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Good stuff. Had a quick play and definitely would use it to brainstorm ideas. One really horrible usability point: when I enter a custom pattern on the right,
by pierrefar 17y ago
Good stuff. Had a quick play and definitely would use it to brainstorm ideas.
One really horrible usability point: when I enter a custom pattern on the right, I can't click enter to submit the form, but instead I have to go across the screen, up, and click the small Go button. Either do it live with AJAX or just add a proper form to refresh the page.
- 10ren 17y agoor perhaps add another submit button on the right, underneath the pattern choices
- pierrefar 17y agoYes, that's what I meant by a "proper form" but clearly it wasn't phrased with any level of eloquence. To build on that: having the form split up is a bad idea. The sidebar serves no purpose really and I recommend all the form functions be collected at the top and bottom of the results. I'd also rename the Go button to something more sensible like "Search" or "Find". Go has very few good use cases, and even then it's dubious.
- lliles 17y agoAlong these lines, I would also recommend a graphical button for the go/search/find. Large, bright and tactile or 3-D (within reason). Make it clear "this is what you push" after filling out the form. Make it inviting. I really like this idea. I spent several minutes looking through the suggestions and bookmarked it for later.
- philh 17y agoAlso, if someone's entering something in the text input, "random wordoids" is not the choice they want. You should probably have a radio list of choices, and select another one when they type something in the box. And I'll point out that it's spelled "scarce". It's not obvious what that column means even without having to decipher bad spelling.
- op 17y agoGood point! Thanks for the suggestion, i will fix that.
- woodsier 17y agoIt didnt work for me at all. Initially didnt write anything in the box, pressed go, nada. Refreshed, punched in test in the box, pressed go. Nothing.