... There is a world of difference between the tranquil soothing personality of one of Monet's Waterlily paintings, and the insipid cloying corporate ...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Aug 1, 2004 2:56 am
... I learned it doing temporary data entry jobs. To do one, in the middle 1980s, you had to learn some cranky old CUI's weird keystrokes from scratch. I liked...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Aug 1, 2004 2:11 am
Of course, any token in any language is not intuitive to a non-native speaker. ... From: Adam Carter To: agile-usability@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, July...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Aug 1, 2004 1:30 am
... Hi Randy, I think generally this is true. Users experience in using well made products teaches them how to use other products in the future. However, at...
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Gary
gmacomber2002
Jul 31, 2004 10:11 pm
One place I worked could serve as the poster child for non-agile UI Guidelines work. They spent a couple of years trying to put together a set of UI...
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acockburn@...
aacockburn
Jul 31, 2004 9:25 pm
I started this discussion at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SystemsPersonalities and would enjoy anyone from this list either joining the wiki or discussing it here ...
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Larry Constantine
lconstantine@...
Jul 31, 2004 9:04 pm
I have been following this thread while doing a training this week with barely time to read much less reply. I'll respond to several different postings in one...
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Larry Constantine
lconstantine@...
Jul 31, 2004 9:04 pm
Jeff and Josh, I hate to jump on two such good friends and colleagues in one positing, but I think you both might have misunderstood something. First, an...
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Paul Hodgetts
agilelogic
Jul 31, 2004 7:56 pm
... To ask this in a different way (sorry, this turned out longer than I thought it would when I started it)... I was originally very skeptical of evolving...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 7:02 pm
... Sure, in some locales... ;-) ===== Phlip http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfaces __________________________________ Do you...
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Ron Vutpakdi
vutpakdi
Jul 31, 2004 6:56 pm
... Where possible, yes, and if a developer has a specific question that is of general interest, I'll make a tip sheet out of it (albeit partly because I need...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 2:52 pm
... In the olden days, few programs supported the mouse. Then guides like the /Common User Accesses/ specified comprehensive mouse support. Then snotty...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 2:46 pm
... This is why Google's front page often said "Tip: After typing your search text, you can press Enter to start your search". ===== Phlip ...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 2:29 pm
... Minimum competence with the keyboard, leading to infrequently exchanging hands between the keyboard and mouse. Mice and menues are the first tier of online...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Jul 31, 2004 2:27 pm
I expect that behavior if the pulldown has an edit field on top, but am suprised when it doesn't have an edit field, when the list focuses on funny places,...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Jul 31, 2004 2:20 pm
Of course, one could whine that the "A" key gets you "a" on the screen, and that's not intuitive either. Given that typewriters don't have fields, I don't see...
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Randy MacDonald
rando0227
Jul 31, 2004 2:15 pm
I thought the benefit of GUI standards was from the leverage of the experience of using them, not of reading them, so the number of users that read GUI...
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Gary
gmacomber2002
Jul 31, 2004 1:36 pm
I confess, I didn't know that until fairly recently. It still is something I have to remember to do. Silly me I thought that typing tex would get Texas, not...
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Gary
gmacomber2002
Jul 31, 2004 1:30 pm
I agree. I'm curious, are you tailoring the tip sheets to the critical issues they are dealing with at the time? Once had a very good Developer tell me that if...
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Gary
gmacomber2002
Jul 31, 2004 1:02 pm
Hi, On my laptop keyboard there are 2 arrows - 1 pointed left, 1 pointed right, now which way did they go? ;-) gary...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 31, 2004 12:56 pm
... Good plan! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com FEAR = Fantasy Experienced As Reality...
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Joshua Seiden
joshseiden
Jul 31, 2004 12:14 pm
... to ... evolutionary ... a ... mentioned before. ... an interaction ... place you go to do ... Cooper's goal directed design system uses personas in this...
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Ron Vutpakdi
vutpakdi
Jul 31, 2004 11:54 am
... users what Tab means. ... Are you sure that you meant users and not developers? ;-) I'd be ecstastic if I could get even half of my developers to read...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 31, 2004 11:43 am
... I also try very hard not to be insulted by randoms on mailing lists, especially ones named Phlip. I try to remember that an insult is something hurled onto...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Jul 31, 2004 11:26 am
... It's odd and fascinating how few end users have read the Windows GUI standards, and how even fewer have understood them. :) I have in recent months...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Jul 31, 2004 8:19 am
If people don't understand my sarcasm I don't blame them. I also try not to insult randoms on mailing lists who are just offering their opinions. Adam...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 8:03 am
... At the one end are people not realizing that common activities, such as jumping to the next field, should have common short cuts. At the other end are...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 8:01 am
... Adam, let me bring you in on a very important secret: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=flip That says, under the "adjective" citation, "Marked by ...
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Adam Carter
typidemon
Jul 31, 2004 7:47 am
And? Isn't that the indent symbol from typewriters? How does that make it intuitive to change focus? If anything the intuitive use for tab would be indenting...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 31, 2004 6:14 am
... There's a little arrow -->| on the key cap. ===== Phlip http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfaces ...
