[julesallen]

Redesigned the FDIC's online deposit insurance calculator to be 100% client side just before WAMU fell over and the crash that followed.

Before the three-step one pager it was a UX that only a mother could love on payday. The bigger problem was every time it would end up on somewhere like Yahoo finance (don't laugh, this was 2007 and earlier) it would fall over like this database. The key to scaling it seems pretty obvious today, write all the searchable data out to a single JSON file and have the browser poll that. It was doing multiple millions of user sessions a day I was told and couldn't have been deployed at a better time.

Some projects you get lucky with I suppose. I check it out every once in a while and the UX is basically still the same.

[gottorf]

Sounds like you're in a good position to make a lot of people's dreams come true: could you make the TreasuryDirect webapp not so terrible to use? :-)

[jdewerd]

My prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.

[ericrallen]

I can’t remember if I’ve ever encountered a UI that annoyed me as much as that virtual password entry.

I ended up getting locked out of my account due to some issue trying to enter what my password manager generated for me and eventually just gave up on ever converting the one small paper bond I was given as a kid to a digital one.

If the goal was to frustrate people away from converting paper bonds, they certainly succeeded.

[gottorf]

That was infernal indeed, but the rest of it still needs a ton of work. Accidentally double-click on a link? Goodbye, session!