Woes of poor usability.
Usability is a increasingly large factor in today’s apps and websites. Being able to get the information when you want it is something rather new. Not 10 years ago the thought of browsing the internet, having a world of information, while walking around town on a 4″ color display was unthinkable.
The iPhone really revolutionized this concept by combining phone technology with superb usability. I depend on my iPhone for plenty of things, finding good restaurants, playing games, and whatever miscellaneous things I may come across.
Case in point, today I went to the post office to pick up a package. The tracking number is in ebay, so I browsed to it while at the my local post office. Ebay has a special site just for iphone, which makes it nice to browse on a smaller display. It does not, however, show the tracking number like normal ebay does. In fact, there is no way I could find this info. I downloaded the eBay application, thinking maybe it would be in there. Nope. I opened Opera mini, and the page didn’t render properly. There was no way for me to find the tracking number. Very poor usability, and very frustrating.
That is all for now, just a tidbit I was thinking of.
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