Showing posts with label usability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usability. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

A Usability Issue

You might have noticed while surfing some websites; there pops up a security warning from browser stating:

This page contains both secure and non-secure items; do you want to display the non-secure items?

Though internet savvy know the meaning of this warning well enough but this can turn into an annoying gesture for naïve internet users and I have experienced it with some of our customers.

The reason behind this warning message is improperly usage of contents at the page.
Whenever designers/developers use a graphic from non-secure site (i.e. a site that doesn't have SSL enabled) on a secure web page (i.e. a page that is build up using SSL enabled) this warning pops up so its a good practice to copy all your graphics/contents to a secure site before using them on secure pages.

This warning can be disabled in IE by going through Tools > Internet Options > Security > Custom Level > Miscellaneous > Display mixed content and change it to 'Enable' instead of 'Prompt'.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Facebook Overlook

The other day I had to change my job duration at facebook; Its duration was initially stated as May, 2007 To Present.
As I have quitted this job now therefore needed to change it as May, 2007 to May, 2009 but look at what facebook communicated with my friends regarding this change:



It was really annoying for me because my ex-colleagues thought (hence asked) as if I were not on good terms with my previous employer and thus removed the record from my work information.

Bad, bad way of communication!

Is it a testing overlook, a usability issue or just facebook don't think its something to ponder upon?


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