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| bio | website | |
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| location | Austin, TX | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | May 15 at 12:44 | |
| stats | profile views | 1 |
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Apr 18 |
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What are your desktop UI pet peeves? Can you expand on this, or give an example? |
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Apr 18 |
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What are your desktop UI pet peeves? By comparison, some complex tools like IDEs have incremental search for their options list, which works beautifully. I believe Eclipse does this, but I don't have it installed to test at work. |
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Mar 8 |
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How do you give your user options without overloading them? "New name" implies that you don't want to overwrite. "No" and "Cancel" are not the same if multiple files are involved. |
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Feb 23 |
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Is there an optimal font size / line height ratio? That's great if your goal is maximum accessibility, but surely such wide spacing is actually more difficult for most people? It'll certainly entail more scrolling, if you have a nontrivial quantity of text. |
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Feb 18 |
answered | Why is it that all caps text looks like SHOUTING, but all caps handwriting is easier to read? |
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Feb 7 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Feb 7 |
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What research is there suggesting modal dialogs are disruptive? Making a sign-in dialog modal makes sense, agreed. The site you link is an excellent example of how to do it right, too: the background is dimmed, and clicking anywhere outside the modal dialog closes it. |
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Feb 6 |
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What research is there suggesting modal dialogs are disruptive? Thanks. A small window dedicated to the task makes sense, but I don't see that it would be better modal than non-modal. Why prevent the user from using the rest of the app until he's handled the request? |
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Jul 3 |
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Can text area be used as error/warning/notification output? Why do you not like pop-up windows? If they're traditional "Click OK to continue" modal dialogs, then sure, that's a PITA, but you could instead put a small window next to the problem area, just don't have it grab focus. An undecorated window which passes any clicks on to the parent form should do the trick. |
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Jun 29 |
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Ratings: 3 stars vs 5 stars. Why 5? @Darragh: That sounds promising. Can you give an example of a public site which uses such a system? |
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Jun 29 |
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Ratings: 3 stars vs 5 stars. Why 5? Can you expand on your evaluation of binary voting systems? Are you suggesting that people will downvote anything which is imperfect, thereby disguising the difference between "really suxors" and "needs work"? You mention SE, which I'd consider a very strong counterexample of a successful binary voting system. |
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Jun 15 |
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Will the future absence of the physical keyboard hurt the desktop User Experience? +1 for actual metrics, albeit for just one user |
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Jun 15 |
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Forcing user to enter correct data Do you really think you can write rules to account for every possible valid customer names? Not everyone has two names. Some people have hyphens, or apostrophes, or Unicode characters. Some names don't start with a capital letter. |
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May 29 |
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What research is there suggesting modal dialogs are disruptive? Can you give an example of the kind of situation you have in mind for the third bullet? |
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Apr 14 |
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Do we need good-looking design for a program internal only to our company? Sounds like argumentum ad populum; if it's popular, it must be well-designed. I say nay; if that were so, surely Apple's vaunted design would have replaced Microsoft's mere 95% installed base many years ago. There are many reasons for a product to be successful, such as first mover advantage. |
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Sep 29 |
awarded | Supporter |
