Hi, Nowadays we have screens like 1920x1200 and 1680x1050 in popular use and some even use 2560x1600 resolution while some older systems still rely on a 800x600 resolution. I am writing a software that looks good on a 1680x1050, but too small on a 1920x1200 and too large on a 1024x768. Do you have suggestions how to go for designing an ...
I'm in the progress of remaking one our products user interface to be more modern and apealing aswell as user friendly. It's a web based application that is used by all types of people. My question for you is what do you think are the key factors of a sexy interface? An interface that is appealing and leave the user with a WOW feeling? ...
I have a basic pagination system that looks something like that: First | < Previous | 1, 2, [3], 4, 5 ... 100, 101, 102 | Next > | Last Nothing fancy really. I am looking at various plugins to improve the way the user would browse this, but so far I haven't found anything really new or interesting except: http://tympanus.net/jPagi...
For a back office application which is going to be used in house and users trained to use it, does it make sense to have browser side validation. After training users will seldom make mistakes. These mistakes would get caught at the server side. Also bearing in mind that the bandwidth availability is a lesser concern I feel we should avo...
I'm writing a report generator that will present data each being generated from 4 parameters. Time interval Group Measurement value(one of several to choose from) Device All these are orthogonal giving me a 4-D dataset to present. There are some simplifications where one parameter is the same for all and other parameters are merged. ...
What are there the usability implications for a long list of items (f.e. facebook news stream) to use an internal scrolling (just the list panel) vs a full page scrolling. Edit1: Do you have references of analysis/guidelines discussing this issue? ...
Hi: I'm creating a little app that configures a connected device and then saves the config information in a file. The filename cannot be chosen by the user, but its location can be chosen. Where is the best place for the app's default save-to folder? I have seen examples out there where it is the "MyDocuments" location (eg Visual Stu...
Anyone know how to open new page in another window using OAF - Oracle application framework other then LOV. I tried with JavaScript but due to security reasons i can not use it. just wondering if there is a way in OAF to achieve this. Thanks Imran ...
Very often we have to make up standard messages to show user. It can be an error or a warning message, whatever. Has anybody seen somewhere a site with such messages? ...
More than a simple wireframe, I´d like to create a complete prototype, fully functional & dynamic with data and rich interactions... Do you know any tool outthere? i´m looking for something really quick and easy, i don´t want to code. A friend told me about Justinmind Prototyper, any other guess? ...
Hi Guys, I know this question has been asked in similar forms before, but I found no real answer about the following issue: On my Nexus One there's a widget to toggle on/off several things on my phone like wlan, bluetooth, gps,.. Why does this widget has access to the GPS, without forwarding me to the settings screen? And how can I u...
I really like VS2008 but I was wondering if someone has workarounds for these annoyances: When I open a /* ... */ comment block, VS insists on placing a '*' character on every new line. That's nice, but sometimes I don't want that at all. Is there a way to turn it off? The formatting section in the Options dialog for the C# editor does...
I am designing a page, with tiny portlets. Now, I personally like my actions on the right side, yet I wonder if there are methodologies that are targeted about usability. After all, most applications are aimed at the user. What about yourself? Do you prefer information to be on top, on the left or on the right? I've you need to take some...
Please explain (with examples) what is meant by A/B testing of a website. ...
I'm writing an internal-tools webapp; one of the central pages in this tool has a whole bunch of related commands the user can execute by clicking one of a number of buttons on the page, like this: Ideally, all of the buttons would fit on one line. Ordinarily I'd do this by changing each widget from a button with a (sometimes long) te...
In Bruce Tognazzini's quiz on Fitt's Law, the question discussing the bottleneck in the hierarchical menu (as used in almost every modern desktop UI), talks about his design for the original Mac: The bottleneck is the passage between the first-level menu and the second-level menu. Users first slide the mouse pointer down to the...
Most of the online sites on registration do send a link to activate the site and on any further correspondence with the end user they provide information about the site and also provide the login credentials with password in clear text (as given below) Username - [email protected] Password - mysecretpassword What would you do in such a ...
We seem to have a lot of clients asking us to change the login screen in this manner: Display a list of all available users (thumbnail picture + name) User selects a username from the list A password prompt appears near the username User enters password then presses enter This sounds remarcably similar to the Windows XP login, which ...
i know they are, but my co-worker doesn't believe me. He keeps telling me that google cralws the inside content and caches it just fine. According to google, it does crawl them, but doesn't guarantee doing it properly. Any thoughts why frames are bad for public web sites? ...
Hi As you well know, double clicking on a word in a browser selects it, triple clicking selects the entire paragraph. I'm tweaking a wiki, where signatures for anonymous users are created automatically and they look like: --- // <ip.ad.dr.ess> // The "---" generates a , // is for italic text and generates <em></em>. This is how it...