Showing posts with label interaction design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interaction design. Show all posts

2007-05-10

sohu blog 404

Note: This artical is written in Chinese.

今天访问一个blog结果得到上述页面。

首先,文章没有了,有提示是好事,问题是为什么无关内容例如“刚刚更新的博客”放了很多,却不肯给该链接所属的blog首页一个链接?而且刚刚更新的博客放了5个图片(头像?),问题是看博客难道是根据头像做决定的吗?有人觉得这几个小图片有吸引力吗?

再说主要区域,放了一个申请sohu播客的链接莫名奇妙,你见过找不到文章马上决定自己上来写的主吗?原来sohu自己的广告就是这么乱投的。

最后说说右边的图和话(链接到sohu blog主页),两个字:矫情。新浪的404也做的不怎么样,但至少没有sohu那样无病呻吟恶心人。

2007-04-19

Balance security and easiness

See jojo's memory and my comment (in Chinese).

CapsLock reminder for password

See caps lock reminder

Someone(geeks?) enter password under cap locks on status, so the reminder may leak some info of their password if someone notice that.

In my opinion, such reminder can be shown when you enter wrong password.

2007-04-18

Which button is better?

See How to make a button more clickable (in Chinese) and the comments.

My first choice is ebay. Not like most people, I doesn't choose amazon, because it's too rich, especially the thick border make it like a banner. I choose ebay because it's more similar to the normal, non-styled button. I don't know whether it is due to my technical background.

The cross symbol on the button of target.com is great, the only problem is the cross symbol is isolated with the button, so the button seems like a bookmark, on the contrary, the button of dell which use arrow symbol is more suitable and looks better.

Just like some comments said, except the obvious wrong design (in my opinion, samsung's is the worst), we can not determine which is better without put them it the real pages. And as a vote with too many options, it's unfair because the latter tend to be ignored.

Anyway, it's a wonderful article which show the importance of the details of the UI elements to the customers' feelings.

2007-01-07

I just wanna commit nothing

A good article: if u don't want window to be opened, do not post "don't open me" on the window, just remove the handle of the window.

But the other example is questionable. The author suggest that disable the "commit my comments" button if the user hasn't entered any word. But it maybe make some users think comments is not allowed here. It's not like the "save" button, which should be disabled if nothing changed, there is subtle diffence which hard to express.

I understand the author don't like the popup alert dialog, so do I. A common way replace alert, is inserting the hint in red bold font below the textarea, or fadein/fadeout the messages on top of the page. The latter becomes very popular in recent web 2.0 sites.

In my opinion, popup dialog is not always evil. But the word is. "Please enter your comments" is too genteel and so boring. Let's say "Hey guy, you didn't enter anything!" with two choice: "Oops, it's a misplay..." and "I just wanna commit nothing!"