User Unfriendly Programs
Most programs are reasonably good at making things easy or at least understandable for an ordinary person. Sometimes, though, one wonders just what the program designers were thinking when:
- The icon for both the teacher version and the student version are identical. There is not even a name on the icon so even an adult would have trouble telling the difference.
- You have to have one license per school but can’t have more than one school on a computer. Don’t specialists and district staff work at more than one school?
- Your program license allows you to install it on 10 computers—but you have to have the sole program disc in a computer to run it.
- A “site” or “classroom” license is limited to only 10 users at a time. While most of us would love a class size of 10, I don’t know of any school that routinely has classes that small.
- A program includes many audio discs with disc names of “Disc 1” and track names of “track 1.” Titling and submitting CD and track names, something that only needs to be done once, would help Windows and Mac users everywhere.
I’m sure that there are many others like these out there but this is only the collection from the past month.
