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Archive for the ‘UI Design’ Category

Duplicate Shortcuts IE8 configuration dialog – Alt-N binds to “No” and “Next”. Are UI designers ever going to learn to be nice to keyboard users?

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/17

Duplicate Alt-N shortcut: No / NextFor every (re)install, IE8 is usually part of the installation.
So, for the upteenth time, I came across the dialog on the right.
This time Alt-N is bound to both the “No” choice as well as the “Next” button.

–jeroen; wishing UI designers would learn to pay more attention to keyboard users…

Via: 20100516-UI-Duplicate-Shortcuts-IE8 on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Posted in Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, UI Design | Leave a Comment »

Classic UI mistake – OK/Cancel buttons for a Yes/No question.

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/04/12

Just unlinked/linked my DropBox account because of some synchronization issues, then got this messagebox:

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Dropbox
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There is already a folder in your My Documents folder called ‘My Dropbox’. Do you want to merge all the existing files in that folder into your Dropbox?
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OK   Cancel
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Sometimes I wonder if programmers ever are going to learn to get the basic UI things right :-)

(This was in version 0.7.110.0 of dropbox)

–jeroen

PS:
I absolutely love the functionality of dropbox, and to their credit: they do get most of their UI right.

Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development, UI Design | 7 Comments »