Juan Lanus

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User experience type with solid background in software development.
Always made people love the UIs I designed, encahced productivity in business appications.
Accepting remote gigs.

	1,586 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	8 months
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Apr 16	answered	What word can be used to mean either click or tap?
Apr 15	answered	How should horizontal scrolling be handled?
Apr 12	answered	Should usability testing of a competitor's website be a part of your usability testing routine?
Apr 10	answered	Using a back panel image as navigation
Mar 31	answered	Users don't read (or even see) things. How can I deliver important clues?
Mar 30	comment	Are verbs necessary on field labels for a survey? Good for the "harmful" side of the additional text.
Mar 30	comment	Are verbs necessary on field labels for a survey? IMO the minimalistic approach is the right one, especially for a 10-minutes worth form. On the other hand, one should prevent the now what? reaction of the user when the next step is too implied. So in the shift input, I'd label it "Shift" and would put "choose one" instead of "click to select" that's obvious because it stems from the type of control.
Mar 24	revised	Single page or multi-page forms? added 10 characters in body
Mar 24	answered	Single page or multi-page forms?
Mar 19	answered	How to visualize data with extreme value differences?
Mar 19	comment	Usability of vertical text Like for example in an Excel worksheet with many narrow columns, setting the headers vertically can save the user from having to scroll horizontally, which is worse than reading vertical text. Additionally, users might need to read the vertically set labels only once in a session, which is very different from reading an article or a book. Benny is right and obelia too.
Mar 19	comment	How does user interface design fit in a development process? @songo: thanks. Actually I can write about this very quickly (despite not being a native English writer) because I'm thinking about this since 1998 when I first worked for an internet site. I noticed that the things I was doing since the '70s had names, like "usability". Later on I thought a lot and the requirements thing came. Recently I was teaching about this to FAs of a big bank and it was a real success.
Mar 13	answered	How does user interface design fit in a development process?
Feb 28	answered	How to evaluate an interface without users?
Feb 22	comment	Should all button text start with a verb? Yes Benny, I was exactly thinking about that cases! I saved a screenshot of Windows7 copy file dialog as an example of the case when one needs only one bit of information but it's hidden into a big set of irrelevant data.
Feb 22	answered	Should all button text start with a verb?
Feb 19	answered	What's a good way to use text over a picture?
Feb 19	answered	How patient are users at wait dialogs?
Feb 18	revised	Why is it that all caps text looks like SHOUTING, but all caps handwriting is easier to read? added missing answer to the 2nd part of the question
Feb 18	comment	Why is it that all caps text looks like SHOUTING, but all caps handwriting is easier to read? @ced: oops! sorry I skipped the second part, I'll add it to my answer later today.