Taxonomy defined

Taxonomy: The fine art of stuffing words with meaning

"Click Cancel to continue"

The classic 'Are you sure?' message can be a great warning post when things are irreversible. Yet if seen all the time can be a tiresome barrier to productivity. 

Recently I came across this one:

Buttons should be labeled with clarity and brevity. The message has to clarify that the OK button is used to go back. Change the label to Back. The Cancel button is used to continue. Change the label to Continue.

Comic: Are you concerned...?

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What's New Tour - Wunderlist Mobile

Wunderlist User Interface Tour

Updating taxonomy - Evernote

Evernote updates what they call Favorites. Now it is called Shortcuts. 

User Experience Design and Usability Guidelines and Principles

This blog article is a collection of guidelines and principles for the practice of User Experience Design and Usability. 

Note: This is a work in-progress

iTunes Quick Tour

The first time the iTunes application is launched a Welcome screen appears by default. 

There are four primary options, Learn more; Take a quick tour; No Thanks; and, Agree.

When the Learn more link is clicked, A browser window opens a Sharing Information About Your Library with Apple webpage, which is consumer-friendly page. The content is brief and to the point. It outlines the benefits of sharing your information with Apple. For users who like to read legalese, there is a link to their privacy policy. 

From the Welcome screen, when the Take a quick tour link is clicked, iTunes Quick Tour appears in a new window

Once the last slide is reached the Next > link disappears. 
I hoped to see some sort of Get Started or even Close button appear in place. Instead user must close the window using standard window controls in top left corner.  

The iTunes Quick Tour can be accessed via the iTunes Help menu, however this information is never expressed to the user. 

Check out the iTunes Welcome screen from 2012

Create a new Password - My Apple ID

When the New Password field is on focus the word balloon appears. 

As characters are added the requirements in the word balloon change color to indicate if they are satisfied (green) or not (red.) The password strength appears and changes color as strength changes. 

After creating the new password a confirmation message appears. 
Chrome browser feature: Would you like to save this password?

 Save password is immediately recognized as a button. 
The drop down is intuitive, however what is confusing is that the drop down menu is in fact a button itself. The options are accessed by clicking the down carrot. The button is activated by clicking on the label portion of the control. 

MyApps Confirmation Message

This message appeared after new software was downloaded. 

Save this password?

Would you like to save this password?

Button: Save password

Button/drop down: Nope

If you click the down carrot next to Nope there were other options.

Timeout, Back Button, or Bookmark Error

Apparently this message is a catch all for "Timeout, Back Button, or Bookmark."

If a website crashes...

"If a website crashes on the Internet and nobody goes there, does it matter?"

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New policy alert - LinkedIn.com

During a visit to LinkedIn.com this banner appeared at the top to inform users the Privacy Policy was revised.

Word has encountered a problem

"There is a problem saving the file."

"Usually this is because the disk or floppy disk is too small for the file..."

FLOPPY?

Microsoft Word Crash Message

This dialog box appeared when Microsoft Office Word closed on a Windows platform. 

The message suggests that the problem be related to the "floppy disk is too small..."

Lower half of message window.

Ebola charity - via Google Maps

While using Google Maps a notification banner appeared requesting donations for the Ebola outbreak. Here is the process. 

Employee Discount Web Center - Tour