#user script

[officialclraik]

Tired of having to manually retrieve links for your posts? The Neoboard Quick Link Helper by clraik member Nyu is a super helpful script of which you can use to quickly insert links into your Neoboard messages. This script and many other helpful ones are available at clraik.

[hrs284-blog]

DMI Week 6:  User Testing

This week I interviewed and tested my email app on five users while referring to the user script in my previous post. Although I had thought my app was overall easy, universal and pretty straightforward, users were confused by the interface and interaction more than I thought. Of course the platform I used was Invision, so there was not much the users could do, but I saw several problems with my design nonetheless.

For example, many users tried to swipe through the walkthrough page instead of just tapping on the arrow button.

So I changed the arrow button into text saying “Next” instead so users would know they can just tap on it.

Another finding I discovered was that 3 out of 5 users were confused where the reply button was. So I put in a text beside the reply button icon to indicate the button was for replying to messages. 

Then I put in a tag on the inbox that was more noticeable.

Although I still have not been able to figure out how to add value to my email app and make it distinct from other email apps, I enjoyed working on my project and conducting a lot of user researches that helped me get access to a lot of insights. I never realized how user testing can really change and improve your product and how the product interface and experience almost never goes according to how you had planned it. I feel like this experience with user testing will enhance my future personal projects as well, since now I know how I can make my work and my work’s interaction more successful. 

Check out my updated email app here: https://invis.io/ARG8PIENVE8 

[shotgunheart]

As unnecessary as it should be for users to altar a platform BACK so they can actually use it, here is the option. Thank you for submitting this.

Note that you will need Stylish or TamperMonkey (at least on Chrome) as it is a user script.

[wumingsflower]

FYI to my followers about my edits!

Tomorrow I am sure I will be giffing the episode of Once after it airs, and you all must know that I will be giffing it in the OLD sizes. So that means 500px and 245px. I encourage you all to install this script if you wish to see my edits correctly. At least until Tumblr fixes this themselves. The installation literally takes 4 seconds, and made everything better.

So again, if you wanna see my edits correctly, please pleaseee install THIS!

[chemicals-world-blog]

Cb moved to new location...

Because the CUBIC has shutdown, and my desktop machine there will be removed shortly, I moved the Chemical blogspace homepage to:

http://cb.openmolecules.net/

This is replacing the temporary hosting at SourceForge. The webpage is now hosted by the Geoff of OpenBabel. Userscripts If you run one of the script which adds comments from Cb to either DOIs or InChIs, you need to adapt the script you have installed and replace in all URLs wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/pg/ or wiki.cubic.uni-koeln.de/cb/ with cb.openmolecules.net/.

[usernamegone]

RPS Comment Free

In response to recent conversations about the worth of the comments on PC gaming site Rock Paper Shotgun, I threw together a quick user script to hide the comments section, comment counts and the sidebar of recently posted comments.

It's hosted on userscripts.org. It works in Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension. In Chrome it's a little different, since that browser won't by default install a user script from anywhere but Google, but saving the .user.js file locally, opening the Extensions list in a tab, and then dragging the file onto the tab will install the script. Other .user.js supporting options may be available for other browsers.

I'm sure most people will prefer to continue to see the comments on RPS, but I wanted the option to hide them from sight. In my opinion, their site's growth has outpaced the writers' ability to moderate the comments effectively, and the signal to noise ratio is now too low to read. Though there are still excellent comments being posted—perhaps as many as there have ever been—finding them necessitates skimming through pages of noise. I hope that John, Jim et al. can someday hire a full time comment moderator or find some other solution that will render this user script obsolete, but for now, please make use of it if you wish to.

[prettymysticfalls]

/post/34791551116/the-vampire-diaries-04x06-we-all-go-a-little-mad how did u get the photo uploader thing to let you upload three photos like that? :)

I installed this script. (:

[harrypotterblack]

Just to let everyone know, if you're interested, I found a script to put the tracked tags back down the side of the dash. 

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/149579