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| bio | website | optimalesystemer.no |
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| location | Norway | |
| age | 36 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | 15 hours ago | |
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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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May 8 |
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What are the benefits of non-QWERTY keyboards? Yeah. There's definitely some ambiguity in that statement. But that's also what makes it so interesting. :) AFAIK, the statement is true w.r.t. "speed of punching keys". (If you have sources that claim otherwise, please share). When it comes to the layout of modern digital keyboards - that statement is still valid. Even if the purpose was to speed up the overall writing on classical typewriters. We will never find out "how it really was", and it's really not that important. As I conclude: Use the keyboard you're comfortable with... |
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May 8 |
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What are the benefits of non-QWERTY keyboards? @vincebowdren OK. Perhaps you hit the submit-button a bit to early... If you read the next paragraph in the answer you'll find the explanation that the main goal was to "improve the overall speed by getting the writer into a steady rhythm"... The Wikipedia-references 5,6 and 8 documents the same thing. Quote: "QWERTY's effect, by reducing those annoying clashes, was to speed up typing rather than slow it down." Speed up writing by slowing down typing. |
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May 8 |
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What are the benefits of non-QWERTY keyboards? @vincebowdren: I don't mind the down-vote at all (and I appreciate the explanation) - hey, you need to get that "Critic" badge at some point. ;-) BUT I would really like to see the documentation of the "falsehood" you refer to. And FWIW - the statement is filed under "Fun facts - the QWERTY Legend" ;-) |
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Mar 31 |
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What are some resources for activities / games to teach User-Centered Design? Take also a look at this question: ux.stackexchange.com/q/25716/95 |
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Mar 28 |
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Drawing a chessboard with unicode characters @g33, I still don't see the problem, here? You don't need to use inverse glyphs. Didn't you take a look at the examples I referred to? Perhaps this 1k JS demo will help: js1k.com/2010-first/demo/435 |
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Mar 28 |
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Drawing a chessboard with unicode characters @g33, I don't see the problem? You have black and white (i.e. outlined) pieces, and you have a white and gray board. It's quite essential in chess to have the black and white "chess pattern" on the board. If you google chess board images, you'll find lots of monochrome solutions. I would even argue that it's more important with this chess background than the glyphs. I'm pretty sure most chess players would be fine with letters (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_piece#Piece_names). |
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Mar 5 |
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Drawing a chessboard with unicode characters @g33kz0r Ouch... :-P ... I think it is... Well, those chars/numbers aren't important, though. Is it possible for you to change background color in your terminal solution? |
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Mar 5 |
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Report page with data table and chart I would actually question why you would need such a visualization. The numeric table in your suggestion is way better and much clearer than a chart. It's very easy to spot 4,2,4,1,1=12 and get a picture of the ratio. Pie charts are known to be very hard to read (as scott points out in his answer)... |
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Mar 4 |
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Drawing a chessboard with unicode characters If it's possible to set the background, then it's better to focus on this, than to try to draw those lines. |
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Feb 17 |
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Can higher speeds harm the user experience? Nicolas: The people who thought this was the fastest way to get the job done... |
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Feb 9 |
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Is there really a content strategy just for mobile? Many would claim that your penultimate statement is correct. It should, however, be turned around due to the "mobile first" paradigm: "If your content is good enough for mobile, then it's also good enough for desktop..." |
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Feb 8 |
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Why don't most forms have a hover state? I think the answer is that "people don't necessarily look where the cursor is". You cannot replace an eye tracker with a mouse tracker, to use an obvious example. That said, I've seen several cases where the field is glowing or bordered when hovering (or when entering/"activating")... You'll also find examples of status-bar updating, hint label updating, cursor altering etc. |
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Feb 4 |
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Is ”User Friendly” a valid term in User Experience? The term "user friendly" was mis-used back in the old days. Hence the strong arguments by your lecturer. It was very important back then to move away from the misleading term "user friendly" to the more appropriate term "usability". Later on, "user experience" became the commonly used term that describes an even broader meaning of the user interaction. Since "UX" focuses more on the subjective experience of an interface, "user friendly" is probably a vary valid aspect of the overall user experience. But many uses the term with care since the initial use of the term was mis-leading... |
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Jan 29 |
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How can end users training be integrated to the UX plans? Three very valid points. Thanks. |
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Jan 29 |
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How can end users training be integrated to the UX plans? Hi Chris and welcome :-) I'm afraid your answer doesn't cover exactly what I'm asking... The essence of my question is how to "plan" the training of the end user. I.e. decide that training is an essential part of the "delivery" but avoid that anyone use this as an excuse to make shortcuts (or accept bad solutions) during the design- and development phase. Your answer is well suited for the question "How to integrate training into the user interface"... ;-) |
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Jan 24 |
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What other UX processes exist other than user centered design? UCD is about the overall process. Methods are about activities you can perform during a process. Usability engineering can be viewed as another process type that focus more on "achieving goals" than "involve end users"... Usability testing, interviews, focus groups, surveys, persona, scenarios, wire-framing, heuristic evaluation, cognitive walk-trough, logging of support activity, A/B-testing, analysis of web metrics etc etc are methods you can carry out during the process. Regardless of which approach you use. |
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Jan 19 |
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“Tool” or “target” on vacuum cleaner pedal? @caleb, the icons on the pedal in the picture in the question is actually equal to Zano's suggestion. But you raise an interesting issue. In your case you would need too know the state of your tool, and not the manufacturer's usage suggestion. |
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Jan 15 |
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Hover over web images for additional details best practices @Andy: It's actually not "Metro" anymore... Officially, it's "Windows Store Apps" now... |
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Jan 14 |
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“Tool” or “target” on vacuum cleaner pedal? So according to your last two paragraphs, I have an amateur hoover, while @Benny has got the pro. hoover ;-) Makes sense... Well put answer! Obvious "extremes", but well said. Do you think the various manufacturers have any user research data to support their design decision? |
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Jan 14 |
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“Tool” or “target” on vacuum cleaner pedal? Do you think, in general, that such symbols should represent the tool or the target? |
