I'm a random clicker and highlighter. I think it might be a nervous twitch from my Diablo days.
Michael M. Minutillo Indiscriminate Information Sponge http://codermike.com On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Joseph Clark <jcl...@atlassian.com> wrote: > Woot! Thanks all for your replies :) At least I know I am not alone. > > I'll paraphrase as much of this as I can into some feedback for our team. > > Thanks heaps! > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Joseph Clark <jcl...@atlassian.com>wrote: > >> Hi list! >> >> This is a bit of an odd request, but I'm yet to find the right >> incantation of search phrases that will yield results from the Internet - >> hopefully you can help! >> >> There is a certain subset of computer users who, when reading text on the >> screen, compulsively click or highlight text that they are reading on the >> screen (I am one of them!). I didn't even know I was doing it until >> someone pointed it out to me whilst I was pairing with them a few years ago. >> >> One of our in-house products recently shipped a new milestone version >> internally with a new "feature" when viewing issues that allows you to >> instantly edit the content of the fields on the screen simply by simply >> clicking on them (turning the plain HTML into editable form controls >> on-the-fly). This is pretty neat, but as a serial text-clicker, this >> feature is downright infuriating. I was happy to put this down as either a >> little personality quirk of my own, or merely some indication that I may be >> insane, but a quick straw poll of those nearby finds at least 3 other >> people who have the same behaviour, or some variant (one guy says he clicks >> on browser windows a lot as a muscle-memory thing to ensure the right >> browser window has focus). >> >> I'm trying to describe to the other team why this new feature sucks for >> some people, but I have no idea if that "some people" is one in ten users, >> or one in one million. Have searched a bit online for information about >> this, but I don't really know what to search for. Does this user behaviour >> have a name? Are there other people like me out there (hello? hello?)? Any >> literature around on whether or not its a great idea to bind functionality >> to an innocuous user-action like text-selection or clicking in an >> apparently non-clickable area? >> >> Cheers! >> Joe. >> >> >
