{"id":12644,"date":"2008-02-01T16:54:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/terrible-ui-o-the-day.html"},"modified":"2008-02-01T16:54:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T16:54:57","slug":"terrible_ui_o_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/terrible_ui_o_the_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrible UI o' the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Vegas: It’s like the whole town just coughs into your mouth.  Everything about this place makes me feel dirty, strung-out, and used. <\/p>\n

I mention it because just now I was impressed to find a Coke machine that featured a credit card swipe-strip for payment.  Kind of convenient, I thought–though of course it means that the prices have been jacked out of the range of the small bills you’re likely to be carrying.<\/p>\n

Speaking of price… It’s displayed only intermittently, when the words “Coca-Cola” aren’t crawling by.  (I’m sure that text is very helpful to the people confused about the nature of this giant red machine that sells only Coca-Cola.)  Terrible info presentation, but whatever, I’m thirsty.<\/p>\n

Swipe, pause… card authorized, press soda button.  Wait several seconds… nothing.  Did it hear me?  I press again.  Wait… [rumble] Coke arrives.  And then another.  And then a third.  Suddenly I’ve paid nearly eight bucks for 60oz. of sugar water–about 10x more than I actually wanted.<\/p>\n

Genius!<\/em>  I’m serious, actually: by tossing out the most basic interface principle of providing prompt user feedback, these guys just tripled their income<\/u>.  How many times a day must this happen, and who’s going to spend time sweating these guys for $5?  The house wins again.<\/p>\n

PS–I know that in posting this little bit of whining I’m really unleashing the power of the blog<\/em><\/a>, so to speak.  Maybe the anti-consumer UI beatings that happen in Vegas should, in fact, stay in Vegas. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Vegas: It’s like the whole town just coughs into your mouth.  Everything about this place makes me feel dirty, strung-out, and used. I mention it because just now I was impressed to find a Coke machine that featured a credit card swipe-strip for payment.  Kind of convenient, I thought–though of course it means that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}