Adaptation is an essential feature of the human psychological make up. It allows us to become comfortable with seemingly impossible situations and move forward together as a species. We can adapt to difficult situations which allow us to spend more time concentrating on how to make our current situation better. The flip side of this coin is also true: we adapt to good experiences.
Luke Wroblewski wrote a piece over at UX Matters on the topic of Selection-Dependent Inputs. In short, these are forms that have fields that depend on a choice made previously in the form. Luke goes on to give 8 solutions/patterns for this type of UI problem. While the solutions are good, it got me thinking about good experiences that I have had with forms.
As you may have already heard or read about, USA Today has redesigned their site and incorporated many new social features. I can only imagine what the design teams went through to push these new features out the door.
Software that claims to make the documentation process easier always catches my eye. I am a big sucker for it. They make claims such as: time wasted creating boxes and arrows will no longer be, life will be better for everyone, and documentation will be more agile and easy to create and maintain.
Have you ever actually had this experience?
