{"id":73,"date":"2014-01-27T05:39:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T05:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:04:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:04:43","slug":"a-letter-to-bad-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"A letter to bad design&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if my computer is an exception, but I found myself laughing at an online survey I filled out today.<\/p>\n<p>I visited <a title=\"Tvguide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/Listings\/\">tvguide.com<\/a>\u00a0and it asked me to fill out a survey. I figured, &#8220;Hey why not? I always complain that they cancel smart TV.&#8221;<br \/>\nWell, in filling out the survey by <a title=\"Qualtrics\" href=\"http:\/\/qualtrics.com\/\">Qualtrics<\/a>\u00a0I found an annoying pop up that ask me to kill the page. \u00a0The page was impatient and decided that I was taking too long. \u00a0I clicked the &#8220;wait&#8221; button to indicate that I was still filling out the survey. That wouldn&#8217;t have been too bad but it reappeared every 10-15 seconds on a survey that was over 25 pages long and took me 15+ minuets to fill out.<br \/>\nNot many have such dedication for an online survey. How many responses did they loose from those who rightfully gave up rather than deal with that pop up.<\/p>\n<p>When I finished I sent an email to Qualtrics to alert them of their possible problem. \u00a0I&#8217;m curious if I&#8217;ll ever get a response.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really curious if it was a problem on their end or if my environment was just being difficult. \u00a0I know I should have taken a screen shot, but if anyone has an opinion please comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure if my computer is an exception, but I found myself laughing at an online survey I filled out today. I visited tvguide.com\u00a0and it asked me to fill out a survey. I figured, &#8220;Hey why not? I always complain that they cancel smart TV.&#8221; Well, in filling out the survey by Qualtrics\u00a0I found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-developing-programmer","category-personality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karstencode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}