Design is a plan for making an object. Anything that will ever be built usually has a design up front before production of the object. A design can be a wire frame, a prototype, a schema, an image or a drawing.
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Porting iOS to Android
I'm not really a designer/UX expert, however I have been developing on Android for some time now and I always try to stick to the look and feel of the standard (ICS) look and feel (with some degree of ...
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Disable combobox with one entry?
Imagine an arbitrary list of items. To execute a command, the user has to select one of these items in a combobox (if there are no items, the combobox is not shown at all). Should the combobox be ...
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Positive connotation Icon for number of errors
We have a game where we need to count number of errors as performance criteria. We are looking for a way to positively note the scores. One idea was to make an association to golfing by naming it ...
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How to mark cells in a spreadsheet that are meant to be edited?
I just put together a spreadsheet to demonstrate how some calculations work. Three of the cells act as inputs. The values in those cells kick off a cascade of calculations in other cells containing ...
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Design recommendation for a button
I have a form in which the user requests a report to the system by clicking the Send Report Request button. The system then produces scheduled reports according to the interval the user selected ...
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Grid text alignment rules
I was wondering if someone has come across rules used by web designers for text alignment in a grid.
I was observing that majority of text is aligned towards left, but financial figures with ...
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What is the optimal snooze time for a task (mobile software)?
I'm developing a mobile application like the stock Reminders.app offered by Apple, and I'm deploying a "snooze" functionality for overdue tasks.
I'm not sure what the optimal snooze time is or how to ...
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Balancing Information: Number of elements
I'm currently working on a redesign of our company support page. The focus is to move towards a search orientated experience, but there's been some debate about which elements to keep there and which ...
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What is a good way to fill in too much white space? [duplicate]
I have little design experience.
Here is what my site looks like.
Favicons and user images are added dynamically but the site looks sparse otherwise.
How can I add content. I don't want to grab ...
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Usage of Golden Ratio [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does the golden ratio work? Or does it?
How is that to use the Golden Ratio for the design of graphical interfaces.
when I use it or should I?
and on designing ...
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Why are AC adapters (wall warts) designed to block adjacent AC outlets?
The AC adapters for a lot of equipment seem to be specifically designed to block the AC outlets around it (this is in the US).
Is this a safety feature to minimize the power to that outlet or just ...
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Can placing dark and light elements or blocks next to each other in a UI lead to problems in visual perception?
A designer on my project has proposed something that uses both light and dark backgrounds within the same context (basic mockups below).
A short background for the app:
It is a platform on which ...
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Speech Bubbles meaning
I am developing a toon story to illustrate my company's offerings. May be I'll use a landing page, or just create it on the home page.
I have 3 actors in it, a cab driver, a bpo company owner and ...
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Red text for confirmation message [duplicate]
I'm working on a site which has its main colors as a dark red and carbon fiber as main colors. After an email is sent, a confirmation message is displayed. Would it be acceptable to make this ...
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How to define the status between now and a last checkpoint?
I have sets of probing data from an internal monitoring tool which represent the availability of different services (databases, webservices and so on).
Now my task is to visualize this data and I ...
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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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How to archive paper prototypes and physical objects from design process?
I have looked around UXSE for questions on this and haven't found anything yet.
I am looking for solutions to managing paper prototypes and sketches and other physical objects created during a design ...
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Is there any issues with approaching a website re-design from a mobile first perspective?
I've read the book Mobile First and agree with many of the points made. However, I still do not approach a project creating a set of mobile wireframes and then desktop. I still design the other way ...
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How to go about presenting a large family tree?
I'm currently developing a game, and one of the features involves breeding the creatures you collect.
Since it's a game, a large amount of promiscuity is to be expected, and individuals could ...
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Should I use pagination in a forum's thread
I am designing a forum with large discussions, with no specific need to order answers. Do I need to implement pagination or should I maintain one unique page per thread?
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How to visualize data with extreme value differences?
I am working on some routines for a client application to visualize data in a 3d bar chart style. The data consists mostly of smaller values with only a few large values. For example:
6,942,535,341
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Differences between iOS and Android GUIs [closed]
People sometimes ask me why I chose to buy an iPhone instead of an Android. I always reply the same thing: iPhones (and Apple devices in general) are more user friendly, in my opinion, than Androids. ...
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How to showcase UX work?
Presenting your UX design on the portfolio is more than just showing off some screenshots of the wireframe or finished graphics. I am just wondering what your thoughts are on the ideal way to display ...
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Does it make sense to put a prompt for sound or mute before a game is started?
I am building a game that is very sound-centric, but at the same time I recognize how annoying it is to be bombarded by unwanted noise.
The problem with putting a mute/sound button in-game is that ...
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Traffic lights: “yellow” is progress, not state
When thinking about how (real-world) traffic lights work, I wonder if there is a more intuitive way to display the yellow light. The meaning of Green and Red are states:
Green: Ok, you can go!
Red: ...
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Why do alarm clocks not all come with 5/7 day alarms for the working week?
In all the advances in usability why do alarm clocks still wake us up on Saturday? Why not only Monday to Friday instead of being set every night?
Do we have to rely on our mobile phone if we want ...
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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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The current NEW looks OLD later [closed]
Whenever I see a modern stylish new logo / design, I have a feeling that the designers have reached the pinnacle of design and that there is nothing major that can be done. Time passes and I'm proven ...
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How to design a wireframe logically?
I'd like to know what is the reasoning you go through when you wireframe a page.
After having determined the different components of a page, I usually identify the primary/secondary contents and key ...
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Designing a different kind of survey experience
How do you design a (not crazy-ass) interactive survey so as the user feels nice about taking the survey while at the same time, the interaction is not (at all) distracting since the topic of the ...
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What to put in a middle column of a frameset?
I am working on a site which displays statistical data about computers (disk, usage, etc...) and there a web page which consists of three columns: two smaller on the side, and a large one in the ...
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Original design choice of back and forward directions?
There are numerous of evidence around us where forward and backward directions are predetermined. As if they are a conscious choice we all know. At least this in true in left-to-right reading ...
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How to assign values to buckets
I have 10 items in a list. These 10 items must be assigned to two buckets. I need to make sure that the 2 buckets can be toggled at any time. However, I need to make it explicit to the user that ...
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UI to allow user to sign a pdf
What is in your opinion the best user interface to allow user to sign pdf?
Option 1. From a menu command user can upload certificate, and from other command "sign" user can select certificate already ...
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What are the desktop based Tools for UI work available today? [duplicate]
What are the tools available to a UI developer? I know and use Photoshop, Fireworks, Balsamiq. I just recently came across Pixelmator and I'm checking it out. What else is out there? Thanks.
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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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Denoting a Premium User
I'm working on a website where we have users' avatars pulled from their Facebook profile picture and sized down to a thumbnail.
Now that users can upgrade to premium memberships to unlock advanced ...
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Playlists: horizontal or vertical?
Let's assume that playlists are groups of items that are selected for some reason (to be played, to be converted or to be used in any other operation).
My question is: what is the best way (if there ...
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Is user centered design only about hygiene factors?
There is one thing that bothers me about UX-design. One of the shortcomings of a user centered design approach, is that it only focuses on existing needs and not on new revolutionary ideas. For ...
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A special case of tree-view/collapsible panels
This might be considered a sort of special case of the issue described here: should arrows point left/down or down/up in collapsible accordion?
I have this scenario:
As can be seen in the ...
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Different Sized Containers in a Table-Based Design
Right now I am designing a new feature for my site. The layout is table-based. Let's call each pick that you see a "pick container." The way that I see it, each pick container has to be a different ...
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Advertisement headers for a website
What are some good ways to incorporate a 728x90 ad into the header of a site keeping the navigation in mind?
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How to calculate the best width of a text element
I am developing a visual editor where the nodes in the editor can contain text. The size of the text can vary, and can contain any character. Since it is important for me to minimize the size of the ...
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What is the difference between a Hi-Fidelity Prototype and a visual design?
Many powerful prototyping tools, like Axure, allow us to create hi-fidelity prototypes that have design elements, such as proportions, margins, compatibility with screen resolution, font consistency, ...
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Places Icons similar like Yelp [closed]
Hi i am wondering where can i find places icons similar like this:
These are places icons such as local business, shopping, food and etc. I am looking for commercial or free versions. Thanks
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Developer with HCI background studying graphic design
I'm thinking about going to design school for a year, studying graphic design.
I want to get work as a UX designer/researcher, with the possibility of day to day activities like user research, user ...
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Why “x seconds to download”, and “if not ready, click here to download”? [duplicate]
I'm a web developer, but I can't figure out the business or technical problems behind this. Many websites have something to offer, and user has to download it.
But some of those websites instead of ...
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Research on the effectiveness of subtle animation to draw attention?
Is there any research reporting on the effectiveness of subtle animations (sliding, fading in/out, etc) as a means to draw attention to the key part of a website?
A partner company is critiquing a ...
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Headlight and Indicators on the handlebar OR on the front panel of the Scooter that you drive?
There are 3 designs existing now:
Headlight and indicator lights both on the handle.
Headlight on the handle but indicator lights on the front panel.
Headlight and indicator lights both on the front ...
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Looking for advice regarding a Web design involving 3-dimensional lists
I hope this is the right place for Web design advice; considering StackOverflow also, but not sure if pure design questions are welcome there?
I'm trying to design a Web page that is to display ...
