usability

How can website hits statistics be helpful to improve usability?

由 放肆的年华 提交于 2019-12-09 05:58:16
问题 Have you noticed that almost every links in facebook have ref query string? I belive that, with that ref , facebook somehow track and study their user behaviour. this could be their secret recipe of making a better usability. So, I am trying out the same thing, change http://a.com/b.aspx to http://a.com/b.aspx?ref=c and log every hits into a table. ======================================================================== userid | page | ref | response_time | dtmTime ===========================

Modal popups - usability

由 為{幸葍}努か 提交于 2019-12-08 09:37:23
问题 What are the cases where you'd use a modal popup ? Does it interrupt the user's flow, if it all of a sudden opens up in his face ? Would you avoid modal popups in general ? or when should one be careful of using them ? Edit: To be a bit more specific, the situation here is this : I have a menu on the right, (VisualStudio style) when the user wants to add an element, should I expand the menu down and let them select something from it there, and then have to press the OK button, or display a

What percentage of followed hyperlinks might have their “onclick” JavaScript ignored?

由 こ雲淡風輕ζ 提交于 2019-12-07 14:14:45
问题 As far as I know all popular web browsers execute the onclick attribute of an anchor link first, then follow the path specified by the href attribute. The problem here is that the onclick attribute only gets called when clicking with the left mousebutton (without pressing ctrl or shift for a new tab or window) or when pressing enter on your keyboard while the tabIndex is set to the link you want to follow. But there are many other ways of following a link than just those two. Ctrl + click

Windows BackupRead / BackupWrite and ACLs

由 杀马特。学长 韩版系。学妹 提交于 2019-12-07 11:58:52
问题 I have been trying to understand what should be the right way in using BackupRead and BackupWrite for backing up data on a computer and especially about restoring it reliably. Now I understand how to use the API and have been successful. However there's one thing that bothers me. You can backup, beside the file content itself, any alternate data streams also the security information (ACLs). Now if I would store the ACL data for backup and then later, once the data needs to be restored on a

How to notify the user of important events for a desktop application?

由 北城以北 提交于 2019-12-06 10:22:21
问题 Our customer is using our software (Java Swing application started using Webstart) besides other software like MS Office, to do his job. From time to time there are important events he has to deal with in our software without much delay. The customer wants to have a prominent notification then. Now he might be using Excel at the moment, so popping up a message box will not suffice (although the entry in the task bar will be flashing). We need some mechanism like the Outlook notifier, i.e. a

Multivariate Testing for Sublayouts in Sitecore

由 不问归期 提交于 2019-12-06 10:01:06
Having toyed with the concept in the past, I am interested in using multivariate testing on my companies Sitecore website. There are a number of places where I feel we can definitely improve sales through the use of A/B testing in: Running two entirely different templates to see what layouts work better for users Running a number of different Sublayouts (forms) on the site to see which ones people are more likely to fill out Trialling different content - Running two different sets of copy to see if users are more likely to stay on the page I want to use the Marketing Suite within Sitecore, and

Should I distinguish OpenIDs based on protocol prefix or not? http vs https

由 邮差的信 提交于 2019-12-06 06:54:44
问题 I have implemented a straightforward OpenID support for my ASP.NET app with DotNetOpenAuth. Yet I recently realized that the implementation was treating http://johndoe.example.com/ as a distinct user compared to https://johndoe.example.com . This lead to quite a few confused users. I am unsure what to do at this point. Is this a bug or a feature? Indeed, I can consider this behavior as a feature: if the user specifies the HTTPS, the user might not want the system to accept HTTP auth in the

Arguing about usability and “prettyness”

由 巧了我就是萌 提交于 2019-12-06 06:38:42
As a UI guy (coding and designing user interfaces) I often find myself in the odd situation arguing about the quality of userinterfaces with programmers and other "laymen". I find it somewhat hard to argue about things like colors, icons or layout and it doesn't seem that there is a factual right or wrong. But still - without having a convincing argument I still know (i.e. feel) that sometimes a solution is just wrong. What is your approach to this? Do you let costly usability test decide or even the customer? Do you educate yourself in usability engineering? Do you know of good books (like

UI design pattern for multi level grid

由 做~自己de王妃 提交于 2019-12-06 05:19:38
问题 currently I have a requirement to display related items in a multi level grid. that is great grandparent -> grandparent-> parent-> child For example: Country-> state->City->Street is the order of display. The proposed solution is to display all these in a multi level grid (4 levels maximum). Country -> state ->City ->Street Since I am not comfortable with this solution with respect to usability aspect, I am looking for a UI design pattern that will break up the display into logical units.

How to write good alt text for images to help screen reader and blind user to understand what is picture about?

由 最后都变了- 提交于 2019-12-05 20:54:13
问题 How to write good alt text for images to help screen reader and blind user to understand what is picture about ? and if we are using Alt text then what should be in a Title="text" if we are using both in special cases like menu images etc 回答1: You should not make the visually impaired user understand what the image is all about. For the blind, the image effectively doesn't exist , all that there is is the text. The alt text should work as a single sentence/paragraph that can be replaced for
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