Re: [IxDA Discuss] help text in input fields - bad?
These are visual language elements. There's no definitive rule on their use that I know of. Whether or not they're good depends on the visual and experiential context in which they are situated. For example, helptext in fields can be useful to prompt user action, to explain the content of a field, or to explain the scope of a search. Putting text in the field can be visually cleaner than finding a place to fit the helptext in the layout, useful in tight spaces such as headers. Obviously, you have to select a text shade that doesn't make it look prefilled. Colored text fields are used to indicate required fields as an alternative to highlighted labeling. If you have a long, scrolling form (vs. a simple signup) it could make for easier scanning to find the required fields, and in theory, faster form completion. On a login form, it would be overkill, or window dressing. If you use them, avoid garish colors or color combinations that interfere with readability. Also, stick with a consistent layout grid. Color highlighting will exaggerate the jagged effect of not aligning form fields. --- On Tue, 2/2/10, Jayson Elliot jayson.ell...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jayson Elliot jayson.ell...@gmail.com Subject: [IxDA Discuss] help text in input fields - bad? To: disc...@ixda.org Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 2:29 AM Does anyone have research to point to regarding the practice of placing instructional text in a field that is meant for user input? For example, on a site like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ you see Google custom search inside the search field; or http://www.adobe.com/ writes Search Adobe.com inside theirs. I have read articles stating that this can depress overall usage of an input field, as some users become blind to the field if it is not empty, but can't find any now that I need them. Also, what about the use of colored input fields? Do non-white text boxes perform less well than standard white HTML input fields? Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48953 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 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] Sharing files from iPad to iPad
Hey Neil, How's it going? From what I've read, iPad does support standard copy-paste. File sharing is a great question since there is oddly no USB. There is a file sharing directory that syncs with your computer, through a wire or dock or possibly Bluetooth. You can connect to an external monitor (or projector) but you have to use the dock to do so. One more thing to pack. Personally I'm not that excited about the iPad. Sure, you can use iWork and iPhone apps (in large scale!), but it doesn't run my design apps and doesn't multitask. :( As an artist, I wish it had a stylus (and ideally, pressure sensitivity) for fine-tuned drawing illustration. As a UX person, I wonder, how am I supposed to sketch out my concepts, flows and wireframes on this thing? Apparently, I'm not. Apple has produced an attractive option for the consumer market and coolhunting road warriors, but it's no Modbook killer. Yes, I know I have high ideals, but it irks me that we're a decade into the 21st century and I still don't have my magic drawing paper. Or my personal jet pack. Or my robot butler. Get with the program, Steve! Patricia in Seattle --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Neil Cadsawan n...@cadsawan.net wrote: From: Neil Cadsawan n...@cadsawan.net Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Sharing files from iPad to iPad To: disc...@ixda.org Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 12:30 AM Does anyone know how you'd share a file created from the new iWork from one iPad to another person on their iPad? Or from any other app on one iPad to another person's iPad? Or, when using iWork, what happens when you save that file and open it later. Or how you'd grab a chart off of Numbers and drop it in Keynote. Does that just use the standard copy and paste? Any out there get their hands on one to play with it yet? I'm really curious how this works. Thanks, -Neil Reply to this thread at ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48813 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 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
