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Oct 3	answered	How do I present on/off indicators without leading users to believe they are buttons?
Oct 3	answered	Opening a new browser tab
Sep 15	awarded	Yearling
Feb 21	comment	Is a cancel button necessary in a windows form? 'Cancel' is also much more descriptive and informative, and will be particularly useful for the less computer literate.
Feb 6	answered	How to get stakeholder buy-in for proposed UX research initiatives?
Jan 5	awarded	Quorum
Sep 16	answered	Summary Page - Should users be able to edit data on a summary page?
Sep 16	awarded	Yearling
Jul 21	answered	How to prevent grey/black lines after effect?
Jul 20	comment	Most intuitive icon to represent “me” or “myself” Strictly speaking the term icon is over generalised, and what are used are signs which are split into icons, indexes, and symbols. Icons are by definition something that are universal representations (e.g. a photograph of a mountain is an icon of a mountain) though the meaning that the icon is intended to impart may be more ambiguous...
Jul 20	answered	Most intuitive icon to represent “me” or “myself”
Jul 15	comment	What phrase would you use instead of “Likes” for an airline related forum? To make it even cheesier and tongue in cheek, once users have attained a certain threshold of altitude points then you can badge them up and say they have joined the mile high club.
Jul 15	awarded	Commentator
Jul 15	comment	Why does the Redbox machine have barriers around the credit card swipe reader? Regarding the terminology of negative affordance the answer is 'yes and no'. Broadly speaking affordance refers to the physical actions that can be carried out. In this sense, this design isn't negative affordance (you can still carry out the task) but the affordance has been inhibited (it is harder to do). However, affordance in HCI tends to mean "what the design communicates to you about how it can be used" (things that look like buttons can be used as buttons) and in this sense the barriers don't really change the affordance.
Jul 15	comment	Why does the Redbox machine have barriers around the credit card swipe reader? Crucially though it would have been straight forward to create a design that obstructs the installation of skimming equipment but does not obstruct the user from swiping their card.
Jul 14	comment	Vertical & Horizontal Scrollable UI I agree with Boris and Charles. However, if your user has to horizontally scroll back and forth (e.g. to compare tabular data or read prose) this is generally a Bad Thing. As well as being inefficient it is tedious as well. There are many situations when horizontal scrolling is appropriate, but I would recommend checking and rechecking that it is actually needed.
Jul 14	revised	Why are different cursors used when hovering over buttons in Gmail? added 1 characters in body
Jul 14	answered	Why are different cursors used when hovering over buttons in Gmail?
Jul 14	comment	What's the definition of Information Architecture? Information Architecture should be designed to support users in carrying out their tasks/goals with the computer/software as an interaction partner. As an interaction partner we need to understand the needs and behaviour of the computer/software as well. Whilst we are in a sense 'champions' for the user, this does mean in some cases that we work 'for' the machine in order to bring about an overall better user experience. E.g., a particular search query may place a disproportionate load on a system impacting other users, so we might aim to restrict, discourage, or slow the use of that query.
Jul 12	comment	Isn't all user testing essentially a way of gathering how people think things should work? And to add to Alex's "in short", this is fairly close to being a valid and useful description of the scientific method.