I had posed a problem in one of my older thought units welcoming suggestions to help users remember to attach a file in a mail (when intended).
Good user expereinces make things happen - the way you wanted them to - without you having to. By being a natural extension of the thought process. Compensating for dicipline or memory or structure.
Better user experiences are not noticed. Just enjoyed at a subconsious level. Like a walk on a quite beach at sunrise.
Hence the suggestions around "aditional check box", creating a new message of type attachment, do not cut it.
Sowmya's idea stands out. It works the way auto-spell check in MS Word does. (Parsing between keystrokes. Dictionary looks up by multi-threading. Correcting without interrupting.)
User expereince without a user interface.
She gets a nod and tip of my hat. She knows what she needs to do to earn the $10 Barnes and Nobles card.
Right Sowmya? :)
Friday, September 7, 2007
Ux without a UI
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Wow, I feel good!
@Sunil: Not quite sure what you meant by "She knows she needs to do to earn the $10 Barnes and Nobles card." Did you miss a word there?
"She knows WHAT she needs to do to earn the $10 Barnes and Nobles card."
Was missing the word WHAT :) Now you know :)
UX without an UI like i always believed a good design is never SEEN. Instead of adding new visible features for the user and then tackling issues which happens out of them, we need such subtle but powerful user experience enhancers. Kudos
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