Just now a coworker asked me a question on inputing numbers into a text box... the form is asking for a number that can be up to 8 digits long. He asked what...
Jeff, Regardless of what the developers would like, the correct answer remains, "it depends". Anyone seeking who wants to use "rules of thumb" instead of ...
Jeff, John, I am not in favour of "rules of thumb" either, but in this particular case would one of you provide a concrete example of when it would NOT be a...
Tobias, If the user has the number in a different format than that expected by the implementers (e.g., has leading zeroes or a non-significant set of lead ...
Hi Tobias, Hmm. let's see if I can come up with a couple of reasons where it might be a bad idea: The application as a whole has lots of places where numbers...
Thanks Jon... ... This implied that there were no leading non-significant characters, but only up to eight digits, so I'm not sure your first example is valid...
See notes below -- jon _____ From: agile-usability@yahoogroups.com [mailto:agile-usability@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tobias Mayer Sent: Monday, July 10,...
I can't speak to the rules of thumbs thing, but I think "it depends" IS the right answer. For example, if the N-digit number happens to be a credit card...
I think you can have it both ways: 1- if you just enter the numbers without the spaces, the software could put the spaces for you when it reaches the...
IMHO, Web interaction as it is implemented now by a large majority of sites really sucks big time. I hope that rich client side technologies will improve...
Thanks everyone for the examples. A few remarks on user studies... ... Clearly not, I would agree. ... This being an Agile Usablity list, that seems a fair...
Alain, I agree with you completely. More interactivity does not necessarily mean a more usable site. Highly interactivite technologies could and are used to ...
It seems to me that much of what is discussed on this list falls more in the category of Design than Field work. I think Design is a good thing, as long as you...
Here's another one in the vein of X vs Y. Back in May, I faciliated a short Agile-UCD exercise à la Jeff Patton, at the Ottawa XP chapter. The exercise used...
! was mostly expressing my high level of frustration about Web apps in general which I believe are much worse than traditional non web applications (and that's...
Hello Jeff, There is a growing body of UX/UI patterns that can provide some guidance in design. Related to your specific problem, the following seem relevant ...
... [...] ... Yes, this type of work can be done more quickly. The approach that our team takes is a blended just-in-time set of incremental formative...
From below: Maybe my implementation, initially, would be restricted by my imagination, but once a user sees what I offer he has the chance to know very clearly...
Thanks Elizabeth - that's exactly what I was looking for. -Jeff ... guidance in ... relevant ... error ... to ... Central ... products.asp) from ... the kind ...
... Alain, I'm enjoying this discussion. I do slightly resent the implication that pointers in C/C++ are somehow a bad thing. A good design in any language or...
... Damn, I hate that phrase. * This is such a cop-out. Nobody is every happy when they hear this. For a collection of professionals who spend tremendous...
I agree, but many times we can't give an answer to every question we get asked. Imagine you get asked "radio buttons or check boxes?". I can't answer that. It...
I like "it depends" because it is the truth. It nearly always does depend... on people, on context, on environment, on application, on users, on many, many...
Instead of rules of thumb, I demonstrate how solutions evolve into other solutions that appear to have a different structure. Is there a formal name to this...
... So, let me see, you're looking for something that will distill the experience of many years of someone like Larry Constantine or Jeff Patton, which has...
(responding to Jon) ... I remember being similarly outraged, a good few years ago now, when somebody (Ron Jeffries, I think) started expounding that you ...
(responding to Jared) ... The problem is that there are so few truly universally best practices. Even saying "It depends" is not correct in ALL circumstances...
As a UI designer, I agree with the 'it depends' answer. However this is not to say that there aren't any resources available to help with making UI design...
... I've found the Yahoo Pattern library to be really useful for communicating research (maybe submit the #'s one to them when you catch a moment): ...
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