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| bio | website | heysaturdaysun.com |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | Apr 3 at 11:27 | |
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I am the Senior Manager of the Human Factors team at Union Pacific Railroad. I am working on my masters in human computer interaction at Iowa State University. I live in Omaha with my lovely girlfriend, 4 children and 2 dogs.
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Apr 1 |
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Legacy Text Interface (e.g. Telnet) to GUI You aren't going to be able to generically update the UI and expect huge gains in learnability/ease of use. You need to study your users, generate designs and then test them. There are no shortcuts. |
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Jan 13 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Dec 31 |
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Is there a proper name for the accordion-like stacked panels? Where I work we call this type of component a "twistie". |
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Dec 18 |
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Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue? @JørnE.Angeltveit I feel like it is after having gone down this same road as you are going down. I am not familiar with NGOMSL but your work sounds interesting. I would like to learn more. Someone else deleted my answer; I took it to mean they felt it was completely unrelated. I was ok with that since as it stood it kind of was in relation to your question. |
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Dec 18 |
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Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue? @JørnE.Angeltveit You are not going to find academic research to generically answer your question because there are too many variables to control experimentally. This is why KLM/GOMS exist. They are not theoretical models. If you give me an interface that supports both the keyboard and the mouse, using KLM I can tell you with a higher degree of statistical certainty which method is faster. However, that information will be of no value to anyone else unless dealing with an identical interface. |
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Dec 18 |
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Idea for improved usability for HTML form checkboxes and radio buttons I think your question has already been answered here ux.stackexchange.com/questions/23266/… |
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Dec 17 |
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Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue? Based on the KLM and GOMS model, John's statement (If you don't know the keyboard command, it is usually faster to use the mouse) is absolutely correct. Mentally preparing takes ~ 1.35 seconds, moving hands to keyboard from mouse takes ~ .4 seconds, pointing with a mouse (excluding click) takes ~ 1.1 seconds, etc. You can review "The Psychology of Human Computer Interaction" by Stuart Card, Thomas Moran and Allen Newell or simply search for any research related to GOMS for more information. |
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Nov 19 |
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Why left-align a website? There is no supporting evidence that a centered design makes for an easier and better reading experience. |
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Nov 18 |
suggested | suggested edit on Why left-align a website? |
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Sep 24 |
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Floating submit/cancel buttons Can you clarify what you mean when you say "users don't get an idea for the full scope of the form"? |
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Sep 9 |
answered | Are there any studies or research documenting how people react to change in UI? |
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Sep 6 |
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Where can I find statistics on the use of mobile app features? I can't imagine you are going to find academic research on "set as wallpaper" functionality. |
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Aug 28 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Aug 21 |
answered | Building logical criteria (with AND , OR, etc) |
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Jun 29 |
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UI Design / Flow - what should “Save” and “Cancel” do? @PaulK Why don't you just run a test to find out what makes the most sense to your users? |
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Jun 29 |
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UI Design / Flow - what should “Save” and “Cancel” do? What you described might be true but consider this scenario: 1. User adds multiple records 2.User accidentally clicks the Cancel button If the entire form is a single transaction, the user just lost all the added rows as opposed to one. |
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May 3 |
awarded | Scholar |
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May 3 |
accepted | Is autotabbing in forms helpful or harmful? |
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May 3 |
answered | Is there a commonly-referenced example of a particularly well-designed persona? |
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Apr 24 |
awarded | Commentator |
