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Is the logo good enough to use as a link back to the main menu?
We have created a fruits and vegetables game for children where they have to choose the correct vegetable in a grid of vegetables.
This is a web based game. In this game, we have a logo at the top of ...
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What are the little arrows called that hide additional details?
In UI design, sometimes settings are hidden behind a little arrow or "+" symbol. When the user clicks on it, the item expands to show additional details.
Does this UI pattern have a name? Other ...
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When to Switch Custom Tool Cursor for Interactive Application
When is the best time to display a custom cursor for a tool such as a paint brush in a paint application?
One option is when the user clicks the tool and drags over the workspace, the cursor changes ...
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How detailed should a text alternative version of an image be?
Had a debate with a collegue recently about a accessible text alternative to an infographic we have. When they wrote the text alternative they wrote in detail exactly what was going on in the picture ...
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Add more controls at Run Time
I am developing customized schedule generator application for which I need to design User Interface. This UI will have an option to select Date, Time and number of hours. This is simply possible by ...
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How to create Intel IQ like UI [closed]
Today I came to know about http://iq.intel.com/. I saw it's source code and there was nothing but the ui elements but when I inspect elements then there are lots of design.
Looks like lots of things ...
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What do you call the screens/pages/interfaces within software?
Websites have pages. Does software? I'm mainly thinking of smartphone apps.
'Interface's is probably technically correct, but 'interface' could equally refer to sub-menu that appear within a given ...
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Using tags for access control
We are building a web-based application which contains a bunch of images and documents, and there is a requirement to be able to restrict what images/documents a particular user can see. (It's your ...
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What is the standard on display wide tables on mobile devices?
We need to display wide tables (10+ columns) on our new mobile website. Is the standard to:
Scroll Horizontally without any indication that the visitor can scroll to the right (like Google Docs) ...
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A shorter but meaningful validation message for “This email is already subscribed”
What are the shorter, meaningful message for "This email is already subscribed"/ "This email is already register"
What is good ?
"This email is used"
"This email is existed"
"This ...
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Should we trim value in textbox before saving into database [closed]
Suppose that there are textbox First name and Last Name.
Should we trim it before entering it into database
For example
First name "John " -> trim to "John"
Last name "Lennon " -> trim ...
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What's the best way to open links from widgets?
I have a portal consists of set of widgets, each widget contains a block of data and a link to an application . it appears like this .My question is : what 's the best user experience to open the ...
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Font Size Consistency
How important is font size consistency between pages on a website.
I have a site with about 80 pages, but some have only a few sentences; Is it important to maintain font size on these pages vs ...
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Language Selector plus Action control
A web application I'm working on has a primary content action to "Add" something to a collection. As a secondary choice, the user can choose a language particular to this content item.
I implemented ...
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How should “OR” filters be implemented in a filter bar?
Background
Our web application has a filter bar at the top of the page, with a data grid beneath it with (potentially) thousands of results. This is a simplification, but the filter bar looks ...
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5answers
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In what order should contestants' entries be presented?
We run contests in which people submit either a photo or video, then audiences vote online each day for their favorites. When there are enough entries that many fall below the fold (particularly in ...
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Mobile App Back Button Placement
I am building a mobile application that uses a button to launch the navigation menu (much like the Path or Facebook interface). I also want to add a back button. The standard seems to be to place ...
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How to indicate AND and OR in a search form
I am designing a search form where the user has to indicate if the field is required or optional, this will affect the way the query is built. For example if the user marks the field as required, in ...
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Where to place voting buttons on posts?
I am making a little question site like Yahoo Answers and I am going to have a voting system on it. But I am stuck on where I should place the up/down vote buttons. I have it in the right corner right ...
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Usability test release form IN SPANISH [closed]
estoy buscando una forma de sesión de derechos para que los usuarios de un test de usabilidad firmen y poder usar su información para el estudio.
Alguien tiene un machote que pueda utilizar?¿
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No Vertical Scroll on Company Website
I'm currently working on a website for my videography company and the design we are working with(my design) avoids vertical scrolling for desktop like the plague.
The idea is that scrolling only ...
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2answers
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What is a good method/formula for estimating how much time a usability test will require?
I was setting up a usability test at my office where we have never done much formal usability testing. One of management's first questions was, "How long will this take?" I didn't have a good answer ...
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Should we have a separate UI for tablets?
We have a desktop web app which we wanted to extend to Tablet device. When we changed the layout to fit the tablet, the interface got cluttered and unusable. We are thinking of doing a different ...
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Do I include customers who have recently purchased in an email campaign for upcoming sale?
If I am about to send out an email campaign, "25% off storewide for 7 days!", is this creating a bad user experience for customers who have just made a purchase within the last few days?
Are there ...
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4answers
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Is viewport size a useful design constraint, and how are viewport sizes distributed?
I'm trying to support or falsify the hypothesis that desktop browser viewport size is distributed multimodally (that is, with "peaks" in the distribution that might make for useful website design ...
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Is it better to have an icon in front of validation messages?
As you can see in the above image, there is a validation icon in front of the text. This is unnecessary, but I thought it might be good to catch the eye.
If there is no icon, it's still clear ...
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ux review word for select all
Is is ok to use Select/Deselect All here or better to shorten it to only select all.
Would the users know that if they uncheck the "select all" checkbox. Everything will be disselected
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How to organise navigation items with quasi parent-child relationships
I'm looking for an effective way to organise navigation items where some items are closely related to another in the same list.
This is how they're currently listed:
Home
Users
Teams
Products
Groups
...
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5answers
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How to make selecting a timezone more user-friendly?
The list of time zones is rather long, lots of duplication, and not very friendly to programmers let alone end-users.
Is there a way to shorten the list to something friendlier and sufficient for ...
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1answer
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What is the standard of validating business requirements?
When a vendor is designing a website for a client - an organisation with Business Analysts and Project Managers assigned to the project - we need to provide concepts/wireframes and with annotations, ...
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5answers
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Convention for showing that one of two web form inputs are required?
It's a common convention in web form design to mark required fields with an asterisk. Is there any way to denote that one of a pair of fields is required? In other words, a form like this:
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What is a good alternative to drop-down menus for site navigation on touch-screen/mobile devices?
We're in the process of redesigning our website, and one of the design goals is to make the site more mobile/tablet friendly.
Our current site is very large, and the navigation is somewhat ...
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Google / Maps for Mobile Web
Does anyone have experience with embedded maps for Mobile Web? (NOT APP)
My experience is that it introduces another frame into the page with a separate set of scrolling behavior - not a good thing. ...
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How much color may a UI have?
I work on a Network management system (NMS) frontend. Basically this app shows a list of alarms, updated in realtime. Such NMS apps already exist in a large variety, but two things they have in ...
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Is there a point to paginating articles online?
Is it better to paginate a long article or show the entire article on one page?
The following is a side-by-side of the same article. On the left is page one with navigation and on the right is the ...
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What are the best practices of designing a validation message on an iPhone App?
I am working on designing an iPhone app and I need to know which validation message style is the most recommended for the forms included.
I don't prefer to use a pop up window i need something that ...
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Design a question set for UXD interview [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I interview UI and IA job applicants?
I will soon run several interviews with the target users about my website's interaction design.
Assume that my website ...
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Pagination on navigation links?
On a web application we have two ways to navigate to our collaborative project sites. One is the “recent visits” and the other is alphabetical. That navigation element has a fixed element height of ...
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What are the attributes that ITunes uses to find content when using its search box? [closed]
I am running several iPhone apps on the app-store and before I upload any app I make sure to conduct some keywords research to choose the right keywords to increase the discoverability of each app. ...
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I need to show 7 actions in iPhone action sheet. Is it possible? [closed]
I need to show 7 actions in iPhone action sheet. Is it possible? What is the maximum number of actions for iPhone?
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Online resources to learn about User Experience Research [closed]
What in-depth online resources exist surrounding User Experience Research? There's already a question about books but I'm looking specifically for online sites, journals, etc...
Thanks!
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What is safe area / minimum distance for iPhone 4
What is safe area / minimum distance for iPhone 4 canvas?
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2answers
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confusing software-install flow for web-app
I am working on a web-app that has an application to listen to audio. The problem is the playback software requires another piece of software just for the items to be placed on the playback software. ...
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What are the qualities / skills should an User Interface (UI) designer possess? [closed]
1. What are the qualities / skills should an User Interface (UI) designer possess?
2. Please let me know the weightage (Out of 100%) of having Javascript and Jquery skills in UI designer?
Example: ...
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Removing placeholder text on focus
Chrome and Safari remove placeholder text after pressing first key in the text input.
Firefox and Opera remove placeholder text immediately after focusing the text input.
Which approach is better ...
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Is including the link when a user copies and pastes an article title bad UX? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it ok to add content when the users selects and “copies” something on the page?
I was looking at an article on a newspaper website. I found the article ...
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Starting new role as only UI / UX designer [closed]
Not sure this is the right place but here goes...
I am starting a new job in a few weeks but the company I am working for does not currently have anyone doing a UI / UX role. I am concerned about a ...
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Web Usability versus Web User Experience? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is UX the same as Usability?
What is the difference between web usability and Web user experience and their connection to each other
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Who is looking for a freelance designer and what the home page must contain? [closed]
Now, I want to start sketching the main features people want to find about a freelancer. Is is portfolio, skills, services, workflow, age, address, a game?, all?
Do simple people who are in search ...
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What is the effect of a site that takes time to close?
Facebook, on my setup (OS X, Chrome) takes about a 1 second to close. I can imagine that there could be some stuff that has to be done, just before you close the browser, and that is taking up ...
