Comments on: Sparkfun Free Day http://www.kellbot.com/2010/01/sparkfun-free-day/ Tinysaurs and Hacking and Nonsense Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Maxious http://www.kellbot.com/2010/01/sparkfun-free-day/comment-page-1/#comment-7324 Maxious Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:35:12 +0000 http://www.kellbot.com/?p=472#comment-7324 I was waiting the whole 2-3 hours and I only got to the payment screen (not even the Enter the Free Day screen) before the money ran out despite many attempts to get further. I did have $150 worth of gear but even if I wanted to buy it at full price, the site was still unusable. There were lots of nitpicking things about the checkout process that really should have been picked up like that the buttons you needed to get to the next stage had no alt text so you couldn't click on them if the images weren't loading. Maybe they could have even had a special one page, no eye-candy order form for this special event! A better event design (coupons handed out on a special server?) would have been just as effective though. I was waiting the whole 2-3 hours and I only got to the payment screen (not even the Enter the Free Day screen) before the money ran out despite many attempts to get further. I did have $150 worth of gear but even if I wanted to buy it at full price, the site was still unusable.

There were lots of nitpicking things about the checkout process that really should have been picked up like that the buttons you needed to get to the next stage had no alt text so you couldn’t click on them if the images weren’t loading. Maybe they could have even had a special one page, no eye-candy order form for this special event! A better event design (coupons handed out on a special server?) would have been just as effective though.

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