an ineffective or counter productive pattern in the design of an application.
2
votes
1answer
277 views
What UI design pattern for choice between 2 actions comes to your mind?
My goal: find optimal UX/UI pattern.
Pattern's goal: give a user choice between two actions.
Simple example:
http://dribbble.com/shots/599154-Choose-Your-Option
Here is UX/UI pattern I implemented ...
11
votes
5answers
779 views
Should I let a user copy/paste into a confirm e-mail field for a registration form? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Preventing a user from pasting from the clipboard into a mandatory form field
There was a question of stackoverflow, that a programmer did not wont to let the new users ...
7
votes
7answers
268 views
Is there any resource for UI examples? [closed]
I run a Usability/UX blog, and my biggest hurdle right now is finding examples to illustrate the topics I write about (bad error messages, good implementation of tabs, bad interactions...etc)
So is ...
0
votes
0answers
256 views
How do I catalog examples of bad user experience design? [closed]
As I find examples of bad user experience design, I would like to be able to classify and rank the significance of the problem presented. Any suggestions?
3
votes
3answers
150 views
Completing a process in linear steps - what should happen if a user changes one of the previously entered steps?
I'm working on a tool made for professionals to calculate advice for their customers.
The user is following predefined steps. The steps are represented as tabs (with arrows) in the interface.
The ...
20
votes
7answers
3k views
Why did scrolling vertically became a pattern?
Why do most of today's websites, especially news and blogs, use mostly vertical scrolling?
Also why has it become a pattern, that the more you scroll down you find older material, rather than ...
45
votes
33answers
3k views
What are common UI misconceptions and annoyances? [closed]
I often use applications and electronic devices for which I think: "Why on earth did they engineer that thing as it is? They must have known that it is a pain in the neck to work with".
On the other ...
13
votes
2answers
272 views
How to avoid “hover and cover” on buttons at the end of a form?
I'm working on an apparently simple interface: 2 input fields right above a series of action buttons. Each button represents a different way to perform the same task (for example wizard, upload a ...
11
votes
19answers
757 views
What are your desktop UI pet peeves? [closed]
There's already a question for WebApp gotchas, but there are also a lot of anti-patterns in desktop UIs.
12
votes
26answers
2k views
What's a catchy name for “overly complex, barely designed interface”? [closed]
I think the title says it all. "Cockpit-like" is what I've come up with, but I'm looking for better ideas.
59
votes
31answers
4k views
Common web app usability gotchas? [closed]
What are some common mistakes regarding usability for web applications?
8
votes
2answers
1k views
Fixing UI Antipattern “multiple menu levels”
My brain seems to be pre-programmed to make administrative UI's look like the mockups below.
In the mockups I have 3 levels of navigation, with on the form another set of buttons for the form ...
5
votes
4answers
154 views
What are the recurrent usability problems in web sites today? [closed]
Which problems would you say are the most common to occur in today's sites?
0
votes
3answers
364 views
Magic meaning of Apply button on a form
I understood that [Apply] button does the same as [OK] without closing the modal form. Is it a programmer's trick to see changes outside current form and still be focused to it? Maybe it is like safe ...
