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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First steps into the UX design world [closed]
I just joined the UX forums and firstly, wanted to say hello - im a newbie. well, actually im actually a motion graphics designer - wanting to make a switch into UX design~
honestly, I have very ...
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How can I direct the user to add a home screen widget after configuring it?
I have an Android app which includes a home screen widget with complicated configuration options. To make it easier to configure a widget, I've made it possible to set up a widget configuration in an ...
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What kind of useful information shall we keep in a closed place page on a reviews site?
I'm 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 longer in service, what kind of ...
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How to collect comments on Balsamiq mockups? [closed]
I am using Balsamiq desktop to mock up a web app. I want to use the PDF export feature (or export somehow to HTML) and create a clickable prototype, then collect user comments on a screen-by-screen ...
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Best way to display whether someone is the right age for a match on an online dating site?
When I visit another person's dating profile, I'd like to see a visual indicator that communicates something about a person's age so I can determine whether they might be a good match for me--without ...
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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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How to “force” users to upgrade their browser?
I couldn't think of a better title for this question, but please don't jump to conclusions - I don't really want to point a gun at my users heads!
I have a site that works well with the modern ...
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Help with expert reviews
I am reviewing a client website. Usually I will find plenty wrong and will be able to highlight issues and recommend solutions. The problem with this particular project is that the website is actually ...
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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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What is the best way to indicate success to user without a message box?
I've read in books and a website that discussed great UI design that you shouldn't "bother" the user with too much feedback or message boxes and pop ups. I also think that as a user, I'd like to know ...
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Should I add a floating, fixed feedback button on the pages of my website?
I would like to add a Feedback feature to my website.
Should I add it as a floating,fixed button on the side?
Is that considered something users are annoyed by?
If I shouldn't, which method is ...
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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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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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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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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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Should progress bars show percentage
In the application I am designing we are currently just displaying a circle that rotates clockwise from gray to green. Inside the circle is a number indicating where in the process it is (20, 50, 90). ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Google Search Bar?
I wanted to test the waters and see how other fellow usability people felt about Google's search bar in all of their sub sites. For instance if you are on google search, on google drive, or in Gmail ...
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How should I handle playing multiple alarms?
I have a web application that monitors a service (polls) every 30 seconds or so, and displays any new records (notifications). Each one of these must be acknowledged by an operator. The customer has ...
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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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Should error messages apologize?
We are having a discussion on our team about an error message that says "Sorry, you do not have permission to access this feature. Please contact your administrator for assistance."
Is it ...
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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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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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Showing progress for a long many-step process with a discrete progress bar?
I've got a desktop-focused web application where the user is going to be initiating tasks that take a long time. Sometimes, these tasks will take hours to complete (users don't have to do anything ...
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Use old or new name for an update confirmation message when name itself has been updated?
I want to provide a user of a web application some confirmation message like:
The task "foobar" has been successfully updated.
Now, in term of usability, if the update consists in changing ...
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How can I highlight errors when bright red is the main color of the brand?
I'm working on a mobile website for a client whose main brand color is red. The website header and headings are all red. CTA buttons are red too. How can I effectively separate errors (mostly in form ...
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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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How to convince a user to fill out a survey
I am working on a project that provides a service (landscaping) to members of the community. When the work for that client is finished we always encourage the client to go to our website to fill out a ...
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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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First go at responsive layout, looking for some constructive feedback [closed]
Note - if this is the wrong SE site for this kind of question please let me know. I wasn't sure whether to place this here or code review. I'm more interested in the usability aspect of this ...
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How should I display a “please wait” animation?
I have to create a "please wait" page on our website. I would think you usually put the words "please wait" with some kind of spinning animation, but do I really need text?
Doesn't an hourglass or ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Mockup review process [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can we improve the internal wireframe review?
I am trying to understand what the best practices are for
sharing mockups with clients online and
capturing ...
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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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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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Making contact detail form more friendly
I have a windows based form in my project for adding contact details.
Here's a screenshot
I have added textbox for First name, Last name , var and cst (vat and cst are numbers related to ...
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What is the right success message?
My English is not very good. I just wanna ask, what would be the right success message? In my case, when the the user deleted a record, I'm thinking of what to display with these options:
Record has ...
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examples of user feedback for evaluation of other users' answers
As an academic project, I'm developing a simple facebook application. I intend it to be some kind of a mind game exploring creativity.
Its current design is simple: the user just writes a short ...
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Is there ever a circumstance where the user should be notified of a user interface no-op?
The headline may be a bit confusing, so here's a web example (although this question is equally applicable to desktop applications):
I open up the same eBay listing in 2 separate tabs of my web ...
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How to give users feedback about rejected input?
I've got a mobile app where the user takes a photo of an object. This photo is to go through some heavy-duty image processing server-side, so to prevent large wastage of time, a simple pre-check is ...
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How important is feedback?
I think (I don't want to influence you) that feedback is vital. Both for the user as for the design team.
I'm trying to convince a team that they should put feedback at the core of every user related ...
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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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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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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 ...
