Comments on Ux Unleashed: Would you miss Usability if it weren't there?

It is nice to see such diverse views on usability....

2008-03-14T20:50:00.000-07:00

It is nice to see such diverse views on usability.

For me the take away was something different. How can we train developers to think about the implications of every user interface element? Or should we? It is a different discussion, I think. But thanks for making me think about it.

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2008-02-08T11:30:00.000-08:00

The anonymous comment was a "human powered" spam, so I removed it.

@jgarbers & @Vinodh : Okay no issues. I kinda thou...

2008-02-06T21:02:00.000-08:00

@jgarbers & @Vinodh : Okay no issues. I kinda thought keeping from my behaviour as a user. I have never let picasa delete the originals on its own before me being sure that alls well. Just that i was worried if somethng goes wrong in between like a machine hang or a power failure or whatever. I make sure that everything is imported and fine and then delete the originals manually. So here i thought of making the system do it by making me sure that everything is imported and then giving me the option to delete.

May be its a corner case. I give up.

I would agree with jgarbers here. Deciding to move...

2008-02-06T06:21:00.000-08:00

I would agree with jgarbers here. Deciding to move or copy is a decision I would like to take at the begining of the process and as long as I have a safe delete option, I think this would work the best.

We'll probably have to disagree on this one, Umesh...

2008-02-06T06:04:00.000-08:00

We'll probably have to disagree on this one, Umesh. I'd rather not have an extra step at the end, and it seems to me that the time to decide whether to leave things on the card or not is at the beginning of the process when you're engaged in the task.

Picasa handles this nicely - you get to select the pictures you want to import, and as soon as you click the button to start the import, you get a dialog giving you the options for deleting from source: leave the source alone, delete everything from the source, or delete only files that were successfully copied (they call that "safe delete").

Good point jgarbers that the user might miss the c...

2008-02-05T21:34:00.000-08:00

Good point jgarbers that the user might miss the check box on the progress bar if there are just one/two pics getting imported.
But forcing the user to take a decision on whether to keep the originals well in advance is also not a good idea. Thats why i suggested a status message after the progress bar which has multiple objectives.

1. It tells user that the importing is over

2. Next step can be deleting the original files

Or

Just say i'm done and exit

So there is no advance decision making, no multiple check box clicking while importing (may be simple code as sowmya said. i have no idea tho). Its more simple and stupid. I also think that taking a decision of deleting something should not be a check box option.

Seems to me that this dialog's main job is to let ...

2008-02-04T09:45:00.000-08:00

Seems to me that this dialog's main job is to let the user know that the import is proceeding. I think the question of whether or not the original files should be erased should have been asked before the process started. What if there were only two pictures being imported and it happened so fast you couldn't get to the checkbox in time?

The idea of having a button is nice - but as I und...

2008-02-04T09:31:00.000-08:00

The idea of having a button is nice - but as I understood siddhi's idea, it was to be on the same dialog box. One more dialog box is one too much I think, for this context.

There's a flip side to adding the button, though. A checkbox doesn't require a user to act upon it, the button does. So it is a different message we're giving the user.

i like siddhi's idea which is more simpler. After ...

2008-02-03T01:30:00.000-08:00

i like siddhi's idea which is more simpler. After the import show a dialogue box with two buttons which will say something like the following...

Finished Importing. What more can we do?
"Delete photos from camera" "Nothing, I'm Done"

The default focus can be the "Nothing" button

I thought the same thing as jgarbers.. that "erase...

2008-02-02T04:27:00.000-08:00

I thought the same thing as jgarbers.. that "erase" checkbox is for each picture. Why not just show a button "Delete all photos from camera" after the import is done?

I like sowmya's solution -- often all you need is ...

2008-02-01T05:26:00.000-08:00

I like sowmya's solution -- often all you need is a minor change in text to make a real improvement. I might even go with "Erase all after import is complete" to make it clear that if you cancel the import process it won't kill your originals.

God is indeed in the small things but it has to be...

2008-01-31T22:17:00.000-08:00

God is indeed in the small things but it has to be implemented properly too as jgarbers pointed out.

@Jgarbers,I agree with you. The text ought to read...

2008-01-31T15:56:00.000-08:00

@Jgarbers,
I agree with you. The text ought to read "Erase all after Importing".

I don't know... the way this dialog is presented, ...

2008-01-31T12:58:00.000-08:00

I don't know... the way this dialog is presented, the "erase after import" option is pretty ambiguous. Given the ability to change this checkbox during import -- especially if the import process took more than a second or two per picture -- I think some folks might get the impression that the erase/keep decision was for each picture individually...?