On March 31, 2007, Todd posted this entry in User Experience, Interaction.
I was using TinyURL the other day and decided on a whim to see what was located at MiniURL.org. As expected, there was a similar service to TinyURL’s: enter an URL and whammo, a shortened link.
What was pretty thoughtful was that MiniURL automatically copies the url to your clipboard. That’s a nice touch, since I’d expect the next task for most users would be to paste the url into an email or a blog post. Of course, there’s the problem that it overwrites whatever is currently in your clipboard. So, there might be a collision of expectations for some users.
I appreciate the concern anyway, even if it doesn’t work with Safari.
At work, I’m tied to Lotus Notes–that plucky little groupware client that refuses to die. I dare say that a single day passes where I’m not surprised by its brusque nature, awkwardness, and overall “unapproachability.” Today, I share with you the following dialog box that I received while trying to comment on a meeting request.
About two words into my comment, I decided that I really didn’t have anything useful to say. So, I tried to cancel out. If you look at that dialog, you’ll realize that Lotus has committed me to sending a message whether I like it or not.
On March 4, 2007, Todd posted this entry in User Experience, Interaction.
While I was reading an article at The New York Times, I came across a surprising little widget–one that I hadn’t seen or heard of before.
When I read for any extended session online, I have a nervous habit of highlighting the text as I go along. In this case, I began highlighting a word, lost touch of the trackpad, and tried to recover. As I did, however, I must have double-clicked the word and up popped a new window. Before I could dismiss it, I noticed that it gave me the definition for the word I had selected. Nice.
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