https://hashbang.ca/tag/ui Recent content in Ui on Hashbang.ca Hugo en-us Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:07:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/consistency-and-direction-in-pagination Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:07:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/consistency-and-direction-in-pagination/ <p>Today, I discovered yet again one of the cardinal sins of user interface design &ndash; inconsistency. A blog had two pagination interfaces on one page - and they had opposite directionality. For one, older posts were to the left; for the other, older posts were to the right. This is an obvious and egregious error, and the solution is to make them operate in the same direction, or better yet, remove one.</p> https://hashbang.ca/post/human-usability-testers-wanted Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:13:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/human-usability-testers-wanted/ <p>When I wrote <a href="https://metacpan.org/module/App::perlhl">1App::perlhl1</a> <a href="https://hashbang.ca/post/cli-perl-syntax-highlighter">a few weeks ago</a>, I was mostly concerned with getting it working. I picked colours more-or-less at random, and I noted that I planned to tweak them to achieve better readability. I&rsquo;d like to do some hallway usability testing &ndash; if you&rsquo;re interested, please try cloning my <a href="https://github.com/doherty/App-perlhl">git repository</a> and playing with the branches. <code>master</code> has one colour scheme, and I created <code>colour-2</code> and <code>colour-3</code> to test two more schemes. Try them out &amp; let me know what you find most easiest to read. If you want to play with the colouring yourself, I&rsquo;d be happy to accept whichever one people find best. Thanks!</p>