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| bio | website | breck-mckye.com |
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| location | London | |
| age | 26 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 11 months |
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I am a user experience designer, technical author and help strategist based in London, UK. I specialize in web form design and developing strong visual semantics.
My work has been used by Tesco, various social care agencies and the UK's first fully online 'timebank'. I am currently working as a UX designer for Rightmove.
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Apr 2 |
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What is the best way to request individual characters from a password? This is a great design, because it allows users who memorise passwords as paths across the keyboard (e.g. 'Qwertyuiop') to execute the password action without having to work out which letter falls at which position. |
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Apr 2 |
answered | What is the best way to request individual characters from a password? |
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Mar 30 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on administration tag wiki excerpt |
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Mar 28 |
answered | When should you start autocompleting a search in autocomplete search field? |
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Mar 28 |
answered | Borders editing control usability |
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Mar 28 |
answered | How fast does autocomplete need to be for a good user experience? |
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Mar 27 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Does the size of an input influence its value? |
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Mar 25 |
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Should radio buttons be pre-selected? edited tags |
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Mar 25 |
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Should radio buttons be pre-selected? deleted 72 characters in body |
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Mar 25 |
answered | Should radio buttons be pre-selected? |
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Mar 25 |
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Print options dialog How often will users modify each of these elements between prints? Will they tend to persist certain settings between jobs? Will certain settings rarely be touched? Is there a particular reason why you'd email from the print dialog (e.g. there's multiple views and you want email to send a fascimile / PDF of the postscript output)? Will users know which settings will be included under each heading in advance? How often will users be using this print dialog? Always the same user? Will they be always printing within the view, or will they be kicking off prints as part of a separate workflow? |
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Mar 25 |
answered | Should i have two links on my Home Page? |
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Mar 24 |
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Single page or multi-page forms? Could you add that link to the body of your answer? |
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Mar 24 |
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Single page or multi-page forms? This aligns with my own experiences when testing forms. I have also seen multi-stage forms fare poorer than single step ones when the means of continuing between tabs or pages is unclear. |
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Mar 24 |
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Single page or multi-page forms? Can you provide any data that multi-step registration pages are more optimal than the alternatives? |
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Mar 22 |
accepted | How do users use spatial memory? |
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Mar 22 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Which is the better option Share or Post button? |
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Mar 21 |
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Opt-ins versus opt-outs in forms - does nobody else care? This is a recognized dark pattern. I'll see if I can find a research citation and post it. |
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Mar 17 |
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Is it acceptable to implement abbreviated elements and will users know what they mean? @NicolasBarbulesco - in non-visual media, there isn't need to abbreviate for compactness reasons anyway. |
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Mar 16 |
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Is it acceptable to implement abbreviated elements and will users know what they mean? I'm sure this doesn't apply to the OP, but I'm really concerned that these sorts of questions around "universal behaviours" might belie a tendency to rely on the "insights" of a UX field that's still young and highly contested over real-world validation. |
