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for unless what we do is useful, the glory of it is vain
For those that were wondering my picture is from the painting
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich (1818). ↯
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May 4 |
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Will animated feedback be annoying or nice? Chrome Version 25.0.1364.160 |
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May 4 |
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Will animated feedback be annoying or nice? I went to look and I found that it doesn't just shake the header but rather the entire page. |
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May 1 |
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Zebra striping for body text? When I read the title, I was thinking that you were striping at the paragraph level and not at the line level. |
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Apr 5 |
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Modal window action buttons, top or bottom The bottom placement is standard for Dialogs. See, for example, the Apple OSX HI Guidelines section on Dialogs. |
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Feb 24 |
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How to best communicate color names to users more clearly Well, Name that Color says that C04848 is Crail. |
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Feb 23 |
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Difference in audio level for speaker and headphone? You seem to have written "input" where you meant "output". |
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Feb 23 |
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Difference in audio level for speaker and headphone? But there is no reason why you couldn't have separate volume setting for each output channel. |
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Feb 23 |
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Difference in audio level for speaker and headphone? The problem with any attempt to do this is that the computer can't know what the safe level is, as it depends on information that is unavailable to it. |
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Nov 26 |
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Reinventing a habitual process: When can it be justified? @TylerLangan I would admit a certain amount of path dependence but there is also research that states that DVORAK is not significantly faster than QWERTY. |
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Nov 22 |
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Looking for any studies OR anecdotal stories on the usability of lightweight markup languages (like Markdown, MediaWiki or BBCode) You might look at the existing questions: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15919/… and ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15899/… |
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Nov 22 |
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12 hr vs 24 hr time Either way, you should include the timezone (e.g. PST, EST, etc.). |
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Aug 11 |
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Correlation between number of colors used and brain processing? It is more that the media items referred to use higher contrast and clearer edges which implies less shading than simply fewer colors, as that would even apply to gray-scale. |
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Jun 21 |
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Is there any difference in element minimal sizes on 10 and 24 inch touch screens? The minimal dimensions would be independent of the screen size, just as the size of your fingers is not dependent on the size of the screen. |
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May 1 |
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Improving readability by aligning elements in rows By aligning the fields, you have just created columns. |
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Apr 29 |
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In a multilingual website should we provide the local language of the country even most of the people understand english there? Maybe you should attempt to make the Hindi language option more visible before you decide to remove it. |
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Apr 23 |
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Folder picker: Some users want to preview contents of the folder but others find this confusing Why don't you just use the standard file picker? |
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Apr 4 |
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What is the use philosophy behind app-based computing environments? Notes summarizing that talk: ajaxian.com/archives/death-of-the-desktop-by-aza-raskin |
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Mar 31 |
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Can you see a good reason to remove the plus sign in Google Chrome's create tab button? But after further investigation, I found that the source PSD files from which the PNG images were generated are not included in the chromium source. |
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Mar 25 |
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What relevance does it have to show MORE search results on a SEARCH engine? Sometimes on searches I keep going until I hit the 100th page (which is the limit). But then again I use Google as a random oracle. |
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Mar 21 |
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Why do most image gallery popups have Previous and Next arrows so far apart? because that layout is a natural mapping. |
