text, usually about how to use a program.
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5answers
1k views
If nobody reads Privacy Policies or Terms and Conditions, why not change them?
Once I read that if you were to read all the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and similar documents that you ideally need to read before using software or online services in a given year, you'd ...
3
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2answers
85 views
How can end users training be integrated to the UX plans?
For many systems, performance can be significantly improved by educating the end users.
It might even be argued that training is required to achieve optimal system performance:
IIRC, Robert N. ...
16
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4answers
713 views
Enterprise UI standards
I'm in the process of creating a set of UI standards for a large enterprise, for multiple overlapping services (websites, mobile apps, internal systems and extranets).
This is the first time I've ...
7
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3answers
230 views
Points to be kept in mind while writing a document to redesign a web application?
I want to redesign a website and write a document explaining my design approach and thought process. I have recreated the layout and explained my suggested changes. I have the content for the document ...
6
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4answers
290 views
Does using bold font for keywords and key points increase readability of user manuals?
I find myself writing quite a lot of articles, user manual-like documents, as well as posting hundreds of questions on stackexchange sites.
Over time, I developed a certain style of writing, which ...
4
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3answers
239 views
What is the usual way to specify a GUI?
What is the typical or most effective way to specify the design decisions and interaction patterns of a specific application's GUI?
I began to realize I do not really know what the parts of a precise ...
11
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5answers
1k views
UX style guide techniques
I've recently started a major redesign for a large web-based financial tool. To aid future development, I'm planning on generating a UX style guide that outlines best practices for things like forms, ...
7
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3answers
246 views
How to document user interviews
What are the best practices to document interviews with users - do you just document the conclusions and take aways or do you do a full transcript or both?
0
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1answer
313 views
Is there a justification document for UI design from Apple or Microsoft?
In my bachelor thesis (B.A., media science) I am comparing the user interfaces of iOS 5.1.1 and Windows Phone 7.5. I'm focussing on their use of "real world" things. While I know of their guidelines ...
1
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5answers
219 views
What is best for sharing “Corporate Application Design and UX Guidelines”? A Printout, a pdf on or a website?
For a long-term project, I'm working on part of the ux- and design guidelines for a corporate application. Till last year they use a 'static' pdf on a fileserver where it gets outdated and nobody is ...
-1
votes
1answer
471 views
Do you use any UX documents templates? [closed]
I'm looking for UX documents templates that are frequently used in the design process. Eg. Customer Journey Canvas: http://files.thisisservicedesignthinking.com/tisdt_cujoca.pdf
10
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1answer
284 views
Why do US food labels intermix desirable and undesirable properties without distinction?
I find it remarkable that the US FDA, after years of tweaking and no doubt lots of time and money invested, could only come up with a food label that is terribly confusing! The left side shows a ...
1
vote
1answer
151 views
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, ...
-1
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1answer
41 views
Need a exact naming for the Doc [closed]
I'm working on User Interface Document for a client project. It's actually a mobile project. I need to give a document to the client which include all the finalized User Interfaces (only the final ...
-1
votes
1answer
83 views
explaining/documenting an intricate mechanism
I'm torn between two worlds, I have this very intuitive (but intricate) mechanism in a command line tool, and I'm wondering as to what extent I should explain this.
I can go the simple way, not ...
6
votes
2answers
553 views
Industry standard for documenting IxD / UI Design Patterns?
What's the industry-standard way to document a design pattern?
I have seen websites like ui-patterns.com and patternry.com that host and share design patterns, but when creating an reusing a design ...
-2
votes
1answer
212 views
What do you do after paper prototyping? [closed]
Lot's of us - UX people. Love to start their work on paper. Either sketching or using sticky notes. What's the next step for you? I usually redraw whole paper prototype in Axure. Making the same thing ...
0
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1answer
570 views
What should be covered in a UI Standards document?
I'm a coop student who is creating a web/desktop application design standards document for a company I'm working at. Each standard in the document needs to be supported by a reputable source.
What ...
2
votes
3answers
202 views
How should I design a small help system for a Windows application?
Context
I've written a simple, business application which generates a report from information in a database. The only user input required are two file paths--one to a list of items to report on and ...
2
votes
3answers
145 views
What is the name of the document form where the text (content) for a User Interface is defined?
Like: Do we call it File or Document. Especially important if you make an interface that will be adopted for several languages.
2
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1answer
57 views
What is a good method for creating a guide for standardized markup?
I need to create a guide or wiki that outlines different standardized techniques for marking up reusable elements in our software. When adding new features our developers are often able to reuse or ...
7
votes
5answers
997 views
Which type of help system is best?
At my company we create Windows based desktop applications. In the past, we have created .chm files for our help documentation and have been happy with it. We have now been faced with some issues ...
6
votes
3answers
794 views
How do you source your persona photographs?
Like many of you I'm sure, I consider the creation of user personas to be a crucial part of the UCD process, particularly when starting a new project.
While we all have our own techniques and styles ...
7
votes
1answer
167 views
Quoting time and effort for UX research
Edit : I've added a little more detail to the main question here.
There are many techniques and practices at our disposal to gain an understanding of the target audiences motivations and needs when ...
11
votes
2answers
10k views
example of a good software design document
Anyone got any online examples of good software design documents. I want personas, goals, scenarios and all that good stuff.
I wish Cooper would have included a document with his books.
18
votes
10answers
689 views
How can I make my UX work more “fun”?
I work as a User Experience Specialist at a relatively big company (400-500 employees), I sit here all day mostly cranking out big UX documents telling other people what they should do with their ...
4
votes
3answers
169 views
Allow uploaded Word documents or require markdown?
I have a site for writing tutoring that currently requires the student to copy and paste from Word into an HTML textarea, removing all formatting.
We've thought about letting the student upload the ...
9
votes
4answers
234 views
Does UX apply to other documents, such as Word or Spreadsheets?
Does UX apply to documents such as a Word document, or a PowerPoint presentation and so on?
5
votes
1answer
602 views
What nomenclature do you use for UI Elements
Having worked with multiple OSs, platforms and UI Kits I always run into the problem of how to consistently naming things be that larger structures with names like Widgets, Views, Forms, Controls or ...
5
votes
4answers
269 views
Built in user guides
I want my web application to be self-explanatory. There are input fields and whole pages which need some paragraphs of explanation. How to integrate these user guides to my application? How to make ...
11
votes
3answers
227 views
Interactive 'page turn' documents - the case against using these?
What do people feel about interactive page turn documents? Here's an example (I'm not focusing on this report specifically - just happened to be an example I knew off the top of my head).
Do these ...
8
votes
2answers
232 views
Full lifecycle, version controlled, UX documentation - Is this possible?
I'm currently trying to implement a usable UX documentation system , streamlining the flow of work between User Researchers/Usability specialists, Information Architects and Visual Designers.
Just to ...
