22 Sep 2009
Symantec usability fail
It seems that usability is a bit like buses.
On Sunday, I experienced the joys of Virgin Media’s website. Today, at work, I sat through a presentation of the results of a usability study on the product I work on. What surprised me were not the results of the study, but that our bad documentation and lack of usability seem to come as a shock to so many. Hopefully it will spur some improvement.
Finally, this evening Symantec Client Firewall popped up this handy dialogue
Symantec Usability Fail
The path is very often a field which proves useful; it tells you where the file resides. “setup.exe” is a bit non-specific, and that information would have helped me arrive at a decision. No scrollbars, and no resize conspire to make this a thoroughly useless window.
