Recommended practices published by an OEM, government, or other organization (e.g. Apple Human Interface Guidelines)
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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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1answer
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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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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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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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Displaying information in a dashboard: Advice or references
I have to design a dashboard for managers who need to report to their managers on their areas of responsibility. In the past I have just put counts and line charts over time of what they are ...
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Amount of Time To Determine a User Has Stopped Typing
I have a filter form for a list. One of the fields is a text search field. When a user types in the field, I wait until the user has stopped typing for a half second (500 milliseconds), and then ...
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Should a mobile media app lower volume or pause?
When designing mobile media apps (specifically audio-only ones), what should they do when a notification comes in and phone volume is on?
I noticed two different behaviors on my phone - Spotify will ...
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UX Organisation
I was just wondering if there are any organisations or groups which monitor or provide insight into User eXperience, such as the W3C for the World Wide Web, or the IEEE? Although they are not creators ...
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Should I follow the Android guideline or keep my app's own style when porting it from iOS?
My new project is to port an iOS app to Android platform. Before get started, I'm quite confused on whether I should follow google's guideline since some big titles on Android platform still keep the ...
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Is there a Windows 8 desktop UI Guideline or HIG anywhere in the world?
And I don't mean Win 7 / Metro UI guidelines, I have them up the wazoo, but I've changed jobs and need to start looking at the new Windows 8 DESKTOP design. I know it takes a lot of cues from Metro on ...
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When is it appropriate to split functionality into separate apps?
I'm a designer and my company has a single app that serves two different types of user.
One group is the general public, who uses the app to navigate big events (e.g. annual user group meeting ...
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Are there any special design guidelines for big touch screens (30–50 inch)?
I'm about to develop an application for a large touch screen (around 40″).
Now to my question, are there any special design guidelines for such a large screen? I have read Android/iOS/Windows RT ...
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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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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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1answer
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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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Hide controls by default?
This question might be too general but its bugging me a lot.
If you look at the screenshot below:
Maybe J have been sending emails for too long, but I expected the 'CC' and 'BCC' fields to be ...
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2answers
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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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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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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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4answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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What guidelines exist for designing UIs?
UI guidelines can be helpful to provide rules-of-thumb, or at least remind you of things to think about when designing a UI. What sets of guidelines exist?
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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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Numeric data input in a web based scientific software
(Note: I'm more a backend developer, so please forgive my lack of UX terminologies. Don't hesitate to edit the text or the tags)
We are working on an online scientific software with specific ...
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3answers
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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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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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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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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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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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How to mark required (and optional) fields in a form where some fields are NOT editable?
I have a form showing properties of an entity in a web app: some of the fields in the form are read-only and some are editable. Within the editable fields, some are required to be filled with a value ...
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Showing extra information for a table row when that row's selected
In the app I'm developing, we have a table/list that makes use of a kind of master/details approach; when you select a row in the main table, a second table below it is populated with 'child' items.
...
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2answers
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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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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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What is the significance of the three dots “…” on menus and buttons and how to use them right?
Adding three dots after the title of items in a dropdown menu seems to be a common practice (as you can see on the picture of a drop down menu in Google Chrome). They generaly mean that there is ...
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Common pattern for “multiple fields, at least one required”
Clearly the asterisk is a popular web standard for identifying unconditionally required fields.
But what if any one field out of several is required? For example, there are separate fields for home ...
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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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Thoughts on creating a portfolio?
I would like to put together an online portfolio for my UX work. However given that I work in-house on a single project, rather than for an agency, I'm wondering what I ought to include.
Are videos ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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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?
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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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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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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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UX style guide techniques
I've recently started a major redesign for a large web-based financial tool. To aid future development, I'm planning on generating a UX style guide that outlines best practices for things like forms, ...
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Guidelines for browser page overlap?
When you press Page Down in a browser, there's usually a small number of lines from the bottom of the current windowful displayed at the top of the next windowful. The amount of this overlap is ...
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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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Where can I find style guide for metro UI for web applications?
I am interested in the Metro UI that microsoft has used for windows phone 7 for web. I see that their site microsoft.com has been done with metro UI recently.
I am looking for a style guide and ...
