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Begin making improvements on SDK documentations before losing your developers
SDK documentation is the most official documentation and support material for developers to learn how to use the Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) the platform provides. The quality of SDK documentation directly affects the willingness and difficulty...
No way to join the social – Is the lack of global languages support on Zune a problem, or not at all?
It’s been a pretty long time since the first generation of Zune came out. Microsoft wants to attract us as potential users to join the social – they made pretty good media sharing and community features so that to distinct from similar products made by...
Xiaonei and Facebook - Huge differences, but who cares?
Xiaonei , which is called “the Facebook of China,” has a very similar user interface as Facebook . It provides similar but simplified functionalities. While western media often compare the two and discuss about the potential competitions they may have...
Usability Issue - Windows Security Center
My friend went to China for a 3-month vacation last December. Just now she asked me to help turn on her computer and send her a file in her computer. Since the computer hasn't been on for two months, the first notification I got when I logged in was...
Usability Issue - My Keyboard's "Logout" Button
There are three shortcut buttons on my keyboard which are linked to the calculator, logout command, and sleep command respectively. They are next to each other. I like this design since these shortcut buttons have saved me a lot of times for these activities...
Posted: Fri, Jan 11 2008 17:37 by Nuo Yan | with 2 comment(s)
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Usability Issue in Windows Recycle Bin on the Desktop
If you put a Recycle Bin on the desktop, you might empty it by right clicking it and click "Empty Recycle Bin" form the menu. But you may have noticed that there is another option in the menu called "Delete" which is for deleting the...
Privacy, Privacy, Privacy...
Not a very long time ago I studied Human Computer Interaction for a quarter. Not saying how much I learned in the class, even after the course I still keep noticing useability issues of everything in my everyday life. Last week I went to a ticket office...