the extent to which time or effort is well used for the intended task or purpose
12
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7answers
445 views
Does a large UX team tend to spoil a design?
Is there a rule of thumb for how many UX designers should be working together on a project? Factoring in things like the size of the project (e.g. number of functions/screens), timeline of the ...
10
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3answers
212 views
Elevator dispatch algorithm choice
We have a single elevator servicing an 8 level residential building. What might be the optimal elevator positioning algorithm to optimize user experience (primarily, wait time)?
I was thinking ...
5
votes
4answers
208 views
Form input types for fast data-entry?
So, I have a form for doing data entry where there is a list of items which have three fields. The first two fields of each item are multiple-choice from five options, the third field is a simple ...
5
votes
2answers
92 views
How to visually indicate which pieces of information have changed
I work on a warehouse hand-scanner based GUI. It tells a user where to go, and which item to collect when they get there. When they scan the correct item, the screen changes, and indicates the next ...
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17answers
5k views
Computer login with password only, without username
I have an idea to simplify the login screen on things like home computers with a small number of users (say, 2-10) with passwords.
Today, a typical home computer's login screen has three steps:
...
4
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3answers
202 views
Should we ask for name on card even though it's not required for credit card payments?
The name on card is not used when processing credit card payments. Paypal does not ask the user to enter the name on card when saving a card to the "wallet", while Amazon.com does.
The benefit of ...
4
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2answers
56 views
What might be the most intuitive positioning for a “Hide Page” CTA?
Admittedly this is a rare scenario, but there are some instances where providing the user with a quick method for hiding a page or navigating elsewhere is needed.
The typical scenario being a ...
4
votes
3answers
120 views
Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list?
Is there a compelling reason (besides convention) why a user's typical default view of a long sorted list is always the beginning of the list and not the middle? Assuming a random distribution of ...
4
votes
2answers
84 views
Wouldn't it be more efficient to disable elements in inactive windows?
In most operating systems, there is a major distinction between:
interactions which are available only when the element is in focus (for example typing in order to write a text in a text field) and:
...
4
votes
3answers
186 views
Can icons improve readability on a navigation?
Our app has many tools and we have a navigation of about 10 tabs. Tabs can be re-arranged and this forces the user to find them by reading the label. Would icons make it more usable?
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vote
3answers
104 views
Menu item and widget redundancy
What are current best practices regarding the idea of having both a menu item as well as widget--I'm thinking of a button with an icon on it, but it could be any graphical element that you could ...
6
votes
4answers
325 views
Why most websites don't use keyboard shortcuts?
I was wondering that why websites don't use keyboard shortcuts as often as desktop software tends to.
I really like keyboard shortcuts in software, they makes me work more efficiently. But why don't ...
4
votes
1answer
311 views
Emerging conventions for keyboard shortcuts within web applications
Scott Hanselman recently wrote an article titled "The Web is the new Terminal: Are you using the Web's Keyboard Shortcuts and Hotkeys" in which he notes emerging conventions on major sites (Gmail, ...
3
votes
3answers
109 views
Functionality of a form that receives bids for an item. What's best?
I have a form that receives bids for items. It is shown below:
In green you can see the price for the current winner bid, below, the minimum increase for the next bid (in the case of the image, the ...
7
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2answers
563 views
Whats is the best UI interface for permission?
I would like to know what is the best user interface to represent Multi-group inheritance permission.
I am not sure the treeview is the best way to show permission. What should be the best UI ?
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3
votes
1answer
195 views
Long repetitive form or many small forms
I'm building an internal web app for my company. We're a commercial printing company - I'll try and explain our situation without getting into the confusing details of the printing industry...
The ...
5
votes
3answers
193 views
Are there applications or methods for comfortable coding on touch screen devices? [closed]
Coding usually involves a lot of typing, but on touch screen devices too much typing is quite tedious.
Some of that typing could be replaced by autocompletion or autogeneration of code and therefore ...
13
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4answers
555 views
Intuitive vs. Efficient: Which is more important?
When faced with a design decision in which one option is more intuitive, and the other is more efficient, what guideline should be used to prioritize one desideratum over the other?
2
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3answers
141 views
Do people know how to use what Wordpress calls “Shortcodes”?
For example, when posting to a blog via email, the user can enter [tags x,y,z] to add tags via email. How "technical" does that feel to the average user?
Reference: ...
3
votes
3answers
254 views
How much time is lost by waiting for GUI?
After asking the question Will faster GUI always make one more efficient?, I understood that there is a lower limit to the amount of time lost due to the GUI not responding. My interpretation of the ...
20
votes
5answers
582 views
Will faster GUI always make one more efficient?
Are there any studies on whether one will actually get more done during a days work if delays went down i. e. from 10 ms to 5 ms for each update. My point is that if we are already working at the ...
3
votes
3answers
456 views
How Many Clicks for Given Action?
I am designing a web app in which people can come in and rate "objects" and comment on them. I know that the easier it is for the user to perform the main activities the better, but I was wondering if ...
21
votes
6answers
7k views
What should be the default option of a required dropdown list?
Given that there is no logically default animal from the list of animals below, what should be the "Default Value" below, according to best practice?
<label for="animal">Animal ...
6
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3answers
116 views
Expert usability
I am struggling with a project and am reminded of a lecture at university that plotted two applications with differing rates of 'learnability' and 'expert usability' against each other:
a) Harder to ...
