Archive for the ‘user experience’ Category
Paste and Match Style
This should be a standard shortcut on OS X. It is going to save me hundreds of hours.
In: optimization, thoughts, user experience · Tagged with: hot-key, osx, paste, plain text, shortcut
I’m no security expert but not allowing special characters is just silly
The worst part is this is from a major bank, Fidelity.
In: user experience · Tagged with: characters, password, pin, security, special
Twitter A/B Testing “Find People”
I oversee a few different Twitter accounts, @nickdenardis, @educheckup, and @waynestate just to name a few and usually have them all open throughout the day. I noticed something interesting today, they are running an A/B test on the wording of a link in the top bar. The feature, although recently reactivated on the #newtwitter design, has [...]
In: Social Media, thoughts, user experience · Tagged with: a/b, action, discovery, find people, test, twitter, who to follow
Screenshots of the #newtwitter
Since everyone is anxiously awaiting their migration to the #newtwitter, including myself, I thought I would share what the interface looks like. Logging in this morning I discovered my university account @waynestate was migrated so I took the oportunity to share some screen shots. I haven’t had time to play with it too much so [...]
In: software, user experience · Tagged with: #newtwitter, preview, screenshots
Form Errors – Validating phone numbers and the importance of hand testing
Nothing replaces hand testing forms I fill out a lot of forms during the day, some on existing sites and others as new internal forms that need review. When testing I have a habit of submitting forms with every error combination possible. I know there are automated tools for this but nothing beats seeing it [...]
In: user experience · Tagged with: error, form, groupon, messages, regex, UI, ux, validation