Semantic structure of information within a website, desktop application etc.
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Minimalism, Maximalism(?) or whatever?
Tufte & Nielsen believe that screen real estate is one of the most important asset for a (UX) designer. Utilize available screen space - Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: May 9, 2011 & The Visual ...
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Using color in wireframes…is this a “no no”?
Recently, an internal debate was started at work regarding the use of color in wireframes. A junior designer had finished a nice set of wireframes and was told at the end to turn everything into ...
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2answers
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Underscores vs. hyphens in URLs
I'm trying to come up with a page-naming convention so that each page in a web application I'm developing has the human-friendliest URL possible. The current URL structure of the web application is:
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2answers
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Including unique content under multiple navigation trees
I have a navigation based on categories and certain pages appear under the same categories. That means they appear twice under two different menus. Does anyone see a particular problem with this, ...
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Optimum number of choices for menus/navigation
Anyone know any usability or cognitive psychology research done on the optimum number of choices for menus/navigation?
I need some evidence to argue a case against a top level category menu of ...
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4answers
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How to prove a design opposed by the product stakeholders?
We've been working on/off on an account/bar header for a large corporate site for nearly a year now.
We've got so many stakeholders that nobody can ever agree what should go there!
What ...
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Do website visitors return to the homepage once they're inside the site?
I have been (unsuccessfully) looking for some research that supports / rejects (or even discusses) the hypothesis that:
Once a user has entered a website a significant percentage of them do not ...
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3answers
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Designing for the fold
What is your advice for designing for 'the fold'? Is this still a concern? Is the concern that people won't scroll? Can't you use visual cues to help users understand that there's more content below ...
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What's the definition of Information Architecture?
According to Morville, Peter & Rosenfeld, Louis in their book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (2006) 3rd edition, its this:
The structural design of shared information ...
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2answers
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Information architecture width and depth, looking for studies
I remember reading recently some studies (lot of them pretty old) that claimed that in general it is better to go with wide and shallow information architecture rather than narrow and deep. However ...
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Best method of displaying a wealth of information and widgets [closed]
I appreciate this is going to be really broad, but what the heck!
Basically, I need to design a whole UX Front End for a development company we're affiliated with and they have a huge amount of ...
