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| bio | website | alexfeinman.net |
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| location | Boston, MA | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 21 hours ago | |
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I'm a usability specialist investigating analysis and design of multi-user interaction. My doctoral work centered around using discourse analysis techniques to understand design requirements for groupware. I am currently employed helping to design a complex versioning/building/testing system.
In my spare time, I write science fiction; my novel Duplicate is available as an eBook, paperback, or hardcover. Yes, there's a fair amount of User Experience in it. ;)
My statements on these websites are not official statements from any employer of mine.
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Jun 7 |
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Why is the common practice of sign in error message always mix the wrong username/password cases together? Security trumps apparent user-friendliness. The ultimate in user un-friendliness is having your account hacked... |
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Jun 7 |
answered | Bridging the gap between color palettes and CSS |
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Jun 6 |
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And vs “&” in web text, which is better? Can you give us some context? |
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May 27 |
answered | Nagging the user with double message box for something that is important. |
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May 17 |
answered | How do you go about convincing the stubborn “powers that be” to let you change a clumsy layout that users are used to? |
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May 6 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 27 |
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Visualization of a resource with multiple competitors I think if rendered correctly, the center pie chart could be a really cool visual element, and a 'signature' for the game. You might go with discrete quanta (e.g. little dots) arranged in a circle, rather than a circular fill, as players might get confused because it represents an area rather than a linear quantity. |
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Apr 27 |
answered | “Clear input” button within a search box - why nobody but Apple uses it? |
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Apr 27 |
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Citation for the proposition “flashing boxes on the screen are annoying” I think if you answered it it might look odd. But we're not in collusion with you. Anyway, you got some nice cites, so the point is moot... |
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Apr 27 |
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Behavior of auto-scrolling gallery Using mouse position to indicate interest (i.e. stopping the animation by "holding" it with the mouse) is a pattern I've seen used successfully in the past, so you may be onto something there. |
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Apr 27 |
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Citation for the proposition “flashing boxes on the screen are annoying” I'm kind of curious why a well-written explanation here, from expert practitioners of the field, wouldn't be sufficient... |
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Apr 26 |
answered | Showing extra information for a table row when that row's selected |
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Apr 26 |
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What's the difference between UX and layout design? Yeah, this is kinda like asking "What's the difference between web development and web page layout?" ;) |
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Apr 14 |
answered | Why do programs ask the user to configure auto-update when first run? |
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Apr 13 |
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Is “search” really used on blogs? Anecdotal data: I do use blog searching. If a blog doesn't support it, I use Google to search the blog (if possible). |
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Apr 8 |
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Is there a way to display a hierarchical file tree-view in a fixed horizontal space? @blake8086, be aware that 'com.sun.java.foo' is a standard way of writing a package name. You'll want to use whatever the standard way of gluing together a path is (e.g. c:\foo\bar under Windows) |
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Apr 7 |
answered | Multitouch gesture Interaction: Beyond the pinches and swipes. |
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Apr 7 |
answered | Is there a way to display a hierarchical file tree-view in a fixed horizontal space? |
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Apr 7 |
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Data Visualisation For Scheduling What is the task that the user is performing here? |
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Apr 4 |
answered | How do you observe body language and facial expressions in user testing? |
