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Re: Skeuocard

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Post by inthewind »

xymostech wrote: post #124
sillysaurus wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think blind people / screen readers might have difficulty with this interface, too. It's important to keep accessibility in mind when designing futuristic interfaces.

If you press tab, it at least cycles through all of the input boxes on the front side in an appropriate manner, and you could probably design it to flip over on the next tab press. I'm fairly certain that would make it work with screen readers (but not positive).

Yeah I really could have done with the tab order being a bit better. And flipping the card when tabbing would definitely help.

Those of us familiar with data entry get really used to tabbing.

It doesn't tell you if you go wrong either.

I surprisingly liked the idea and execution though (putting the other issues aside.)

Re: Skeuocard

#172

Post by inthewind »

jontas wrote: post #137
EricMuller22 wrote: post #82

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This was the primary weak point in the implementation. Expecting users to recognize that they can click on the static-looking fields on the card (or relying on them to use tab to move between fields) does not pass the grandma test. It'd be great if you detected when a field had been fully filled out and moved to the next one automatically.

I'm sad that I (a professional web developer for the past 7 years) failed the grandma test.

I'm forever failing to grok some websites, even though I've been working with and looking at them for years.

Re: Skeuocard

#173

Post by coldtea »

jalfresi wrote: post #166
coldtea wrote: post #70

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> That fancy CC form will NOT sell a single thing. It will however stop people from paying. Citation needed. > It does nothing to convert. Beside the point. Any other credit card form I've seen does nothing to convert either -- and it's not it's job: by the time I'm entering my credit card details, I'm already "converted". Most of the objections are dead simple to fix (tab order, 1password), and address nothing inher…

>>That fancy CC form will NOT sell a single thing. It will however stop people from paying. >Citation needed. I'm getting pretty tired of this attitude. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for healthy skepticism, but if you can't grasp the basic understanding that the biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process then your in the wrong business mate. This isn't rocket science.

>I'm getting pretty tired of this attitude. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for healthy skepticism, but if you can't grasp the basic understanding that the biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process then your in the wrong business mate.

The "biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process". We're talking about the "enter credit card details" stage here. Which is hardly the "biggest hurdle to conversion" -- it's where conversion has mostly already been made.

You first need (a) a decent product, (b) to present it nicely on the web page, (c) good copy, (d) appropritate calls to action, (e) a pricing strategy, (f) to get the customer to decide to buy. Only then the "friction in the purchasing process" (with respect to entering credit card details) comes into play. At the very last stage of conversion.

But that's beside the point.

In my question I didn't specifically doubt that the "biggest hurdle to conversion is friction in the purchasing process".

I merely asked the parent to qualify why he thinks this specific form will "stop people for paying".

Re: Skeuocard

#174

Post by hussong »

jalfresi wrote: post #165
Volpe wrote: post #145

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> Exactly. This isn't a usability improvement, it's fluff. Do you have any data that backs that up? (excluding call-to-authority and anec-data)

Sure, he's called Jacob Neilson and he wrote a shit tonne of books on the subject about ten years ago. Although I understand that its the norm to ignore previous computing history for the illusion of inventing something, more so if it's pretty.

It's Jakob Nielsen. While he can be a bit of a smartass sometimes and is not undisputed in the usability community, his books are definitely worth reading.

Re: Skeuocard

#175

Post by srinivasanv »

Most non-American cards use something like "Expiry" instead of "Good Thru", but apart from that minor string difference, it's pretty awesome.

Maybe you could get rid of the text entirely, MM/YY should be enough of a cue.

Re: Skeuocard

#179

Post by Gonzih »

Really nice idea and implementation. Lovely thing. But I will never use it on real product. Makes easier to match on request (since you know what library will be required from server) and patch it on the fly. So credit card data can be stolen.

Re: Skeuocard

#180

Post by nfoz »

This is really cute. But I hope noone ever actually uses it :) Too much guesswork and dynamism, violating important design principles IMO. But a nice demo.
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