On 10/29/06, Alastair Rankine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMHO confirmation boxes are almost always the wrong answer to a given > usability problem.
Yes, and there are some fairly obvious usability problems with the interface in 4.0. When I go to the Feedback area, "Delete checked items" and "Confirm classification of checked items" are right next to each other. My preference would be to have two columns of radio buttons instead of one column of checkboxes. Color one column red for the spam, and the other one green for the ham, and label the buttons too for accessibility reasons. (Green eggs and ham?) Once you've checked one or more controls, a single "Apply manual classifications" button would process all of them. With that interface, I can go through the comments top to bottom in a single pass, click one button, and be done. Furthermore, the most damage you can do with a single mistaken click is flag one comment incorrectly, and that can only happen if you don't notice the mistake until you push the "apply" button. The "things you can do" links could then be replaced with as "Mark suspected spam as spam" and "Mark suspected ham as ham". So if the classification engine works, you can click those two links then hit the button to apply the suspected classifications as-is. In fact, you could consider just making the radio buttons for non-manually-classified items default to the auto classification, and get rid of the "things you can do" section entirely. So then you're down to 1 button and 2 columns of radio buttons, pretty idiot-proof I think. Is this suggestion clear, or would it help if I drew a mockup? mathew -- <URL:http://www.pobox.com/~meta/> _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
