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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A better way to display a forum thread
I want to figure out a better ways to make a forum thread easy to read.
Common solutions to this:
A flat thread where every post is sorted by time.
This is easy to understand and easy to display ...
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How does a 3d shading impact circular button use?
I recently ran across a circular smiley icon with lambertian shading, specular shading, and cast shadows. The effect was a little like a ball on a table.
Here it is:
Clicking the icon toggled an ...
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Looking for videos of POS/restaurant management system usability failures [closed]
(Not sure if this is a valid UXSE question. Please let me know/change to correct format if needed)
I am looking for examples of UI failures/horrors of electronic point-of-sale systems.
I am working ...
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Suggestions for icons for windows applications [closed]
I would appreciate if anybody could give me suggestion to create icons for Preview, Advisor, Settings, Reports, Report a Problem.
Please keep in mind all these icons are for a print application for ...
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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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Examples of bad UX copying [closed]
Specifically, I'm looking for examples of UX where the designer has used a design that is successful in 1 context in another, inappropriate context!
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A good way to display tables with sub-headlines
We are developing a web tool to allow users to combine different HTML templates to project variants. Each template has specific settings that can be combined with the project variant.
The table ...
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View refresh frequency
My application displays data that can be periodically changed. Changes follow 5-10 times per second. I have to avoid so frequent updates to increase application performance. But I have to add some ...
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Crisp GUI Look and feel for developing applications like spotify
Am wondering if anyone has any recommendations on what GUI library can be used for developing cross platform applications such as Spotify. I have a feeling Qt-Quick might be the best answer but am not ...
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Design Language for Web Apps [closed]
I am going to redesign a POS web app from the ground up. I am looking for a design language (ex. Metro UI, Holo) that I can use. Do you know any framework, toolkit, pattern that is available? Please ...
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Intuitive way to present chained 1-N relationships
I have the following entity-relationship diagram (simplified, just the part for this question and there are extra attrributes in reality)
A [Maintenance Ticket] has N assigned WorkOrders, each ...
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What UX implications should I be aware of when designing an enterprise website/intranet on SharePoint
We are currently weighing up the for-and-against in relation to whether to use SharePoint or an arguably better suited ECMS.
I am looking to gather compelling evidence both for and against SharePoint ...
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Suggestion for Desktop Application Design [closed]
I am working on wireframes for desktop application, its collaboration system for paramedical staff like chatting and communication stuff.
Now i need to create GUI, Can anyone suggest me that if i ...
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How to indicate top level menu not clickable?
Working very test example here:
http://learntango.webfactional.com/
I am working to make my Argentine Tango website more friendly to new devices
mobile
touchpad
etc
I (the tango teacher) am ...
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Good ways to make a dynamic GUI?
I have an application I am designing and it's in a pretty functional state at the moment. But the database I am using has 1000's of items and is constantly changing and growing. The application of ...
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How to let the user add and edit items in a ComboBox? (WinForms)
In my WinForms application there is a ComboBox with default values. The user should be able to add items to the ComboBox or rename existing items.
I want the design to be simplistic. This was my ...
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List with links on a touchscreen device
I'm new to this community (and kinda new to ux design too) and I'm having some trouble building the interface for a digital menu for restaurants which is going to be used on android tablets. The main ...
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Disappearing input field placeholder aesthetics for web apps
Background
Users may provide various categorized input entries (e.g., danger, warning, avoid, and relax), such as those in the following image (e.g., "Relax #1", "Avoid #1", etc.):
Problem
When ...
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How do I communicate the absence of settings?
A table in our web application contains items where one column specifies whether the item has a policy bound to it or not.
This column can display three different states:
Has policy : ACTIVE
Has ...
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Examples of “Light table” GUIs for editing and comparing images, text or other data
I'm looking for examples of existing solutions of the following interface problem. The interface must have a table, list, thumbnail view or such of items, which depending on the example could be ...
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Price plan table with multiple payment options
I have a pricing plan table with multiple payment options. I'm not sure whether it is best to place the pricing options in a drop-down (and fire off the submit on the "onchange" event) or simply have ...
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Use of mobile Actions icon on Desktop?
Looking for help in designing a navigation method (visual affordance) for space constrained Desktop app.
Below, I have a tree grid which is the primary navigation for the detail pane below the ...
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Tiled Print dialog design
I need to design printing part of the interface for desktop application. Now the application in question works with drawings of arbitrary size, and has no concept of page or page size. The output ...
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Light source direction
It seems to me like the light source direction in most UI designs comes from the top or top-left. This is like the de facto standard, but I'm curious as to if anyone has ever successfully made ...
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Filter wildget in a dashboard: where best placed?
I have one web page (single web-app) which shows a powerful dashboard.
The design of the dashboard is nice and neat and it contains all of the information required by its functionality.
To give you ...
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Simple, elegant manner of presenting parent/child CRUD operations
Consider the following grid:
The parent is comprised of "Code" and "Type", and each parent can have 0 or more children. Each child is comprised of "Name" and "Type".
There's already a delete link ...
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Should I use a Dashboard for a mobile website
Should I use a Dashboard, in the style of an app, for the mobile version of a website? Is it considered a good or bad practice?
There is some images associated with the news feed on the home pages of ...
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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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How to re-design an app's user interface?
I am new to the interaction design field, basically a student.
I have an assignment where I need to research into topic about Interaction Design of applications for smartphones / tablets when you ...
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Difference between 'modify' and 'edit' buttons
Is there a difference between the words 'modify' and 'edit'? I am creating a form that will allow users to make changes to their order - what should the call to action button name be - 'edit your ...
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When are shadowless icons preferred over shadowed icons?
My question is when, if ever, a shadowless version of an icon is preferred over the shadowed version.
By shadowed I mean the tiny, almost imperceptible little black gaussian blur below the icon.
I ...
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How to make this 'Enable SMS' more intuitive
People seem to be missing this 'Enable SMS notifications' link at the top (which i can understand), I'm just looking for a suggestion as to how to make this more intuitive while still keeping the same ...
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Could scaring users be good UX?
I work on an application that's designed to be usable by new users, but has a lot of complicated configuration for advanced users. Our approach to keeping users away from delicate settings is to make ...
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Better way of merging two tree views into a single
I am working on a UI design which has two tree view components to show data hierarchy.
Each tree shows same data but has two different functionalities. I felt showing them in such a way will confuse ...
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Can I remove the login name?
I am currently working on an enterprise software program. Our user(client) will have only one account individually, so that they don't need to change their account in most of the cases. And they are ...
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One click 'select' and 'continue'
During a subscription process; the user has to select a product, out of a possible four, and then advance to the next stage where they enter their payment details.
Is there a preference over having ...
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Has user testing ever revealed that you have to change your app's UI colour?
Dark-themed UI colours have been popular for a while on certain desktop applications (Adobe Lightroom as an example), and seem to be popping up on mobile applications as well. I'm referring to the ...
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best way to add multiple child records at once?
I have a system in which Procedures can be defined.
Each Procedure has a series of steps (each step having some attributes)
It is reasonable to assume that the user will add all of the steps while ...
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Refresh button on a website
Is it useful/sensible to display a 'Refresh' button on a website's page (simple page, not dialog!), like the picture below?
First I thought it's a good idea, but know I start to think it's not so ...
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Can a mobile application be made using a totally flat design?
In a current attempt at designing a mobile app using a "flat" design à la Windows Modern UI, I noticed that some aspects of the application feel weird to the average user.
The main aspects here being ...
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What is the term for making one UI component better but is not in sync with whole of UI?
Individual UI component owners (developer/GD) tries to make their component more useable/shining in the process losing the focus in the overall picture. I have somewhere read this to be something like ...
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Designing an app for iPad / iPhone retina display
I am working for a client to develop an iOS app both for iPhone and iPad including for retina displays.
The client is going to get the UX designs himself. We use the Apple's iOS Human Interface ...
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How are GUI and User Experience issues, approached by open software developers?
In my opinion, among open software developers there is not much attention given to the GUI or how it is used. With very notable exceptions of course, Blender, Ubuntu, VLC, and maybe others I've not ...
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displaying cascading comboboxes
I have a text editor with several tools on a page. and I want to add cascading dropdowns to the tool list. For example, I have two comboboxes:
1st is filter with values:
All -selected by default ...
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integrating a social-network application into existing app from a UX point of view
We had a web app that acts as a travel portal for consumers - tours, hotels, attractions and so forth. It has recently been decided that a facebook-type platform be integrated as well.
I am ...
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Designing a marker pin for google map
A marker that is placed on a googlemap as a overlay needs to be designed so that the pin point lies exactly on the point that you specify to place it during coding.
Check the example below, the ...
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Alternatives for a “speed dial” to recall recent/historical data?
Any solid conventions/alternatives for a "speed dial" to recall recent/historical data? Some context: the primary task of this web app revolves around running a search using a combination of ...
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Good alternatives for replacing multiple nested modal dialogs?
Having a mature and good-selling Windows desktop application, we are focusing on improving the user experience for the next release.
One thing that I try is to get rid of multiple nested modal dialog ...
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Side by Side, Stacked, or something else?
I am creating a property manager module for our CMS, one of the forms is very basic, but I am having trouble getting what should be the most appropriate layout for the form.
Below is a screenshot of ...
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iPhone - Hiding/showing a common Carousel view
I have a Carousel view (horizontally aligned images, can be swiped left/right to switch images) above a Table view that displays some information.
Assuming I'd like to give the user the option to ...
