If a website crashes...

"If a website crashes on the Internet and nobody goes there, does it matter?"

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New policy alert - LinkedIn.com

During a visit to LinkedIn.com this banner appeared at the top to inform users the Privacy Policy was revised.

Word has encountered a problem

"There is a problem saving the file."

"Usually this is because the disk or floppy disk is too small for the file..."

FLOPPY?

Microsoft Word Crash Message

This dialog box appeared when Microsoft Office Word closed on a Windows platform. 

The message suggests that the problem be related to the "floppy disk is too small..."

Lower half of message window.

Ebola charity - via Google Maps

While using Google Maps a notification banner appeared requesting donations for the Ebola outbreak. Here is the process. 

Employee Discount Web Center - Tour

Are You Sure? - Adobe InDesign

This message appeared when Configure MiniView as clicked. 

I appreciate the warning that it may "take a while" 

It would be truly helpful to know what a while is. 

Give the user some clue as to what it is based on so they can determine how long it might be. Is it based on amount of data, or what?

Images Now Showing - Gmail

This modal appeared when gmail was accessed on a desktop computer. 

Learn more about images opened a webpage about images in a new browser tab.
Settings opened the gmail account settings webpage in a new browser tab.
Okay closed the modal.

Google+ Photos - Instructional Overlay

For some reason the word balloon shifts on this one.

Clicking See all tours opens these modals

Closing the top modal reveals this modal.

Purchase funnel - Dave Ramsey

This purchase funnel, for Financial Peace University on DaveRamsey.com, was well designed. 

After searching for a class location this page appears. 

Clicking the Register & Purchase button at the middle right takes you to this screen.

A green check mark appears when the field has valid input. 

A red X appears when the field input is invalid. 

Upon clicking a Place Order button, most sites take you to a white screen, sometimes without a message and it causes the user to gasp. 

Here, when the Place Order button was clicked the page remains and a message appears in place of the button, "Processing, please wait..." along with a spin-wheel. 

This was a great transition.

The final screen has messaging that cuts into the banner. This visual design decision is excellent. It disrupts the users banner blindness and cues them to read the information.  

Elevator Button Panels

There are 6 elevators at my office building. They have different button layouts.

Elevator #1-4

Elevator #5
Additional: C and 1 

Elevator #6
Additional: DH

 

Get Audi here!

Announcing the 2015 Audi Air Jordan

iTunes: Pump the jam

When quitting the iTunes desktop application it remembers the location of the volume slider. If the volume is currently turned all the way down when a user quits, then when the application launches this window appears:

The message: 'The iTunes volume is currently is turned all the way down. To change the volume, drag the slider at the top of the iTunes window.' 

Where do I drag it?

Angry Birds, Go Karts and Car Insurance

Angry Birds has deployed another addicting game, Angry Birds Go! They are very strategic about getting me to come back for my daily hit - I mean reward. 

Soon, the app included sponsored boosts from State Farm. During a race, as my kart was damaged, the State Farm performs a medic type action and revitalizes the kart. 

 

It is a pretty handy feature and it aligns with the brand message of fixing my car when broken.

The typical flow of choosing a race is a loading screen with a promo banner. Usually it is a Rovio ad of some kind. This time it was an interactive promo banner appears.

I could change the paint job of the illustration (note: it doesn't change your actual kart) and the caption reads:  "Round the curves in a custom ride! At State Farm®, 

we provide drivers with coverage as unique as they are."

I knew from previous experience with the app that the orange button in the lower right corner would take me to the race. So, I tapped the 'Learn More' in the lower right of the banner. This is what appeared:

Usability, all good. 

As a marketer, I was let down. The landing page was not a themed. At the very least the message should have been consistent with the call to action from the promo banner. 

Contact Sheet Fail

I was using Adobe Bridge to generate a 4x5 Contact Sheet of 160 images. This message appeared. 

Apparently it processed the contact sheet successfully with image that ARE supported. Yet I am left to wonder which images WERE NOT supported. Some. Since it did not indicate which files were not supported, nor which file types are supported, I had to manually reconcile the output.

Please indicate, of the selected files, which were not supported image files.