Comments on: LinkedIn Status –

By: Jon Czerwinski

Jon Czerwinski — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:50:19 +0000

Ahhh… usability issues raise their ugly head.

I thought to test the length of the status entry. So I kept typing until the entry field wouldn’t take any more characters – an indication of a limit. Hit save and get the error message:

“Your status text exceeded the maximum length”

The page source show the entry field to be 150 characters long. I just tested with 143 characters and still get the error.

This is a example of poor user interface design – the maximum allowable is some value less than the entry field length, yet there’s no indication what that maximum is or how many characters I have left to enter.

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:11:21 +0000

@Jon – that’s pretty funny! I’m continually amazed (I know, I shouldn’t be) at who is actually reading stuff I’m doing online – whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, my blogs, LinkedIn, etc.

We are being watched

By: Jon Czerwinski

Jon Czerwinski — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:18:17 +0000

It’s been interesting so far in just the three days (and two statuses) I’ve had.

I walked into a client yesterday who said she had just been browsing LinkedIn the day before and saw my status “fixing yet another thing he’s never seen before” and was curious about what it was I had encountered…

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:09:46 +0000

interesting thing happened to me… I posted that status and a few days later … IT WAS GONE!

I don’t know if everyone has a limit on their status, which would suck (imho), or if LI didn’t like my status.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:02:24 +0000

I’m divided on this new feature. You know what they say: one bad apple spoils the whole bunch.

And there is one person in my large network who insists on posting pompous, over-the-top self-promoting messages.

So to avoid this person’s daily status updates, I’ve had to turn this feature off.