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Heuristic Evaluation and Redesign
Improvements to create a good design.
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UI Insight
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| Steven@UIinsight.com | ||
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Remove the Reset button. The Reset button is more a potential hazard than a valuable user interface element. The potential for annoying the user is far greater than the minimal gain from the rare use of the Reset button, especially on a form this small.
The Web would be a happier place if virtually all Reset buttons were removed.
This button almost never helps users, but often hurts them.
Reset clears away the user's input on a Web form, but why would people want to do that? The Web is characterized by frequent movement between pages and users rarely encounter the same form twice. Thus, a Web form is almost always cleared when the user sees it. Even when a user revisits a form in a single session, it is usually faster to edit the old data than to erase it and start over.
UseIt.com Alertbox, 16 April 2001
Retitle the Find button. Since this is a Search page, the button title should be Search, not Find.
Consistency breeds familiarity, and familiarity breeds content(ment);
Information Architecture, pg 75
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