Another Example of Bad Design
I was expecting a delivery of wine yesterday, so, when it didn't turn up, I logged in to the Virgin Wines website to see why.
Here's the order tracking page. After a quick glance I noticed the Failed Delivery status due to an "Address Query" and a number to call.
Half way through the call to that number (which was the courier - not the wine company, who I had to call separately) I noticed what I'd failed to notice on first glance - there's a row above the one with the phone number in:
Had I seen that row I wouldn't have needed to waste my time making two phone calls (or writing this blog for that matter ;-)
I'm sure it's just a seasonal background they've added, but the grey on red text is a massive usability failure. Seems nobody thought about the effect of changing the background colour...
Looks like the only thing missing is an embedded avi with a Christmas jingle and an animated divider of a reindeer. Otherwise the late 90s-looking page would be complete.
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Plus your order number is covered in squirty string, how are you supposed to read that ;-)
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Yeah, don't know why I did that. I get overly-paranoid sometimes about things that I don't really need to. What did I think you guys would be able to do that that number!?
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Hi,
They Hear it Through the Grapevine ... Which browser did you use ? Perhaps, they haven't tested all.
Christmas is coming and they want to impress customers !
Perhaps it is a Domino view and an empty field does not fill the cell with a html space ;)
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Wow, that is amazingly ugly. Do you think it was meant to look that way? Or built to look differently.
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Holy cow... My retinas are bleeding...
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