{"id":922,"date":"2007-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/03\/29\/860\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T22:00:00","slug":"860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/03\/29\/860\/","title":{"rendered":"Does User Annoyance Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useit.com\/alertbox\/annoyances.html\" title=\"Does User Annoyance Matter? (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)\">Does User Annoyance Matter?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Sites offer drop-downs for state abbreviations under the theory that doing so prevents input errors. But that&#8217;s not true: menus are more error prone than typing because the mouse scroll wheel often makes users inadvertently change the state field&#8217;s content after they&#8217;ve moved their gaze elsewhere on the screen. In contrast, everybody knows how to type their own state&#8217;s two letters, and it&#8217;s always faster to enter this information through the keyboard than the mouse.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakob Nielsen &#8211; Does User Annoyance Matter?: &#8222;Sites offer drop-downs for state abbreviations under the theory that doing so prevents input errors. But that&#8217;s not true: menus are more error prone than typing because the mouse scroll wheel often makes users inadvertently change the state field&#8217;s content after they&#8217;ve moved their gaze elsewhere on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}