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By: areox

areox — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:09:41 +0000

A lot of people should read Alan Cooper’s “About face”!

By: patrick91

patrick91 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:46:17 +0000

No progress bar on long processes

By: Indicios de que tu interfaz de usuario fue creado por un programador | Spargo.Net

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:34:09 +0000

[...] en este curioso e inevitable fenómeno, Ian Voyce ha publicado hace unas semanas el divertido post The 7 signs your UI was created by a programmer, en el que recoge pistas que nos ayudarán a determinar si el interfaz de la aplicación que usamos [...]

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Dew Drop – November 3, 2009 | Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:21:28 +0000

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By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:27:44 +0000

Great article and guilty as charged!

By: voyce

voyce — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:01:19 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I finally got around to approving your first comment (not at all related to your remarks in this one, of course)…

I don’t know if you’ve realised – I didn’t think you had based on your other comment – but I am a programmer first and foremost, and a UX tinkerer second, so this post wasn’t intended as a sleight on programmers. Just on sloppy programmers who think “hey, UIs are easy, there’s nothing to ‘em”.

And I found your “ooh, there are some mistakes” thing in your previous comment a bit tedious. I had enough “fun” with reddit commenters pointing out my misuse of apostrophes to want to spend any more time worrying about grammar. I’m not a professional writer or blogger… I’m a programmer.

Ian

By: God of Biscuits

God of Biscuits — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:42:15 +0000

Is this a “no dissent allowed” blog?

You promised that my email is never published or shared, but I guess my comments aren’t either.

Not only are all engineers devoid of UI/UE sensibilities, there are a whole class of engineers whose specialization involves User Interface issues.

If a dialog box whose text was a question to which the answer was “Yes” or “No” that appeared in buttons at the bottom, I’d sooner rewrite the copy that let it go out the door with “Yes” and “No” buttons under almost any circumstance. Those responses are too general and pull the user out of the tight contextual focus he/she is in when deciding the proper way to dismiss the dialog.

For example.

But what do I know? I’m just a programmer.

By: shirish

shirish — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:29:54 +0000

Hi there,
I have been burned as a user enough times to not trust dialog boxes. Programmers do not think from user’s perspective.

For an e.g. please look at this thread :-

http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss/browse_thread/thread/58ff66726acdd906/fa507ae8ba40a2b9?lnk=gst&q=The+site%27s+security+certificate+is+not+trusted!#fa507ae8ba40a2b9