Baby Showers and Flex....

So, what do baby showers and Flex have in common? Not a whole lot. But the Target Gift Registry and Flex have a lot in common!

My fiancee and I were shopping for a shower gift for a couple who are registered at Target. I fired up the the registry kiosk and there it is, the ubiquitous Flex loader!

The application itself was put together quite well and the usability was excellent.

The only part of the process that I didn't like was selecting a state. You would pick a letter and it would immediately switch to another view of buttons to select from, listing all the states that begin with the letter you selected. Hit the wrong letter, you have to go back. With the capabilities that Flex offers, I would have much preferred to see a list of state names that narrowed down based on the letters you entered.

For example, I live in Indiana. If I had entere "In" I could have had it narrowed down to just Indiana. Instead, I had to hit the letter "I", jump to another screen, and pick from the list. Not to mention, I hit "H" first.

Oh well, enough gripes! It was great to see Flex out in the wild, in an application being used by the masses!