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Tag Archives: computer
Drag-and-drop download
At first it seems like gratuitous "Web 2.0" lipstick, but software maker Panic’s home page is actually pretty clever. There’s an icon for each application they offer. If you click one, it takes you to the product info page, but if you drag and drop it onto the green arrow on the top left of [...]
Jakob Nielsen answers "how little do users read"?
Jakob Nielsen’s current Alertbox column looks at how much users actually read on the web:
Summary:
On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.
We’ve known since our first studies of how users read on the Web that they typically don’t read [...]
Keyboard shortcut conflict: iChat vs browsers
I think the three applications that most people are likely to have open all the time are a web browser, email, and instant messaging.
In every major browser I’m aware of, Command-L highlights the address bar so you can type in the URL of a site, which I do constantly. Command-L, Command-L, Command-L, all day long. [...]
Naming Downloadable Files
PDFs, word processing and spreadsheet documents, software packages, and lots of other things are downloaded to a user’s computer to be referenced at a later date. That’s great—if you can find it when you need it!
Let’s put ourselves in the user’s shoes. We’ve downloaded something from a web site, either because we know we’ll [...]
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Adam Darowski on URLs as UI
Adam Darowski has an excellent piece on URLs as user interface at his blog, Traces of Inspiration.
I was just thinking about this yesterday when I was looking at Flickr with a “non-power-user” friend, trying to find an old picture in someone’s photostream. I watched them go from page to page, clicking 3 ahead, as it’s [...]
mozilla.org’s human-proof CAPTCHAs