Task 10: Attention Economy

Apparently I’m awesome. Who knew?

It took me about five minutes to make it into the game to start the timer. Once the timer started I got stuck in the link to the Terms & Conditions. The scroll feature was very slow on this page and I scrolled to the bottom before the Accept button became actionable to send me back to the previous page. When I made it back to the previous screen I ended up cancelling to see if this would send me forward. It did not. It sent me back to the welcome screen, and the timer reset when I started again. So making it to screen 2 took about fifteen minutes. Completing the exercise after the clock reset took about ten more minutes. Start to finish the task was about twenty-five minutes.

Proving my humanity was annoying; I attempted over twenty times. The lack of shortcut functionalities such as Tab to move to the next item on the screen and End to move to the end of the Terms & Conditions acceptance page were significantly frustrating. At least Ctrl + A worked when filling out the forms to select all the text and type over it. The most frustrating things to me were the small, slow scroll bar on the Terms & Conditions acceptance page, which had no cancel or back option to my awareness, and the small boxes above the images in section 4.

This illustrative experience was beautiful, interactive, didactic Dadaism. I loved/hated it.

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