A book for all those interested in moving UI's forward:
The Humane Interface
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A book for all those interested in moving UI's forward:
The Humane Interface
How's this fora new approach to interface design :)
http://www.dontclick.it/
OMG that's annoying
This may sound dumb, but I hate when programs don't remember the last positon they were in.
iTunes automatically moves the window fully within the viewable screen whenever you start it up.
MS Word will NOT remember that it was maximized the last time I had it running. It takes up 100% of the screen if it was maximized last time I used it, but isn't actually maximized. This causes me to throw my mouse to the top right and close it, but actually close the program behind it because the close button isn't quite where I think it is.
Yay, someone else that does that :pQuote:
Originally Posted by eyeRmonkey
Sounds like you guys need to get better coordination skills. Word works perfectly for me and always remembers its previous settings.
Of course we don't know which version of Word everyone is using :)
I really like GUIs that don't require you to reach for the mouse. It's a real pain when there's just one or two functions you can't access except by using the mouse.
Mac Word 5. A software masterpiece, superceded by the blob of poo that was Word6 and beyond.Quote:
Originally Posted by Merri
Ha! I knew it, a Mac user. This explains a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by yrwyddfa
Ditto!
PC Word XP (student version - but its not that much different I think). Any idea where I can find a setting that might fix my problem? I don't want to hijack this thread, but I thought RD might know of a setting that lets Word remember where if it was maximized or not when I closed it last.
There is a breed of users that do not want to touch a mouse - do not want to look at a screen...
Want to have all keypresses occur near the numeric keypad.
Then there are users of applications that only want to use a mouse - only want to click here and there.
We mostly design UI's for clerks - health claim entry clerks, cash-window clerks, payment processing, invoice processing.
When a user like that types something incorrect, then you have no choice but to force them into an infinite message box. Until they realize the mistake - and choose the proper answer - like "Y" for "yes I realize I typed garbage" - they must be stopped. Letting them click or enter or tab by that problem and continue would be a critical failure for them.
When I use video editing software - I never want to touch the keyboard - except for using the arrow keys, or some other key shortcuts - but mouse production is what it's all about. That is a completely different world then UI's for clerks...
But in general - a UI should match the majority of UI's that a user sees - which is MS - so that's the benchmark we all should work against.
I personally hate the "three answer" message box - YES, NO and CANCEL - where a novice user can't tell if CANCEL will kill everything they have just done or simply cancel the "exit" they accidentally clicked - that's my biggest complaint!
That's actually a big one. It's been debated in the past whether that is logical at all. I find it logical and so would most experienced computer users but those that haven't encountered it probably wouldn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Personally I think qeustion message boxes should be better worded so that they can only have Yes/No options... Even OK/Cancel is not very logical I think.
I also find them logical - but then again, I read a MSGBOX when it appears ;)
But my users don't want to read them...
I've always wanted to use the Enter Key to move to the next textboxes but I have recently realized it wont work if there is a textbox that have a multiline set to true, anyof you who have a workaround for this? Aside from using Tab?
Ctrl + Enter like in many chat programs. I use it in my own IRC client as well.
Thanks Merri... :afrog: