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1 Interface Hall of Shame Material Sources: www.baddesigns.com www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm

2 1 Internet Explorer Cache Minimum cache size of 1% regardless of current or future drive sizes. No technical constraint

3 2 Horizontal Scrolling  Humans can scan written material faster from top to bottom rather than left to right.  Vertical lists support single-item scrolling  Internet Explorer 4.0 certificate authority selection panel uses horizontal scrolling.

4 3 Two Item List Box VB 5.0 uses a two item list box. A drop down list or radio buttons would be much better. Similarly, a 1000- item list box is bad.

5 4 Multi-Row Property Sheets  Single-row property sheets (tab controls) are among the best user interface elements ever devised.  Multi-row tab controls are perhaps one of the worst interface elements ever!  Clicking one of the tabs other than from the bottom row, causes a major reorganisation of the complete set of tabs.

6 5 Silly Error Messages Message presented whilst trying to delete files from a nearly-full hard drive in Windows 95.

7 6 Metaphor Limits  As a means of deleting files and documents, the Macintosh trashcan is a perfectly intuitive metaphor.  Unfortunately, the designers decided to extend the trashcan metaphor to include the completely counterintuitive function of ejecting diskettes

8 7 Paintshop Pro

9 8 And now...

10 9 Dr. Zeuss’s ABC, An alphabet game for 3 to 5 year olds.

11 10 Replacing file in Frontpage

12 11 MS Outlook 2002

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14 13 LaCie Media Drive


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