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Re: The Right User Interface for the right person

NABH — Mon, 30 May 2011 05:47:15 -0000

I really appreciate your post and you explain each and every point very well.Thanks for sharing this information.And I’ll love to read your next post too.
Regards:
NABH

Re: Choosing the right Car

Used Transmission — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 05:02:11 -0000

I'll post the same information to my blog, thanks for ideas and great article.

Re: Das Mensch als Industriepalast – Animated

vlvl — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:03:02 -0000

I'm getting nasty flashbacks from Frau Wieler, the german teacher from Berlitz - Der, Das, Dieser....

Re: Das Mensch als Industriepalast – Animated

marstein — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:49:11 -0000

It's 'Der Mensch', not 'Das Mensch'.

Re: Das Mensch als Industriepalast – Animated

home builders seo — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:44:40 -0000

I am currently very fascinated by everything machine. We'll as you can guess or experience your ...

Re: iPhones, Faxes and BPM

home builder seo — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:45:37 -0000

Partners Enjoys Ten-Fold Return on Investment with... have access the recruitment application on their iPhones.

Re: iPhones, Faxes and BPM

home builders seo — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:33:55 -0000

You fill out an order form and fax it to the company with your credit card .... nearly a decade before Apple

Re: Manual SEO

home builder seo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:13:18 -0000

Manual SEO is a new thought to each other, i read this.

Re: Or even worse

mailnrk — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:14:41 -0000

Boy that is a looong comment! I can't believe I typed all that

Re: Or even worse

mailnrk — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:13:23 -0000

I agree with the idea of building products that are so intuitive that you will never need an installation manual but I have used so many products that won't let you install because you are not connected to the internet!! and there is no instructions for how to get around it because there is no manual - probably because someone thought that their product installation is so straightforward that their users will never need a manual.

I don't know if you have ever installed Ruby on Rails but its super easy, just type this one command into the terminal/command prompt and you are all set - downloads the package(they call it gem), checks if there are any dependencies and downloads and installs them before it installs the main rails gem, just type the command in and everything will be taken care of. All of this ease of use comes with a prerequisite - you have to be connected to the internet, look around their site to see if they have instructions for how to install rails when you are offline and you will have a tough time finding the instructions - I never could. There is no "manual" because the installation process is so simple and straight forward for "most" of the users but what about the "others"?

Similar story - Installing software on a mac is dead simple, in fact there is no installation because you just drag the app from the dmg and place it in a folder on your mac (usually the Applications folder). I did not know this when I switched to a mac, I downloaded a dmg and I did not know what to do, based on my previous windows knowledge I double clicked on it and a window opened up with just one .app file in it and nothing else. No read me file, no instructions, no manual. Its embarrassing when I think about it now, all I had to do was drag the app file and put it in the Applications folder but I just didn't know and there were no instructions that said this is what I had to, it took me a few hours of googling to figure that out. The software was Firefox 2! So I wrote a "manual" for it thinking may be there is someone out there that could use this and just as I had expected there are people who had to go though a similar experience like mine. That page on my website had over 3000 unique visitors in the past one year (Google Analytics). Starting with Firefox 3 they have made changes to the window that opens up when you double click on the dmg to make the process more intuitive but I still don't think it would hurt to include a "Readme" file with instructions or in other words a "manual". I can imagine how this could be a challenge for Firefox because they support over 70 languages.

I am sure designing UI for enterprise software is different in some aspects but relying solely on the intuition of the user or the affordance of the UI elements is probably not a good idea and if you have the resources then I don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to create a "manual"

Re: The LinkedIn Cycle

gkidron — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:47:17 -0000

As part of my business development work in the US I use LinkedIn. all my contacts in the large corporates report that LinkedIn has becoe something intolorable for them, at least 3 job requests a day. some of them say they got strict orders from their HQ not(!!) to pass on these requests and to refer these people to the normal channels of HR... all this writing is to say that for a long time now, this graph is not surprising...

Re: Introduction to Twitter

Kite board — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:30:46 -0000

Thanks for such an awesome article, i liked reading it, keep posts like this one coming!

Dave

Re: Choosing the right Car

psychologist perth — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:59:44 -0000

As what I have know French cars don't last that long unlike Japanese and American cars.

Re: Introduction to Twitter

vlvl — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:41:20 -0000

Nice article (to be integrated into the next version of the deck) - The reluctant Twitterer - http://www.slate.com/id/221582...

Re: Choosing the right Car

Kite board — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:19:19 -0000

Hey Trond, what's wrong with the French cars by the way, I have good friends of mine that have French Cars!

Re: Do one thing and do it well

Quotes — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:49:41 -0000

I liked the way you put it, just keep expressing your ways!

Re: Do one thing and do it well

Martin Stein — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:26:10 -0000

That's already been done. It's called Visual Composer.

Re: Do one thing and do it well

Martin Stein — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:25:22 -0000

Two guys at SAP wrote a book about prototyping. They recommend Excel for the purpose. It's actually not bad, I tried it out. This "extra virgin" tool looks way cool though. Bookmarked.

Re: Do one thing and do it well

Rubinik — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:38:07 -0000

Couldn’t help but think how that conversation would unfold…
"Create SAP patterns for a measly mockup tool sold on the web for 70$? Pcchhhhh!! We can create our own tool with our own patterns in a matter of weeks. And why just a UI mockup, lets enable describing navigation... and perhaps some information flow and logic. Ooo Ooo I have an idea, why just stick to mockups, lets make it generate actual applications out of them!! In any possible UI technology!!! All we have to do is add some LCM, deployment, packaging, runtime and other capabilities, move it to a robust development environment, make it compliant to our 16(,000) standards and we're all set! I can visualize hundreds people without any development experience composing applications in a matter of minutes… now we just need to come up with a catchy name...."

Re: Police 2.0

Giannii — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:31:36 -0000

I see your avatar. It's an old school Cylon helm. =P

Re: Police 2.0

vlvl — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:25:43 -0000

Ah! How come your avatar shows up and mine doesnt? Do I need to score some Disqus points? :)

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Update - now it shows...

Re: Police 2.0

Giannii — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:15:50 -0000

That sucks... I had someone steal my pedal. Yes, just one. I hope whoever took it has a kick ass necklace but ya know these things happen. My Bike is a 82 Schwinn from japan so replace parts is a pain. =./ I know your pain.

Re: Police 2.0

Or S. — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:24:52 -0000

Yariv, my son's bike was stolen last week and aparently, many of our neighbors have had bikes stolen as well recently.
Go down to Machluf, the guy with the bike shack at the end of your street and buy a used bike for cheap.

Re: Police 2.0

Harel — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:50:16 -0000

Yariv, shouldn't you be thinkin' of creatin a police officer 2.0 instead?
You know, one that actually cares and/or willing to do something (besides eating doughnuts)?
One that understands what you're saying without the puzzled look of "huh"?
One that understands that if you're filing a complaint, it probably means that some harm was done to you and you're probably NOT the criminal?

I can carry on with this, but I'm sure you already got my point ;-)

Ciao amico.

Re: Police 2.0

Granov — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:17:25 -0000

yea right.
what is the percentage of literate cops in israel (and in english!?) i would say : 25% know how to read, of those 10% know english, and then 10% know how to operate a PC.

which leaves you with 5 cops all over israel capable of processing your 2.0 system.

Good luck with that!