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excellalabs / open-cabinet

OpenCabinet is a tool for the public to find interactions between the medicine that they and their family are taking using data directly from the FDA
https://opencabi.net
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Usability recommendations #254

Open normsun opened 9 years ago

normsun commented 9 years ago

-When first opening a new cabinet, put the focus in the search box as the first thing a person would do (usability, nice to have)

-Match the content on the right to the actions available on the left. Give explicit instructions in the text for a person to use the search box on the left to start adding adding medicine to their medicine cabinet. Something along the lines of "Type the name of your medicine in the search box on the left to start and click the red icon to start adding medicine to your medicine cabinet" in the body description text in the right. (usability, nice to have)

-When a person has selected a drug from the autocomplete dropdown, add it to the medicine cabinet instead of having to click the red icon. One less step to complete a task. (usability, nice to have)

-If a drug has already been added to the medicine cabinet and the user tries to add the same drug, give a gentle warning that the drug is already in the medicine cabinet. Consider highlighting the drug that is being re-added (usability, nice to have)

-When clicking on the link "...medication in your cabinet interact with [drug name]," show the interactions on the page that pushes over. Make use of the space on the left that only has the "back to the cabinet" link (usability, nice to have)

-In any of the large sections of text, what is the most important information? A user won't read everything and wants to do the last amount of work possible. How can you highlight only the most important information that they should pay attention to? Use text size, text weight and spacing to highlight that information. (usability, nice to have)

kristinknopf commented 9 years ago

@normsun the current content is more like "placeholder" text. I've created a googledoc drafting new content we can use. I'm happy to share it with you if you'd like to take a look and make any edits. Just send me your gmail address!