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Not had a boss require it, but users, yes.
There's really a purposeful design difference between wizards and dialogs vs a "form". For me, a form collects a lot of information that is required at once. Typically, only dropdowns and checkboxes are used for changing the displayed information and flow. Really depends on the target, in terms of "expert user" vs general public and desktop, mobile, or web.
Wizards are often failures when the user needs to remember what the heck they answered seven dialogs ago. That's both what the answer was and if they clicked on the right thing or not.
There's good cases for either and/or both to be used. Sometimes giving the user the TurboTax options of step by step or just fill it out make sense.
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I'm the boss, now. We will be switching to cuneiform on clay tablets as soon as the clay arrives.
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I am in the opposite boat. I prefer limiting peoples prompting with Wizard Type interfaces.
I usually implement them as TABS (where the tabs are all hidden), but the progression is clear to the developer.
Personally, I would argue with my boss over such a thing.
While Wizard interfaces can be Abused (like anything else), they exist for a reason.
For NOVICE users and NON-VISUAL people, more than a HANDFUL of things on the screen is overwhelming.
Proven so many times, that Microsoft, et al, changed and leveraged Wizards everywhere. (And the old HELP indexing is an example of a POOR wizard style design. Popping up a wizard with one option. LOL)
Anyways, your boss is wrong. UNLESS he can prove that ALL of your USER BASE actually prefers this interface approach. Finally, he should have to prove that it reduces support, and that the support people are on-board with this decision.
Then again... Nobody hires me... And then expects me to NOT call them out! It's literally why I end up getting involved...
FWIW, I would often drag a receptionist in to a meeting, and have them decide.
If the manager/BOSS can actually see the stress it causes someone to process a huge complex screen...
And the ease in which they click Next, Next, Next...
With the Wizard interface, I can give every SET of options the details/explanation it needs!
I can reasonably default the values, or leave them BLANK and DEMAND the user chooses...
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Nit UX design but processes. I had a boss who had literally 0 idea that you FIRST define the requirements for a process and AFTERWARDS define the process. He dictated me a process that's somewhere between a fever dream and a friggin' joke and went very personal very quickly when I started explaining, based on the known facts about the product strategy, how exactly this process is a bad idea. This a**hole doesn't work here anymore.
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Wordle 512 4/6
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Thought good chance of 2/6... had to lookup as couldn't think of any word post 3/6...
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Wordle 512 3/6
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Thought I was a good chance for a 2 as well, but guessed wrong from two possibilities.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 512 3/6
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 512 5/6
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 512 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Did not find that easy ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I had no clue with hit n try ws not able to make any word that looked like a valid one. A new word for me.
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⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lucky second guess.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 512 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 512 4/6
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 512 5/6
⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 512 4/6
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 512 3/6
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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#Worldle #295 5/6 (100%)
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜➡️
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜➡️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜↖️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨⬅️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I thought I'd look ... and recognised it immediately (Been there, though it was decades ago):
#Worldle #295 1/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My worldle 294 was easy because I had been to that country.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Good one. They should have showed the girl on an e-scooter. That's mostly how I see young people these days, riding e-scooters. But then e-scooters can't fly, can they?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Looks like a flying Zoomba.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Exactly! Although I think it's called a Roomba.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You are right. The name should be Roomba. If course if it could fly, one could call it a zoomba.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: But then e-scooters can't fly, can they?
Everything can fly. It's just a matter of velocity...just sayin'...
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