Myrddin Emrys

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I do Technical Support for two businesses; a small ISP and a large University. On the side I run a Minecraft server, fiddle in various Linux distros, and program (mostly Ruby).

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Apr 23	comment	App interface for changing relational percentages Christian, can you re-host your image, or better host it here?
Apr 23	answered	Suggestions for web form mockup
Apr 23	comment	Suggestions for web form mockup Why do you ask for Address and Mailing Address? In general, you should ask for one, and have a 'My mailing address is different' button that they would select before they had to fill it in separately.
Apr 23	answered	How to enter separate amounts then give feedback if the total meets a given amount?
Apr 23	comment	How to enter separate amounts then give feedback if the total meets a given amount? None of the answers deals with a text-only interface. They all are graphical interfaces (primarily mouse based, or with illustrations to exemplify the relative amounts). I do not think this question significantly overlaps.
Apr 23	answered	How to force a user to choose from suggestions by typing
Apr 23	answered	Globalization Patterns for Dates Without Year
Apr 20	answered	designing interface for choosing between two images
Apr 20	comment	Is a website sidebar a user blind spot? You can't get empirical data on sidebar blindness without doing your own testing. The data will be about someone else's sidebar, and the design makes all the difference; your design is different, and you'll need to do testing on your site to see whether the layout is inducing users to miss the content.
Apr 20	comment	How to ensure a user knows a box is clickable/hoverable "blinking" has a very specific meaning. I would edit your question to use the word animated if you intend for a different effect. I personally cannot think of an animation that affords clicking however. Attracts attention... but not encouraging the user to point at the button.
Apr 20	comment	How to sell people on the benefits of user research? Businesses value money and proof, so buy that report (bonus: get the company to buy it) and use the specific examples of ROI it has to show the benefits of investment in UX. This is a site on UX... not on debate strategies or marketing. We can point you to the information you need to be convincing, but the actual convincing is still up to you.
Apr 20	answered	How to sell people on the benefits of user research?
Apr 20	comment	Is the label orientation on this product a message from the manufacturer? Unfortunately, the answer to whether this is deliberate or not isn't answerable without knowing if the orientation matters. A few google searches didn't find me an answer to that.
Apr 20	comment	Why are there different configurations on number pads? Appears to be a duplicate of ux.stackexchange.com/questions/16666/…
Apr 20	revised	How to ensure a user knows a box is clickable/hoverable Added additional note on banner blindness.
Apr 20	comment	How to ensure a user knows a box is clickable/hoverable I believe a plain blinking animation would actually drive attention away from the control, due to advertising blindness. useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html
Apr 20	answered	How to ensure a user knows a box is clickable/hoverable
Apr 20	comment	How to ensure a user knows a box is clickable/hoverable Well, that's his entire question @BartGijssens. How to make it look hoverable.
Apr 20	revised	How important is the match between name and content for a domain/site name? Fixed title to be more specific to the actual question asked.
Apr 20	comment	How important is the match between name and content for a domain/site name? I don't understand what you mean by being unable to get back to Basecamp; can you elaborate? While my examples are heavy on subdomains that's just because those are the ones that came to mind; they are not really the focus of the question. Perhaps I should update the question...