is a process of problem solving and planning for a software solution
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What is lean UX, and where can I learn more about it?
There is a new trend called Lean UX, apparently stemming from the Lean Start-up approach. What are its main principles?
What are good or recommended reference, sources or education for learning about ...
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Java GUI - JLIST + Refresh
I need to create an interface which includes a list of events.
The events are saved into a Vector List and I need to be able to display a list of their 3 variables like this:
13/05/2003 Task 1 ...
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In usability testing, what consensus from users is enough to throw out an idea in future iterations?
I am in the midst of adding about 100 images to one of my current projects after completing a round of usability testing on a low/medium fidelity prototype yesterday. I included ideas for 4 pages in ...
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Best iPhone app design process
What is the best way to design an iPhone app? What do I do first.
Is it best to do the following?...
Do a paper wireframe?
Do a digital wireframe (Adobe Illustrator)?
Design the real thing (Adobe ...
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Do user experience practitioners ever have to worry about code?
To me this is a simple question – of course not. But on several questions and answers lately I need to fight for this opinion. I might be wrong, so I need to know. Do user experience practitioners ...
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How can I relate UX design to automation design?
I'm reading "The UX Book" by Rex Hartson and Pardha S. Pyla. They describe a general UX design lifecycle consisting of analysis, design, prototyping and evaluation. I'm especially interested in the ...
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Best resources to make great reusable UI elements (icons/buttons/etc)? [closed]
I'm new to "crafting UIs", but I've been doing User Experience / Interaction design for a while. Being unable to design my own graphics has been a serious handicap for my work as I'm dependent on ...
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How does user interface design fit in a development process?
In a software development process where does the user interface design fit?
If we take an agile approach for a small team (2 juniors, 2 seniors, a Team Leader and a web designer) what normally should ...
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5answers
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Presenting a UX design
Say you're responsible for the prototype cycle of of a development project. Your end result might be something like an analysis of existing related solutions, a user model, a collection of scenarios ...
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Which prototyping tools? [closed]
This links heavily into the following question:
What are some great web-based prototyping tools?
However I didn't want to limit the suggestions to "Web Based" tools, I have found and used the ...
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4answers
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What does “mobile-first” mean?
So I've been trying to find a legitimate answer to this question for a couple days. I read an interview in Awwwards recent publication Trends Web and Mobile 2013 with the following answer in regards ...
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6answers
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How to generate product ideas as a group?
I work for a smaller startup, and for the past several months we've been conducting weeklong "Design Sprints" which are a great group product exercise based on an idea from Google Ventures.
While ...
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1answer
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What kinds of sites should I focus on for a “new look and concept” redesign, and how much of a regular UX process should I follow?
On Behance, I've seen many "new look and concept" redesigns such as this one for Facebook and this one for Wikipedia. The gist of one of these projects is that you ask yourself, "If I could redesign ...
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3answers
299 views
What other UX processes exist other than user centered design?
What other well known processes or approaches for creating an user experience (such as an app or website) exist except the user centered design approach and what are their strengths and weaknesses?
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3answers
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UX design technique using Post-it notes?
What is the official/unofficial name of the technique I have seen designer use by placing lots of Post it notes along a wall and categorizing them into normally three groups.
Normally someone writes ...
3
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2answers
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What's an intuitive workflow for a registering user to simultaneously sign-up his colleagues?
I'm working on a redesign of a website that has a bit of a complicated registration requirement and I just can't get my head around how best to design the necessary forms/pages.
For context, the ...
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2answers
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high fidelity prototypes - how to NOT be killed?
Let's say we have a web application that will have, more or less... hmm... 500 different pages. Some of them quite similar.
For the sake of user centred design, should I ask the design team to ...
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2answers
188 views
What is your design Methodology?
I was asked this question once and the only honest answer I could think of was "It depends" since the process would depend on the needs of the project and what the end goal is .However do you have a ...
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8answers
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At what point in the development process should UX come into play in an Agile work environment?
What are some successful examples of UX and the Agile Development process playing nicely together? Traditional agile doesn't usually account for it.
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5answers
283 views
How to avoid bad ux [closed]
There are plenty of examples of bad ux. Sometimes it accounts for a significant proportion of the entire interaction and sometimes it's a small but glaringly obvious detail that should be obvious to ...
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4answers
92 views
What methods can I use to develop a gesture library?
There don't seem to be many universally recognised patterns for 3D gestures, such as you might use to interact with something like the Kinect. A previous question looks at Kinect gestures, but there ...
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2answers
550 views
Making the user login again after registration
Simple question: is it a bad idea to automatically login a user after their registration was flawlessly completed? A majority of all the websites I visit does not use this behavior, which is the ...
4
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1answer
108 views
What is the term for making one UI component better but is not in sync with whole of UI?
Individual UI component owners (developer/GD) tries to make their component more useable/shining in the process losing the focus in the overall picture. I have somewhere read this to be something like ...
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5answers
187 views
Send wireframes before a demonstration?
I'm an in-house UX Designer for a medium sized company, and big part of my job is building wireframes for inclusion in spec documents. Usually, the workflow goes something like this - the product ...
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2answers
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Should UX design consider how things behave when they are broken?
As things are used they will accumulate damage due to wear. This accumulated damage will in many cases affect their behavior and the user experience.
Should UX design attempt to anticipate changes ...
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2answers
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Managing copy during interaction & visual design
I'm about to begin a web architecture and design project that will have many pages with lots of content / copy across several different languages. One of the challenges is that for each geographical ...
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5answers
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What would be the best way to fill “space” in an User Interface for irregular image sizes gallery?
What would be the best way to fill "space" in user interface for irregular image sizes gallery?
Conditions:
The row are subjected to hold maximum 3 images only.
Float left
If the total width of the ...
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8answers
2k views
How to work with visual designers who treat wireframes as literal graphic suggestions?
Recently I started to face quite many cases on my client projects when a visual designer on the team produces design that looks like wireframes produced by me, only colored. Perhaps, the obvious ...
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8answers
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Best prototyping tool for form layout/order that caters for non-ux people? [closed]
I am creating a job vacancy form that has quite a lot of required fields. I need to collaborate with my boss (a non ux type) who is working remotely.
At the moment, the only standalone tools that we ...
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10answers
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Should wireframes or functional requirements be created first?
When should you create a functional requirements document for a website redesign project? Are there instances where an FRD would inform the wireframes? I'm used to functional requirements being ...
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2answers
773 views
What makes a UX User Story?
How does one create a user story as used in Agile methodologies? How should they be written; is there a standard?
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2answers
166 views
Piloting end-to-end UX process for IT staff on intranet
I have been asked the question today
Will releasing a new intranet to IT staff before all other users be detrimental to future user groups?
This is an enterprise intranet and it has been estimated ...
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1answer
228 views
Creating an user experience roadmap?
I was asked today if we could create an user experience roadmap for the application we are designing. I am a little confused about that since I have never really heard of the term user experience ...
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3answers
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“Modernizing” legacy applications and legacy users
I'm tasked with modernizing many older UNIX based applications to new, web-based applications. The UNIX applications are completely keyboard-based (ie. "04" to select the fourth application, "Enter" ...
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3answers
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Is it better to prioritize Innovation or Perfect UX, when budget is a issue?
We are currently working on a website with many innovative design ideas. The client is very happy with the site; the design and implementation was conducted under very tight budget restraints.
The ...
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2answers
193 views
Confusion with private messaging system
Planning a social networking site with a private messaging system, including following folders:
inbox
sentbox
drafts
trash
and labels that can be created, managed by the users and applied in a n:n ...
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6answers
806 views
Based on your experience, what are the capabilities and limitations of Axure? [closed]
Just started playing around with Axure, an integrated development environment for wireframes, prototypes, and specifications. Already I'm wondering why there's not integration for: business ...
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3answers
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How to sell people on the benefits of user research?
I work for a small team right now that is going through a requirements tornado. I know that the reason why is that they have no idea what their users want. They haven't done contextual interviews, ...
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3answers
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“Selling” the management on need for UX focus
After the novelty of finding this SO section wore off (and being rightfully shamed of asking a duplicate question), I'd like to rephrase this question so it would target what I feel is a gap in ...
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4answers
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Methodology to determine ideal feature mix?
Aiming for a New Target: The Perfectly Featured Product presents an argument against featuritis (and provides some explanations as to how those situations arise).
The author (John Devanney) ...
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2answers
193 views
How to create a public UX process?
I want to make an experiment. I have a new project that I don't mind opening to the public.
What I want to try is to use the public (e.g. Facebook) to go through a UX design process - from collecting ...
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1answer
191 views
PSD to HTML conversion [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Pros/Cons of PSD mockups vs. HTML mockups
I am a web developer. What happens is that the Client sends a PSD (Photoshop designs) to the company. Then the designer needs ...
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1answer
125 views
UX and UI copy / knockoffs - looking for stories [closed]
I'm researching the concept of copying experiences and design for a lecture I'm about to give. Why are we copying, what are the right and wrong considerations we take, and how does it effect the user ...
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7answers
430 views
Should developer's ideas also be considered in UX discussions?
Can Developers also be included in UX discussions?
Sometimes technical issues also hinder the UI layout and personas. How can one get this resolved when it happens?
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votes
1answer
155 views
In your company, who is dealing with usability and interface design? [closed]
My opinion is that UI usually should not be designed solely by developers, since they usually do not see the "bigger picture" or the users' point of view. Most of my colleagues disagree. I am ...
6
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3answers
251 views
What is the best way to map content to your information architecture deliverables?
I usually create a site map and wireframes as delivery but what is the best way to add info about what content (text, forms, images, videos etc) that should be included on the individual pages?
Do ...
6
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3answers
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Do I need to design four different apps for Android, iOS, smartphones, or have one common design?
I have to start designing for an app which will be used by Android & IOS users both on Smartphones and Tablets.
Do I need to design four different apps or have one common design and then ...
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8answers
3k views
UX design case studies [closed]
I am looking for well-written and in-depth case study articles of real life UX designs. I'd like to read how other designers tackle design challenges, and how their designs solve those challenges. ...
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3answers
295 views
Classifying the complexity of a screen design
If you are supposed to do UX design estimate, and you need to measure it based on "Simple, Medium and Complex", how do you classify the Simple, Medium and Complex screen design?
What are all the ...
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7answers
558 views
At what stage in a project would hiring a UX contractor provide the most value?
In this case it would be for a small company that can't afford lots of specialized positions, developing a new (browser based, this time) version of an enterprise application. The new version is a ...
