From the “I hate my users” department:
- This dialog pops up every 10 seconds
- The Office 2011 for Mac update requires non-Office apps to quit as well
–jeroen
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/27
From the “I hate my users” department:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/12
The Searching repositories – User Documentation mentions
By default, forked repositories are not shown.
But it forgets this only holds for the main search box which is conveniently called “Search GitHub” but documented as “Search repositories“:
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Based on that documentation you’d think the “Search Repositories” box would adhere to the same defaults, right?
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Wrong. We live in the “form over function” era so that would be too easy.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/18
Beste ABN-AMRO,
Ik geef jullie in dit stuk een aantal belangrijke user experience tips die voor vele van jullie kanten het gebruik van jullie site het downloaden van afschriften en overzichten een stuk makkelijker maken. Hiervoor reken ik niets, maar ik weet zeker dat [WayBack] Stichting Zevensprong – die sport en recreatie voor gehandicapten organiseert – een bijdrage van jullie kan gebruiken dat ze [WayBack] hebben ANBI status, dus dat moet voor jullie appeltje-eitje zijn.
Eerst even de aanleiding
Als curator van een verstandelijk beperkte broer moet ik jaarlijks voor de belastingdienst en de rechtbank aangifte doen en verantwoording afleggen.
Daarvoor heb ik alle finianciële gegevens die betrekking hebben over afgelopen boekjaar nodig.
Jullie assembleren de bijbehorende afschriften en overzichten van en met ongeveer december in het jaar daarvoor tot en met ongeveer maart in het jaar daarna. Een tijdspanne van pakweg 16 maanden, afgerond 18 maanden, dus anderhalf jaar.
Het jaaroverzicht hiervoor is niet gedetailleerd genoeg, dus ik moet de onderliggende stukken voor dat boekjaar allemaal voor alle rekeningen downloaden.
Ik heb al eens een kort voorschot genomen hoe dit bij de diverse banken enorm uiteeinloopt: (NL) fijn al die electronische rekeningafschriften, maar je moet ze of downloaden of 7 jaar bij je bank blijven @ABNAMRO @ingnl @Rabobank.
Tijd om wat specifieke zaken van ABN AMRO toe te lichten
Wat ik het liefste zou willen is met 1 knop, voor een bepaalde contracthouder:
ABN AMRO maakt het downloaden een tijdrovend proces
Die ene knop is er helaas niet, maar als je handmatig de overzichten bij elkaar wilt downloaden ben je eindeloos lang bezig.
Hier heb ik al eens wat Twitter conversaties met het ABN-AMRO web-care team over gehad, telkens met een doodlopend resultaat. Die staan helemaal onderaan deze post: ter lering en vermaak.
Als je voor veel rekeningen over een lange periode de afschriften en overzichten wilt downloaden loop je teze deze beperkingen aan:










Een eindgebruiker zou dit allemaal kunnen ondervangen door op 1 mei, 1 november en 1 mei aan het einde van de de overzichten te downloaden.
Maar zeg nou eerlijk: welke eindgebruiker leeft nou zo’n geregeld leven? En de belastingdienst vind het niet leuk dat je pas na 1 mei aangifte doet.
Page load bij 6 maanden aan data van een normale betaalrekening:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common User Access.
I mentioned CUA a few times before, but since an old client of mine managed to throw away their paper originals in a “we don’t need that old stuff any more as we are now all digital” frenzy, I wanted to locate some PDFs. And I promised to write more about CUA.
If anyone has printed versions of the non-PDF documents below, please donate them to aek at bitsavers.org or scanning at archive.org as they are really hard to get.
A few search queries I used:
The PDFs I think are most interesting:
Posted in BitSavers.org, Development, Hardware, History, IBM SAA CUA, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Software Development, UI Design, Usability, User Experience (ux) | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/13
Very interesting video with the presentation by Luke Wroblewski: From the Front Lines of Multi-Device Web Design | WordPress.tv.
Not only about the various aspects of sign size depending on viewing distance, but also about various input methods, ambient light, statistics on usage patterns for various device sizes, etc, etc.
Recommended watching.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/30
Interesting:
A Dark Pattern is a type of user interface that appears to have been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills.
We developers have a big responsibility. Martin Fowler and Erik Dörnenburg (both ThoughtWorks) did a great presentation about that at the GOTO Aarhus 2014 Conference.
A quote:
“The developer who wrote that code is every bit as responsible as the person who told them to do it. You have a choice. You have a responsibility to ensure that your users are well treated and to reject dark patterns,” says Fowler. “We have a whole profession of people writing software and doing enormous things to change the way we live in the world.”
Please watch the video: Our Responsibility to Defeat Mass Surveillance – Erik Dörnenburg and Martin Fowler – YouTube.
–jeroen
via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/29
Combile Paletton and Kuler and off you go!
Nick Butcher: Have found this site useful for creating colour palettes. Paletton – The Color Scheme Designer
Marie Schweiz: https://kuler.adobe.com and you can get the swatches :)
#Color
Thanks Nick Butcher and Marie Schweiz.
–jeroen
via: Have found this site useful for creating colour palettes..
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/22
I love it that in Windows you can do everything both by mouse and keyboard.
Take the start screen: there are 3 ways (mouse only, mouse + keyboard, keyboard only) to zoom in/out in the start screen. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/15
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/14
A while ago, Tim mentioned that [WayBack] Michael Kaplan’s blog “Sorting it All Out” on MSDN was gone.
I amended my original post because of it (see below), and I’m really happy that Tim kept track of his comment, and just posted a new comment:
Michael Kaplan’s Sorting it All Out blog is back! [WayBack] http:///www.siao2.com
Back to the original edit I made as the new blog doesn’t (yet?) has all the content of the old blog:
Edit: Michael’s MSDN blog is officially dead, but there are the nice web archive and web cache virtues:
Michael also appeared on this 30 minute podcast episode: [WayBack] Hanselminutes Technology Podcast – Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers – Sorting out Internationalization with Michael Kaplan
Michael Kaplan is a Developer in the Windows International group and the author of the popular ‘Sorting It Out’ blog that is dedicated it all things ‘-ization.’ That means Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization. This show is is brought to you by the CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A.
Some key points:
- Use these languages for UI testing
- English as it is common and slightly wordy
- German because it is
- more wordy (30-50% more than English) to test for clipping text, and used enough to warrant the energy
- Turkish because of the Turkish i
- Arabic (is right-to-left, cursive and has ligatures) or Hebrew (which is just right-to-left and cursive)
- Thai because it has plenty of word-breaking issues and tests Uniscribe well
- Push UTF-8 all the way through your system and back and avoid question marks and other
After that: time to catch up on Michael’s new blog (:
–jeroen
via: Delphi: a few short notes on LoadString and loading shell resource strings for specific LCIDs
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