Brainstorm

Option to delete all user data while flashing firmware.

Posted on 2009-12-12 22:46 UTC by Jack Windham. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop, Utilities, User Experience.

The desktop flasher app should give the user an option to delete all user data and restore back to factory settings.  If the phone is ever sold or traded, sensitive information might fall into the wrong hands without this.

 

Undelete instead of Confirm Delete

Posted on 2009-12-10 14:48 UTC by . Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience.

The Hildon 2.2 UI Style Guidelines 12.2-3 state that editing should have an undo option, whereas deleting should require confirmation.

The fallacy of confirmation dialogues is well documented, for example To Confirm is Useless, to Undo Divine. Users simply develop a reflex of tapping confirm on each dialogue, and they become a mere annoyance without offering actual protection from unwanted actions.

A much better solution is for deletion to be undoable, and not require confirmation.

 

Implement a search-able, on-line help and documentation framework

Posted on 2009-12-28 16:03 UTC by Luis Soeiro. Status: Under consideration, Categories: User Experience.

There is one thing about MAEMO 5 that seems to be a really missing: there is no context help whatsoever on the device. Nor there is any hope for improvements because there is no official framework or directive regarding device or application documentation and help.

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Option for Full or Limited character support in SMS (N900)

Posted on 2009-12-31 11:09 UTC by Konstantinos Pavlou. Status: Under consideration

It would be very useful to put an option for Full or Limited character support in SMS messages, in N900. Limited support option will allow Greek typing to be virtually transformed in capitals and sent as messages of 160 charactes and not 70.

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