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| bio | website | cellio.livejournal.com |
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Sep 11 |
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How can I show marking state (for individual data values) in aggregate representations? With multiple source of marking and not-necessarily-known semantics of marks, that seems like it could explode very quickly. Instead of trying to call out every collection of marks I'm trying to signal to the user "hey, two of those and one of these are marked; if you care you might want to check that out". What presentation signals that short of "Inbox (89, 2 red, 1 blue, 3 green)"? |
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Sep 10 |
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Is it good to limit the user to a set number of selectable font / background colors? I'm suggesting that you'll always miss something because users are complicated. The common approach of providing, say, 16 pre-chosen colors and a color wheel for fine-tuning seems to work well; choose those 16 colors well and most of your users will just take those, but if somebody does need more control it's available. If you're building an application from scratch and the color wheel adds too much complexity that's different, but in a case where you already have that, why not continue to make it available? Where's the harm? |
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Sep 10 |
answered | Is it good to limit the user to a set number of selectable font / background colors? |
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Sep 10 |
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How can I show marking state (for individual data values) in aggregate representations? Thanks. To continue your email example, now imagine that the senders of two of those messages, one in the inbox and one in "Some Label", had flagged (marked) their messages as important. In this list, how might you indicate that? (And consider that the system might have also marked different ones in some way that you might also want to call out -- replies to messages you marked important, or people in your best-buddies G+ circle, or something else.) |
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Sep 5 |
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How can I show marking state (for individual data values) in aggregate representations? added one sentence to clarify intent (I hope) |
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Sep 4 |
awarded | Student |
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Sep 4 |
asked | How can I show marking state (for individual data values) in aggregate representations? |
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Aug 31 |
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Why should we ask the password twice during registration? @VictorBjelkholm, that's one way to address it. Another it to put the toggle checkbox above the password inputs. The implemenation has to consider this aspect of the UX and we can't take that as a given, unfortunately. I still think it's a bad idea for the other reasons given here. |
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Aug 23 |
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Is it necessary to store chat conversation? A mantra that is often helpful to contemplate: "I am not the user". Just because you use chat a certain way doesn't mean everyone does. Until you do the research, you don't know. |
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Aug 17 |
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What is the purpose behind mouse acceleration? @jokoon, you asked a general question so you're getting answers that reflect that. If your question is "why would someone with one small monitor use mouse acceleration?", you might want to ask that specifically. (Though I've found it helpful on a single 17" monitor -- obviously tastes vary.) |
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Jul 30 |
answered | Should I include all toolbar items inside menus? |
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Jul 27 |
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How do I encourage users to fill their Profile The first thing I did on seeing this question title was to check if the asker has filled in his UX.SE profile. :-) |
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Jul 27 |
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How should times be aligned in a column If the times don't align on the colons and the numbers on the decimal points, it's going to be difficult for your readers. At that point I think left- versus right-aligned is the least of your worries. |
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Jul 19 |
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CLI and Recall Memory You might also need to factor in the automatic recall (that is, ctrl-p or up-arrow) provided by the command line itself. Users don't always type every command line from scratch. |
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Jul 18 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Jul 11 |
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Screen sizes, how do we determine standards and what are they? Why are you looking at screen size rather than application-window size? On a phone or tablet that makes sense; on a desktop machine, unless your application is guaranteed the entire screen, it doesn't. |
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Jul 10 |
answered | Why are there two Address lines in Address forms? |
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Jun 19 |
answered | Exercise to educate graphic designers about the importance of usability |
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Jun 18 |
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How big is the cutoff for screen compatibility Resolution is the wrong measure unless your application is guaranteed to run in full-screen mode. |
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Jun 14 |
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How to convince a user to fill out a survey @Yallow, so the workflow supports doing the survey before the reckoning of the final bill? That sounds like your best bet, then; it's hard to argue with cold, hard cash. :-) |
