Check out this gallery of the "Worst CAPTCHAs Of All Time on docstoc. Some are funny while others are so bad they could be jokes.
(CAPTCHAs are those pictures of distorted text that you sometimes have to re-type to prove you’re human instead of a spambot.)
Actual user comment:
autostart video, flash, or any noise making shit
fuckers who put that on their sites
should be faceraped by fucking bison with irritable bowel syndrome
The CAPTCHAs (those pictures of distorted text that you sometimes have to enter to confirm that you’re human) used on the account registration for Firefox Add-Ons page are human-proof:
← wtf!
The letterforms are ambiguous, the font is a distressed/grunge face that leaves orphaned blobs that might be part of letters, might be periods, and might just [...]
At first it seems like gratuitous "Web 2.0" lipstick, but software maker Panic’s home page is actually pretty clever. There’s an icon for each application they offer. If you click one, it takes you to the product info page, but if you drag and drop it onto the green arrow on the top left of [...]
Jakob Nielsen’s current Alertbox column looks at how much users actually read on the web:
Summary:
On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
We’ve known since our first studies of how users read on the Web that they typically don’t read [...]
I think the three applications that most people are likely to have open all the time are a web browser, email, and instant messaging.
In every major browser I’m aware of, Command-L highlights the address bar so you can type in the URL of a site, which I do constantly. Command-L, Command-L, Command-L, all day long. [...]
PDFs, word processing and spreadsheet documents, software packages, and lots of other things are downloaded to a user’s computer to be referenced at a later date. That’s great—if you can find it when you need it!
Let’s put ourselves in the user’s shoes. We’ve downloaded something from a web site, either because we know we’ll [...]
Adam Darowski has an excellent piece on URLs as user interface at his blog, Traces of Inspiration.
I was just thinking about this yesterday when I was looking at Flickr with a “non-power-user” friend, trying to find an old picture in someone’s photostream. I watched them go from page to page, clicking 3 ahead, as it’s [...]