Designing Web Interfaces
Needless Fanfare - Turbo Tax Suspenseful Recalculation
While doing taxes back in April I was constantly going back and re-entering information that would hopefully bring my tax payment down (numbers above are not my actual tax payment :-)
When turbo tax recalculates my taxes it plays the "Biggest Loser" game of running the values up & down in a random fashion.
This is a horrible experience. It gives me a heart attack as it runs up to $98,000 and back down again. And because it does this nonsense it makes it hard to see what the change was (change blindness).
Needless Fanfare - Turbo Tax Suspenseful Recalculation
While doing taxes back in April I was constantly going back and re-entering information that would hopefully bring my tax payment down (numbers above are not my actual tax payment :-)
When turbo tax recalculates my taxes it plays the "Biggest Loser" game of running the values up & down in a random fashion.
This is a horrible experience. It gives me a heart attack as it runs up to $98,000 and back down again. And because it does this nonsense it makes it hard to see what the change was (change blindness).