Archive for June, 2008
Improved Error Dialog Box
Error dialogs seem to rarely best their progenitors from decades ago. In fact, often the modern counterparts are worse—either they offer misleading oversimplifications or they are little more than graphical wrappers for some obscure error code optionally coupled with some half-baked developers’ notes. Obviously, redesigning error dialogs won’t automatically fix this problem, but other oversights couple therewith to plague the user experience with something goes awry.
About the New Interface Advocate
Recent Entries
- Revised and Expanded RegEx Reference Chart (v2.0)
- New Blog Design
- Less is More—Interface Simplification for Vending Machines
- Lessons from an Etch-a-Sketch—Implications for HCI
- Improved Error Dialog Box
- Lumiera Timeline First Draft
- C* Music Player Audioscrobbler/Last.fm patch
- Everybody Loves Regular Expressions!
- Search Done Right—A *Progressive* Progressive Find
- Handy scripts!
- The only two interface designs ever conceived:
- The misused mouse, part 2: A proposal for a nearly mouseless interface.
- The misused mouse, part 1: The story of the mouse’s decline
- Throw out that mouse—you upgraded to a keyboard!
- Fitts’ law vs. mice, tablets, & trackballs