What is the best method for date of birth selector? 3 text inputs (month / day / year) or one mask input. User MUST use keyboard 3 select boxes. User can use keyboard or mouse. One nice datepicker. I want to know what is the most usable and problem free solution, so user wont be confused at all. ...
Straight forward question. I'm trying to understand UI design more and how to make it work with code. In particular there used to be an app that went through several design sessions, named Where To? by Tap Tap Tap. They had a table which they turned into a radio dial, screenshot: My question is, is this nothing more than 22 or so imag...
What are some good examples of coding guidelines. I'm not really looking for anything specific to a single language. But what should I be doing/evaluating as I write coding guidelines? Such as how flexible should the guidelines and how much should decisions be left to the programmer or to someone else or even pre-decided by the guidelin...
Hi guys, I just want to confirm that how we can get an xml file in soapUI 2.5 that will consists of request and response Currently i m getting an xml file tht is containing only wsdl and request So can anyone help me in generating the xml file for that Please reply it soon as its very urgent Thanks in advance in all Bye Regards, Mustaf...
I am writing an Objective-C application which communicates with a USB device. The application writes certain data to the device continuously and displays the status of the write operation in a textView, which is an object of NSTextView. I call the -[NSTextView insertText:] method in the loop when I get the write operation status from the...
What usability evaluation methods do you use? GOMS? Cognitive Walkthrough? Think aloud protocol? Others? (apart from 'ask your mum' tips that are well covered elsewhere on SO) ...
What is your suggested solution for the threat of website UI spoofing? ...
There are many usability evaluation techniques that have been developed over the history of software development. But it seems to me that they are rarely used in practice. Why aren't usability evaluation tools and methods actually used much? Or are they used more than I've been led to believe? ...
Hey. I have a problem with the highlighter in ComboBox. Recently I had to gray out certain items in a ComboBox and I did that by manually (programitically) drawing strings in the ComboBox. In a .NET combobox under the DrawMode.NORMAL, the lighlighter will automatically come when you click the arrow and the backcolor of the highlighter wi...
When it comes to putting the submit and reset buttons on your forms, what order do you use? [SUBMIT] [RESET] or [RESET] [SUBMIT] This issue has come up countless times at work... So, in your opinion, which is the most usable for online users? I personally favor the latter, but some people tend to think otherwise. ...
I am building ASP.NET 2.0 websites and currently I some home grown assemblies for a DAL, some business objects and other assorted shared stuff. I've put together a basic set of objects to handle messages to the UI (i.e. errors and other status messaging). It consists of: StatusMessage which has a text property and a color property t...
How can you create a C# Winforms control which goes out of the bounds of its region? Such as a drop down box. Kind of like if you had a DropDownBox in a Small Sized Panel. ...
Hi, I've got some entities which have decimal properties on them. These entities' properties are displayed in multiple places throughout my UI. Currently I'm finding myself doing: litWeight.Text = person.Weight.ToString("0.00"); all over the place. Now I know for a fact that in several instances, and am suspicious of many others tha...
For tasks that will take more than a few seconds, a good user interface, in my opinion, should provide a progress bar along with appropriate information on the progress of the operation. (Microsoft kindly provide User Interface Guidelines on this topic, but I want a status panel that is a bit more advanced.) The "task" class I am using ...
I've used Emacs for years on Linux, and I have lots of personally useful keybindings I've put under Hyper and Super. Nowadays I'm using Emacs on Windows and am missing those extra keybindings. Is there some way in Windows to get modifier keys other than Ctrl and Meta? ...
I'm pretty new to the iPhone platform, so I'm wondering what the best way to switch between OpenGL rendering and a UIView might be? Any comments much appreciated! ...
I am looking for a tool/framework to (automatically) generate a Swing user interface to perform CRUD operations on an underlying database. I would also like to configure the database fields that should be exposed. Something like django (via modelforms) or ruby on rails features, but in a Java desktop environment. ...
Modal dialogs are evil, but I keep reading "You should remove modal dialogs when possible" When isn't it possible to remove modal dialogs? I mean, what are some truly modal tasks that force us to use evil modal dialogs? The most common given example is the "Do you want to Save?" I think this is the problem of the concept of having th...
I'm a software developer who has a background in usability engineering. When I studied usability engineering in grad school, one of the professors had a mantra: "You are not the user". The idea was that we need to base UI design on actual user research rather than our own ideas as to how the UI should work. Since then I've seen some goo...
What is the "cleanest" way to implement an command-line UI, similar to git's, for example: git push origin/master git remote add origin git://example.com master Ideally also allowing the more flexible parsing, for example, jump_to_folder app theappname v2 jump_to_folder app theappname source jump_to_folder app theappname source v2 ju...