Zipcar UI: Ouch.
Mar. 23rd, 2007 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progOuch. Zipcar has changed their interface and made it into crap.
Time was, the main reservation page was a set of parallel timelines, one for each car near you, with their reserved and unreserved times clearly blocked out. If there was an unreserved stretch that suited you, you clicked on it. Bing! Done.
Now you have to blindly enter pickup and return times first, with no other information, and then are told whether or not any cars meet your criteria. It's gone from picking things off a shelf to fishing. What were they thinking?!
Dude, I don't always know ahead of time when I want to take the car out! You tell me! Sometimes I plan my activities around when cars are avaialable, man. Gawrd.
After reading the FAQ, I see that you can apparently fake it by entering a days-long block of time in the first screen, getting some results, and then setting an option to show cars that conflict with your fake-requested time (probably all of them). This gives you some old-fashioned timelines, which then you can fine-tune down to what you really want. I hate that I have to do that now.
Yes, I am become one of those whiney bitches who has an aneurism upon a favorite website changing their look. I think I'm justified here, though.
Time was, the main reservation page was a set of parallel timelines, one for each car near you, with their reserved and unreserved times clearly blocked out. If there was an unreserved stretch that suited you, you clicked on it. Bing! Done.
Now you have to blindly enter pickup and return times first, with no other information, and then are told whether or not any cars meet your criteria. It's gone from picking things off a shelf to fishing. What were they thinking?!
Dude, I don't always know ahead of time when I want to take the car out! You tell me! Sometimes I plan my activities around when cars are avaialable, man. Gawrd.
After reading the FAQ, I see that you can apparently fake it by entering a days-long block of time in the first screen, getting some results, and then setting an option to show cars that conflict with your fake-requested time (probably all of them). This gives you some old-fashioned timelines, which then you can fine-tune down to what you really want. I hate that I have to do that now.
Yes, I am become one of those whiney bitches who has an aneurism upon a favorite website changing their look. I think I'm justified here, though.
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