Comments on: Usability Rant: When bad design decisions become standards http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/06/05/usability-rant-when-bad-design-decisions-become-standards/ Upgrading the software development process one reader at a time. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:26:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bodhi http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/06/05/usability-rant-when-bad-design-decisions-become-standards/#comment-667 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:59:08 +0000 http://improvingsoftware.com/?p=783#comment-667 I wish the Chrome browser programmers at Google would read this article, I totally get the frustration of loosing 20 minutes work when I expected the backspace to delete the last character.

The least they could do is put the freaking option to have backspace as a backspace. Grrrr!

Thanks for posting great article.

]]> By: Peter Mortensen http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/06/05/usability-rant-when-bad-design-decisions-become-standards/#comment-295 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:09:15 +0000 http://improvingsoftware.com/?p=783#comment-295 Microsoft Windows users that use the keyboard whenever possible (like me) are not surprised that using the backspace key does not always delete.

In Windows Explorer (not to be confused with Internet Explorer) pressing the backspace key will open the current folder’s containing folder. Depending on the kind of view it may open the containing folder in a new window or jump up if in a tree view.

But I agree it is unexpected behavior and bad design.

]]> By: Bob http://improvingsoftware.com/2009/06/05/usability-rant-when-bad-design-decisions-become-standards/#comment-170 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:09:25 +0000 http://improvingsoftware.com/?p=783#comment-170 It’s Picard :(

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