Breathe life into your software. Give it 'personality'

http://blog.eyesandfeet.com/2010/06/breathe-life-into-your-software-give-it.html

by luxative • 16 years ago

12 9 16 years ago

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ambulatorybird• 16 years ago

Cute, but it can easily be taken too far, as with that MS Office paper clip thing.

antidaily• 16 years ago

I believe we've seen this here before.

aswanson2• 16 years ago

That's a little too big-brotherish. I know you're analyzing my email but don't bring what you know to the forefront like that.

lsb• 16 years ago

  if($('email-body').value.match(/I have (attached|included)/i)) {
    confirm('Did you mean to send an attachment?')
  }

aswanson2• 16 years ago

Oh cmon man that's disingenuous. Detection of a user choice of an attachment is conscious transmittal of intent. Message analysis is a different layer of intrusion.

jcw• 16 years ago

Panic comes to mind as a company that makes software with personality, just look at their site:

http://www.panic.com

Qz2• 16 years ago

The reminder seems nice, except for the fact that its using one of those godawful modal dialog boxes that prevents you from doing absolutely anything else. That crap needs to die a quick death.

ComputerGuru• 16 years ago

No. BLOCKING errors should generate modal dialog boxes. Warnings, hints, information, etc. shouldn't.

He presssed "send" to move on to the next page. He's done with everything, but he REALLY shouldn't go forward or do anything else until he's taken care of this.

Qz2• 16 years ago

Right, it should block the action he was doing, which is within one web page. But the browser modal dialog box blocks all interaction in every tab open in that browser window, which is beyond obnoxious. It's easy enough to pop up one of those lightbox style popups within the webpage instead of blocking the whole damn browser.

Breathe life into your software. Give it 'personality'

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