On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Elizabeth Spiegel <
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> The challenge for us as designers/builders is to build sites for the way
> people really use the internet, not the way we wish they did!
Excellently put. :)
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- Matthew
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Sent: Friday, 16 May 2008 8:27 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] [OT] users - IT literate?
On 16 May 2008, at 06:50, Matthew Pennell wrote:
> In my experience, a large proportion of computer/web users struggle
> to understand online concepts that we expe
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:29 AM, James Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the point is
> that any good user interface has multiple pathways to the same end result. In
> the scrollbar case we can use:
> * the keyboard
> * the scroll wheel
> * the scrollbar drag
> * the scrollbar buttons
> * any oth
On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:01:01 +0100 (BST), Stuart Foulstone wrote:
>
> But that's not because lots of people don't know how to use the address bar,
> its
> because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into Google rather
> than typing
> the whole URL into the address bar - plus if you
Hi
Reading through all the replies on this topic is quite interesting. The one
thing that you can be sure about in web work of any kind is (aside from
taxes) that users will interact with an interface in ways we never dreamed
of - using their fridge, a keyboard, a mobile, the "wrong" address ba
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Stuart Foulstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> its because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into
> Google rather than typing the whole URL into the address bar
And which user research are you basing your PROCLAMATION on?
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- Matthew
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it.) It only takes a second or two longer, so what is the
point in learning something different?
Regards,
Mike
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But that's not because lots of people don't know how to use the address
bar, its because MOST PEOPLE find it easier to type partial URL's into
Google rather than typing the whole URL into the address bar - plus if you
make a slight error you get prompted for the correction rather than just
told i
On 16 May 2008, at 06:50, Matthew Pennell wrote:
In my experience, a large proportion of computer/web users struggle
to understand online concepts that we expert users take for granted.
Many regular surfers have no idea how to interact with a scroll bar
- and there are lots of people who do
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Michael Horowitz <
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> However when it comes to literacy most people using websites are computer
> competent or they wouldn't be surfing the web in the first place.
>
Sorry, but that's complete speculation. In my experience, a large proport
It sounds like your user has a virus.
However when it comes to literacy most people using websites are
computer competent or they wouldn't be surfing the web in the first place.
Over time more and more people will be computer savvy and the current
generation grew up with the web as a normal p
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