I guess because I use the IMDB on a daily basis and contribute
a lot of information, traversing the old site was something I
could do in my sleep. Same thing when I didn't want to give up
DOS for Windows (please, no OS wars)
Ann
> On 8 Oct 98, Ann Miner wrote:
>
> > I guess I was just stuck in my ways, but I could find anything
> > and everything on the old IMDB site and now I can't find much
> > of anything. Probably just Old Dog Disease.
>
> Interesting... whereas I found the old version chronically frustrating, to
> the point where I eventually stopped using it. (I also saw it cited
> recently as an example of "lousy interfaces" in an article about site
> design, so I guess others felt similarly.)
>
> But yes, I suppose once you're accustomed to a given procedure, logical or
> not, you come to think of it as functional and unremarkable -- kinda like
> Windows, really :) Or the Web itself for that matter... as Jakob Nielsen
> asked in a recent column, "Why do so many of us continue to use something
> this bad?" His point being, among others, that we put up with the many
> frustrations of using the Web in exchange for the occasional nuggets of
> gold we find.
>
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