JohnGB

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A man with far too many questions trying to work out how the world works.

My primary interests are in UX and education as a whole - specifically in finding ways of improving or remaking the education system so that it is still appropriate to the world we will live in at the time that students graduate.

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1h	comment	Which phrase is better: “Sort chronologically” or “Sort by date”? @AK4749 Fair point. I'll remove "sort by newest".
12h	comment	Migrating a Tab Bar iPhone app to iPad @AppsDev Not off the top of my head. If you ask in chat, some of the other guys may be able to help.
1d	comment	Resources on Distinguishable Colors? lighthouse.org/accessibility/design/accessible-print-design/…
1d	comment	Do American users also confuse the day and the month in dates like 01/02/2013 A date presented in a way that has the possibility of being ambiguous is always going to get confused when there is no key letting them know what the format is. This is pure logic.
May 17	comment	Why did Google put those very ugly fonts in Google plus? This isn't a font issue, it's a font rendering issue on your system level. You can change your system settings to make it look like this on a Mac as well if you really want crappy fonts.
May 17	comment	Masked password characters in a GUI vs terminal @wim I never argued that it is a benefit, rather that it is a perceived benefit.
May 16	comment	Any Research on User Experience Perceptions of Native Apps vs Web or Hybrid Apps @VincentvanScherpenseel Speaking from experience, it's cheaper and faster to develop native than html if you just want iOS and Android. Most of my mobile dev experience has been html dev, so I'm not coming from an idealistic perspective. That may change in the future, but it's not the case now.
May 16	comment	Any Research on User Experience Perceptions of Native Apps vs Web or Hybrid Apps @VincentvanScherpenseel It is impossible to have the same speed as native, and for the other parts, if it's more complicated, it costs more, and takes longer. Those are two of the biggest development issues.
May 16	comment	Table Versus Definition List for Views Hi Kim. As it stands now, I don't see the UX question in what you're asking. It seems more like a html question.
May 15	comment	How should email threads be ordered? +1 for the focus on "conversation" vs message threads.
May 15	comment	Live preview - alternative to split screen @peterchen excellent point. I'll add it to the answer.
May 15	comment	Any Research on User Experience Perceptions of Native Apps vs Web or Hybrid Apps @VincentvanScherpenseel It's never going to be exactly the same experience due to the more buggy nature of HTML5 apps and lower speed. But those aside, it's more about development issues as I pointed out in my answer.
May 15	comment	Menu tray + Back button on mobile: any reason why this shouldn't work? Just post the mockup to imgur.com and put a link to it here. One of us who do have permission will add it for you.
May 14	comment	Menu tray + Back button on mobile: any reason why this shouldn't work? The answer to this depends on the application. If you provide more detail about the application (preferably with mockups) you will get a better response.
May 14	comment	What are some ways to visually communicate hierarchy between two different select elements? Much better, so you get a +1 from me. Now it's clear and useful to other people even after that link goes down.
May 14	comment	What are some ways to visually communicate hierarchy between two different select elements? While I agree with what you have said, please give more than a link and an explanation of the topics. Just a link like that is a comment, while I can see you have a great answer in there - even if you summarise what LukeW is saying.
May 14	comment	Designing bidi text editing +1 for the best answer here. Great solution to the problem.
May 14	comment	What good is this moving captcha from Apple They get even worse :)
May 14	comment	How should hotkeys be handled in the translation of a program? Welcome to UX.se. That question has already been asked here: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/39074/…
May 14	comment	Hungriness chart - where to find? @Aadaam If everything were scientific there would be little fun in the world :) Please me know how this works out.