Mary and Jodie

CSE494 Intro to HCI
Hung Chau
Research Article Critique # 1
Due Date: June 10, 2003
Instructor: Renee Turban

For the case study Tools and Techniques for Creative Design, I decide to select one of the article that I found on the website. This website address is http://pixelcentric.net/x-shame/dialogs.html, and the author is Lauri Kieksi. However, it does not mention the date that this website was posted, and the topic of this is “Dialog Boxes”.
Basically, Kieksi wants to say that should be design carefully for the dialog boxes, since it request the user to prompt the input information. That’s why when people try to design software; dialog boxes also take a major role in design part. Kieksi shows some example for comparing the different between good and bad dialog boxes. The author does not like some designer design the dialog using “Yes” and “No” on the dialog, since with the dialog boxes text above those buttons, the user has no way to know what is going to ha...