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Share First, the dumbness. Second, lessons from this dumbnosity. I went to put in my Visa info on a site, as shown in the picture. Note that the MasterCard radio button is selected by default… though I didn’t see that at the time. I know my name, of course, and even the card’s expiration date, but I [...] Share I was filling out an online form today when I came to this section: It says Mailing Address in big red letters. Then it says Mailing Address in bold black letters. The cursor goes automatically to the first edit box. So what do I — and I suspect most other folks — start typing? My mailing address, [...] Share Software vendors are invariably after you to upgrade. Should you? If so, when? Right now, WordPress — the tool I use to run both my blogs and my Lexician.com site itself — nags me at the top of every screen: “WordPress 2.9.2 is available! Please update now.” [Exclamation point in original.] There’s nothing that tells me [...] Share It must be written, in the Great Book of Software Design Principles: Thou shalt never leverage the usability/design principles discovered by thy rivals. I’ve never actually seen the book, mind you. But I know it’s there. Why else would so many software designers follow the same rules so slavishly? This rule is sometimes called NIH, “not invented here.” [...] |
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