Today I created a simple web form. So simple indeed that it has only three design elements:
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input field
OK button, in this case labeled “Save”
Cancel button
Since I’m always confused about the order of OK - Cancel buttons (you, should it be OK / Cancel or Cancel / OK), I checked a few [...]
26 Feb, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability
UX community in Slovenia is slowly waking up, even though this might just mean I had lunch with @mitjamavsar. The discussion evolved around tools for wireframing and prototyping. Since I’m a happy mac user I pitched for OmniGraffle as it had something that’s a killer feature for me – great stencil community.
What’s a stencil? It’s [...]
10 Feb, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability
Modal dialogs are something to be very careful around as they break the flow of user interaction and scream at user “Focus! Answer this NOW!”
But what do you think when you get something like this:
Question box?
I imagine it would be too much to build a QA tool that would scan all the dialogs and detect [...]
03 Feb, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability
Being subscribed to a million of different obscure mailing lists and blogs has some advantages. Every once in a while you grab announcement of a rare gem early. Today I receivend an email about Quince – A UX Patterns Explorer by Infragistics.
It’s a visual representation of some of interface patterns used in interface design field. [...]
27 Jan, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: usability
I’ve been fascinated with Facebook relationship decisions for a while now. One of the more interesting challenges with this complex term is that it’s not fully transitional. You don’t just go single -> complicated -> dating -> engaged -> married and the same way back. Sometimes you also want to step out from the whole [...]