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| bio | website | toothycat.net/wiki/… |
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| location | Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 9 months |
| seen | 17 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 3 |
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May 16 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Apr 24 |
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Forcing users to use a particular pattern for passwords I use a variation on this approach (three non-dictionary words separated by the same punctuation character), and get very annoyed when websites require me to capitalise one of the letters or include a numeral as well as punctuation. |
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Mar 20 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 20 |
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Why don't we auto-save for users instead of having them save manually? I think this is the Microsoft Word model. Launching after a crash, you get "Word has recovered the following documents that were open. Select which documents you wish to keep:" |
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Mar 20 |
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Why don't we auto-save for users instead of having them save manually? "Avant-garde"? OS X Lion may have been avant-garde when this was written, but autosave as a concept has been around for decades, including in many very widespread programs such as Microsoft Word (and these days many webapps like Google Drive). I'm very familiar with Outlook's message "Outlook has automatically saved a draft of this message. Do you want to keep the draft?" |
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Mar 14 |
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What's the best way to make a user read terms and conditions before continuing a form? Is 200x200 meant to be big or small? It sounds very narrow to me... |
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Mar 14 |
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Do people find someone in a list faster by name or a profile picture of the person? @Deer Hunter: What? Why? There's still lots of other visual cues in the photo - the hairstyle, shape of face, size of nose, etc. "Despite" their sunglasses, I can tell that Robert Vojta and Vu Hoang Anh both aren't people I know but Robert Vojta looks a bit like one of my uncles. |
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Mar 14 |
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What is the best way to represent the difficulty level in a children's game? I don't like this idea. I think kids will after a couple of games know the kind of level they like to play at, and coming to feel that each time they start the game, they still have to play through the early questions until they get to the good stuff... Think of how we feel about unskippable DVD menus and trailers. |
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Feb 13 |
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How to make it obvious that you can drag things that you normally can't? But I wouldn't interpret three horizontal lines like that to mean "grabbable". That icon can mean many other things: ux.stackexchange.com/questions/30817/list-icon-vs-menu-icon |
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Feb 8 |
suggested | suggested edit on A/B Testing Technique |
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Jan 31 |
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Common screen resolution? YES. This is the key point. Fluid web design is vital because so many people are accessing web sites from phones and tablets these days. The resolution trend is fragmentation, not expansion. |
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Jan 15 |
awarded | Critic |
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Nov 7 |
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Do you need a search button with a search box? It doesn't send your URL to Google. The way it will work when something's typed into the bar is: (a) Does it start with http://? If so, go there. (Or ftp://, etc.) (b) Does it form a valid URL if I prefix http:// (and maybe )? If so, go there. (c) Give up and send it to Google. |
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Nov 25 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Nov 25 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 25 |
revised |
The right wording for “close” added 186 characters in body |
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Nov 25 |
answered | The right wording for “close” |
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Nov 24 |
answered | When is double-clicking appropriate for the web? |
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Aug 18 |
awarded | Suffrage |
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Aug 18 |
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What effect would a grayscale color scheme have on UX? He does already say that "this is technically cheating". Whether this is a problem or not depends on whether the black-and-whiteness is a design goal or a technical restriction. |
