Graphical User Interface design (GUI-design for short) refers to the visual aspect of designing computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software applications, and websites with the focus on the user's experience and interaction. Generally refers to digital rather than physical ...
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Multiple Items Settings
Are there any known design guidelines for allowing users to apply the same settings to multiple items at the same time?
Also how can I make it clear which items have the similar/same settings?
As a ...
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Should a registration page have large number of fields? [duplicate]
People have to invest time and effort to register.The fields consists of Username, First Name, Last Name, email, Address, Contact, Date Of Birth, Gender, City, State, Country, Password, Position, ...
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single webpage, render in all devices [duplicate]
i am developing a website, it should support all the devices like mobile, tablet. Is there any way to use single webpage will render on all the devices. with out maintaining separate page for separate ...
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Correct ordering position for 'Yes', 'No' and 'Not now'?
What is the correct position for the 3 buttons:
Yes - No - Not now
(or Yes - No - Later)
is it Yes - No - Not now
or is it Yes - Not now - No
This will be on a windows 7 windows application, on ...
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Changing Colour of Social Media buttons to match Colour Palette
I'm interested in getting opinions on changing the colour of social media buttons (facebook/twitter/linkedin sign-up and login as well as sharing) to better fit in with the colour pallet of our ...
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What are the desktop based Tools for UI work available today? [duplicate]
What are the tools available to a UI developer? I know and use Photoshop, Fireworks, Balsamiq. I just recently came across Pixelmator and I'm checking it out. What else is out there? Thanks.
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How does user interface design fit in a development process?
In a software development process where does the user interface design fit?
If we take an agile approach for a small team (2 juniors, 2 seniors, a Team Leader and a web designer) what normally should ...
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Navigation Design for GoogleTV
I'm doing some research on ways to navigate on a GoogleTV.
There aren't any design guidelines, but it seems a Left Menu Bar design, like the GTv YouTube app, is common use.
In my opinion it doesn't ...
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What's the generic term for the Apple Menu, Windows Start Menu, etc.?
A number of applications and operating systems have a single "main" button or menu, often in the corner of the screen, that seems to be conceptually higher-level (or maybe it's lower-level?) than any ...
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How to implement a stack exchange style voting for mobile?
I have a client who wants me to improve the usability of their current iOS app.. they have a voting mechanism that looks like this:
i figured that this was bad usability b/c it didn't add up the ...
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Any ideas for a 'Today' icon? [closed]
I'm working on an app at the moment. I'm trying to replace the text with icons to allow easier transition to international markets.
One icon I'm struggling with is a 'today'. I've thought about a ...
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How to design a screen in which users must choose a value from a list of options for each row in a 500 row table?
I'm designing an application that's supposed to help ease a very tedious and difficult task.
Prior to this app - each user would be given a spreadsheet with about 5-8 columns, and 300-500 rows. (Each ...
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Can intranet work be shown in portfolio? [closed]
I know that some clients and employers have restrictions about putting their work in your portfolio website. And I know that internal UX and UI work (wireframes, interaction flow, etc) is typically ...
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Favourite or Visible?
I am currently analysing the GUI of one application. It happens that the application has a list of locations that only displays favourite locations. When you create a location, the new location is ...
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Tentative vague appointment
I am working on a web functionality that allows an user to request an appointment with another user. However, users may have not met nor known about each others schedule. Therefore, options must be ...
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Many possible responses to content
I have an Event page, to which a viewer can have many possible responses (not mutually exclusive): accept, decline, nominate someone, propose a new time line, thinking about it, email host etc.
I ...
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What does the 4 symbol on the top-right signify? [closed]
I have seen web modal windows to have the 4 symbol on the top-right. Can someone point me to what it represents?
I guess going back, the modal box being used in Wikipedia for notifying successful ...
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App menu created from keywords
I have application which allow users to select video and play it. I have for each video few keywords and with help of WordNet I created tree from these keywords. So now user can go from generally ...
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What are the real differences between UI/UX and front-end development?
front-end developer here.
I'm working in a tiny startup: one back-end developer and me as the front-end developer. My boss is calling me UX boy since I've worked there, even if I don't specially ...
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Programmer wanting to go more into front-end and UI development [closed]
I've just come out of an interview that I believe didn't go as well as what I expected it to. And I find my self now somewhat confused as to where I want to go with my career. Besides feeling quite ...
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UI Layout improvement
I'm currently implementing a database querying tool, and am currently working on a section which would allow users to specify ORDER BY and Aggregate clauses. My biggest challenge has been to represent ...
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How often is too often to do focus groups while designing a web app?
I'm trying to come up with a strategy for putting together focus groups while designing a web application, but I'm starting to wonder how often is too often to do focus groups? In my mind, they would ...
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How can branches of a query language be added dynamically in a browser? [closed]
Our group developed a stream-oriented NetFlow query language, called NFQL.
Given that it can have multiple filtering/grouping stages and a number of branches, defining a query in a text file can ...
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How would you recommend to do transitions in the following interface [duplicate]
Our group developed a stream-oriented NetFlow query language, called NFQL.
Given that it can have multiple filtering/grouping stages and a number of branches, defining a query in a text file can ...
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Designing for dynamic layout seen in ERP/ complex configurable systems [closed]
This is what I am trying to achieve.
How can I make such a design in web application using ASP.NET properly.
A bit of thought on the same:-
How to properly set this up with good layout manager?
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Condensed UI experience using Jquery Mobile for browser-game [closed]
I've been designing a game based on jquery mobile. I've come to a hurdle that I am finding hard to overcome.
So here's, hopefully, a fun exercise for some budding game designers out there.
I've ...
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Managing CRUD operations in a tree
I'm using a tree view in my web application to present the administrator a way of managing entities in the system.
So far I had to deal with simple entities that require only a name that is way i ...
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How do I justify a “friendly view” when a department head is adding “table view” as a requirement?
So in the web app I'm currently working on, I need to display a list of objects. I opted for a "friendly" view, with each object being a div. StackExchange's question list layout is actually a good ...
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Industry standard for button captions that use a Function Key as the keyboard shortcut
If I have a button that has the caption _Save then when it shows up on the screen it will show the S as underlined.
This tells the user that Alt+S will make that button "press".
But what is the ...
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What is the expected paging behavior of a tree?
I'm working with a tree data structure, which should be visualised (like in a file manager).
The server can calculate the whole tree and the client will display it.
The possible size of a tree can ...
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What are we calling the 3 lines button in mobile apps?
This button is appearing in many mobile apps and has the function of displaying off-screen menus, whether from the top of the screen or the side.
When writing tutorials for example, what is a ...
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Three-dimensional matrix of tristate selections
I am building a configuration UI for a client's desktop application. This could be called metaconfiguration, i.e. it allows the client to determine which options are actually available in the eventual ...
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Should I alter the size of various icons when displayed on different resolution devices?
I know that images look smaller or bigger depending on the screen resolution so an image (say 10x10) would look bigger on a less resolution display and look tiny on a higher resolution display.
I ...
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Software startup screens [closed]
I know there is advice (and very good advice at that) to generally not have startup/welcome screens in software.
Our software I think has a legitimate need for one, our free download is served from ...
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Best UI to allow expert users to enter an ip address? (IPv4)
I am working on a web application which requires users to enter an IPv4 address (in dotted-quad decimal notation) for most of the primary tasks they need to perform. Our primary target "user" is a ...
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How much choice should I give users?
I am considering adding an update to my iPhone app that allows the user to choose many new features such as the background image, where certain buttons are located, button colors, button design, ...
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What is the difference between Wireframing and prototyping
What is the difference between Wireframing and prototyping? Prototype should be interactive and Wire-frame Static? Am i right?
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Prototype tool for large application? [closed]
A typical application like ERP, I always need keep look and feel of prototypes consistency every-time I release the prototype while requirements change all the time. Useful tools have these ...
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Is there a unified font size metric across all applications?
This is not precisely UX related, but very important to user interface design in general. In summary, across applications (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash) and platforms (Browsers, .NET, Mac, ...
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Hidden optional fields in form design
On a web-app I'm working on,
we have many forms inside dropdown menus.
On many of them we have an optional field: Description.
This field has been added for the users that want to work on a more ...
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Design idea for Multiple level pages
We have a framework with multiple plugins (for different functionality). Each plugin has it's own configuration/information pages. These pages also have sub levels; sometimes up to four level. If we ...
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Slider-less time selection.
I'm using the default datetime picker with rails. I'm mainly focusing on the time aspect of this because for my purposes the day will rarely ever be changed. I'm looking for some sort of way to make ...
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Scrollbar width in Component Vs. Containers (UX dilemma)
Do you think a thinner scrollbar should be applied in components (such as combo box and text area) and wider scrollbar in containers such as window & panel?
And if not, will you apply a thinner ...
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Snapping to grid
What is a good threshold for a UI which allows users to place objects, snapping them to a grid? 25% of the grid size? Less or more? Should the user be able to change this?
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Good user interface for multiple checkbox selection and a dropdown list (View/Editable mode)
I have a Dropdownlist and many Checkboxs. For any particular dropdown select value I will show all checkboxs and if their is already any database relation with that dropdown value I have set checkbox ...
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What are the pros and cons of skeuomorphic design in payment transactions?
The check out or payment process in an application is critical and has to perform smoothly to make the inexperienced users feel that they fill in forms correct. I’ve seen numerous of examples where ...
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Where should ads be in iOS App?
I am finishing my iOS Application which includes Ads. In iOS Apple recommend developers to put Ads in the bottom or top of the Window (View). Does the Cash the developers create change if you put the ...
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Does number of screens affect usability of a specific software?
Does it matter to the user if the application has 70-80 screens as
long as all the functionality are provided?
Does it depend on the platform, e.g. Handheld devices vs Desktop ?
Is there a limit on ...
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Alternative to color code in table cell
I am currently redesigning an LOB application that makes use of color coding in tables to 'categorize' each row of data.
For instance, in the picture above, the 'St' column (which stands for ...
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Different ways to show photo being selected with tag
I am trying to do a UI that show a photo (or box) being selected and tagged. For example:
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/59549/projects/3012199/8c0a114a08fa35bfbb0e6bc32936a525.jpg
Original ...
