for a specific product which I found on eBay. I confess to not using eBay very often - in fact I don't remember when I last used it, but it has been many years.

And so, I proceeded through the purchase process. The site gave me the option of logging in or buying as a guest. I chose the latter, since I have no idea what my login credentials are.

I went through the purchase process and into the checkout process when the site presented me the following error message:

"This e-mail address is already registered ...

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:40AM CDT by brian

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Categories: User Interface


Django/Python as the basis for a new market

September 11, 2009 10:44 a.m.

As a company, Imaginary Landscape has had great success aligning ourselves with industry verticals such as hospitals and associations and financial institutions. Although we have been deeply involved with the technology side, most clients - quite frankly - couldn't care less about the technology. They want their Web site to do certain things and look a certain way. Whether that means a SQL or Access database didn't matter. Open source or Microsoft...whatever, just make sure the site does what it's supposed to do. For most clients, the purchase decision for Web comes from marketing and their focus is ...

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:44AM CDT by brian

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A small example of viral Twitter

September 11, 2009 10:42 a.m.

Last year I was reading through a variety of industry writings and came upon the widely-held assertion that "less is more" when it comes to Web-based forms. Specifically, how requiring users to fill out many form fields results in less submissions.

However, I was unable to find any data to support this. It seemed like a fairly easy thing to test, so I decided to test it on our website.

At the time, the Imaginary Landscape contact form was 11-fields long. It was filled with fields that I did not need but instead just wanted. Fields like Fax Number and ...

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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:42AM CDT by brian

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