Tag: fail

  • Email Scripting Fail

    It’s time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea (anyone remember those snips from Animaniacs back in the 90s?)! Good Idea Scripting your auto emails to personalize them and make them more likely to be read. Bad Idea Placing your script in a string literal, preventing it from executing and emailing the script text instead. This is […]

  • Citi Mortgage UX Fail

    Recently I was on the CitiMortgage website (www.citimortgage.com) and noticed a poor design decision in the date selector. The company policy prevents you from picking a date past the 16th of the month. The drop down list to select a date, however, presents the user with all date of the current month but will show […]

  • Google Finance Web Service Fail

    A couple weeks ago, I was checking out Google Finance and noticed something scary. One of two things had just occurred; either the whole world just went broke or (slightly more likely) the web service call to retrieve the data had failed or timeout. While the scenario was quickly fixed by refreshing the page, these are […]