We just had our first UID presentation yesterday. The assignment was to find a sloppy website and classify the problems with severity classes and affected usability factors. One group used dropbox site and surprisingly found inefficient design implementation on the technical of accessing uploaded files.

We used this super sloppy site, iaadriver. One of our friend used this site to translate his local driving license to EU driving license standard. The teacher was surprised when she found that the website is actually a working transaction site. Well, for the record, we wasn't so sure whether is it a legal site or not.

There's this one group who used flight search site. Funny thing is, the website was all sloppy during the discussion week and went all dandy and fixed at the last moment before the presentation. Fortunately, there is this cool service to show the site histories.

We also got a little panicked when there's a time we couldn't access our site right at the moment before the presentation begin. The other sites was working well in our browser, but not for our site. It's usually the client who can block connection to servers, just like in office networks which block social media sites to avoid employees from playing around during work hours. Is it possible for server to block and blacklist a certain unwanted IP address? Perhaps there's a case when server might recognized a suspicious client then block the access.

Last thing, there's this World's Worst Website site designed to demonstrate all the possible user interface design mistakes that you might enjoy :D

Btw, the previous week I was so clueless with many of TCP, UDP and all those unfamiliar networking acronyms. Finally I can understand what our ITE teacher was saying during today's lecture because of these life saver lists.