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Nothing cheers me more than when my bank or a credit institution claims that I made an error. One particular error pleases me more than others, it’s the one that occurs every time I pay my my credit card bill.

Error: Please enter an amount in dollars and cents. Be sure to use a decimal point. For example: 1234.56 or 413.00 or 1,234.78 or 345,678.00 [see here]

I entered 300

I think it’s a bit of an overstatement to call what I entered an error … just because they lack the courage to either make the assumption that I though .00 to be assumed or simply ask me to verify the amount they would guess I had intended to enter. Calling it an Error is taking things a bit far. No wonder many people are terrified of computers if they keep being programmed to blame users for things that could have been though out a little more, or at the very least explain beforehand that they expect the amount in dollars and cents.

Now what is wrong with this video?

If English wasn’t your language of choice how would you be able to answer that question? Bank of America not only charging record high $3.

I find using drag and drop is incredibly useful for solving many interaction design challenges on web apps, then the iPhone came out. I really love how you can use your fingers to pinch, squeeze and drag the screen around, but I feel like the drag and drop in web applications was becoming mature enough that iPhone is somehow imposing on that use pattern. I still love the idea, in fact shortly after I got my iPhone I wanted to pinch, squeeze and drag things all over the place on every screen I came in contact with. I just hope we’ll not need to introduce another control click fiasco to enable the drag and drop functionality on web applications.