Recommended practices published by an OEM, government, or other organization (e.g. Apple Human Interface Guidelines)
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Does anyone have any good examples of a Heuristic Evaluation report?
Looking for something that is well laid out & easy to read.
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Two step selection in windows phone 7
How to display this two step selection dialog in a native way in WP7:
States (in my case approximately 40 entries)
Cities (in my case 1-15 entries)
Here are my thoughts I want to discuss with you ...
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Usability Guidelines
I am supposed to evaluate a few websites to find out whether they comply with Jacob's Nielsen Heuristics... But I am having trouble understanding the heuristics. Can somebody please explain?
These ...
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Speech Bubbles meaning
I am developing a toon story to illustrate my company's offerings. May be I'll use a landing page, or just create it on the home page.
I have 3 actors in it, a cab driver, a bpo company owner and ...
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Why do some custom iOS apps use the native nav bar?
I'm talking about Instagram or Foursquare, they are custom designed but still are using default themed menu bar for navigation. Is there some dirty secret behind it?
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Is red text ever acceptable for use in non-error content?
I've always gone by the rule that red text should only be used in displaying error messages. Can anyone show me any usability blog/book excerpts that prove or disprove this rule? What are your own ...
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What are the rules of using ellipsis on buttons
I read about the rules of using ellipsis (three dots ...) in a menu command:
Indicate a command that needs additional information (including a
confirmation) by adding an ellipsis at the end of ...
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Is it OK to use 'free' in a tax subtotal?
we are designing a checkout page and in the subtotals area we have a breakout for tax, shipping and discounts.
We use the term 'free' rather than '0.00'.
So, for example:
Subtotal: $140.00
Tax: ...
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A Better alternative to display Hierarchical Data than using TreeView
I am a ASP.net Developer and am looking out for other alternatives to Treeview control. Reason behind is shipping too much of viewstate information for each request. Functionality of treeview would be ...
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Standards for and measuring contrast of solid color fills
There are several questions on UX (e.g. here, here, here) already about contrast. However, all of those are about text, and the contrast between text and background, most off them referencing this W3 ...
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Truncating long text labels - Best Practices?
I was wondering whether there are any studies around truncated labels, in case if they ever get too long and layouts can't fix it? Does it confuse users if a label is truncated with an ellipsis ...
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Any recommendations on dealing with wizard screens with wildly different amounts of content?
I'm facing an issue with a wizard import system. The content of each screen in the wizard varies to the tune of creating white spaces as big as 300px by 300px. A stakeholder thinks this is too much ...
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Standards, guidelines or usability research for touch laptops?
From what I've read about CES it seems like a big upcoming trend in hardware is touch enabled laptops. And of course Microsoft's Surface device is sort of a touch enabled laptop.
This is a whole new ...
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Why do programs ask the user to configure auto-update when first run?
Yesterday, I was installing F.lux on my Mac (cool-looking program by the way), and when I ran it, it asked me if I wanted the program to automatically update. How am I (or any average user) supposed ...
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Should we always make every Link/Button atleast 44X44 size in Mobile site, According to iOS Human Interface Guidelines?
According to iOS Human Interface Guidelines
The comfortable minimum size of tappable UI elements is 44 x 44
points.
Should we follow this rule for Every link on Mobile Website for better ...
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Is there any definition/guidelines about user experience of Apple and Google?
I like the both Apple and Google user experiences. But visually they are different. Though, I need to know their basic concepts/theory about user experience.
So we will take their inspirations not ...
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What are the design guidelines to make interfaces friendly to dyslexics?
I've come across this question on Quora where it's likely to be forgotten.
Unlike other disabilities that are often considered in design, dyslexia has many forms. As a result, the guidelines can't be ...
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Essential input elements of a gui toolkit
I am in a process of designing a new toolkit for mobile devices (as a part of my Master's thesis). I would like to know if there is some theoretical backgroud (researches, books, tutorials, etc...) to ...
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How to study competitive/equivalent interfaces efficiently?
Before starting designing a new interface, I usually study equivalent/competitive UIs to come up with some ideas in terms of functionalities and layout.
I would like to conduct this kind of study in ...
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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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Is there any standard guideline for requirements gathering?
On Programmers.SE, there was a question a few days ago, asking wether there's an update to the IEEE 830-1998, which is a recommended best practice (not a standard!) for organization of a Software ...
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Guidelines for representing sentinel values within a list
I'm curious if anybody can point me to a list of guidelines (preferable regarding Windows Development UI design) that may help layout rules which to follow when representing sentinel or special values ...
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UI Guidelines when delivering application over Citrix
I'm after some advice regarding some guidelines to consider when deploying applications over Citrix.
My company is going to be using Citrix in the near future. We have suppliers who deliver our ...
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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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Is it necessary to include an interface's “hidden functions” in the manual / help?
Background
A well designed interface allows any type of user, beginner, advanced, or expert, to achieve their objective quickly. In most cases, help information contains the description of elements ...
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Guidelines on Pamphlet design to stop people from ignoring it
I have found that people tend to ignore reading a pamphlet which is distributed on a road side. How can one ensure in terms of design and strategy that people read and most importantly understand ...
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Is there a standard “to left justify text and right justify numeric values.”
I'm being told by an experienced BA (> 25 years) that "Numeric numbers are usually totaled therefore should be right justified." And that text should always be left justified.
I have never heard ...
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Bland shades of grey application
I'm going to be working on enhancements to an existing desktop application, however, it's basically different shades of grey with some dark blue-grey. There are some icons with some color and that is ...
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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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Show more information from a table row
I have a Table which contains some basic information for a Product. Upon clicking a row, I wish to show more information (on the same page) for that product where a user can edit certain information. ...
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Recommended pixel size for labels for mobile?
In the same way that the minimum tap area for mobile should be 44px according to apples documentation, is there a recommendation for label sizes?
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Information Architecture for a Blog [closed]
I am about to re-design an existing blog for a company and I have a very good flexibility in terms of layout-design and IA.
There are many galleries to get some inspiration for the design part, but ...
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Difference between UI and Visual Design/Style Guide?
From looking at some of the style guide for web applications that are available, there is a distinction made between the visual (icons, colours, logos, etc) and UI (look and feel of user interface ...
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iPhone Dropdown Menu element
Designing mobile applications is something I find extremely interesting, but I have recently become more interested in the UI element of a drop down menu for IOS applications. It does seem to always ...
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What knowledge about GUI standards/design a test analyst should have?
I am a software tester who works on a newly developing software product. Sometimes I feel the GUIs are not very user friendly but could not justify as I do not have enough facts/knowledge on GUI ...
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Is the back button in Windows 8 apps purely chronological?
The back button is ubiquitous in Windows 8 ("Metro") apps.
What exactly is its meaning? The Microsoft apps I have seen and the Visual Studio page templates use the button in a chronological manner ...
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Usability concerns for managing queues of items to be worked
Here's a genericized story for an issue I'm curious about:
A secure website for ACME Company has a
table of thousands of widget orders in an
"initial" status that need to be processed online.
...
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How does one create Website UI guidelines? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How did you create design guidelines for your organization?
What points do you need to consider while writing the UI guidelines for a website. How much in depth should ...
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hiring a web designer: design task
I need to hire a web designer. How do I test his creativity and skills before I hire him. Ideally I'd like to give him a fairly open-ended task i.e. I give him a problem statement and ask him to ...
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Large forms design guidelines and rules
I am working on a web gui of inner corporate CRM system which has a lot of pages with large forms, that contain 10-60 different types of fields: mainly inputs, also selects, radios and checkboxes.
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Best way to convince a decision maker on UX approach.
What is the best possible strategy to convince a stakeholder to adopt a new approach when they seem to hold on to a particular idea which is more generic. What I would like to hear are the best ways ...
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Back button on iPhone
There is an opinion that in iPhone apps, there's no point in placing the Back button on screens that are directly accessible via the main navigation menu (at the bottom) - because the button just ...
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Where to place the login panel?
The following Screens is taken from the most popular websites.what is the best practices for login panel. (right, left, cennter). wordpress display login panel in center while yahoo google and ...
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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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Force Directed graph for visualizing hierarchical forms Bad Idea?
Currently we got lots of forms which we realize using Tree-view. Person clicks the tree node and a forms we designed for that opens in page aside the tree-view(Using the tree-view because there is ...
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Guidelines for cross-platform applications?
Most of the window managers out there have their own guidelines for GUIs. When building cross-platform applications, like for OSX, Ubuntu and Windows, which guidelines should I follow?
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How do you go about comparing the usability of platforms?
We're currently doing usability analysis a set of kiosks and we're in the comparative analysis phase. The trouble is, we're not exactly sure how to compare the usability of a platform (as opposed to a ...
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Using slider component as video's trackbar and volume control
Do you guys think it is ok (usability wise) to use the same slider component design as video trackbar and volume control?
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Guidelines for ordering of tabs?
I am wondering if there are some guidelines for ordering of tabs.
Typically we see General tab as the first which makes sense. What if there is no general tab? How to decide which ones should follow ...
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What are best practices when designing a left-hand navigation element?
There are many CMS and other web application that sometimes require a left-hand navigation area which provide a way for the user to access additional resource in that specific area. This is not a ...
