Me too. People who have seen me do it call me weird. At least now I know I am not alone. How long until an analytical company starts recording this info to use against us?
Kind Regards, Matt Osborne MRI QLD On 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. >
