Re: [IxDA Discuss] Forms design / labels inside the fields
Hi Maciej, We had this discussion over at UX Exchange a few months back (http://uxexchange.com/questions/309/form-field-inside-labels-usability-and-accessibility) and in response I put together a prototype interaction pattern for form labels inside fields that displayed the label underneath the form field when the cursor was in the field and reinstated it if the user cleared the field or left it blank. Also provided for alternate styling for displaying labels vs user data inside the field. Accessible too, though being a prototype could use some work: http://sandpit.purecaffeine.com/text_in_form_field.html Cheers, Nathanael Boehm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=49165 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Profile vs. Persona
Profiles are *types* of users. Personas have real names (of obviously ficticious users) :-) A lot of overlap in content especially at a high level, but a different approach and a different use. Personas are generally open to deeper exploration of habits and small details that might not seem relevant and wouldn't be included in a profile (with its scientific approach) but can help designers think laterally about catering for users' needs and behaviours. -- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:23 PM, FoongYeen Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Persona provides an illustration of a virtual user. There are more information that you can extract from a persona such as user's profile, goal, task to be completed, how he/she use the application tool, their daily life, behavior, common practice, user expectation, etc. All these information are good inputs for brainstorming and developing a new product. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] How to make links look like links?
It shouldn't just be colour contrast but also brightness contrast. Using HSB instead of RGB mode is useful for this. I recently put together a 12 hue x 4 brightness levels (48 colours in total) scheme for a site that heavily relies on colour/contrast as an aid for identifying screens and screen components - but using the HSB approach helped keep consistency of contrast where required and meant I didn't need to come up with 48 individual colours. I digress. But if you find that underlines on links make reading the text difficult then you can use bottom borders on the links instead of applying underline text decoration. That way you can change the colour of the underline so it doesn't have to neccessarily match the link colour. Use wisely. -- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Juan Lanus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I read this, and without having tried it ... a suggestion. Well, some users are more prone to mousing than others, for example kids. The idea is to set the content, if possible, in a container (for example, a div). Then to highlight all the links when the user is mousing over the container, all the links inside the container at once. Depending on the relative size of the container, this feature might greatly reduce the risk that the user didn't notice the links, without the distracting affect of the links interspersed into text intended to be read. The user can read the text in a single swoop and after grab the mouse and get into the links. -- Juan Lanus Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] [ixda] horizontal log in fields on web apps
Just keep in mind accessibility too if you're going to be putting the visual label inside the form field as a value attribute instead of a label before the field, as well as issues when no JS enabled/supported. Not a major problem, but just make you consider those two requirements ... it can be annoying have to manually strip out the contents of a field when there's no JS to do it for you - especially if you're using a screen-reader and don't notice that you're submitting a search query for Search archives ...design -- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Bob Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a major contributor to usability in fields like that are watermarks in the textboxes to make them stand out more. Kind of like the Search Archives... searchbox on this ixda site in the rightnav. I think nowadays you can even dump the labels and put them right in the textboxes. [Email ] [Password ] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29751 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help -- Nathanael Boehm :: http://www.purecaffeine.com :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: Canberra, Australia :: 0409 288 464 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
