Rice said she was “deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life” in Israel’s attack. But she did not call for an immediate cease-fire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militias.
July 30, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Monthly Archives: July 2006
July 29, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Bad Dialog Design Epidemiology
Button names should correspond to the action the user performs when pressing the button—for example, Erase, Save, or Delete.
Apple Human Interface Guidelines: The Elements of an Alert
This guideline was first widely flouted by iTunes:
“Ignore” and “Download Upgrade”…
July 23, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Move or Copy
A useful Finder tip from Apple’s site:
While this screenshot is clearly of the wrong dialog, the actual dialog is only labeled halfway correctly:
Which to believe… The dialog title or the text beneath it…
Because multiple file operation dialogs …
July 16, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Sales Loss
July 14, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Aversion Therapy
July 9, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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The Untitled Post
A screenshot for your amusement:
Name a new document window “untitled”; leaving it lowercase makes it more obvious that the window doesn’t have a name and encourages people to save the document.
If the user
…
July 8, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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It Should Be Mostly Relative
I’ve been using a PowerBook with (and without) an external display lately, an experience that has brought to my attention that how windows are sized and positioned when moving between display setups could be better.
Window heights, widths, and positions …
July 4, 2006
by Daniel J. Wilson
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