webvitaly

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Mar 29	comment	Why users should solve the problem of spam by solving capchas? @JonW In bold part I mean "maybe it is better for user to solve captcha instead of the user?"
Mar 18	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @TIKSN How often user is registering sitting near his friend? Even if such situation happens user will see after first letter that password is unmasked and will hit the button for mask his password. But even if there are no such button user at least could hide password on the screen with the hand while typing for mask it manually :)
Mar 4	comment	Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead? @kontur I added new image of safe. IMHO now it is looks like more than safe ;)
Mar 4	comment	Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead? @kontur what is your suggestion for "Save" icon?
Feb 4	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski "What is karma?!?!" You have 163 points of reputation, it is your karma - ux.stackexchange.com/users/4374/lee-kowalkowski
Feb 4	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski "OS must stop masking the password, it's not your fight"- I created this topic for people start talking about it and thinking what is better. If developers will not talk about it and will not make it in real projects, than OS maybe will never make this "because nobody talks about it and nobody needs it" :) It is infinite loop which could be started from someone. Many features in web started from web-developers (read about img-tag) and if it is popular and usable, so then W3C make it as a standard.
Feb 4	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski "so a another person could discover it on-screen using autocomplete" - param autocomplete=off could be added to password field. "I don't understand your karma statement" - it was joke that you have 150 karma and you are trying to teach Nielsen what is good for users :) "the Conservative statement did not make sense to me either" - I meant that you are protecting old-school approach. Read this topic, you'll gonna like it too ;) ux.stackexchange.com/questions/20924/…
Feb 2	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski "The WordPress technique doesn't work on IE8" - it is the problem of IE8 and lower. Older IEs cannot change the type of input properly. It was fixed in IE9. "You could do some serious damage" - "masking password" and "encrypting password" is two independent actions and everything depends on browsers behavior but all modern browsers secure this data pretty good. "Jakob made a grave error recommending the checkbox" - you have not so much karma to say such things ;)
Jan 31	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski "you're deviating from standards before they've been set. Not cool." WordPress.com and Jakob Nielsen already changed that 20-years old standards. Or you know better authorities in usability? :)
Jan 31	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski You are so conservative :) If everyone would think like you than we would still use font-tag and meta-keywords. Try to type masked password on phone or on keyboard with erased letters and you will understand which approach is better.
Jan 30	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski "Password fields are hidden from view for good reason, but now people think they know better?" - yes, now people knows better because of user testings. "I play keyboards, my password technique is to pick a tune..." - so unmasked password will only help you with your technique. Unmasked password will show if CAPSLOCK is enabled or if language is switched to another and so on. But if there is a spy behind your shoulder [:)], you may hide the password by clicking visibility toggle button.
Jan 30	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @LeeKowalkowski The main idea of this post is to hide or show the password. WordPress chose to show the password and user does not have to input masked (blind) password twice - signup.wordpress.com/signup
Jan 29	comment	Why should we ask the password twice during registration? I agree that the email is the most important part of user registration. But this is the theme for other topic. And the main idea of this thread is about masking or unmasking the password.
Dec 20	comment	What is the best way to inspire users to choose strong password? @AndreyBotalov: "If attacker has the same IP as ordinary users" - how could this be? :) У вас в Белоруссии IP-адресов мало? :)
Dec 19	comment	What is the best way to inspire users to choose strong password? @AndreyBotalov: There are about (approx.) 10% of users under NAT and about (approx.) 10% of these users could exceed 10 times login limit. If they will exceed the limit, then these users will simply restore the password. Because of this (approx.) 1% of users you are trying to force all 100% to invent long and complicated passwords. IMHO it is not useful for users.
Dec 19	comment	Removing placeholder text on focus +1, thank you for description of the user testing. Could you tell (if it is not a secret) what else confused users except placeholders? Or what other improvements you made after user testing? It is very interesting because users surprise me a lot sometimes :)
Dec 18	comment	Removing placeholder text on focus +1, I agree, that in most cases placeholder not needed at all, label is enough and input should be blank (without placeholder text). But there are situations when you are limited in space (like login forms) and placeholder solve this limitation. By the way, what was the average age of tested users?
Oct 19	comment	Why do most dashboards use capital words? @BartGijssens IF ALL WORDS WILL BE UPPERCASED THAN IT WILL MORE PROMINENT THAN USER USED TO READ. BUT IT IS HARD TO READ FOR USER. IMAGINE IF ALL THE WORDS IN THE BOOKS WILL BE UPPERCASED. Natural case of letters is easier to read.
Sep 5	comment	Removing placeholder text on focus +1 I completely agree that using placeholder in most cases is the bad practice. But there are some cases when using placeholder is good solution. Example: login form in the topbar of the site. There are no extra space for labels and it is better to use placeholders in this case.
Aug 16	comment	Submit button on top of the long form Someday I will found the example of such form and I will post the link to that form here :) About "can't just press the submit button" - Submit button could be disabled if not all required inputs are filled and the form is not ready to be submitted.