When using a browser, like Firefox, I appreciate that I can easily navigate my tab history with Alt+← (for back) and Alt+→ (for forward.) That makes perfectly good sense to me, and I’ve used that keyboard shortcut for the longest time.
Is this a legacy thing or does a tilted cursor serves a purpose? I can tell that, the angle provides a totally vertical left edge which helps when highlighting text but what else apart from that?
In Windows operating systems the taskbars default position is at the bottom. Why is that so? Especially it is strange to me because all windows application have their main menu bar at the top. To me it makes more sense to have the main ope…
I have an application that lists all the modules loaded in a performance test in a baseline and a current testrun. Each run in turn has many iterations. A user can view the difference of what was loaded in the baseline versus current acros…
I’m working on an application that uses the Windows “modern” design language (née Metro). The app involves a lot of data entry and manipulation. Think of something like you might do with MS Access – master detail, forms, queries/filters, e…
I have a checkbox on one of the pages i am designing.
My original suggestion was to have this text “Click on the checkbox….”.
However the technical writer is saying it should be “Click in the checkbox”