Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

[tatata9999@gmail.com]

Thanks.

[Chris Beall]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

tatata9999@gmai l.com wrote:

Thanks.
>

Yes.

In spite of its name, alt.html.critiq ue might be a better group for
this. You will, however, get a review of much more than usability there...

Chris Beall

[Jukka K. Korpela]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

Scripsit tatata9999@gmai l.com:

Thanks.

You're welcome. Now please read a primer on Usenet before bothering us more.
Get educated, or get killfiled.

--
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http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Stan Brown]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:49:07 +0300 from Jukka K. Korpela
<jkorpela@cs.tu t.fi>:

Scripsit tatata9999@gmai l.com:
>

Thanks.

>
You're welcome. Now please read a primer on Usenet before bothering us more.
Get educated, or get killfiled.

http://improve-usenet.org/

--
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http://OakRoadSystems.com/

HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
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validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Why We Won't Help You:

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you

[Andy Dingley]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On 11 Oct, 06:49, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tu t.fiwrote:

You're welcome. Now please read a primer on Usenet before bothering us more.
Get educated, or get killfiled.

Decaff.

[tatata9999@gmail.com]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On Oct 10, 9:16 pm, Chris Beall <Chris_Be...@pr odigy.netwrote:

tatata9...@gmai l.com wrote:

Thanks.

>
Yes.
>
In spite of its name, alt.html.critiq ue might be a better group for
this. You will, however, get a review of much more than usability there...
>
Chris Beall

Thanks, Chris, the idea is simple, create a useful and yet Real Simple
web app. URL, http://www.mytata.net/

Don
P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
at all...

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On 2007-10-11, tatata9999@gmai l.com wrote:

>
On Oct 10, 9:16 pm, Chris Beall <Chris_Be...@pr odigy.netwrote:

>tatata9...@gma il.com wrote:

Thanks.

>>
>Yes.
>>
>In spite of its name, alt.html.critiq ue might be a better group for
>this. You will, however, get a review of much more than usability there...
>>
>Chris Beall

>
Thanks, Chris, the idea is simple, create a useful and yet Real Simple
web app. URL, http://www.mytata.net/
>
Don
P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
at all...

There's nothing on the first page that tells the reader what it
does. Why would anyone go further?


--
Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell. org>
=============== =============== =============== =============== =======
Author:
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[Steve Swift]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other

than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
at all...

Nothing wrong with not thinking… see http://www.swiftys.org.uk/wiz?108


--
Steve Swift

http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html

http://www.ringers.org.uk

[tatata9999@gmail.com]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On Oct 11, 12:43 pm, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
at all...

>
Nothing wrong with not thinking... seehttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/wiz?108
>
--
Steve Swifthttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/swifty.htmlhttp ://www.ringers.org .uk

Thanks, gents.

To Chris F. A. Johnson, how about

http://web.mytata.net:8000/myTA/index_more.cfm

?

[tatata9999@gmail.com]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On Oct 11, 12:43 pm, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
at all...

>
Nothing wrong with not thinking... seehttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/wiz?108
>
--
Steve Swifthttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/swifty.htmlhttp ://www.ringers.org .uk

Hey, Steve, I like it, very clean and elegant, and if I may, I would
contiue the "Errors and omissions are..." with something like "a
reminder that I'm just human...", just a wild thought.

[Steve Swift]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

Hey, Steve, I like it, very clean and elegant, and if I may, I would

contiue the "Errors and omissions are..." with something like "a
reminder that I'm just human...", just a wild thought.

Thank you.

The "Errors and omissions are there just to annoy you" is itself a
quotation; it's just that by the time I found a use for it, I'd lost
track of where I found it.

--
Steve Swift

http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html

http://www.ringers.org.uk

[Steve Swift]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

tatata9999@gmai l.com wrote:

On Oct 11, 12:43 pm, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

>>P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
>>than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
>>at all...

Talking of simplest, I bought a wonderful alarm clock recently. It has
four functions: Current time; Alarm Time; Temperature and one I've
forgotten (it's in our other house, 580 miles away).
It has only two buttons; one that allows to to say "I want to change
this" and the other one that allows you to step through the possibilities.

The really fun aspect is how you decide which of the four functions it
displays. The clock is roughly cubical, and the display is square. The
four functions are labelled along the four sides of the display; you get
whichever function is at the top of the display, when you rotate the clock.

It came without instructions; they were not necessary. This should be
the goal of application developers.

--
Steve Swift

http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html

http://www.ringers.org.uk

[tatata9999@gmail.com]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On Oct 12, 4:08 am, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

tatata9...@gmai l.com wrote:

On Oct 11, 12:43 pm, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

>P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
>than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
>at all...

>
Talking of simplest, I bought a wonderful alarm clock recently. It has
four functions: Current time; Alarm Time; Temperature and one I've
forgotten (it's in our other house, 580 miles away).
It has only two buttons; one that allows to to say "I want to change
this" and the other one that allows you to step through the possibilities.
>
The really fun aspect is how you decide which of the four functions it
displays. The clock is roughly cubical, and the display is square. The
four functions are labelled along the four sides of the display; you get
whichever function is at the top of the display, when you rotate the clock.
>
It came without instructions; they were not necessary. This should be
the goal of application developers.
>
--
Steve Swifthttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/swifty.htmlhttp ://www.ringers.org .uk

Excellent. Thank you. Now, a specific question, if I may, per this
app,

Screen A
Signup ( could it simpler?)

Screen B
Project/Task/Activity vs Project/Task/Activity NOW vs Project/Task/
Activity Now

which one seems most easy for a user to understand (this means to
enter an Activity that he/she is going to work on immediately)?

Screen C
For the 3 funtion buttons

Here we have no idea what a user will do in terms of What (thing) and
When (time) hence current design of

Save (save this activity or activity at hand)
Save & Next Acitivity (save this activity and start work on another
one, continuous motion)
Next Activity (Well, the user takes a break something, just come back
-- a span of inactivity, now wants to start an activity)

What other alternatives might be easier for a user to understand? The
user is supposed to be reasonably intelligent (college crowd type or
the like).

Many thanks.

[David Cox]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?


<tatata9999@gma il.comwrote in message
news:1192200485 .424760.100090@ e34g2000pro.goo glegroups.com.. .

On Oct 12, 4:08 am, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

>tatata9...@gma il.com wrote:

On Oct 11, 12:43 pm, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:
>>P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
>>than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
>>at all...

>>
>Talking of simplest, I bought a wonderful alarm clock recently. It has
>four functions: Current time; Alarm Time; Temperature and one I've
>forgotten (it's in our other house, 580 miles away).
>It has only two buttons; one that allows to to say "I want to change
>this" and the other one that allows you to step through the
>possibilitie s.
>>
>The really fun aspect is how you decide which of the four functions it
>displays. The clock is roughly cubical, and the display is square. The
>four functions are labelled along the four sides of the display; you get
>whichever function is at the top of the display, when you rotate the
>clock.
>>
>It came without instructions; they were not necessary. This should be
>the goal of application developers.
>>
>--
>Steve Swifthttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/swifty.htmlhttp ://www.ringers.org .uk

>
Excellent. Thank you. Now, a specific question, if I may, per this
app,
>
Screen A
Signup ( could it simpler?)
>
Screen B
Project/Task/Activity vs Project/Task/Activity NOW vs Project/Task/
Activity Now
>
which one seems most easy for a user to understand (this means to
enter an Activity that he/she is going to work on immediately)?
>
Screen C
For the 3 funtion buttons
>
Here we have no idea what a user will do in terms of What (thing) and
When (time) hence current design of
>
Save (save this activity or activity at hand)
Save & Next Acitivity (save this activity and start work on another
one, continuous motion)
Next Activity (Well, the user takes a break something, just come back
-- a span of inactivity, now wants to start an activity)
>
What other alternatives might be easier for a user to understand? The
user is supposed to be reasonably intelligent (college crowd type or
the like).
>
Many thanks.

My first guess, not knowing the app in detail:-
A: Sign in
B. Activity (select from list)
C: Save & Quit or Quit without saving Either case back to B

[tatata9999@gmail.com]

Re: Is it acceptable to post a URL to request review of Userability?

On Oct 12, 8:01 pm, "David Cox" <nos...@nospam. comwrote:

<tatata9...@gma il.comwrote in message
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news:1192200485 .424760.100090@ e34g2000pro.goo glegroups.com.. .
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>
>
>
>

On Oct 12, 4:08 am, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:

tatata9...@gmai l.com wrote:
On Oct 11, 12:43 pm, Steve Swift <Steve.J.Sw...@ gmail.comwrote:
>P.S. Hope it can be voted as the SIMPLEST web app ever created other
>than one click vote app, all right, am thinking loud or not thinking
>at all...

>

Talking of simplest, I bought a wonderful alarm clock recently. It has
four functions: Current time; Alarm Time; Temperature and one I've
forgotten (it's in our other house, 580 miles away).
It has only two buttons; one that allows to to say "I want to change
this" and the other one that allows you to step through the
possibilities.

>

The really fun aspect is how you decide which of the four functions it
displays. The clock is roughly cubical, and the display is square. The
four functions are labelled along the four sides of the display; you get
whichever function is at the top of the display, when you rotate the
clock.

>

It came without instructions; they were not necessary. This should be
the goal of application developers.

>

--
Steve Swifthttp://www.swiftys.org .uk/swifty.htmlhttp ://www.ringers.org .uk

>

Excellent. Thank you. Now, a specific question, if I may, per this
app,

>

Screen A
Signup ( could it simpler?)

>

Screen B
Project/Task/Activity vs Project/Task/Activity NOW vs Project/Task/
Activity Now

>

which one seems most easy for a user to understand (this means to
enter an Activity that he/she is going to work on immediately)?

>

Screen C
For the 3 funtion buttons

>

Here we have no idea what a user will do in terms of What (thing) and
When (time) hence current design of

>

Save (save this activity or activity at hand)
Save & Next Acitivity (save this activity and start work on another
one, continuous motion)
Next Activity (Well, the user takes a break something, just come back
-- a span of inactivity, now wants to start an activity)

>

What other alternatives might be easier for a user to understand? The
user is supposed to be reasonably intelligent (college crowd type or
the like).

>

Many thanks.

>
My first guess, not knowing the app in detail:-
A: Sign in
B. Activity (select from list)
C: Save & Quit or Quit without saving Either case back to B- Hide quoted text -
>
- Show quoted text -

Hmm, how about compare your guess with the app since it's so easily
available?; also, if I may, the 3 function buttons are tied to "time"
in addition to 'activity'.