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Re: Google+ Add To Circles Interaction: Some Good & Not-So-Good UX

Jim Drew — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:09:23 -0000

Based on the video, you lost your selected items when you clicked to dismiss the More Actions menu. And then you didn't notice the yellow tag at the top of the page that said what had happened and gave an Undo to restore the selection.

Did you use the Send Feedback button to enquire about a non-D&D way of circling people? Of course, if you have to move to the More Actions menu and select a circle from there (as you tried to do), then you're no better than by dragging to a circle and maybe worse.

Re: I’ve Found It: The Worst Thermostat Ever

pjsherman — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:17:34 -0000

Thanks for the feedback on the design btw. I'm prob going to switch themes back; I don't like it much either.

Re: I’ve Found It: The Worst Thermostat Ever

Jim Drew — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:19:40 -0000

I would guess that the Cool/Off/Heat switch affects what the buttons changes do, making some changes unaffective in some states. Had a car temp UI in a Ford Focus this last week which had Auto and manual temp up at the same time, never did figure out how to make them work right.

BTW, not a good redesign for the blog. When I come to the front page, the huge graphic (which isn't really related to the blog content) fills most of the screen, such that the entire first headline is "below the fold" (only the posting date is above). I have to scroll the page to see if there is new content to read; shouldn't need to do that. Lots of extra white space up there. (I'm on Chrome on a Mac laptop, if that matters.)

Re: I’ve Found It: The Worst Thermostat Ever

Duplication — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:11:56 -0000

I think it’s not worst; it changes automatically temperature time to time.

Re: Yale’s Art Department Site: Worst Site Ever?

Trish Flynn94 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:40:03 -0000

I am using this as an example in web design as the worst ever.

Re: When Requirements And Design Lose The Sale

pjsherman — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:40:07 -0000

Good to hear from you, Andreas! Yes, I could've made a larger donation, but I didn't want to spend that money all at once. I just wanted to "set and forget" a recurring donation spread across the next 11 months. But the site was not designed to support that feature.

Re: When Requirements And Design Lose The Sale

andreasbossard — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:52:16 -0000

interesting post paul!

why would you want to make a recurring donation? you could also make a single donation which is larger, couldn't you?
what is your motivation behind it?

Re: User Experience Design: A Mini-Festo

Joomla Design — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:41:10 -0000

This Mini Festo is interesting which is providing new designs.

Re: User Experience Design: A Mini-Festo

Laptop Repair — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:22:34 -0000

This user Experience Design is good for everyone. It is showing new relevant results.

Re: Cryptic/Amusing Error Message

Sebastian — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:42:51 -0000

Because they probably forgot about it.
Been there, done that.

Re: User Experience Design: A Mini-Festo

Amber Eklund-Wilks — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:43:32 -0000

So relevant as 2012 is forecasted to be the year of the user and simplicity. The only thing I might offer in addition to the UX offering piece is the term "story." Perhaps it differs based on the variety of industries we inhabit but I find it meaningful to refer to UX as "story telling" since the foundation of the design process is communication. Process categories can be thought of as chapters and workflows as story lines that guide the user. I find it to be a very handy analogy to guide group decisions... especially when involving those outside of UX (ie - marketing). Nice post!

Re: “Please Enter A Valid Email Address”

MD:SAFIN HAYDER (SHUVO) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:45:56 -0000

read

Re: How To Disable The Paypal Help Center

kastanedowski ebay — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:50:14 -0000

same problem in Spain and Poland....

Re: eBay: Hah Hah, Made You Think!

sushil bharwani — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 02:50:19 -0000

hmm good one. This is something that one need not to think about if you are giving a go to text you should have a link there.

Re: “Please Enter A Valid Email Address”

TheresNoEscapingSpam — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:18:07 -0000

We can thank Yahoo for aiding and abetting spammers with the feature of "disposable email accounts"
To add the email address to the spam portion of mail options is useless because once the address is added the spammer has already deleted that email address from their account.

Re: Mashableahhh

Raymond Van Velzen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:41:38 -0000

I agree, it screams for attention this way.

Funny that the image shows an article on Google+, which bathes in white space and peace, so to speak.

Re: How To Disable The Paypal Help Center

Guest — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:11:02 -0000

Same problem for italian users. And I just can't believe reading "2010" on your article! PayPal loves to keep bugs?

Re: A Dubious Claim

Ciaopubs — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:00:29 -0000

Yeah. I always prefer cash myself.

Re: Message Can’t Be Blank? Why The Hell Not?

mntgmry — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:17:03 -0000

Yeah, what he said. ("You have been unsubscribed...")

Re: Message Can’t Be Blank? Why The Hell Not?

itamarl — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:35:33 -0000

They don't require you to explain why. When you reach that page you have already been unsubscribed, see message on the first line. If you want to submit additional info to explain why then indeed you cannot submit a blank message.

But I can see why there is some confusion here...

Re: Message Can’t Be Blank? Why The Hell Not?

Rachel Reveley — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:28:13 -0000

These days if I can't unsubscribe from a list I didn't explicitly choose to join with only 2 clicks then I will usually hit the report as spam button. I get fed up of having to unsubscribe from a mareting list every time I use a new website. This would class as one of those cases.

Re: Whatever You Do…Don’t Search For “ASCII Mr. Burns” Or Google Will Flip Out

Justin — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:14:01 -0000

It has little to do with that actually query ("ASCII Mr. Burns"). Basically, Google has an automated system that tries to detect automated scanning/attacks/etc. For instance, Google has a useful calculator feature (you can type in "(2 mm)*sin(30 degrees) in cm" and it will tell you the answer (with proper unit conversion). But if you do many searches like this in a row, it will throw up errors like that. Reason being that the kind of search is strange (searching for strange mixtures of characters is one way to find vulnerabilities in websites), and obviously searching in rapid succession is similar to what an automated script would do.

Point being, it's nothing to be too alarmed over. Probably your research search history was inordinately rapid or otherwise atypical.

Re: Whatever You Do…Don’t Search For “ASCII Mr. Burns” Or Google Will Flip Out

Kevin Peno — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:31:08 -0000

I just tried the same and it worked fine? I apologize if I'm missing something.

Re: RushLimbaugh.com…Wait For It…Not Enough White Space

amir farid — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:41:03 -0000

That page just overwhelms you. In definate need of white space if you ask me. Too much going on!

Re: Classy Fridge Infographic

Hillary O'Keefe — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:01:41 -0000

This image is hilariously misleading thanks to the two sets of "finger" representations. The professional looking cuffs do add a dapper touch though!