One of our users here received an email with an attachment and had to
call the IS guys to help figure out how to save the attachment. The
reason? She saw the "Save to Disk" option and figured that since she
didn't have a floppy disk to save it on, that was NOT the option she
wanted to use.
So
No matter how you design something, the world will always invent a
stoopider (a better word than virii, to be sure!) user. Make a box with
one switch on it, that only goes one direction, and only does one
thing,and is labeled 'on' and 'off' and there WILL be a 'user' who is
confused by it. In shro
Hi Tom,
I think this is a nice suggestion! (And given that Evolution's UI
problems are professionaly my problems, I will see to that this gets
recorded in bugzilla, and fixed.)
This kind of feedback is really helpful to me. You shouldn't feel like
it is stupid at all, it helps us to see how rea
Btw, I've changed the wording from "Save to disk..." to "Save
Attachment...", maybe that will make it more clear?
Jeff
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 17:56, Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I think this is a nice suggestion! (And given that Evolution's UI
> problems are professionaly my problems,
Anna,
Elegant response. This is precisely the sort of "take care of the user"
thinking that has made Evolution an excellent product on the way to
being an outstanding one. (It's also why I pay for Red Carpet premium
services even though your regular servers are really quite adequate for
my need
Cool! Thanks! That should make it a bit more clear to the people that
aren't aware that when you save stuff it actually goes to a disk
somewhere... :-)
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 18:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Btw, I've changed the wording from "Save to disk..." to "Save
> Attachment...", maybe
I'd say that's an excellent suggestion. It's just the sort of thing that
would confuse a novice user.
Warren
El jue, 11-07-2002 a las 12:44, Tom Cross escribió:
>
> One of our users here received an email with an attachment and had to
> call the IS guys to help figure out how to save the attach
not to be an ass, but don't web browsers use "save to disk?" when
downloading? outlook uses "Save As" generic, sure. a thought.
i just wonder how much catering to the lowest common denominator is
positive. as in useful for the project. I would think, for any software
project, you ask "who is my
