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| bio | website | optimalesystemer.no |
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| location | Norway | |
| age | 36 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 10 hours ago | |
| stats | profile views | 346 |
Usability consultant in Norway.
My main focus is usability engineering and usability testing. I have my own usability lab with eye-tracking features.
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Dec 17 |
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Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue? @MarjanVenema Do you use the keyboard shortcuts or the toolbar when you format your answers here at the StackExchange network? |
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Dec 17 |
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Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts @Vitaly: Get you where? I'm not trying to get you anywhere... Just let me clarify: I'm not and anti shortcut guy, and this is not any crusade against keyboard shortcuts. I find them useful and I would definitely miss them if they were gone. But: I cannot claim that I'm actually more productive the times I use shortcuts compared to the the times I use the mouse. What I have experienced is that the mental workload is much heavier when doing shortcuts (try to count backwards from 100 while you're doing a task). Serious research can conclude with something illogical... |
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Dec 17 |
asked | Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue? |
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Dec 17 |
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Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts @Pieter: Do you mean the $50 million R&D study? I don't believe you will be able to "read up" on that study from a single link. ;-) The reference to the study is in the first link. No link provided here, though, but the initial WIMP work Apple (and Xerox) did in the early days are pretty well known... Perhaps there are some references in his book? |
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Dec 17 |
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Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts @Vitaly: Well, that's the thing. He never agreed: asktog.com/SunWorldColumns/S02KeyboardVMouse3.html When you say "move your hand all the way to to the mouse" he replies with "stop all cognitive processing on the primary task, enter a 2.5 second decision-making process". And the annoying thing is that he's got a $50 million R&D study to back him up... |
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Dec 17 |
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Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts @Marjan: Me neither! :-) But still, I honestly believe that todays shortcut regime is a mess. I have four different shortcuts for the "Find" and "Replace" commands in four different applications (from the same vendor!). Using CTRL+B in Notepad gives me the "Find dialog", but in Wordpad it will makes my text bold. To search in Wordpad I need to use CTRL+F - which would make my text bold in MS Word. |
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Dec 17 |
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Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts I guess my POV got heavy influenced by Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini a looong time ago :-). "Since users do experience the illusion that keyboarding is faster [...] Even when using "shortcuts" will actually slow them down." From one of his letters. I know this is heavily debated, but I honestly can't remember that I have seen any study that proves that shortcuts actually do improve speed and efficiency. Only subjective opinions... |
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Dec 17 |
answered | Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts |
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Dec 16 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What motivates people to keep on sharing ideas, develop new concepts and innovate on online innovation communities? |
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Dec 16 |
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What motivates people to keep on sharing ideas, develop new concepts and innovate on online innovation communities? added 100 characters in body |
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Dec 16 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on What motivates people to keep on sharing ideas, develop new concepts and innovate on online innovation communities? |
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Dec 16 |
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On forms, is inline placeholder text better than a label outside each field? Added image |
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Dec 16 |
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Labelling inputs in HTML: <p>, placeholder or both? Added image |
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Dec 15 |
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Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list? If you want to test the mental workload of some task, then ask the test user to count backwards from 100 while they're performing the task. Really reveals where you are thinking. Try for example to do perform a task with mouse/toolbar and then with keyboard shortcuts. You'll notice how the brain really "works" to remember the shortcuts. |
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Dec 15 |
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Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list? The point about web and hidden info is important. There was a question about this a while ago: ux.stackexchange.com/a/11297/95 |
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Dec 15 |
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Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list? And even if the mid point would be convention, the actual midpoint would be different in each situation - depending on your list's distribution. |
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Dec 15 |
answered | Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list? |
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Dec 14 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on DatePicker UX for single and multiple calendar mode |
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Dec 13 |
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Should printed graphics of a domain start with www, uppercase/lowercase? How to make the user understand that it's a domain? www.com is actually a valid web-side :-P |
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Dec 11 |
answered | Should we use a sound/jingle when users arrive on our site or open our app? |
