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Just a software developer who is quite interested in producing usable and enjoyable products.


May
5
comment How to handle todos, appointments: separate, integrated or use hybrid term?
Nice question, looking forward to the discussion! There's also goodtodo.com (e-mail-based), toodledo.com (web-based and with some collaborative features) and todotxt.com (basically a text file with some tools built around it)
May
5
comment Toggle FIND button to OK in Find dialog when search result shown
Welcome to UX.SE, Christian :-)
May
5
revised Toggle FIND button to OK in Find dialog when search result shown
clarified answer
May
5
answered Toggle FIND button to OK in Find dialog when search result shown
May
4
answered How do you decide whether additional information is harmful?
May
3
comment Is “user experience” evil?
I disagree - in my eyes, UX isn't per se "not evil", same with marketing. It's all about what you do with it, see also adrianh's casino example. When they're corporate employees, UXers (as everyone else) do their job which often is helping their company reach its business goals, and if those goals happen to be "make our product more enjoyable/easier to use", that's what they will do. However, if they tend to ignore the moral implications of their work and they're told to guide the user into a choice that primarily benefits the company (you could call that evil), they probably will do that too.
May
3
comment Where to place list filter controls?
Oops, I must have overlooked that sentence of yours about the cookie ;-) Sorry for the duplication...
May
3
comment how much in term of usability are the users willing to pay for visual effects?
So was I :-) Visual bloat is another topic entirely, sorry if that came over in a confusing way...
May
2
answered how much in term of usability are the users willing to pay for visual effects?
May
2
comment Scrollbars as a semi-transparent overlay
I agree that discovery is a problem with that approach, but maybe a little tab could work as a hint.
May
2
answered Where to place list filter controls?
May
2
answered Scrollbars as a semi-transparent overlay
May
2
answered Any value to gathering qualitative data from card sorts?
Apr
29
revised Best pattern for international address forms?
added 16 characters in body
Apr
29
comment Best pattern for international address forms?
Another great way to speed up things and wow the customer would be to automatically predict the town or city from the ZIP code (if present). If it's ambiguous, provide a list of choices and also allow free-text input if nothing fits the bill.
Apr
29
answered Best pattern for international address forms?
Apr
18
comment What's the best design pattern for splitting things in parts?
Another thought there: maybe the sliders don't work as well for you, but pre-defined splits do. Save the user from splitting their order themselves and offer them a range of sensible, automatically computed splits to choose from.
Apr
18
comment What's the best design pattern for splitting things in parts?
Yup, that's going to be a problem - right now, I see no easy and intuitive way of letting the other sliders react sensibly to the change of one. Humblebundle.com seems to have the others change proportionally somehow. In my eyes though, the solution is good enough for Humble Bundle's use case. Generally spoken: if you're cool with having odd values and just want the general concept implemented, it's definitely one way to go.
Apr
18
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Apr
15
answered What's the best design pattern for splitting things in parts?