OK, this web site has a terrible terrible interface. It uses these nonstandard recessed ovaloids and SOME of them are text fields and others are buttons that take you to other pages. It also tries to establish a HTML5 database without letting me know why.
Phrasing your feedback in a more friendly way will probably result in a better experience for you. For instance:
"I found it a bit confusing that the nav buttons and search box look really similar. Perhaps you could consider restyling them? Also, I keep getting a message from my browser that the site is trying to establish an HTML5 database. Could you explain why? The site doesn't appear to need the database for any of the functionality I've seen."
"The website “http://desksnear.me” is requesting 1 MB of disk space to store “html5 test db” as a database on your disk."
WORKPLACES, SIGN IN and Search By city or address all use novel UI elements of thinly recessed semi-transparent ovaloids, or let's call them extreme rounded rectangles. One is a text field and others are buttons.
Interesting. I wonder if that is Modernizer.js doing that without us realising it. What browser/OS are you using? I'll see if I can replicate it. On Chrome/OS X I never get asked.
Safari/OS X. You have to set "None allowed before asking" in Security if you want to be informed before a db is established. The issue is not that there is a message, it's that it's alarming to have a db set up without an obvious reason for it.
I guess I don't really care though. I am right about the user interface problems, but since your folks are slamming the downvote button as fast as they can in response to useful feedback when you've obviously not done user testing, I don't really care any more about giving good usability feedback. "Someone says our interface has problems! Punish him! He must die!" That's a stupid attitude and your company will fail if it retains it.
We didn't down vote you. I've only had an account for a day and don't even have the ability to down vote. There are only 4 of us so the down votes are coming from OTHER people.
I don't appreciate your attitude and assumptions about how we are responding to your criticism. I'm legitimately trying to understand why the HTML5 database is being created (it is the Modernizer.js script) and I'll be trying to stop it from doing so.
As to the interface issues, I didn't respond to that because I didn't understand your criticism. The other replies to your message have explained it better and I agree, that's a bit confusing. We WILL be looking into that so back off.
I'm not on the team nor did I downvote you but I can understand why others did.
Why are you complaining about "thinly recessed semi-transparent ovaloids"? Is that just another way of saying you don't like the rounded buttons? Why put it that way?
It's pretty intuitive to see which is a search area (obvious magnifying glass icon) and which are navigation buttons. Saying that it's a "terrible terrible" interface because of that is a bit excessive.
Thanks for trying to give feedback to them but try not to be so mean and make accusations like them conspiring to downvote you.
Why is this getting downvoted? It's honest criticism, with actionable things the site owners can do to make their thing better. Just because it's negative doesn't mean it's uncalled for.
