Jure Cuhalev

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04 Dec, 2009

Captcha is such an ugly word

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech| usability

Hat tip to Wikia who gave it a few moments of thought and renamed captcha to blurry word. It still doesn’t tell you why it’s there, but now you can at least find it. Before that, it was just a nonsense term (for someone not in IT/web field).

08 Mar, 2009

The great OK/Cancel button dilemma

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas| usability

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

OmniGraffle stencils

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

Rhetorical dialog boxes anyone?

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

Find of the day: Quince: A UX Patterns Explorer

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. [...]


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jure100px_colour Jure Cuhalev is an Open Source Hacker, with background in Social Sciences and Usability and User Experience (UX).