Re:Stop the Captcha madness
by droithomme on Monday June 25, 2012 @09:07AM
(#4156291)
Observations from usability testing:
* It's called a game but it's just not fun. (Tried about 6 of them.)
* It's annoying to have to use the mouse in 2 dimensions with dragging. This activates the "locate, identify, capture something and drag it someplace else that needs to be identified" part of my brain. Using that part of the brain breaks my train of thought from the message I was thinking of typing.
Captchas are not perfect, and this is a good idea to try and do user testing, but I find it not be an improvement over captchas.
* It's called a game but it's just not fun. (Tried about 6 of them.)
* It's annoying to have to use the mouse in 2 dimensions with dragging. This activates the "locate, identify, capture something and drag it someplace else that needs to be identified" part of my brain. Using that part of the brain breaks my train of thought from the message I was thinking of typing.
Captchas are not perfect, and this is a good idea to try and do user testing, but I find it not be an improvement over captchas.