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Directional keyboard navigation could improve PC-based browsing too

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

And finally, because the keyboard shortcuts are unmodified by a key like Ctrl, they don|'|t work if the keyboard focus is already in a text box. | | | | |Interestingly, a much better user interface for navigating screens with lots of elements is already ubiquitous?but not on PCs.

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Show mercy to keyboard users (yourself included) by setting the default keyboard focus

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

Most client software products do a fair to middling job of keyboard support, but at least provide some basic facilities like keyboard accelerators for input fields, and give at least a bit of thought to the order in which a user will tab through fields.

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Bill Buxton's "Sketching User Experiences"

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

Lawson (1997, p. 242) puts it this way, |&|quot;... it is usually helpful if the drawing does not show or suggest answers to questions which are not being asked at the time.|&|quot; Superfluous detail is almost always distracting, at best, no matter how attractive or well rendered.

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OpenID: Great idea, bewildering consumer experience

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

It|'|s not immediately clear in most of these lists why a user would pick one provider over another. Why would a site operator let anyone leave their site to perform a task from which they will never return?|&|nbsp; | | | | |An OpenID is an identity (like a user name), not an account.

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Don't bury the lede: What's the real story behind a UI interaction?

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

This is business as usual.| | | |Going the other way?overwriting a newer file with an older files?is a much rarer event. Either event is unusual, a point which should be emphasized in the dialog.| | | |The above dialog|'|s text fails at this, as does its layout and typography.

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Times Reader finally delivers long-promised digital newspaper reading experience

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

If someone|'|s uninterested in a topic, they can just ignore it.| | | | |I first saw early demos of Times Reader several years ago and it|'|s frankly stunning that the product actually broke through to see the light of day.

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Geni: Slickest trial-to-signup path yet

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

At that point?the | |second | |visit?the user is asked to sign in with their email address and a temporary password that was emailed separately to that address.| | | |The second visit also includes a minor but noteworthy detail: the user is asked to agree to the service|'|s |"|Terms of Use|"|.

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Easing visitors into a site with anonymous accounts

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

(Of course, even without a user ID, each additional piece of data you enter to customize the site can be used to more precisely identify you.)| | | | | |You can use your anonymous account for as long as you want to, provided you use the same browser on the same machine to do so.

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Hurdles at the entrance to a site

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

Someone walking in the door might have to clear some or all of these hurdles before they can even try out the site:| | | | | | | |Figure out what the service does| |, and whether it meets their needs.

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Paying down design debt

Posted Tuesday December 18, 2007, 9:04 pm, Over one day old

Until this month, however, when you first ran Cozi Central on a Windows PC, | |the application took over your screen saver, and it didn|'|t even ask you| |.| | | |Terrible, no? Those people didn|'|t want the setup experience to silently take over their screen saver.

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