It's Just Bad Design. I'm going to wager that at least 75% of their hits on livejournal.com/friends/edit.bml are going to come from people who were trying to hit livejournal.com/users/foo/friends/ but who accidentally tagged the corner of the "manage" link on their way down from the "journal" link.
Xerox and Apple spent several million dollars and about 10k man-hours of user testing to figure out that drop-down menus were the most efficient way to present this kind of selection tree. There's not much excuse for re-inventing this particular wheel these days.
I'm refraining from indulging in a bitchfest on news or lj_devel only because they were kind enough to provide an option to use the original skin, which is merely ugly, but at least functional.
Xerox and Apple spent several million dollars and about 10k man-hours of user testing to figure out that drop-down menus were the most efficient way to present this kind of selection tree. There's not much excuse for re-inventing this particular wheel these days.
...especially using the super-non-intuitive mouse-over selection method, which reduces what should be a quick and simple method of choosing a task to an unforgiving contest of reflexes and hand-eye coordination.
Perhaps i'm inured to these bouts of Webmasturbation by now. As a longtime ESPN.com visitor, their efforts in "style" have given me much gastric grief. Compared to them, the LJ change looks good to AND works good for me.
I wasn't complaining so much as voicing my suprise. I could care less what it looks like as long as I'm able to read people's stuff and write my own.
For inferior value systems, you have to look to the girl on the T this morning who spent the fifteen minute trip complaining into her cell phone about how Starbucks was out of vanilla syrup so she couldn't get the coffee she wanted and how that was going to throw off her entire day. The horror.
I don't really care about the LJ browse skin, since I read everything using my friends list anyway. I'm just happy to have a journal skin (http://tritone.livejournal.com/) that doesn't look like total ass. It's a tad low-contrast and has too many boxes-in-boxes, but still, it's oodles better than the old choices.
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Xerox and Apple spent several million dollars and about 10k man-hours of user testing to figure out that drop-down menus were the most efficient way to present this kind of selection tree. There's not much excuse for re-inventing this particular wheel these days.
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...especially using the super-non-intuitive mouse-over selection method, which reduces what should be a quick and simple method of choosing a task to an unforgiving contest of reflexes and hand-eye coordination.
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But as I have now switched back to the other one, I won't have to bore you with any more whining.
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For inferior value systems, you have to look to the girl on the T this morning who spent the fifteen minute trip complaining into her cell phone about how Starbucks was out of vanilla syrup so she couldn't get the coffee she wanted and how that was going to throw off her entire day. The horror.
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