[Wikipedia-l] user interface design

[elian]

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. You would save mouse clicks
and page loads - especially for people with a slow connection this is an
important feature. 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
-- 
========= Open Content statt Copyright ==========
http://de.wikipedia.org - Die freie Enzyklopaedie