https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23611
Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #7 from Trevor Parscal <[email protected]> 2010-06-16 00:28:34 UTC --- I am very hesitant to consider "the standard behavior we are all used to" as a mark of design quality. As we conduct research analyzing user behavior I am constantly amazed by the number of poorly designed and flimsily constructed elements in our software that people have "gotten used to" and now consider not only acceptable, but "standard behavior". For the Wikimedia Foundation's projects to succeed, we must attract new users, especially those who do not have the kind of tolerance for pain as our existing users have been shown to have. That said, we have no evidence that there is any increase in usability by changing the text in the text-box as the user arrows through the suggestions. The decision we made has to do with this being a unique control, so comparing it to the suggestions software that Google uses on it's home page is inappropriate. Given the qualities of the control, I still believe that we have chosen the right approach. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
