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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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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Do progress bars help completion rates?
I'm expanding on a question I posed in comments on How do you indicate progress to users in a multi-step form?.
Roland made the comment "because everybody wants to reach 100% percent" when discussing ...
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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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How to indicate a table is missing rows that have been filtered out?
Do you know of any aesthetically-pleasing and effective ways of indicating that a table's contents have been filtered, without the filter information getting in the way?
Some background on my ...
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How to solicit feedback from customers
What can I do to get customers to contact me and give feedback on my application?
I sell a downloadable Windows desktop application, I also have a web application that is under development (so I'm ...
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What is the most effective way to solicit and manage open source project UI feedback?
I'm planning to release a project which will integrate with several popular content management systems as a plugin and operate as a stand-alone service - beyond providing users with a simple contact ...
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The notification tray at the top of Stack Exchange sites: what is it called? And are there other good examples of this?
I'm trying to clean up notifications for a client site and was wondering if the notification pattern that Stack Exchange employs has a name that I can use to search for more examples.
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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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Are confirmation messages for visible changes necessary?
It is almost always a good thing to give status messages to the users. (e.g. "The customer has been added" or "The data has been saved.") But I am asking myself now if I should really always give such ...
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Production Reaction Cards - too many?
Microsoft Production Reaction Cards (doc)
The set includes 118 words which presumably you would reorganise, format and print off as individual "cards". I've never used them but I do see how the tool ...
