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| bio | website | fiveminuteargument.com |
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| location | England, United Kingdom | |
| age | 34 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 17 at 17:08 | |
| stats | profile views | 44 |
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May 17 |
awarded | Good Question |
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Jan 9 |
comment |
Is there ever a good reason to force opening a new browser window? @DA01: Doesn't the default behaviour for new tab handle that correctly? Is it similar to the previous comment - i.e. empty tab gets left behind? |
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Nov 24 |
awarded | Yearling |
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May 21 |
answered | Should we disallow common passwords like “password” and “12345”? |
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Mar 19 |
answered | Button Names 'Click here' vs 'something else' |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 13 |
comment |
Search Icon vs Search Input Box - Both Require One Click/Touch: Which to use? "an icon takes up considerably less space" - this sounds rather worrying to me. If you're really concerned about the difference in space taken up by a search box versus. a search icon, I suspect the "iA and navigation hurdles" of which you speak are the ones to tackle first rather than worrying about this issue. |
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Jan 31 |
comment |
Autocomplete returns more than X records You won't get a better answer than this one. |
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Dec 8 |
comment |
What errors should users never experience? @Leon: totally agree. I was going to make that a much longer comment by talking about failovers (try saving the document somewhere else? try saving to a different filesystem / the cloud / etc?) but just went with the "quick example" for the sake of brevity ;-) There's definitely a crossover here with things like 'autosave' and other usability improvements that stop the user from having to understand how a computer works in order to fulfil their task. |
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Dec 8 |
comment |
What errors should users never experience? I think Leon is trying to distinguish between an error and a message. If a document fails to save, you don't want the application to say "Error writing bytes to filesystem" or anything remotely technical. Instead, a clear message should be given, along the lines of "Your document could not be saved, please try again" (although even that's not great, just a quick example off the top of my head ...) |
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Dec 6 |
answered | From the usability point of view are text links in italics a good or a bad idea? |
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Nov 24 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Nov 10 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 6 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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May 5 |
comment |
Is it a good idea to have a large footer containing many links? @Chris That's really good advice, thanks very much. Do you have any references to back that up? I believe you 100% and it's common sense, but I might need to convince others! |
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Apr 8 |
answered | What's your favorite book on UX? |
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Apr 1 |
awarded | Student |
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Feb 25 |
answered | Default cursor on mouse over of a button is not a hand pointer |
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Feb 9 |
revised |
Is using the alt-attribute for text-as-graphics ok? added 156 characters in body |
