To designers who sign off on an interface like this, all non-English-speaking users are pygmies. They think they can shove a surrogate, a fake at us and we’ll be happy with it and settle for it.
That’s where the whole great meaning of “I took a photo” in …
I recently noticed a chart in the Google Analytics software.
Here we see a comparison of two metrics: the blue line shows the number of visits (Visits), and the light-blue one shows the number of unique visitors (Unique Visitors). Take another look at the chart and answer the question: which …
So I go into Windows Task Manager and see this.
Let me explain why it’s so much. 10 megabytes is the chat functions. The other 90 is the set of animated smileys.
The scenario is this: when you start entering the CVV2, a virtual PIN-code keyboard pops up, while the window size doesn’t change, and 2/3 of the keyboard isn’t visible. I wonder how many users won’t figure out that they need to scroll the window? Or is …
I continue studying the user interfaces of Microsoft—the leading corporation in developing office products. Last time we drew your attention to the alignment of numeric data in Outlook. Today we’ll be talking about saving files in PowerPoint.
One typical operation is saving each slide of a presentation as …
I’ve been using Microsoft Outlook for a long time, but only now noticed this little detail. The “Received” and “Size” columns aren’t aligned by place value. With dates and times it’s not so bad, but with size it’s a complete mess.
Do the designers at Microsoft …
On the way from my place to the center there are advance railway ticket offices. Very convenient: no need to go to Pivdennyi to stand in line; you can just stop by, get the tickets, and leave. Five minutes’ work. So I usually volunteer to buy a stack of tickets …
One of the requirements for clang — the new C++ compiler — was to provide the user with detailed information about errors. Let’s look at a small example.
[]double UniversalGravitation(double G, double mass1, double mass2, double distance) { double F = G * ((mass1 * mass2)/(distance * dsitance)); return F; }
There’s a typo …
The programmers of this weather station didn’t know it would get this hot here.
