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Should input be accepted after confimation (or other actions)
I often find myself in the following workflow:
Enter user name
Enter password
Click "OK" (or enter key)
Wait for response
Discover the checkbox next to OK-button
Think: "Bugger! It would be nice to ...
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2answers
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Why do websites use “you are being redirected…” pages?
Frequently after logging in a website - specially old ones - I see the following:
Welcome! You are being redirected, please click here if your browser
does not redirect you.
And similar pages ...
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8answers
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What to display while waiting for a process (4-5 seconds) to complete?
We realized that in some cases the user may be waiting up to 4 or 5 seconds (depending on connection) for their form (or some action) to be processed. The form involves getting data from other servers ...
3
votes
2answers
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Should options in a droplist be sorted by popularity or alphabetically?
I'm building a flexible search tool where the user can put together a query against one or many of a long list of fields to pull back a list of results. I was considering a TFS like query builder ...
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3answers
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Is it bad design to hide a form's success message after a short time?
I was working on a non profit site www.gettingtoknowcancer.org and one of the requirements was to have a subscribe form on the right.So I created the subscribe form like this
which when clicked ...
