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| bio | website | tclayson.com |
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| location | Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom | |
| age | 22 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | Mar 19 at 15:36 | |
| stats | profile views | 25 |
I am a professional mobile and web developer.
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Jan 6 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Aug 24 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Aug 23 |
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What ways are there to highlight a selected option or link without using bold? Hi, I've had a play with colours and because the background was dark and color apart from white wasn't showing up nicely. So I've changed the background color of the <p> element around the item and put the screenshots in my first post. What do you think? I think its quite garish personally, but what do you think? Thanks |
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Aug 23 |
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What ways are there to highlight a selected option or link without using bold? added 683 characters in body |
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Aug 23 |
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What ways are there to highlight a selected option or link without using bold? That's not a bad idea, although on the dark background I may not have as much choice on the colours. :) I'll have a play with that. |
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Aug 23 |
answered | Android app - Look and feel |
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Aug 23 |
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Is it necessary to store chat conversation? added 571 characters in body |
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Aug 23 |
answered | Is it necessary to store chat conversation? |
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Aug 23 |
asked | What ways are there to highlight a selected option or link without using bold? |
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Apr 16 |
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How can I distract / entertain people in an app while waiting? Only problem is I've just done it and not been able to read the quote. Very annoying. Its good, but I'd prefer a "continue" button to come up once its loaded so I can read the quote completely if I want to. Similarly a checkbox "continue automatically on load" would be a good idea when I get bored of reading the quotes. |
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Jan 22 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Jan 9 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? I agree @JGWeissman, however I'm not targeting you or me with this program - I'm targeting users who use Microsoft Word day in day out. The kind of people who use internet explorer because they don't know that you can get different browsers, and even if they did then they don't know why they should bother changing because "everything works in internet explorer". ;) I need to give the most intuitive platform for my users, and I believe that disabling the button will cause unnecessary confusion. There are other ways I can alert the user to unsaved changes. |
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Jan 8 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? I always use google docs, and I work on a Mac 100% of the time. However, my intended users work on Windows computers, use Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, click the "Apply" button then the "Ok" button when using the control panel and all sorts. I'm not trying to be cutting edge and modern (unfortunately) I'm trying to make my application useable and accessible. It needs to have an interface that is simple, useable and intuitive. I don't think that auto save (for the demographic I am targeting) is intuitive unfortunately. Maybe in a decade. |
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Jan 8 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Jan 8 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? @fluffy what's the reasoning behind this? |
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Jan 8 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? I wish I could do this, this would help everyone. However I feel that this could confuse the intended audience of my application more so than just not providing feedback on a button. |
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Jan 8 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? I inserted a movie into the document before saving it clever! :) Yeah, I understand you answer but normally this usually happens very quickly and goes largely unnoticed by the "average" user. Contrast this to web apps for instance. If you click save usually you are presented with the same page with a persistant notification (usually in green or yellow) saying "Saved" or "Your email has been sent successfully" or something. The reason for providing the feedback on the button was to lower the intrusion level to make it obvious but not annoying. |
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Jan 8 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? I tend to agree, however the "evidence" points to a different conclusion. When I'm in Microsoft Word, or Excel, or any similar programs there is NO indicator (that I have noticed) that I have started editing, and often I will come back to an open Word Document and think to myself "have I saved this yet?". If this is wrong then why has no-one thought to change this in the many iterations of the Office suite? i.e. why don't people approach new software with the preconceptions based on their use of Microsoft products? This is my dialemma |
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Jan 8 |
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Should I provide feedback from a save button? Tom, absolutely not. I'm not asking about the actual button itself. What I'm asking (as is clear in the question) is whether the act of "Saving" should be acknowledged at all. It is the prerogative of the answerer how they interpret this, whether it is the case that the feedback should occur on the button itself (which is a nice idea, that's where the user is focussing, and its not intrusive to their experience, as an alert dialogue would be) or whether there is some other feedback to let the user know their action has completed successfully. |
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Jan 7 |
awarded | Good Question |
