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Subject: Re: It is illogical....
From: "Daniel A. Molina" <dmolina () amnet ! co ! cr>
Date: 2004-12-10 5:15:38
Message-ID: 41B930FA.3040606 () amnet ! co ! cr
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There is always the option to show a nice message that does make people
feel like an idiot :) It doesn't matter how much information you provide
to the user,
even if the user "didn't do anything wrong" he/she won't be able to
squeeze a CD into a diskette, unless that is wrong and we should
consider the user an idiot for trying to do so. Some people using
computers have a hard time understanding beyond CD holds more files than
diskettes.
As I said on my original post, it is not that I'm against increasing the
available information to the user (as long as this do not make the
objects look cluttered), it is just that I found justifying the addition
of such info so the user can check the available space seems
incomplete. UI will have to notify users of certain situations either way.
Tina Trillitzsch wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:20:35 -0600, Daniel A. Molina
> <dmolina@amnet.co.cr> wrote:
>
>> From the point of view of usability, shouldn't just the user try to
>> copy and the computer inform him/her there is not enough space in
>> the target ?
>
>
> I don't really think so. It takes the feeling of control away from
> the user, and the feeling of control is actually quite an important
> usability principle, if I recall correctly.
> It also increases the chances of unnecessary "failures". No one likes
> to be told that they've failed. Especially if you are presented with
> an error message "not enough space" even though you didn't do
> anything wrong - after all you couldn't know better and had to expect
> there was enough room (as there is no easy way to check beforehand).
> These kind of uncalled for error messages are very intimidating and
> generally make a lot of people feel like idiots. And that is
> certainly not our goal, right :-)?
>
> tina
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