http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ en-US Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:00:27 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha q http://forum.usabilitypost.com/search.php http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=133#post-642 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:52:27 +0000 iyinet seo 642@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>I think it is looking so weakness and simple. And you can create a footer menu. Your site looks like vcard site but now your font-size is big. May you can examine <a href="http://www.ip-adres.com/">ip adresim</a> web site and its looks like your site, less content but looking plump.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=123#post-637 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:10:43 +0000 Misafir 637@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Let them choose what they want to see. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=15#post-636 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:09:58 +0000 Misafir 636@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Thanks loads guys. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=26#post-635 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:08:38 +0000 Misafir 635@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Labels left of forms do tend to look a little neater </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=484#post-634 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:22:52 +0000 shankarjain2010 634@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Plug In to the Web at India's Largest Adobe Conference</p> <p>Bangalore, June 15, 2010: Adobe Flash Platform Summit, India's largest Adobe conference, recognizes the blurring dynamic of the designer/developer workflow, and features the latest developments on the Adobe Flash Platform that is of utmost importance to both developers, as well as designers. 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It's an old design, and redesign is not an option, but comments for "light" improvements welcome. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=15#post-631 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:14:34 +0000 ericsully 631@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>There is a free monitoring tool you could get that would help <a href="http://www.real-user-monitoring.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.real-user-monitoring.com</a> </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=482#post-629 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:26:39 +0000 prasadm 629@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Hi I have recently created <a href="http://www.extracricket.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.extracricket.com/index.php</a> website plz provide feedback on the website. currently development is in progress. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=13#post-628 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:14:59 +0000 prasadm 628@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>show the grouping the the left navigation.<br /> show after selecting which menu active.<br /> show bredcrumbs.<br /> Show add to favorites button for article. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=5#post-627 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:07:33 +0000 prasadm 627@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>I think if its redesign it should use more content area. currently it's very compact. gray background is very dull. I advice you to redesign </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=481#post-626 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:49:55 +0000 prasadm 626@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>what is the best position for feedback button. I have used in right hand side. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=480#post-625 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:39:39 +0000 prasadm 625@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Which light box works effectively in different browsers. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=26#post-624 Wed, 26 May 2010 09:33:23 +0000 iyinet seo 624@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Also you can examine <a href="http://www.iyinetfrmtrtrkygnclr.com/yazilar/buton-tasarimi.php">form heatmad</a><br /> Design B has more performance other than. But while in test, most of user like Design A. Next picture is heatmap for Design A. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=28#post-623 Wed, 26 May 2010 08:06:09 +0000 toplu mesaj 623@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Also you can try google page speed and yahoo yslow extension on firefox. It giving lots of advice for increase page loading time. Using cname, compress and merge java files etc. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=478#post-619 Thu, 13 May 2010 23:51:39 +0000 DamienV 619@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Hi there,<br /> I'm a beginner in designing user interface.<br /> Could someone advise me a good software that would allow me to design the interfaces of an application... Im not a developer, I need to design the interface and translate it to HTML for the developer.<br /> Until now i used Visio... but Visio doesn't translate to HTML...<br /> I'm looking for a software that allows me to do that... Someone can help...?<br /> Thanks.<br /> Damien. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=22#post-616 Mon, 10 May 2010 14:24:55 +0000 Ugur 616@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Great points, well done. Thanks. ;) </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=470#post-609 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:22:40 +0000 master 609@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p><a href="http://www.tutorials99.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.tutorials99.com</a><br /> visit this site to find out more professional and top page rank java script tutorials </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=468#post-606 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:25:46 +0000 anthony 606@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Any thoughts on our site? We were inspired by the post on Toto to use it for our blog. See:</p> <p><a href="http://www.stickermule.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stickermule.com/</a><br /> <a href="http://www.stickermule.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.stickermule.com/blog</a></p> <p>Feedback is appreciated. This is the 1st website we ever designed. Prior to this we've only done print design. We contracted out the CSS stuff, we just did the design in photoshop.</p> <p>The site sells custom printed stickers, which requires the UI to be a bit more complex than most ecommerce sites. We really tried to keep it simple &amp; intuitive, but a lot could be improved I'm sure. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=463#post-599 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:59:44 +0000 Fyzbo 599@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>What is everyone's opinion on the usefulness of shop by brand on an ecommerce site.</p> <p><a href="http://www.rei.com/brands" rel="nofollow">http://www.rei.com/brands</a><br /> <a href="http://www.gemplers.com/shop-by-brand" rel="nofollow">http://www.gemplers.com/shop-by-brand</a><br /> <a href="http://www.tgw.com/main.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.tgw.com/main.jsp</a> (pull down on homepage)</p> <p>Forgetting about any SEO implications, does providing a long list of brand names help the user? Will people actually shop in that way (I want something made by Nike, but don't know whether it will be a shirt, bra, weights, or basketball, just show me all Nike stuff)?</p> <p>Shop by Brand seems to be on almost all eCommerce websites, but just doesn't seem useful to the consumer, especially when most of the brands are small, unknown, and may only make one product.</p> <p>What are your opinions? </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=15#post-358 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:50:46 +0000 ef_design 358@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Hm... No one can help on that? </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=123#post-281 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:19:41 +0000 ianf 281@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>With 2k users, you can about forget developing any single, unified view of outputs that'd serve the purpose – which, I take it, is "providing granular, timely and valid data to managers at various levels of the organization, data on which day-to-day decisions will be based." Even if they all had 30" displays at their disposal, that single view would never be the "correct one" for most of them, and they'd risk spending more time weeding out data from the comprehensive view (or one of few such views), than it is worth. Providing too much information at a glance is every bit as dangerous as providing too little.</p> <p>With that many users you have no option but to provide a TOOLBOX of some sort, and letting the individuals create their own data-flows in accordance with private preferences. I don't know if the .NET IT-app you're talking about has been developed in-house, but presume you have its source code. If you do not - mailto:bill.gates@microsoft.com [end of my advice ;-))]</p> <p>Otherwise, that's where the RSS component comes in. If you could extend your app's individual modules with RSS-output [which is but streams of XML data], the more granular the better, then letting the end-users subscribe to named streams in their browsers in a mix of their own desire would become that toolbox output I was talking about [e.g. "sales volume of product group A per outlet"; "inventory of product group B per day;" "outstanding orders of product group C per unit price," etc. ]. The managers wouldn't be getting a single well laid-out screenful of diagrams and bullet lists and whatnot, but they'd get it sequentially in their browsers. It's not as elegant a solution as custom application, but it's a start. Every solution is a compromise between cost and utility; the utility here wouldn't suffer too much, while costs of extending the .NET app would presumably stay within reason. Plus, in time, after you've observed the patterns and overlaps in output types, you could attempt to make it more palatable, graphical.</p> <p>To that end start studying (but do not implement nilly-willy!) Edward Tufte's presentational advice <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/" rel="nofollow">http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/</a> Be aware, however, that the very beauty of Tufte's graphical concepts may be hard to swallow for those managers who are more at ease with more "industrial-grade" output. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=133#post-270 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:26:23 +0000 Fyzbo 270@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Increase font-size, increase line height, or decrease line length.</p> <p>Under location add the address in standard form in plain text. You can also think about combining that page with the contact page.</p> <p>Remove the reset button from the contact page. More likely people will click on it and be frustrated then use it. It's easy enough to just update the fields if necessary.</p> <p>Under links, make the headers clickable, also consider a more informative title, like Resources.</p> <p>Make the logo link to the home page. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=133#post-269 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:40:51 +0000 Victor-Y 269@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Some quick thoughts:</p> <ul> <li>Make div#wrapper and div#footer smaller, they are a bit too wide now</li> <li>Make the logo smaller as well (and maybe align to left?)</li> <li>Increase the padding within div#content with at least 2 or 3 em</li> <li>Decrease the font-size in div#footer</li> <li>Remove the gap between div#wrapper and div#footer</li> </ul> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=133#post-264 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:56:58 +0000 Ben 264@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p><a href="http://www.hoganspharmacy.com.au">Hogans Pharmacy</a></p> <p>Hi. I would like your opinions on this website which I just made. It's for a small Australian Pharmacy/Chemist and your thoughts would help it a lot.</p> <p>Thanks :) </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=13#post-261 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:22:13 +0000 Anoopbal 261@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Hi Dmitry,</p> <p>After I made the changes, my search engine users went from 1500 to 2500 the next month. </p> <p>Not sure if this is because of the changes I made to H tags though. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=123#post-260 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:43:27 +0000 Edik 260@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Supercharged - Letting them choose what they want to see is obviously a good option, but it would require to develop various "views" which is quite time-consuming and hard to accomplish in a competitive and time-to-market oriented environment. This is exactly the reason i'm looking for some proven best practices to avoid developing many different interfaces.</p> <p>ianf - I'm afraid i didn't completely understand your answer, other than my app is a .Net standalone application which doesn't support any kind of RSS or streaming. The data update pace is also mostly user bound, thus constant feeding is pretty much useless. I'm interested in a well granulated mix of "diagrams" and "bullets/lists/tables" features, just like you mentioned in your first paragraph.</p> <p>Thanks for the answers though, i hope we can develop a productive discussion here! </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=123#post-257 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:04:50 +0000 ianf 257@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Edik, there's no general Occam-razor'able solution to this problem. Some of us are "diagram people," others are "bullet point/ list people," yet another "executive buzzword/ acronym [EB/AS] summary people," etc.</p> <p>The only somewhat-practical idea that I can supply is this: if your IT desktop application can be massaged to emit and allow subscription of RSS-coded streams of its various components (="<em>user-input and data integrated from outside DBs</em>"), a data-flow that is both textual and "diagramatical," then you should be able to steer your users towards personally profiled subsets of that. To cut down on the number of tools needed, integrate it with browser-native RSS readers, and make sure that each item carries a <strong>granular#link</strong> back to its source result in the desktop app's output proper (for verification and contextual study purposes).</p> <p>Because not every user will immediately see advantages of such "some assembly required" strategy, you'll have to teach them that and also how to create such profiled RSS subsets on personal Need-To-Know™ basis. Tell us if it worked. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=123#post-254 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:15:33 +0000 Supercharged 254@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Let them choose what they want to see. In any case give them high quality output. Take a look at designer's infrographs. They are meaningful and beautiful at the same time. Everyone would love them. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=123#post-250 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:47:38 +0000 Edik 250@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Hello,<br /> I manage an IT desktop application which has about 2k users of various types. The application contains plenty of data which is both user-input and integrated from other Data Bases.<br /> I'm having a hard time finding a design technique to show all of this data to the users. I tried graphs, trees, sphere and more, and couldn't find anything that will satisfy my users.<br /> Each and every group of them wants to see certain pieces of the data, shown differently. Some of them, the managers usually, want to see it all in an overview, some in detail. Havoc.<br /> Do you have any suggestions or tips of design practices for IT apps?<br /> Thanks. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=103#post-239 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:51:19 +0000 Dmitry Fadeyev 239@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Hey Kathleen,</p> <p>I think you mentioned on the blog post that you've got it sorted out? Here's a working link just in case: <a href="http://www.usabilitypost.com/2010/01/18/rocket-surgery-made-easy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.usabilitypost.com/2010/01/18/rocket-surgery-made-easy/</a></p> <p>Let me know if there's a problem :) </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=103#post-229 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:24:50 +0000 Kathleen 229@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Dmitry, I found your switch to Toto and discussion of it interesting, although a bit beyond my capabilities at the moment. But the reason I'm writing is that I can't link to the review of Steve Krug's "Rocket Surgery."</p> <p>I coordinate the STC Usability and User Experience Virtual Book Club, and we're going to be discussing "Rocket Surgery" this month. I was referred to your review by another member, and thought it would be helpful for our members (although I don't agree with your caveat about the book :-)</p> <p>The link worked until you moved the site. The book link seems to be stuck in a dimensional warp. Can you help? Thanks! </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=38#post-196 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:44:23 +0000 Dmitry Fadeyev 196@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Fyzbo: More useful for sure, but less simple as well. You have to play a balancing game in UI design between exposing more functionality and cutting back to keep things easy. I think this will be even more important on the web as we get richer and more powerful web apps that have all sorts of menus and windows -- but this mainly applies to applications rather than websites where you perform actions rather than browse pages. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=38#post-194 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:50:41 +0000 Fyzbo 194@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>To be fair, the windows dialog is more useful as it allows you to copy and rename. Both seem confusing. If I'm copying multiple files does "Stop" stop all the copies, just this one, this one and any remaining? The windows one needs better labels, or better icons.<br /> Perhaps:</p> <p>Replace<br /> Cancel<br /> Rename</p> <p>I don't think that this carries over to websites as users do not gain familiarity. With websites I think buttons that are short and descriptive are best. </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=38#post-193 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:13:24 +0000 Dmitry Fadeyev 193@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>That dialog is pretty intense :) For reference, here's an <a href="http://imgur.com/vHOf6.png">OS X one.</a> </p> http://forum.usabilitypost.com/topic.php?id=38#post-192 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:38:09 +0000 Supercharged 192@http://forum.usabilitypost.com/ <p>Dmitry, I haven't seen Windows 7 one, because I use Vista at work. Here is <a href="http://www.vistax64.com/attachments/tutorials/5580d1232212860t-public-folder-icons-restore-default-icon-copy_replace.jpg">screenshot</a> I've found.</p> <p>I use Windows 7 every day and I get this dialog once a week. Every time it takes me whole minute to read it and understand what to do. They are idiots, no doubts.</p> <p>Back to reality, I think it should be <strong>verbose, short and consistent</strong>. I already know what my Mac is asking me mostly, even though it's verbose like "Don't send". Because dialogs are identical every time.</p> <p>And step aside, the best way is only to have one button. So, if I need to confirm something, a dialog should have one confirmation button. Take a look at Chrome browser (I think), where dialog is actually a yellow ribbon on the top of the window. If I want to confirm it, I click the button, otherwise it would just stay there for some time without distracting me, and they fade out. I really like the idea. </p>