About Face by Alan Cooper & Robert Reimann & David Cronin & Chris Noessel

Author:Alan Cooper & Robert Reimann & David Cronin & Chris Noessel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118766583
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-08-04T04:00:00+00:00

Audit, don’t edit.

Microsoft Word has an excellent example of auditing, as well as a nasty counterexample. This excellent example is how it handles real-time spell checking. As you type, red wavy underlines identify words that the application doesn’t recognize, as shown in Figure 14-1. Right-clicking these words pops up a menu of alternatives you can choose from. But you don’t have to change anything, and you are not interrupted by dialogs or other forms of modal idiocy.

Figure 14-1: Microsoft Word’s automatic spell checker audits misspelled words with a wavy red underline, giving users modeless feedback. Right-clicking an underlined word pops up a menu of possible alternatives to choose from. This design idiom has been widely copied by both desktop and mobile apps.

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