Showing posts with label usability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usability. Show all posts

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Smart Progress Bar Is Needed

Some of the images in this blog has reflect effect. I used www.ReflectionMaker.com. Easy and simple steps to add reflect effect in image. But as my net speed is slow, I often get uncertain. I don't know how much it has processed and how much remaining. The progress bar is shown in this way:

Round shape progress bar (animated gif) cycles and cycles, even if there is no net connection. But a numeric progress indication (e.g. 22% done) could help much.

Even when I was writing this blog, my net was slow and I was not able to upload immediate above image. blogspot was showing this (actually it was not successful to upload the image)

On the other hand gmail's mail attachment progress bar is very helpful. Because it is not animated gif and  it is not fake. Gmails attachment progress bar is much more helpful to know whether it is at all uploading or not and can guess how much uploaded.

So, progress bar should not just an animated gif but it should be a smart progress bar. Every website/web application should avoid using animated gif progress bar and rather it should show smart progress bar. Smart progress bar helps end user a lot.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Image less contact confuses me

In facebook if you search friends you'll get friend list along with thumb image next to it. The thumb image helps you lot if there are friends with same name. e.g. see this image:

Here I searched with 'Moni' and it listed down two 'Monirul Islam'. As there are thumb images with each Monirul Islam, I can identify who is who.

But this same facebook does not show thumb image when I'm going to share something with my friends. See this image: