Pop up usability guidline

Franks blog talk about the pop-ups usability guidelines at http://experiencedynamics.blogs.com/

Frank Spillers is a web and software usability expert and has been recognized by the U.S. Dept. of Labor as a subject matter expert.

ROI on Usability

ROI on Usability
Usability and accessibility in the press
http://www.louiseferguson.com/resources/research-roi.htm http://www.louiseferguson.com/resources/press-roi.htm

e-commerce usability

Ziff Davis Internet's Evan Schuman warns e-commerce companies that they have to simplify. A new survey is giving evidence that complexity repels consumers. So has every other survey since the Web was born. Now will someone listen?
Consumers to E-Commerce Sites: Simplify or We Walk

Findings from an extensive survey analysis by the team reporting to Terry Golesworthy, president of the Customer Respect Group, an Ipswich, Mass.-based research/consulting firm:

• dial-up toleration for page download stops at about 77K. For broadband, that number increases to about 300K. "Only 13 percent of the Top 100 companies have a page size of less than 77K" and barely 20 percent have pages that would be acceptable even to broadband users
• Almost one in five business-site visitors told Golesworthy's team they would abandon a site if they found it too difficult—or insufficiently intuitive—to use.
• The survey found that 56 percent of people will not wait more than one day before they will write off an e-mail as ignored.
• the survey found that an impressive 87 percent of Web sites today are not resizable for different gadgets
• Another problem area for Web sites today is cookies. Cookies have morphed from being a site visitor convenience to often being essential.
• most sites are not sufficiently accessible to the visually impaired, despite the fact that one out of five Americans have such a hardship

How people write their addess Fields

Have a look at the site
http://ns.hr-xml.org/2_3/HR-XML-2_3/CPO/PostalAddress.html and you shall find most of the answers.

Some of the example how people write their addresses
United States

Mailstop: B1-210
Karen Barber
Market Surveyors
2455 University Blvd
Denver, CO? 80237
USA

Santhi Mwanza
MinnBest Corp.
4982 E Beauregard Ave.
Minneapolis, MN
50493-1234

Sarah Olson
c/o Mrs. Cole
2000 Merrill Lane
Sunnyvale, CA
93121

H.L. Mencken
PO Box 350
Hollywood, CA ?93029-1200

Major Carmen Li
111th Maint Co
Unit 342
APO AA? 00932

Germany
Ringstr. 25
D-80395 Frankfurt am Main

Finland
From outside of Finland:
Hallituskatu 6 B 27
FIN-33200 TAMPERE
FINLAND

From within Finland:
Hallituskatu 6 B 27
33200 TAMPERE

Japan
456-0042
Tokyo-to Shibuya-ku Shibuya
4-5-5

Switzerland, Belgium, France, Italy
Georges Dupuis
Route des Clos 7
2012 Auvernier
(Country)

China
Mr. Wang, Tai-sheng
4th Floor, #6, lane 15, Alley 283,
Section 1, Hsin Sheng South Rd.,
Taipei, ROC 12345

South Korea
345 Bomun-Dong Sungbuk-Gu Seoul, Korea 136-086

Spain
28 C/*Alameda
28034 Colmenar, Madrid

These abbreviations stand for:
Avenue = Avda
Boulevard = Blvr
Street = C
Paseo = P?
Should be written in front of the name, followed by /.

Brazil
Rua Francisco Deslandes, n? 470
apto. 201. Bairro Anchieta.
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais.
Brasil.
30320-500

Russia
308061, Belgorod
А.Я. 495
А.Я. stands for abonentny yashik which is Russian for Post Office Box.The format is inverted postal code and municipality are on the first lines, followed by the street address and finally by the recipient. The above example is for a delivery address ? in a return address the city comes before the postal code.

UI Design Tools

These are some WYSWIG tools
Axure RP3- www.axure.com for html rapid prototyping
Macromedia Dreamweaver- www.macromedia.com for html prototyping

Some open source tools i love to work with
HTML-kit- www.chami.com/html-kit/ a html editor
SciTEFlash-www.bomberstudios.com/sciteflash/ , a Scintilla-based ActionScript editor

To "Ok" or "Save"

One of the question always haunt the UI developers and designers that whether to use "Save" or "Ok" button to confirm the user inputs?

Here is the suggestion:
Scenario A- Dialog in desktop application when the dialog disposes after user’s action of create/edit
Solution-> Use "Ok" button
Scenario B- Multiple actions Dialog in desktop applications
Solution-> Use “Save” button
Scenario C – Web ApplicationsUse “Save” when the screen doesn’t change after user have performed action on the screen

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