Thier fault for changing the user interface. For years people have typed in on keyboards and they are used to typing 2 followed by 3 to mean 23........ Do they also have a calander type thing showing the years 1880 to present ?
If they are so completely separate, why is there such a strong tie-in between Parcel Force/Royal Mail for providing services? You don't find any other carrier allowed to offer their services.
True, but after a few seconds I've assumed that the input has failed. How long do modern systems take?
Why another one? I could use my Medex card...
There is one by me.. it never brings up my car.. it cant recognise the number plate even though its nothing special.
System one does month, day, first letter of surname. I have no idea what the others do as almost everyone around here uses System one.
System one has a big start again on the bottom of the screen.
My doctor's surgery usually has two receptionists - usually both taking phone calls.
It makes arriving for an appointment quick and the information also goes directly to the doctors screen. I've been early for appointments and have been called almost immediately after arriving.
Well, I expect most of us already have a bank card, a couple of credit cards, a number of loyalty cards, travel pass(es), membership card(s), library card, driving licence, & so on. There are 14 such cards in my wallet, and I really don't want more.
I remember that.
That will only work if absolutely every other user interface in the world that has a choice of more than ten numbered items also has a list of 1 to maxnumber instead of expecting digits.
I can potentially select 1000 channels on my TV. My remote control does not have 1000 buttons on it. I can phone 10,000,000,000,000 telephone numbers on my phone. My phone definitely does not have
10,000,000,000,000 buttons on it.The established universal paradigm is that you enter a number digit by digit. People who ignore this paradigm ought to be strung up by painful bits of their body alongside those people who install doors to go IN to a building that open OUTWARDS.
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Regretfully, that is not permissible. Equality with Alzheimer's sufferers...
That sounds very high. Based on that small sample, that works out at fifty-odd people having issues each week. Should have picked up something that bad in testing.
I very much doubt it was wilful. Sounds like the interface was at fault rather than the user.
People are exposed to keypads to enter numbers a lot these days. Calculators, ATMs, PIN pads, phone keypads and so on. Convention in all these cases is that you enter numbers one digit at a time, and as people tend not to think when faced with new interfaces, I'm not surprised that the thought process went "I need to enter 23, so that's 2 then 3" rather than "I need to enter 23, so I need to check all the options available to me to see whether I do it the usual way or this way is different, oh look, I need to press 23".
Plus humans typically stop searching an interface once they've found something that seems to match what they one. Presumably 2 and 3 (or whatever numbers they were) will have been higher up the page than 23 (or whatever). He scans down the screen, spots what seems to fit and presses it.
The repeated attempts will just be a case of "hey, this stupid thing's broken, I'll try again".
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There's a very good reason for that. Fire doors open away from someone escaping from a fire.
Option 2 actually would work a lot of the time. The OP witnessed it happening. Personally I'd prefer option 1, which you snipped.
In your universe, possibly. In my universe many web pages allow you (or force you) to select the day number from a list when specifying your date of birth.
Example:
On Tuesday 05 November 2013 22:55 Mike Barnes wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Which is a completely crap idea IMO
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Our surgery has sensors so the doors open as you walk up to them, and there are two doors with a small lobby in between.
The doors open outwards so, as you attend for your appointment, you are hit in the face twice.
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My understanding is that the idea is to frustrate key loggers (and, incidentally, to make the programmer's life easier).
I agree that the list is a pain to use. Not many people realise that 99% of the time you can ignore all that and just type the number normally. And the same goes for the month and year - just start typing and hit TAB when the right one is displayed. Try it and see.
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