alan cooper

user experience

Do You Want to Save?

Why is it, 10 years after the publication of Alan Cooper’s seminal, About Face, applications still regularly present this dialog to me? Cooper said it best on page 136: It is possible to argue that users have come to expect this behavior; that its absence would cause experienced users

By Jeff Atwood ·
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gui programming

Death to the Dialog Box

One of the unnecessary evils of GUI programming is the "Process Dialog Box" – what we think of as MessageBox.Show. You know, like this: All kidding aside, these dialogs are frequently abused for displaying all kinds of trivial information to the user, a mistake that Alan Cooper calls

By Jeff Atwood ·
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