Recommended practices published by an OEM, government, or other organization (e.g. Apple Human Interface Guidelines)
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Systematic validation of UX guidelines [closed]
You all probably know these kind of (ux) guidelines as listed in the post of Justin Misfud here: http://usabilitygeek.com/official-usability-user-experience-user-interface-guidelines-from-companies/
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What is best for sharing “Corporate Application Design and UX Guidelines”? A Printout, a pdf on or a website?
For a long-term project, I'm working on part of the ux- and design guidelines for a corporate application. Till last year they use a 'static' pdf on a fileserver where it gets outdated and nobody is ...
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Creating beautiful User Interface Designs [closed]
I usually have a hard time designing a good UI for my applications/websites (especially the websites).
Are there any tricks to this? Are there good books that can help/guide me? Or libraries eg. ...
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What is the standard convention for ordering On/Off buttons?
I am working on a Windows application that has a set of On/Off radio buttons, specifically "Low Power" and "Normal".
I have arranged them so that the Low Power button comes first, and the Normal ...
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Usage of Popups
I am primarily a developer tasked with UI design.Please forgive my ignorance. I am developing a Form based application. There are multiple editable fields in the Form and each of these form elements ...
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Best practices for designing a finance dashboard
I'm creating a finance dashboard that allows the user to drilldown further into various kinds of metrics. Does anyone know of any best practices for designing something like this?
I'm also looking ...
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UI gestures for Kinect, Kinect-type devices
On touch screen devices, there appears to have evolved a standard set of gestures, e.g.
pinch and spread with two fingers for zoom in and zoom out
swipe with one finger to scroll a document
We're ...
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What are common keyboard shortcuts for WYSIWYG form/report generators?
I'm re-writing a program I wrote right out of college, now I know a lot more about the programming language, but I'm not too up on common design issues and I don't want to leave anything out this ...
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When (if ever) should links be opened in a new window?
I have seen a lot of discussion on this topic but it all seems to be opinion based without any research backing up the assumptions.
It seems that there are times that it is particularly relevant to ...
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What kinds of sites should I focus on for a “new look and concept” redesign, and how much of a regular UX process should I follow?
On Behance, I've seen many "new look and concept" redesigns such as this one for Facebook and this one for Wikipedia. The gist of one of these projects is that you ask yourself, "If I could redesign ...
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UX design document for Web platform Grid control
Is there any User experience(UX) design guideline document available for Web platform grid control? I am developing ASP.NET grid control and wanted to know if there is anything already available. I ...
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Setting safe defaults for user interface configuration by client
I am currently a consultant working for a software development company who is building an application for their client. The dev company feels that every aspect of the ui should be customize-able, ...
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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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Are there any examples of certain website (or mobile app) UX analysis?
Having business requirements from stakeholders, I want to present UX analysis for a website.
The problem is that I haven`t seen guidelines and structure how to do this.
Any way, example in pdf, ppt, ...
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How to group together blog posts/articles?
What should be the general criteria to group together blog posts/articles..??
I have just two ideas in my mind:
One - To group by date of publishing..
Two - To group by category..
On what type of ...
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good reason/guideline/heuristic/principle, according to GUI design pattern, to align maximise, minimise and close button on the left side in Ubuntu
Since Ubuntu 10.04 (and maybe some other Linux versions), we sometimes see the maximize, minimize and close buttons on the:
left side:
and sometimes on the right side: .
So, can someone explain ...
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How can I best describe to others a sequence of actions from an application?
I want to be able to explain pepole vie email or posts here at UX stack exchage what is my current sequance of action performed in my application .. e.g. creating a division in my application.
Is ...
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Navigation bar and Toolbar in ipad app at top of screen - apple's approval?
I'm a newbie. I have got a wire frame for ipad application, in which navigation bar and tool bars are placed on the top. And back button is placed in toolbar. Whether it violates apple's guidelines or ...
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How to make a website usable on an iPad? [duplicate]
I'm currently wireframing a website and I was recently asked to make sure this website is usable on an iPad as well.
My first thought is to check if all the links/tabs/buttons are easily clickable, ...
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Data and State management in UI [closed]
If you applications have multiple tabbed forms and the user can have multiple of them open at the same time. Is it a good idea to load all these data to the front end at application load time or is it ...
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Need Advice and Opinion on UI Design principals [closed]
I am developing an Application for the client and being a programmer, my usability skills are pretty basic. So I would appreciate if some of you can help me with some concerns. Your help is highly ...
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Best Practices for UI/UX design for Web 2.0 applications [closed]
I've seen some questions on specific UI and UX designs best practices, like for Android, but are there best practices for UI and/or UX for each of the three different Web Components for Web 2.0: RIA, ...
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Is there an accepted standard for building views and UI elements in Blend that is easy to consume for developers? [closed]
I'm working with a team of developers who are just coming up to speed on Silverlight development. Their BAs completed some prototypes in Axure that I'm starting to work from, but ultimately I am going ...
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Index of UX guidelines [closed]
Over the last couple of days, I've had conversations with people about the content of UX guidelines. What should be included in a UX guidelines?
