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I eventually gave up at the captcha. Positioning of the tickboxes is genius.
But a little close to the mark - I hate the common one that asks me to "Select all schoolbuses". How the *%#$ am I supposed to know which are schoolbuses? Here in the UK they come in any size, shape and colour... and some are trains!
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In this particular case, I think you're supposed to check them all.
And as you said, the tickboxes are positioned in a way that the upper row isn't visible and you have to scroll for it 
Real-life captcha's like these are a pain.
Like, select all traffic lights, but one of them just goes slightly into a new box, so does it have a traffic light or not? 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Like, select all traffic lights, but one of them just goes slightly into a new box, so does it have a traffic light or not?
That’s the thing that always gets me. Drives me crazy!
Something I learned long ago is that captcha uses the data from the user’s selection to be the answer for the next users. Did you know that?
That means if the majority of people select a particular part of the image then it is considered part of the answer. Users are selecting and training the algorithm. Seems kind of nuts.
I also found that captcha wants 3 picks. So if you have 3 chosen and there is a sliver of traffic light in a 4th then it should not be selected. Isn’t that crazy?
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FreedMalloc wrote: My pet Peeve is password requirements that don't specify a maximum length.
I've been in a situation where corporate wanted me to reset my password, but didn't tell me the requirements.
IT told me at least 8 characters, I had 16 I think.
Other than that I had upper, lower, number and symbol, but it still wasn't valid.
Ultimately, IT let me enter my password directly into the AD to circumvent all requirements
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An insidious trick is to accept a long password when registering or resetting but silently truncate it to the maximum length. The next time you log in it fails because the hashes between what you set and they ultimately accepted don't match. Then your account is locked as you repeatedly try to log in by shortening the password a character at time. At which point I call support with 3 requests: 1) please reset my password; 2) please tell me the max password length; 3) please locate the developer and break their kneecaps.
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Yes, sites that are picky about which special characters are acceptable is one of my pet peeves - and there is no excuse for this if the code behind the text box is properly written!
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You beat me - 12:06 to get the dancing carlton... Truly awful...
Sincerely,
-Mark
mamiller@mhemail.org
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Funny stuff.
BTW one of UI topics some of my team researched with objective testing was the YES/NO, ON/OFF, etc (binary states).
User confusion of what is the current state versus changing the state is increased. One button, versions and two buttons versions. The human subject testing was quite thorough and comprehensive. There were multiple phases of this testing. In aerospace a mistaken judgement of the system state could be fatal. BTW Apple users a sliding binary button which is quite effective. Their UI is generally pretty good but not always obvious.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I detest those sliding binary buttons. Especially when used for cookie options. Totally arbitrary selection of colour / position, worsened (possibly? I can't tell) because I'm colour blind. 
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I'll save that link for further reference!
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Buy them a helicopter. That stll has been the record holder for the most intuitive user interface since it was invented. Brave men, these flight instructors.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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"The wife with a friend". Zoom isn't the priority.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My wife has been using her own Windows computer daily for over 10 years.
For the last 5 years that is a Dell laptop running Windows 10.
She surfs the web, reads newspapers online, uses Facebook.
She receives and sends email.
She takes photos on her phone and also on a compact camera and likes to get the images out onto a USB stick to take to the local photo-printing place.
Yet, after 10 years, she still cannot use any of these and has to ask me help EVERY TIME:
- Ctrl-click to add/subtract to/from selection
- Shift-click to select a range.
- Cut/Copy/Paste to get files from Downloads to memory stick
- Cut/Copy/Paste to work with text in an email or Word document
- Use ability of File Explorer to sort files by extension, name, date etc to help find desired files.
- Use ability of File Explorer to search for desired files by name
- Navigate an Open File or Save File picker to any folder.
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I tend to find that when people expect something to be complicated and hard to understand going in, it will be for them, and I think this is one of the biggest barriers to computer literacy - expectations.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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2 second comparison of meet.google.com and zoom.us
both - have to create accounts to use
meet - minimal starting page
- medium plus size window the new meeting is on left, would be prefer center, focused
- click new meeting opens another dialog  , would prefer show 3 opens just as without select menu. hidden options not always the best
- create for later, unclear what I would do with link. Simple prompt for share with or copy and save somewhere on computer.
- don't need account if just joining, same as zoom.
zoom
- accept cookies message. double checked meet (private and cache clear) and no cookie warning, props to google.
- require login (same on google, but when already signed in it wasnt obvious)
- oh, wait, no there is a Join in top menu. I assumed the MASSIVE join for free was prompt to create meeting
- one landing page. lots of clutter compared to meet.
- also the left side of create login 
- also when get links from others the amount of use the desktop app makes it confusing and another hurdle on pain.
both could be improved. but imma suggest use meet.google.com unless you got the googleitest alergy
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Heh,I remember being pretty much lost when Windows 8.0 came out. I never figured out about the corners, had to do a web search to find out about them. And the text on screen that might or might not be button. It was such a cluster that I finally made the jump to Linux as my main OS. I just keep a Windows VM around for games, TurboTax and the occasional photo editing session.
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Inductive user interface. That is what is needed for people, who do not compute. And if software is meant to be used actively, an active tutorial is needed to show and train controls. Like in video games.
But then there are hard cases, where I think only voice driven AI interface would help (like in start trek). Icons and commands just don't mesh well with some people.
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My younger sister used to say : "They don't have a mother? Give it to her, if she can use it, then good, otherwise work on it a bit more."
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I can't put it down!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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heard that one but always good for a laugh.
another old one
NASA had to close their Lunar restaurant. It had no atmosphere.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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wow. I guess I am getting too old. Thanx. Need to take some memory pills.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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They are keeping the space bar open, it's still hit very often.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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