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| Redesigned US Mint Web Site - Horrid
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CelticKnot
Bedrock of the Community
United States
12355 Posts |
 Posted 05/10/2025 01:20 am
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Interesting commentary and thanks for absorbing my rant, everyone.
At the time of my rant, I had *just* visited the web site and all I wanted to do was find out info on the upcoming privied 2025 ASEs, which there is none (like release date). It took 3 minutes of clicking "show more" on the upcoming releases page to get to the products I wanted to see to find the not-yet-available info. It is what it is; I understand that info isn't available yet, but it really would have been nice to find that out in 30 seconds vs 3 minutes.
I think this horrible web UI design trend even applies to captive audiences in the corporate environment. I'm talking about giants like ServiceNow and Workday. Why would you make things so cryptic and unintuitve for people that are paying you gobs of money for your software? Yes I know the/several answer(s).
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The reality is you need to get folks to the website first.
I don't see how that's relevant in this case, unless people were fleeing by the thousands, becuase there were already plenty of people shopping the site (2019 ERP and 2020 v70, anyone?). Once upon a time I went to the US mint site weekly or more but now I couldn't care less about the site, just like they do. I have most of the products I want already coming to me on subscription. If I could put the privy ASEs on subs I would to avoid having to deal with navigating this mess. I'm really looking forward to the next survey that pops up when I visit the Mint site next.
In addition I do realize that clicks are revenue in a lot of cases and that clowns (ahem, "customers") like me that prefer to browse from a PC-based web browser are likely dwindling / aging out.
Darn, I just ranted again. [/rant] I promise I'm done this time. It's not worth the keystrokes.
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@ Celtic, I Understand, There's always Tomorrow, Feel Better, My Friend....
Thanks @Morgans Dad. I just needed a deep breath.  |
| | Forum: US Commemoratives and Non-Circulating Coinage (NCLT) Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors |
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| 2025 ASE With Eagle Privy
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CelticKnot
Bedrock of the Community
United States
12355 Posts |
Posted 05/10/2025 12:41 am
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Wow... congrats! I am a skeptic on these but I must confess that I do kinda like them. I'll play along until when it gets stupid.
I'll be looking for an ungraded one for my CAPS album at some point... probably when I am pre-buying my 2026 raw ASE from JMB in several months. Which should be an interesting time considering... you know.
Question... if all of these early release eagle privy ASEs are going to get an MS70...what is the point? At what point do the graders start sneaking in "MS70+" designations or *gasp* "MS71"?
Feels like Spinal Tap to me. |
| | Forum: US Commemoratives and Non-Circulating Coinage (NCLT) Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors |
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| Redesigned US Mint Web Site - Horrid
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CelticKnot
Bedrock of the Community
United States
12355 Posts |
Posted 05/05/2025 01:41 am
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I'm sure I've said this before, however I feel it needs to be restated in the (unlikely) hopes that someone from the US Mint actually reads posts from a forum that a large number of their constituent buyers are a part of. The redesigned US Mint site SUCKS.
What focus group did they discuss the design change with? The Workday design team? What used to take 3 clicks now takes 30. It's a disaster. Completely inefficient. I dislike going to it and they are likely to lose a lot of sales from folks like me that just abandon it due to the sheer absurtity of navigation. I wonder what their analytcs are telling them. Probably getting lots of postitve spin on it from folks that need to keep their jobs.
Old man yells at cloud, I get it, but man, why fix what wasn't broken? Not everyone uses a cell phone to browse these days. Hey, guess what, you can design/develop based on browser! Guessing a new marketing director or PM that doesn't actually shop on the site needed to feel useful.
Bleah. My subscriptions are going to go away soon, probably after the 250th releases.
Yes, I'm in a bad mood tonight, sorry, but trying to find any info on an upcoming release was (almost) worse than getting a root canal. At this point I'll go anywhere besides the US Mint site for info on upcoming releases unless I want a photo-heavy experience with lots of useless (load more!) clicking.
Apologies to CCF mods if this rant is out of bounds or in the wrong forum. |
| | Forum: US Commemoratives and Non-Circulating Coinage (NCLT) Including Grading, Varieties, and Errors |
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| Tiny Fonts Of Threads
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CelticKnot
Bedrock of the Community
United States
12355 Posts |
Posted 04/10/2025 9:28 pm
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I rebooted, still looks wonky in Chrome. Edge seems fine.
I take that back. After I get through the main "The Best Coin Forum on the Net is Waiting for You!" page, it goes back to large fonts in the threads/topics frame even in Edge.  |
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