I’m sure you’re constantly improving all aspects of your business like we do: adding new features to products, experimenting with prices, changing your logo and web site design, polishing user interface, tweaking AdWords ads and landing pages. This is a good strategy. It’s called Kaizen. Let’s discuss one more element of software sales funnel – [...]
Last Sunday, I quickly sketched several GUI concepts in form of cartoon and posted them in Software GUI… Which is your one?. Surprisingly, my serious colleagues on BOS shamed me for this sketch: “you failed”, “learn to create a comprehensible cartoon”, “too abstract”, and so on. Anyway, I’m glad there is a discussion around this [...]
Click to enlarge Any ideas…? UPDATE: Software GUI… Which one is your? – Explained
There are two common ways to describe a sequence of key pressings in your software help documentation: The first one is like this Press Ctrl+Shift+F to flag the record. The second one is like this + + = Flag the record If you prefer the second approach then these two resources will be helpful to [...]
In this short post I’d like to share a real case of user interface improvement that we implemented in the upcoming release of the Dr.Explain 4.0. In previous releases of the Dr.Explain we had a problem – much of screen space on the top of the application window was not used effectively. Before (old versions [...]
This year our Dr.Explain help tool team is proud to be a sponsor of The Conference for Software User Assistance by WritersUA. The focus of the Conference for Software User Assistance is on developing the best possible user experience for all types of software applications through well-designed interfaces and helpful and accessible support information. The [...]
Does my application need a colorful bright interface with amazing icons, animated skins and cool sound effects? First, think about how much time does an average user spend working with your application per session and what does he use it for. If user spends more than 20-30 minutes per session within your application (which is [...]
This is a short and simple plan for quick testing final release of your software application before making it public. Just not to overlook something trivial but very important. Texts Spelling: Check all text labels, menu items, hints and messages for typos. Version: If you don’t increment your version or build number automatically during compilation [...]
In this post I continue writing about some simple practices that will help you quickly improve your software GUI. In the first post I wrote how to position your GUI elements properly. Before I started to write this post I had been thinking how to name it. I’m not writing a comprehensive guide on usability [...]
As you may know, before I founded Indigo Byte Systems in 2004 I used to be a senior developer in a mid-size software development company. I dealt with various projects from hardware drivers, to Web applications, to distributed corporate systems. Nowadays, I also teach students the programming methods at the IT department of Samara State [...]
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