Hi Everyone
The new Steemit is GREEN now! and the logo is completely redone. New style again in less than a month?
But a lot of things that caused Steemit members grief still there...
This is an example how myself and others have to explain to inexperienced members how to vote for their Witnesses
Why? Because most of them simply FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS which appear to be misleading causing this:
Why? because after VOTE it shows the name of the witness and when you point to it, it says "VOTE". When people do that, they actually UNVOTE (UNAPPROVE) you.
Same happens when someone forgets that they voted for you, they type your Witness name in the input field and click on VOTE expecting that if it says VOTE and they already voted for you, nothing bad should happen.
Not really!
When they click on VOTE but they already voted for you it make them to UNVOTE you. So the VOTE button does not really mean VOTE. It means to TOGGLE your voting status for that witness, whatever it is.
This is not quite how a well-thought user interface supposed to act.
Leaves me puzzled why spend time and efforts on cosmetics when seemingly major things are not addressed.
How about having the VOTE input field and the button on the top and the bottom of the list so most people would not have to scroll? Don't developers know that most people actually do have to scroll? It is a common design principle that most commonly used functionality should be the most easily accessible. Well, that would be too much common sense, wouldn't it?
Why not having voting page respond to a parameter with my Witness name in the URL so i could give people i want to vote for me a URL that when they click will pre-fill the VOTE field with my name? Is it too much to ask? Or is it too hard to program (I think i remember it took me somewhere between 1 and 3 extra lines of code).
How about a small page with just the voting form without showing everybody else who are unrelated to voting for my Witness?
How about showing more than top 50? Is it too much to ask? It is usually given to students on a 10-minute quiz to write something like that.
What about a simple search for a Witness with certain name, maybe even show a position of the witness I am looking for?
I guess it is all too much to ask. A new color pick and a new logo is way more important.
Maybe I am missing something and there is master plan behind those priorities. But i guess there is no such a thing as "common" sense! Our common sense does not have that much in common.