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| bio | website | dodgycoder.net |
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| location | Australia | |
| age | ||
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | Mar 6 at 2:53 | |
| stats | profile views | 8 |
I'm an Australian software developer working in the Oil & Gas industry. Programming in C#, WPF and Go. Big Raspberry Pi fan. I'm on twitter @dodgy_coder and write a blog at dodgycoder.net
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Nov 24 |
answered | Is coffee a good excuse for a slow application start-up time? |
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Nov 22 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Mar 28 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Mar 28 |
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Why shouldn't we use words such as 'here' and 'this' in textlinks? I came here from an email link and at the top of this page right now it says "Welcome back. Click here to refresh the page, in an extra large font. The irony ;-) |
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Dec 7 |
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Do website visitors return to the homepage once they're inside the site? @Marjan - agreed - its often used to reset navigation especially where there is complex hierarchy of selections and search terms. I go back to home on Amazon often. |
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Nov 29 |
answered | What are the User Experience disciplines in the analog world? |
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Nov 28 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Nov 24 |
comment |
Which colors make you hungry Its interesting that McDonalds uses just yellow in their logo, but in a lot of the product packaging (e.g. fries carton) makes use of red - I wonder if there is a reason behind that? |
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Nov 23 |
answered | How do I get users to read error messages? |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Nov 23 |
accepted | Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Teacher |
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Nov 23 |
answered | Which colors make you hungry |
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Nov 23 |
revised |
Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? results of implementing the suggestions |
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Nov 23 |
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Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? @BernhardHofmann I have tested flashing the text between two colors 'Red' and the standard text color 'Black', as opposed to 'Red' and the control's background color. Having said that I agree that flashing the background is a great suggestion and am planning to test that as well. |
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Nov 23 |
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Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? Nice suggestion regarding a growing/contracting icon. In this app there is only these specific two values that are important enough to 'flash', so at least there shouldn't be any chance of the user being overloaded. |
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Nov 23 |
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Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? Thanks for your comments, I am planning to try a few different options for evaluation including: just blinking the background on/off; a color cycle animation with 1, 2 or 3 intermediate colors between the on/off colors; the same but with a sawtooth pulse; all of the above over different time periods of maybe half a second up to two seconds. |
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Nov 23 |
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Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? Nice suggestion regarding greying out the other areas of the UI. I'm hoping that whatever flashing method I use will be sufficient to get the operator's attention, who is basically permanently watching the screen while operating the equipment. |
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Nov 23 |
awarded | Editor |
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Nov 23 |
revised |
Is flashing red text a good idea for denoting an active alarm? added some further detail |
