[Wikipedia-l] user interface design

Sun Sep 15 16:00:48 UTC 2002

You Wrote:
>Hello,
>
>When I did a lot of image uploads recently (the country flags of the
>english wikipedia for the german pages) I came across a very annoying
>thing: 
>Step 1: choose "Upload file" from the special menu
>Step 2: Upload of the file
>and then I get a page, announcing that the file was succesfully uploaded - 
>but that's not where I wanted to go, I want to upload the next image!
>
>These announce pages are in my opinion completely useless (an error
>message, if it was not okay would be sufficient). It's always one or more
>mouse clicks to much. Same for the "You succesfully logged in" or "The
>page was added to your watchlist".
>
>In my opinion an immediate redirect to the page where I came from (maybe
>with a line "successfully logged in" on top of the page, if this is
>technically possible) would make more sense.
...
>It's a principle of user interface design: a programm
>which confirms every action of the user ("You have done this") and then
>demands a click on the OK-button, before one can go back to work, is
>not well designed.  
>
>greetings,
>elian

Yes, but I think in this case, you should probably be redirected to the image description page instead:  I think the idea is to go to that page and announce where you got the picture from so that we know we have the right to use it.

kq