Re: [Usability] Usability Digest, Vol 49, Issue 5

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 13 May 2008, at 01:28, Johannes Kingma wrote:

> I disagree here totally. The conflict dialog is one of the few very
> usefull, easy to understand and idiot proof features. The best thing
> is that the three options are buttons which reduce the click-amount to
> the absolute minimum.

One problem is they don't actually look like buttons, though (or at  
least, they didn't to Andy and I).  As Andy also points out, that the  
most prominent feature in the dialog (the icons) is the least useful  
in many cases, because the 'before' and 'after' will often be identical.

I've no doubt the dialog works for some people (like yourself), and  
that it works better when the icons are recognisable thumbnails, and  
that some amount of usability testing was probably done on it.  I'd  
just like to think we can do better :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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