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| bio | website | iqmultimedia.com.au |
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| location | Wollongong, Australia | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
| seen | 10 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 205 |
I’m the UX + Tech Director at iQmultimedia; I work mostly on touch-screen kiosk systems for the mining industry.
My background is in graphic design, but I've spent some time as a professional web developer. I'm also a massive typography nerd.
You should follow me on Twitter and check out my usability presentation at Speaker Deck and on YouTube.
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Should images be given alt text if they contain no information? Added a note about screen readers as requested by 3nafish. |
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14h |
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Should autocorrect include swear words out of the box? Plus the corollary: we're getting some spectacular new euphemisms for swear words. "Duck" is (at least in some circles) now a recognisable euphemism for it's more vulgar cousin. |
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14h |
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Accessible way to override tab key in textarea Many code editors on the Mac use ⌘] and ⌘[ for indent and outdent respectively, which is probably less risky. |
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14h |
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Should images be given alt text if they contain no information? @3nafish: if you don't want a screen reader to announce an item, you should use the aria-hidden attribute. Remember alt text is also useful for things like Google Image Search and other non-screenreader users. |
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May 17 |
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Phone or Tablet mockups: chicken or the egg? Luke Wroblewski has been advocating Mobile First for a long time. He literally wrote the book on the topic, which is worth reading. |
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May 14 |
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Different approaches to prompting Mac users about accepting an EULA You could use an installation package rather than drag-and-drop, which provides the ability to show terms and conditions as one of the first steps the user performs. Is there a reason that can't work for you? |
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May 6 |
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How can I highlight errors when bright red is the main color of the brand? Just for the record, WebKit—including Chrome for now—implements focusRingColor based on platform. On the Mac, it's rgb(125, 173, 217) (light blue) and by default on Windows and Linux it's rgb(229, 151, 0) (gold). |
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May 2 |
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What is the optimum button size of touch screen applications? You might be interested in this previous question. There are many factors that affect minimum button size (including hardware). It's also worth pointing out that the minimum size isn't the same as the "optimum" size. |
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Apr 29 |
answered | “Millions of colors” vs “24-bit”: should technical concepts be simplified to ease understanding at the cost of precision? |
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Apr 21 |
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Smallest acceptable 16:9 video player? What is on the video? Talking heads? A movie? Text? |
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Apr 21 |
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Skeuomorph or OS-consistency? "The calendar app definitely sticks out, but isn't that the point? It attracts the user to it, maybe because it looks better, perhaps because it seems familiar. Either way it does accomplish that." The problem is that the calendar app shouldn't stick out, certainly not that much, while it's in the background. Once you start designing every app to be most prominent you start an arms race all the way up to our computers looking like Times Square; every application becomes a billboard. |
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Apr 18 |
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Merge multiple table entries You might like to check out this previous question and its answers. |
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Apr 18 |
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Design pattern for merging duplicate contacts? Updated images to fix broken links |
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Apr 15 |
answered | How do you nudge users to download your native app? |
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Apr 11 |
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Slanted cursor+background for italic text? One interesting factor to consider too would be how to visually handle a text selection that spans across both upright and oblique text. |
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Apr 11 |
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Examples of patterns for multiple file uploads using drag and drop? Here's an example (albeit a tech demo) of exactly what you're proposing (as far as I can tell) |
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Apr 11 |
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Alerting visitors to a website of a current event (e.g. breaking news) Why not consider a so-called "flash message", like the one used here on Stack Exchange? Here's a question with a little more information and some examples. |
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Apr 9 |
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Slanted cursor+background for italic text? I thought you'd be right that it would be a nightmare trying to figure out the angle, but turns out there are metrics for precisely this purpose built into the TrueType spec; caretSlopeRise, caretSlopeRun and caretOffset, and they "are used to specify the proper angle for the caret when displayed with this font. A rise of 1 and run of 0 will specify a vertical caret. A rise of 0 and run of 1 will specify a horizontal caret. Something in-between will be desirable for fonts whose glyphs are obliqued or italic." |
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Apr 5 |
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Select numerical value with +/- buttons or manually entering? As it stands there isn't enough information in this question to be able to answer it. How likely is it that users will want any attribute to be significantly different from its starting value? Is this information something the user is very used to entering like a birth date or credit card number? How important are updates to the visual style of the numbers to the numbers themselves (e.g. if changing one number would dramatically affect other numbers, waiting for a field to lose focus is probably going to cause issues)? |
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Apr 4 |
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Are there any special design guidelines for big touch screens (30–50 inch)? Fixed minor typos throughout |
