{"id":347,"date":"2007-02-06T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=347"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:01:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:01:20","slug":"design_barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/design_barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Barrier: Canadian Tire Website Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self-imposed barrier to success by the web team at Canadian Tire: force customers to input information to access even the first page. If you haven&#8217;t been to <a href=\"http:\/\/canadiantire.ca\">canadiantire.ca<\/a> before or recently, you&#8217;ll get this off the bat:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"canadian_tire_screengrab001.png\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/canadian_tire_screengrab001.png\" width=\"535\" height=\"274\" \/><br \/>\nA friend sent me a link over MSN last night to a crock pot that&#8217;s on sale at Canadian Tire and I had to enter my postal code just to view that, too. Today I had to enter my postal code again just to view the home page.<br \/>\n<strong>Don&#8217;t make your users work to use your design.<\/strong> Especially a web site and especially before we even enter the site. Even if you know your postal code by heart, Canadian ones are esp. annoying to input (numbers <em>and<\/em> letters). Let us choose at a later step and\/or do some IP sniffing or provide a visual-based input (click on a map, etc) rather than making us switch from clicking to thinking to typing to clicking again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-imposed barrier to success by the web team at Canadian Tire: force customers to input information to access even the first page. If you haven&#8217;t been to canadiantire.ca before or recently, you&#8217;ll get this off the bat: A friend sent me a link over MSN last night to a crock pot that&#8217;s on sale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}