Feedback covers both how apps and websites respond to user input, flagging errors, showing effects of actions etc to them AND anything to do with giving and soliciting feedback for the developers and site owners through e-mail, written reports etc.
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What will be the Best notifications and error messages?
As a UI architect, I am always wondering about the best format to display errors and notifications to users.
Which of the following examples is the best format?
Name is required
Name cannot be ...
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Would it be good to only show invalid fields when showing input errors?
It occurred to me that it might be a clever idea to only show the fields with problems when a user makes a mistake on a form. This would be server-side validation, with the assumption that there is ...
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Should a progress indicator be clickable?
I am developing a 5 step process for a health insurance provider for an international audience.
currently this is a display with three states:
1) completed
2) current step
3) future state (greyed out ...
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Standardized (web) application error messages? [closed]
I'm in the middle of coding a bespoke CMS for a company and if there is one thing I hate it's coming up with good copy for "flash" messages (short messages that provide user feedback.)
I know how ...
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Inviting users to send crash reports instead of bad reviews
I'm developing an Android app and I'm planning to use ACRA - Application Crash Report for Android to get crash reports from users.
It seems that a crash report has to survive to many user choices to ...
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Why is HideSelection the default on Windows?
I've always wondered why Windows controls have their HideSelection property set to true by default?
Example (TreeView): ...
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How to facilitate mass data entry?
I am a programmer & I am working on a web app that requires a GUI for facilitating mass data entry. Now this "data entry" can be of different types like audio, video, text etc. I already have ...
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In-Line Form Validation - Checking for numbers in a persons Forename / Surname field
If a user enters numerics in their Forename / Surname field should this trigger the validation - the same as would occur if Alpha characters were entered in a Phone Number field?
I would suggest that ...
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Is it a good practice to include a feedback button?
Is it a good practice to include a feedback button on the side of the website? or how do you recommend to get feedback from users at a initial phase of a project?
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Personas: Do you study current users, potential users, or both?
From my understanding of personas, one of the main purposes is to find out how your users behave and what their mental models of the system might be. I had always thought that, like in usability ...
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Should a light switch be small or big, or does this depend on other factors?
Small and big light switch compared:
It's strange that this usually differs by country. The big ones are easier to hit, but the small ones provide better feedback (if you don't immediately see the ...
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content for information message
Is it better to display
a positive informative message
"You can only view and share links of icons. for additional options please login"
or negative informative message
"Downloading, Uploading or ...
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Disabled buttons while long running task
My application has a toolbar and a lot of buttons on it. Some buttons start a long running processes(tasks). At this moment every task executes asynchronously to allow user to do something else while ...
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How should I alter my programs progress bar?
An application I have just been asked 'to take care of' has some interesting code features.
One is that when it is loading up the login screen, it displays a 'splash' with a progress bar. This splash ...
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Will animated feedback be annoying or nice?
I'm developing a website called Fablelane which allows you to write your own stories and have others contribute outcomes or "chunks" to that story.
Right now (if you go to the website), there's an ...
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Managing an App's Loading Time Expectations
I was recently asked to come up with a framework to benchmark loading time expectations based on the tasks being performed in the app.
I found that there were three categories in which I could define ...
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Progress Indicator suggestions for multithreaded operations?
In the old version of our application, the operations performed during loading were sequential. We indicated progress by updating a single-line text string with the component that was being loaded. ...
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In a site that offers a voting system, should there be extra criteria to “down vote”?
In a site that offers a voting system, should there be extra criteria to "down vote"?
I think it would make a lot of sense to add an extra step to down voting someone's question or answer. If you ...
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How can the mode of a car's transmission be made more clear?
In a car, if you press the accelerator it can do one of three things:
make the car go forward.
make the car go backward.
not move the car at all.
The result depends on what gear the car is in, but ...
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Is this color readable?
I'm not sure that this orange color meshes well with my green and white theme, or that it's easily readable.
If it is not readable, is there a better color that would be more easily readable? ...
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How to display UI operation delay
I am implementing some UI functionality. I have a button that perform some short or long (time) action. I have implemented so logic: if action's execution time more then some in milliseconds, then ...
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validation message placement
Is it better to have the validation message next to the label or the control?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
Update:
To be clear, I'm not referring to ...
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When should feedback be in-page and when should feedback be a separate screen?
I've seen feedback/confirmation on a separate screen for example when the user has submitted a form. Then the next screen they see: "congratulations you have successfully..."
Then on other occasions ...
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Should I refresh result set after changing Dropdown values ?
I've encountered with this question many times:
Assuming I have a table which displays results according to dropdown value.
Should I refresh the results automatically each time a value is selected, ...
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Error Message Advice (for asynchronous/background tasks)
We have a web application which currently performs a number of intensive, time-consuming tasks. The initial design didn't really cope with the levels of information we're now dealing with and we're ...
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How do you show that a feature can be selected individually or combined with another feature?
The user has 3 options/features to choose from, but here is the problem:
Each feature can be selected separately/on its own.
Feature A can be selected/combined with feature B.
Feature B can be ...
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Another word for a group of people
I am creating a facility to allow people to create groups to put people in that they like to keep in touch. I need a name for these groups and the obvious answer is 'group'. However, groups are ...
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Feedback wanted - pagination design on data-heavy site
My site is a sports pick'em social game. Given the nature of sports and pick'em, it tends to be a data-intensive site. I'm very wary of any new features or designs that might cause the user to be ...
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Crowdfunded feature request system - would it make users hate me?
I develop a free webapp and am thinking of taking some of the most popular and time consuming feature requests and turning them into mini, crowdfunded projects. I would post those on the site and ...
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Which of the two is the best UI approach for a tablet app destined for reading?
I am in the process of prototyping an application for delivering news content. Our first platform will be the iPad (along with web) but other tablets will follow.
Decomposing the application into ...
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Forgiving Format: Rewrite on blur or ASAP?
I'm implementing the forgiving format pattern for phone numbers and social security numbers on a web site.
Basically, the idea is the user types their (US) phone number:
5558675309
The system ...
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Where can I post a UI design for feedback from the community? [closed]
I'd like to post a design I'm working on to get some feedback and suggestions from the community. Is this site a good place or are there other better suited sites?
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Which are some examples of digital applications using sounds to enhance the user experience?
Reading The design of everyday things I got to the section Using sound for visibility where Norman, the author, explains some of the advantages and disadvantages of using sound:
Sometimes things ...
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In a web application, what can I do to allow error messages to be efficent and functional?
While alerts force users to react, sometimes the widget gets lost behind other windows and then blocks the whole application. What other ways can be used to make sure a user will take notice of an ...
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Is there a better way to show 3 states of 2 types of data?
We are writing a web-based testing application where the user (teacher) can't move on to the next step in the process until all students (a young age group) have completed 2 separate tests. First all ...
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Feedback box for site owner, would you provide profanity filter?
I need to implement a feedback tool for a website, would you provide a profanity filter or you wouldn't? And why?
From one side, I think would be disturbing for the site owner receive feedback like ...
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When is it appropriate to use fading animated messages for feedback and notification.
To clarify: these are messages (text or symbols) that appear right at the point of interaction, and then float away and fade out.
You see this kind of animation when adding people to your Circle in ...
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Best method of rating passwords
I'm creating a webpage which has user accounts and I'd like input on the best way of rating the user's password.
There are four ways to rate passwords which I have encountered:
Rate the password ...
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What kind of useful information shall we keep in a closed place page on a reviews site?
Im making an experience design for a place page, knowing that I am working on a reviews writing and sharing site.
If a place in real life is now closed and no more in service, what kind of ...
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Where do users expect to see feedback?
Circumstances where a user is adding a list of items to a page and hitting save then adding another. Where would the user expect to see items saved prior? Is it above the "add another" button or ...
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Questions to be asked in a survey for Desktop Application
Can you experts please let me know some questions that can be asked in a survey?
We have just released an updated version of our data security (encryption) desktop application but the response is not ...
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Courtesy email, is it always good?
From a UX point of view, when writing to a company email, should the company return a courtesy email (we have received your email), or not?
Email responses are also feedback, and as such, I'm ...
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Should a flash message be used for toggle buttons that perform actions immediately?
I have a simple interface for managing a user's account in a web app. Clicking each button in the interface performs the action immediately:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with ...
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Tool for instant website user feedback [closed]
What are tools that will enable users to quickly give feedback?
I imagine the user could always click on any element of the webpage (or do it without referring to an element) and just shoot a ...
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Which is more suitable Separate Box vs Single box in BrijPad
I have created an editor for fast development BrijPad. I get feedback that there should be two boxes one for input and another for output. but I think for multiple operations it would be ...
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How long should I wait before a user is unable to change a page rating?
I'm currently building a page rating/feedback component. Some of the requirements I'm trying to figure out is how long should I wait before preventing a user from changing their mind/page rating?
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What options to give for multiple choice subjective feedback?
I'm working on a very brief feedback survey as part of our product. To encourage use and simplify the received data I was thinking of restricting it to:
Do you like [product name]?
Any ...
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Is there a reason to use this icon with a confirmation message?
This is the message Sharepoint 2010 gives as a confirmation message for requesting access to a particular site you do not have access to.
I am quite confused by the icon - to me this looks like a ...
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Fixed Feedback button on the side of LEFT or RIGHT side of the window?
My start up [WEBSITE] is going to be launching in private beta soon and we're trying to decide where our feedback button/tab should go.
We've looked at how UserVoice does theirs (bottom right) and ...
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Leave data in form after submission?
I've got a form in my web application that a user would use to send messages to another user of the system. So for example, a manager might want to send a message to all of their direct reports about ...
