Marjan Venema

less info
meta site favicon meta user | stack exchange network profile network profile
3,506 reputation
21021
bio website bjmsoftware.com
location Netherlands
age 51
visits member for 2 years, 9 months
seen 23 mins ago
stats profile views 377

Software developer since 1985. Started in Cobol, moved via Clipper/VB to Delphi. Delphi developer since 1998. Work(ed) both self-employed and employed.

Questions

When you ask a question, show your effort, provide all the details that will help someone to help you and be precise.

Answers

When you answer a question, don't just paste your code. Your answers will be much better when you explain why your code is doing what it does and how it achieves the asker's goal. It makes it a whole lot easier to follow along. As it is I am much more inclined to up-vote answers that have explanatory text about what the code is doing and why it is written as it is.

Answers that just contain links aren't likely to get an up-vote from me either


908 Actions

suggestions reviews revisions comments badges posts accepts all
May
14
 comment Why aren't Gmail-like “on-page” dialogs more popular UI solutions?
Interesting test result. Personally I dislike them because they appear at an off-center location, and can't be moved (afaik).
May
13
 comment Should Carousels auto-scroll?
Only if they stop on hover or click(ing its dot)... (I hate carousels that don't stop for me).
May
10
 comment Why F1 is the default help key?
@PhillipW: Yep even back then there were "standards". F1 was amongst the first unwritten ones and got codified into the IBM CUA standard. Which may have been the first formal user interface guideline.
May
10
 comment Why do users click randomly and rapidly when an application hangs?
Mouse malfunctions (low battery on optical cordless mice) and not pressing mouse button hard enough, also lead to clicks missed by the application, and clicking again may convince the mouse that you are actually clicking and transferring that fact to the computer.
May
10
 comment How can we visually improve the nested rule/predicate builder?
While the 'And' and 'Or' may seem to add visual noice, the actually make it much clearer for me what is going on. Don't leave them out, but do de-emphasize them as in your third image. That one is actually going on my example's list!
May
9
 comment How can the mode of a car's transmission be made more clear?
If the car were left first in gear when stopped , starting it without engaging the clutch will make the car leap forward, but no more than about a meter or so. It may give everybody involved a fright but I doubt they would suffer anyting more serious. The jump will also tell the inexperienced driver which gear the car is in... If the driver did engage the clutch before starting the car, (s)he is aware that the car is/may be in gear and would also check which one. So therefore: interesting hypothetical, but not really an issue.
May
8
 comment Content Management Systems (CMS) layers
Flag it for moderator attention and ask for it to be moved.
May
8
 comment Log add to top or bottom
Depends on the purpose for which the log is created. Even if it is to have warnings and errors taken care of, the importance may indeed rise with time past. If the purpose is to facilitate diagnostics by examining what happened in a system, chronological order is the only way to go.
May
8
 comment Log add to top or bottom
Why are you logging? To have alerts taken care of, or to provide a history of what happened in the application so problems can be diagnosed by examining these events?
May
8
 comment Log add to top or bottom
Last does not (necessarily) equal most urgent.
May
7
 comment Using Dropdowns AND Radio Buttons to avoid confusion
Just a side note because of the HD field with two options. With a two-radiobuttons-field it often is very hard to discern which of the two is selected and which isn't.
May
7
 comment How can I tell stories in my UX portfolio?
@nimrod: ah yes, I am well aware of and agree with the poo-poo against slideshows, just couldn't figure out what exactly you were referring to (and wondered whether I had missed something). Thanks for clarifying.
May
7
 comment How can I tell stories in my UX portfolio?
@nimrod: what interface are you talking about? (Looking to learn here).
May
6
 reviewed Approve suggested edit on Should clicking a drop-down menu in a native app a second time close it?
May
6
 comment How to organize multiple information popup areas over a table?
You know, you must have read my mind and typed in what I would have answered. This is the first thing that came to mind reading your question. :-)
May
4
 comment Will animated feedback be annoying or nice?
@Mathias: possibly (but none-at-all would still be my preference). Btw, I just happened to spot your comment because I had this page still open in my browser. Please use the @someone when responding so someone gets notified. Only post owners (you for the question, plainclothes for this answer) will get notified automatically.
May
4
 comment Will animated feedback be annoying or nice?
@Mathias: constant feedback does not equal constant intrusion and that is what shaking a page or part thereof feels to me. And I suspect I am not alone in that considering it is in the same league as all the animated banners, gifs and the like that people tend to tune out.
May
3
 comment How to unobtrusively confirm a user's choice in a survey?
The order of the answer option is possibly to blame. You are asking how satisfied people are and starting your answer options with dissatisfied ...
May
3
 comment red checkmark vs. a red “X”
I really like new mockup plus explanation. Great edit! Would upvote again if I could.
May
3
 comment red checkmark vs. a red “X”
+1 for recognizing cultural influence on how the symbols are interpreted.
1 2 3 4 5 … 46