Boneheaded Quicken UI Error #768 May 4, 2006
Posted by Owen in : Programming, Weird , trackback
Ok, there’s a lot of things I find annoying in Quicken, but I think this is easily the funniest. Check out this screenshot of the “Create Renaming Rule” window. It looks normal, right? Well take a close look at the “Contains” dropdown. Notice how the two Contains menus look slightly different? What Quicken does is show you an IMAGE (i.e. a JPEG) of the menu and when you click on it the software substitutes in the real Windows dropdown menu. It’s flabergasting–did Intuit have their intern design the menu? How could anyone possibly think this is the correct way to design an application? I think this is a perfect candidate for the Daily WTF.
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Wow, it’s amazing you even noticed that. Maybe it’s for performance reasons? I don’t know why that would be though.
I noticed because you have to click on the drop down twice for it to take effect. It is subtle, but completely unnecessary. They do the same thing in a few other places to.
The sad thing is that I think I really could find 768 UI problems in Quicken.
Owen
I always thought Quicken’s UI was rather clunky.. Bah. Damn M$.
Err, Damn Intuit.
And what the heck kind of message is that, Owen? “Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 15 seconds. Slow down cowboy.” SLOW DOWN COWBOY?!
Haha, that’s funny… but I didn’t write the error message. If I did, it would say something like “Hey dude, hold your horses.” It’s totally different.
Owen