meta user
network profile
| bio | website | cellio.livejournal.com |
|---|---|---|
| location | Pittsburgh PA | |
| age | ||
| visits | member for | 2 years |
| seen | yesterday | |
| stats | profile views | 188 |
|
Apr 29 |
comment |
Should marking a chat message as spam automatically ignore the user? A pattern I've seen is, upon marking something as spam, being asked "do you want to ignore this user?". So your system can ask, but you shouldn't take actions unilaterally on the user's behalf, for the reasons given in this answer. |
|
Feb 11 |
comment |
All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form @SamPierceLolla ah yes, I see the problem now -- the question text and the form differ. (By the way, if you want somebody to receive a notice of a comment, use @ before the name like I did here. I didn't receive an alert about your comment but just stumbled across it.) |
|
Feb 10 |
comment |
All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form @SamPierceLolla, I based that on this from the question: The countries are listed in a drop-down box with a default choice that says "Choose a country". The problem is that about 1/3 of our users select the first country on the list which is Afghanistan." We could as easily ask how this answerer knows that, once forced into the drop-down, people will actually choose the correct answer, by the way. |
|
Feb 8 |
comment |
All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form How does your first suggestion help? They'll just take the first one on the list as they do now; inserting "please select" as an option doesn't change that. |
|
Feb 8 |
comment |
All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form Which is the bigger barrier: making users select a country, or making users figure out how to correct it when you guessed wrong? I wasn't exactly thrilled recently when, for who-knows-what reason, a site assumed I was German and adjusted the language accordingly... it was kinda hard to find and fix the relevant setting in a language I don't read. (OP isn't talking about changing language based on location, but others do.) Making a guess is fine (I suggested that in my answer), but only if the user then confirms it. |
|
Jan 30 |
comment |
All my users are from Afghanistan or how to get users to correctly fill out a form @Nrgdallas, it does require careful wording of that notice, tailored to the expected user base. (You'd probably explain it differently on a web-development forum versus a photo-hosting site.) |
|
Jan 8 |
comment |
Why is embedded help not popular? Contextual help is more expensive to develop and especially maintain than "plain old help" is. And you're probably not going to ditch your plain old help, so you end up with the help page/manual/document for general reading and either tagging or a copy to support the contextual snippets. This is hard to do well and more expensive than just publishing the doc as a unit. |
|
Dec 25 |
comment |
What are the best practices on religious holidays? Yes, this. If you're a religious business then go ahead and use your religion's norms for these things; if I call a Jewish bookstore I expect to be greated with "shana tova" near Rosh Hashana no matter who I am, and if I call a Christian store I'll expect a "Merry Christmas" around now. But if you sell widgets, why do you need to do anything special at all? Holidays don't compel you to acknowledge them. (Hmm, I wonder if anybody has done a user study on this.) |
|
Dec 25 |
comment |
What are the best practices on religious holidays? Trying to guess religion based on geography may be right most of the time, but when it's wrong it'll be terribly wrong. It's one thing for a minority to think everybody got the same inapplicable-to-him greeting; it's worse if he finds out that you did adjust but, from his POV, got it wrong. |
|
Nov 26 |
comment |
Should UX design consider how things behave when they are broken? Is your question, then, about the relative priority of this consideration among all the other UX concerns ("how important is...?")? I'm not trying to criticize, just refine -- I think it's an interesting area, and not just because I recently replaced an otherwise-perfectly-good keyboard because the paint and "locator bumps" wore off... |
|
Nov 26 |
comment |
Should UX design consider how things behave when they are broken? Most of your users aren't using a brand-new device most of the time, right? I mean, if you're designing kleenex maybe you don't care, but for anything durable, this seems obvious to me. Should this question be recast from a yes/no query to one asking how to do that? |
|
Nov 9 |
comment |
Is Microsoft's Ribbon UI really that great, from a usability perspective? That's the motivation; do we know if it actually worked? That is, has anybody done usability studies of the ribbon, comparing discoverability to the prior version? |
|
Nov 9 |
comment |
Can we just use tooltip on some rather than on all controls? Related: ux.stackexchange.com/q/10483/5400 |
|
Nov 9 |
comment |
Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? Where did they put them before TVs were wall-mounted? That is, what's driving the desire to put them over the fireplace now? |
|
Nov 2 |
comment |
Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? Ah, that makes sense! My TV is aligned with my seated eye-level too. |
|
Nov 2 |
comment |
Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? Thank you for helping me to refine my question. :-) I meant to ask about homes, not restaurants/bars, and have edited the question. (Another reason to raise them at restaurants would be to reduce the chance that unruly or clumsy patrons will damage them.) |
|
Nov 2 |
comment |
Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? Re #2: I wonder how many people know how to turn their TVs on/off without the remote. :-) |
|
Nov 2 |
comment |
Why do people mount TVs so high on the wall in their homes? I hadn't been thinking of bedrooms, but that's a good point. |
|
Oct 29 |
comment |
visualising session data What do you want to know from your data? What pages or origin countries are most popular? What individual users do? What users do in the aggregate (computed values, like average time spent on the site)? |
|
Oct 29 |
comment |
In what situations is a “barrier to entry” training requirement before use appropriate? Airplane cockpit, nuke-plant controls, X-ray machine... safety + impact on others? |
