widely accepted and understood ways of presenting information and interaction opportunities in a UI.
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eCommerce search with Images and prices as you type - is it too much to put in the search result?
Please have a look at the demo we did for FreshDirect.
Start at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24083519/FD/FreshDirect.html
Goto the search box and click 'organic tomato'.
The interaction is immediate, and ...
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1answer
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Choosing between state and action on video chrome controls
I realize that the question of deciding whether to make a button show its state versus show its action has already been asked. Some of the answers were to make the interface more verbose or add ...
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5answers
853 views
Is it a bad idea to put the logo in the top-right corner and the navigation in the top-left?
Firstly I would like to say that I don't think there is a concrete rule about where the logo on a website should be – but intuitively I think it should be in the top left at least for continuities ...
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7answers
503 views
How do you go about convincing the stubborn “powers that be” to let you change a clumsy layout that users are used to?
How do you go about convincing the stubborn "powers that be" to let you change a clumsy layout that users are used to?
Say there was a layout in a previous version of software from years back and ...
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2answers
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How and when to go about challenging a tried and true user behavior?
There are many user behaviors that have been ingrained in us over time. Some of them good, and some of them just because, "that's the way that it has been done for years, people expect it." The ...
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2answers
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What are unique UI controls on Android?
Apart from regular UI controls like tabview and listview, are there any unique and attractive UI controls like Quick action bar, Action bar, or iOS spinner (Date and time selector) which are ...
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3answers
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The missing “Folder Up” button in Windows Explorer in Vista and Win7
Windows XP had a "Folder Up" button in Windows Explorer. Whenever you want to go to a directory higher in the hierarchy, you just press it.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 have a rather useful address ...
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3answers
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UX Organisation
I was just wondering if there are any organisations or groups which monitor or provide insight into User eXperience, such as the W3C for the World Wide Web, or the IEEE? Although they are not creators ...
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17answers
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Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead?
This Twitter post sparked me to ask the question:
totally! RT @damienguard: Dear UI
designers everywhere. Stop using
floppy disk icons for save. Too many
people have no idea what it is now.
...
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8answers
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Using mailto: links for email addresses…what is the practice these days?
When giving out your email address on a site, do people still use the mailto:email@example.com syntax for the link?
Does this work with people using web mail clients? I use gmail and whenever I click ...
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4answers
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Two-Step Operations and Button Conventions
Our web application has three different operations that proceed as follows:
The user is presented with a popup where different settings are selected.
The user can click on a button labeled with the ...
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10answers
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Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change?
I have a quick question about buttons that toggle between two states. (Think Play/Pause, or Shuffle/Regular Play.) As the title says, should the toggle show it's current state or the state to which it ...
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9answers
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Scrollbar on the left
Is there a deep study that suggests to place a scrollbar on the right? Personally I move it to the left whenever it's possible (firefox allow this, as well as xterm and emacs).
I know that placing a ...
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6answers
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Why is there a convention on the web for dropdown menus on hover instead of on click?
This is something I've always wondered. On all major operating systems, application menus (File/Edit/View etc) only appear on click. However, nearly every web site that uses a drop-down menu ...
