Comments on: Keyboard usability… as a metaphor http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/09/keyboard-usability/ Talking about websites Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:51:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Haven Rich http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/09/keyboard-usability/#comment-533 Haven Rich Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:54:57 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=205#comment-533 I think my biggest vice is the tab/cap lock keys. I'll go to tab something and end up with the caps locked. And when typing really fast, like I tend to do, it can create a huge mess. The biggest issue I have with keyboards is one of my own doing: Cats. How is it they know how to pull things up on your comp that you didn't even know existed? On websites, I have to agree with the above issues. Music, too much flashy stuff, long download times...yup very annoying. Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I think my biggest vice is the tab/cap lock keys. I’ll go to tab something and end up with the caps locked. And when typing really fast, like I tend to do, it can create a huge mess.

The biggest issue I have with keyboards is one of my own doing: Cats. How is it they know how to pull things up on your comp that you didn’t even know existed?

On websites, I have to agree with the above issues. Music, too much flashy stuff, long download times…yup very annoying.

Sorry I haven’t been around much lately.

]]> By: Abi Bowling http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/09/keyboard-usability/#comment-530 Abi Bowling Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:11:48 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=205#comment-530 Oh, I'm so totally with you there, Elizabeth! I am not a fan of the splash page. I also abhor when music automatically loads on a site. If I'm going to a musician's site, well, I should expect that, but any other site I cannot stand it and I will immediately go elsewhere. Oh, I’m so totally with you there, Elizabeth! I am not a fan of the splash page. I also abhor when music automatically loads on a site. If I’m going to a musician’s site, well, I should expect that, but any other site I cannot stand it and I will immediately go elsewhere.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/09/keyboard-usability/#comment-529 Elizabeth Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:07:47 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=205#comment-529 What bugs me about websites is when the "home" page is nothing more than a fancy book cover--you know the sort without any content, but you have to wait, and wait, and WAIT for some stupid graphic that dances to download and dance before the "enter here" button will appear. At that point the "Next!" button has already been engaged. What bugs me about websites is when the “home” page is nothing more than a fancy book cover–you know the sort without any content, but you have to wait, and wait, and WAIT for some stupid graphic that dances to download and dance before the “enter here” button will appear. At that point the “Next!” button has already been engaged.

]]> By: Maya http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/09/keyboard-usability/#comment-528 Maya Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:51:23 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=205#comment-528 Proximity is my problem, too! I use a mac and find the icons on the doc just a wee bit too close together, so I often accidentally click on and open the wrong program, which inevitably takes forever to load, and then to quit....If I have the option to select the size of the icons, why not the amount of space between them? Or am I so computer illiterate that I don't know how to? Proximity is my problem, too!

I use a mac and find the icons on the doc just a wee bit too close together, so I often accidentally click on and open the wrong program, which inevitably takes forever to load, and then to quit….If I have the option to select the size of the icons, why not the amount of space between them? Or am I so computer illiterate that I don’t know how to?

]]> By: Pobba http://waxcreative.com/blog/2008/09/keyboard-usability/#comment-525 Pobba Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:49:35 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=205#comment-525 My keyboard peeve is the CAPS LOCK. How easy is it to hit the CAP LOCK when reaching for an "a"...and then have the next series of letters all be capitalized? Arrrgh! Two Macs ago, I had a user-developed software patch that changed the keyboard so that the only way to turn on CAPS LOCK was to do it simultaneously with the SHIFT key. I'd love such a patch again. Does it exist for OSX 10.5? My keyboard peeve is the CAPS LOCK.

How easy is it to hit the CAP LOCK when reaching for an “a”…and then have the next series of letters all be capitalized? Arrrgh!

Two Macs ago, I had a user-developed software patch that changed the keyboard so that the only way to turn on CAPS LOCK was to do it simultaneously with the SHIFT key.

I’d love such a patch again. Does it exist for OSX 10.5?

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