Category: Usability
Keeper4 - susţine producătorul autohton
December 18th, 2009Într-un viitor apropiat o nouă aplicaţie va deveni publică - Keeper; download.
Keeper e un program care rezolvă următoarea problemă - protejarea datelor importante, astfel încât numai tu să ai acces la ele, în orice circumstanţe. Aceasta este util atu… more »
Dealing with tab bloat, part two
January 9th, 2009After the article on Opera's usability on wide screens was published, I got feedback from a person in Opera's team, and found out that I haven't done my homework well.
Opera is aware of tab bloat, and they offer two solutions; right-click the toolbar,… more »
Tip: remove the taskbar and become more productive
January 4th, 2009Attention is a finite resource; but no matter how hard you try to use it wisely, it is very easy to get distracted in a multi-tasking environment. While some solutions were offered in "Information overload is real", here is another idea which is based on… more »
Browsers, tabs, wide screens and usability
December 26th, 2008Computer users with widescreen monitors are sometimes the victims of software designed for a non-widescreen world - as most dialogs in the existing applications were not built with "plenty of horizontal space" in mind.
As time passes by, widescreen moni… more »
Windows error messages and warnings vs usability
November 14th, 2008Did it ever happen to you that you badly needed to write down a code in an error message?
I won't believe you if you tell me that you've never ever had to manually copy the text of an error message thrown by Windows, in order show it to a friend… more »
Question oriented UI design
November 11th, 2008When designing the interface of a tool (be it a real world instrument, a program or a web-site), we usually have the following questions:
which controls to use?
how should they be arranged?
What is wrong with this (apparently normal) pictu… more »
Global bookmarks improve usability
October 10th, 2008Some people are afraid of computers, because their first experience with one wasn't full of joy. They blame themselves thinking it is their fault, when in fact it could be the system designer's fault (note that the system is not guilty, it is merely doin… more »
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