Monica Cellio

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Oct 18	comment	Giving users ability to change order of information on their profiles Interesting question about consistency versus personalization. I've edited slightly to remove the polling aspect, which would be off-topic.
Oct 18	revised	Giving users ability to change order of information on their profiles removed the opinion-survey aspect
Oct 18	comment	How do I represent null values in a line chart? @Brian, that's a good point. I've updated my answer.
Oct 18	revised	How do I represent null values in a line chart? addressed comment
Oct 18	answered	How do I represent null values in a line chart?
Oct 17	comment	Force User to Sign In/Sign Up? Related: ux.stackexchange.com/q/18936/5400
Oct 15	answered	Do users like choice? How much should I give them?
Oct 3	comment	“Toll Free” or “Call Us” Before Phone Number Will your phone number be toll-free from all locations where the web page can be seen?
Oct 2	comment	Is there a usability reason for centering a website's content area on a page? @PhilipSeyfi, I agree that it shouldn't stretch text to 30". But it shouldn't also crop the site if you only gave it 800px width. Is it possible to get both of these correct? (Note we are talking window size, not screen resolution.) Meanwhile, my question remains: when someone goes full-screen with a browser on a 30" monitor, what is he trying to accomplish?
Oct 2	comment	Do columns of text hurt readability on websites? Having to scroll back up to start the second column is pretty bad usability. Multi-column works on paper because you can see the whole page. (And the fonts may tend to be smaller, lowering the practical limit on line width.)
Oct 2	comment	Is there a usability reason for centering a website's content area on a page? @PhilipSeyfi, a responsive design would try to use all that space, no? What I'm really trying to understand is the use case of a 30"-wide browser window. What do you do with all that space that it's worth going full-screen?
Oct 2	comment	Is there a usability reason for centering a website's content area on a page? You read full-width text on a 30" monitor? Ouch! How do you keep the whole line in focus and not "miss" when going to the next line? (If your answer is "nobody reads lines that wide", why are you browsing full-width? What am I missing?)
Oct 2	comment	Is there a usability reason for centering a website's content area on a page? There's also a moment of confusion/annoyance when someone with a smaller browser window (or screen) visits a center-aligned web site that isn't liquid. If you have to horizontally scroll in order to read all the content, there's a problem. So "centered in the space given" is good; "centered in the space we decided is the right width for the site" isn't.
Oct 2	comment	Why are “Inverted Colors” considered an accessibility feature? I'm one of those vision-challenged people, and @RogerAttrill and Christian are spot-on WRT my experience. The bombardment from a background full of light-emitting white pixels makes the black text harder to read, particularly with extended usage. But I can read for hours on my Kindle (e-ink) with no problems; paper (real or simulated) is different. BTW, the Mac "solution" to this problem is completely useless to me; pixel inversion does too much collateral damage (like photos). On Windows I can define a color scheme. (I use my Mac for shorter periods of time; work machine is Windows.)
Sep 23	awarded	Custodian
Sep 23	reviewed	Reviewed Why is HideSelection the default on Windows?
Sep 23	reviewed	Looks Good What is the UI/UX term for in-view content “jumping” up/down due to changes out of view?
Sep 21	comment	Allow users to change fonts for increased reability Is this for a web site or a stand-alone application?
Sep 12	comment	Re-plotting items on a map (1) What does (left-)click do? That's a common idiom for "select" in other applications, so if you want to break it down as select + relocate, left-click seems more natural than right-click. (2) The answer to this will be affected by the properties of your map, so can you tell us more about that? How dense do movable items tend to be? How often do people pan/zoom vs just working with a static map? What other mouse-based gestures do you already support? (You mentioned pan and a right-click menu; anything else?) Is everything mouse-based or do they also use the keyboard for anything?
Sep 12	comment	How can I measure why users never return to a web app? @BartoszRakowski, the original title was way too broad and vague, so the question needed to be focused. If that's not the dimension along which Tara wanted to focus it, she can always edit.