Online Courses

I hate online courses.  Especially poorly designed ones.  I am in the middle of helping my client’s husband on an online psychology course, with layout designed for the web-surfer of 1999  The text is all in different colors, and the locations of everything are scattered all over.  This is a good sample of really bad web design, and a really bad UI.

The trouble with online courses is that they only work when they are really well designed.  This course is not well designed, and the student is ~50 years old, who has never done this before.  A good UI is essential for learning, much less navigation.  I am here, sitting and looking at him, hopelessly trying to figure this out.  It really looks and feels a bit pathetic.  He’s not learning psychology, and is having trouble with all the weird directions that they gave.

But hey, it’s work, and it’s $.

Angry Clients

Angry and abusive parents really result in really angry tutors who refuse to provide a good service.  I hope she realizes how far I bend over for her, and that she needs to show some appreciation.  That much said, I still made some money off of all that.