defines the structure and behavior of interactive systems. Interaction Designers strive to create meaningful relationships between people and the products and services that they use, from computers to mobile devices to appliances and beyond.
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Behavior of the Enter button in a form
What is a better experience for a user if they press enter when using a form?
Should it submit the form or move to the next field?
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Can I change the bottom navigation bar in an iOS app?
I have an application with three tabs on the bottom, as shown, that each bring up their own view within the scope of the 'main' part of the app, BUT, if I want to have separate but similar lists ...
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How would you distinguish “Sets” from “Folders” in a collection of tiles?
I'm displaying both Sets (which contain Cards) and Folders (which contain Sets) on the same page. Ideally they'll both be tiles. I'm not sure how to make it easy for the user to tell the difference ...
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How to present filters graphically?
I'm creating a UI which allows users to specify filters, such as Age > 18. Until now, this has been quite straightforward as all it required was a simple layout as shown below:
However, besides ...
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Should a registration page have large number of fields? [duplicate]
People have to invest time and effort to register.The fields consists of Username, First Name, Last Name, email, Address, Contact, Date Of Birth, Gender, City, State, Country, Password, Position, ...
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Cataloging item during creation vs. updating cataloging information
Lets say it is possible to add an item with come hierarchical cataloging information.
For my use case example the item is a fault report.
The end user is a mechanic who is not an expert with ...
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Mobile Augmented Reality App. What pattern for AR visualization and navigation?
I am designing a mobile app with an AR functionality that allows users to detect a product label and get a bunch of information about it.
We want to display this content over the captured image. ...
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Should scrolling in a textbox overflow to scrolling a page?
When entering long sections of text into a textbox in a browser (such as when using gmail or a site like this) we can scroll within that textbox, which is as it should be.
However, the behaviour of ...
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Constant canvas size vs. Resizable canvas
When developing a graphical editor there are two options when creating a canvas:
a canvas that has a constant size
a canvas that can be re-sized by adding figures at the edge of the canvas, or by ...
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Best practice for a desktop version dropdown hover menu to work on mobile?
I'll give my example as it explains exactly what I mean. We have a store that on the main menu has a "Shop" link that when hovered over, will display a dropdown menu of categories and subcategories. ...
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Is this a Mapping or Visibility issue?
I am thinking about whether my faucet has an issue with mapping, or visibility.
I searched for the shower button for 5 minutes! Can you find the mechanism to turn on the shower (rather than have ...
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In what situation is it best to use a mega menu?
The current site I'm working on typically has 3 levels on navigation. Site-map and navigation has already been done. They have chosen to use a mega menu to show top level navigation items and ...
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Timer on game for kids
Game description:
The kid has a multiple choice question.
If the answer is wrong or right they procede to the next question and so on.
The question:
Is it good or bad user experience for kids, if I ...
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Change button for color input modes
I have this SWT widget (color picker) with label:
By pressing the star button, color picker field transforms into code field, where you can write code:
I am not satisfied with this "star ...
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When is appropriate to include buttons and or swipe command in a Responsive Design off-canvas layout.
When is appropriate to include buttons and or swipe command in a Responsive Design off-canvas layout?
While doing some Responsive Web Design research for sites using the off canvas navigation ...
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Designing UX for an In Vehicle Infotainment system
I am working on an In Vehicle Infotainment System. This is one particular use case I am finding difficult to think in terms of UX :
There is an IVI system attached in car which can take commands ...
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Do users need 3 ways to change sound volume on their computer?
Virtually every video/audio software has volume controls. Why is software control needed if there exist two other controls: operating system and hardware volume controls?
Is it better to remove ...
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How to properly layout multiple interactive controls using best UX pattern?
I'm working to redesign an existing page that generates reports, based on user selections. Currently, this is a rough draft of the page layout:
The user must always begin at 1 and that selection ...
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Table Checkbox side best practices
When is it a best practice to allow for checkboxes to appear on the left/right and side of a table?
A wireframe came across my desk looking similar to the wireframe below. The justification the team ...
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Converting two character dates into four character dates
I have an application that converts the following invalid dates, with only two-character years into a valid date format automatically while the user's filling out the form:
(NOTE: The application is ...
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Rarely used translation function placement
I have just been looking at the analytics of one of the websites I work on, and one of the features is required - but rarely used. There is a Microsoft Translate button, with their "Powered by ...
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Displaying links to other profile pages, while maintaining good white space
I am designing a profiles page for a website where by the names and position of company employees should be displayed on all profile pages for easy navigation.
I do not want to put a <ul> to ...
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Presenting a UX design
Say you're responsible for the prototype cycle of of a development project. Your end result might be something like an analysis of existing related solutions, a user model, a collection of scenarios ...
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How to deal with recursive hierarchical tableviews?
There's a great function from the web that I want to reproduce in iOS and Android. I'm calling it a recursive tableview because I can't think of any other descriptive name.
For example, in a shopping ...
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What are some good examples of guiding people through an infographic or interactive, but without it feeling like it's on rails?
I'm currently helping various corporate clients get their existing print resources online. Many of these clients are quite conservative and/or new to digital, so it's often a big information dump from ...
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The navigation on Corporate websites
Corporate websites appeal to multiple audiences. I've seen from benchmarking the majority of sites have based their navigation around the audience segments. You'll see Investors in the main navigation ...
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Whats the UX strategy behind Twitter's Retweet dialog?
Mouse Hovering over a particular tweet on the feed will show these links - / Reply , Retweet , Fav , More / -
These links are prominent enough and clean.
I dont understand the reason for ...
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Is there any good reason why I shouldn't make some mobile app parts sticky?
What are the downsides of making that part with column-chart sticky (Always positioned to the top even when bottom part is scrolled down)?
Haven't met that kind of solution in any mobile app before. ...
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Asking for more info on whitepaper download then on trial sign up
Im currently researching how to handle lead generation forms.
I came across a website which has 3 slightly different forms for downloading a white paper, downloading an ebook, and downloading the ...
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How to design the input field for recipe ingredients
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the most efficient way to handle a user inputting a recipe into a form. There are a couple different options I've seen across the internet, from offering up a ...
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A tabbed Android UX element similar to iOS App card?
Is there a standard Android layout that allows for tabs within a context menu? Something similar to the iOS app card would be great.
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How to visually suggest to the viewer that there is more than meets the eye in a elegant, neat looking way?
From a user experience design point of view, what would be a good way to let the viewer know, or better said, I want the user to "get it as he sees it" without further explanation that what I am ...
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Stopping people abusing star rating systems
I want to implement a 5 star rating system for particular articles on my site. But, I know that with a little bit of scripting, it can be easy for hackers to abuse these systems. However, I want it to ...
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Form for property rent prices depending on season and length
Seeing the similar post about Form for inputting operating hours of a business, I am hoping you might help me with a similar issue.
We run a holiday property rental website. Properties can be rent on ...
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Master details form in Android
I have an activity that is used a lot, that requires a lot of input fields and it can be updated when the user wants, although it won't be very common.
In this moment, I have something like this:
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'Contact Us' in Navigation bars
So looking at a particular site's analytics, you usually find 'Contact' very high on the list of destination page views.
My question is... Do you think people expect 'contact us' to be the last ...
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Autocomplete Search takes you directly to product
A user enters text in a search box and a list of autocomplete options appear. The user clicks on one of these suggestions.
Should they be sent straight to that product's page, or should they be sent ...
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What is the best method to undo an action?
Imagine for the sake of simplicity I have a web app to-do list, where each item is a line and has a check mark near it. When the user clicks the check mark, the task is then "done" and the line fades ...
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Is the middle power option 50% or 60%?
A friend of mine has a blender with 6 control selections: One off position, and five power settings in order of less to more power. Example below:
A discussion has erupted over whether or not the ...
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Combination of text and drag and drop search
I am designing a filter function for a software application (not a web site) which contains multiple input controllers. A text input is used in combination with a drop zone for files (for drag and ...
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Should I build camera functionality into a photo sharing app or let the user use the device camera app they would already be familiar with?
I have been working on the idea I have for sort of another photo sharing app. Last few days, as I have been working on the part of it for taking photos in square format (like instagram) I started to ...
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Form for inputting operating hours of a business
I am designing an interface where restaurants need to input their operating hours. I am thinking of using a slider control for timings for a single day, and then let the user choose days of the week ...
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Direct manipulation vs indirect interfaces [closed]
So, should we update content and parameters via options on a main menu or by directly selecting the item to be adjusted? And are there any rules of thumb as to when you'd favour one method over the ...
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What are good ways to map out the sequence of user interactions on a page?
In other words, you know the typical sequence for a user based on previous interviews. You would want the next interaction to be easy to find and be a logical next step.
So what are examples or ...
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Normal select box vs autocomplete widget UX wise
Was wondering is anyone had experience dealing with autocomplete widget vs using a select box when you got 100-200-300 items in the select box.
I think the general consensus is that the autocomplete ...
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When should a select be replaced with a combobox?
I'm working with a site that is currently making heavy use of comboboxes. In fact, every select in the whole application is automatically turned into a combobox on page load.
My first inclination is ...
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Focus the form and block anything else?
In order to disable everything else on the website and focus the user to what they are really doing, I came with the solution of adding a layer over everything except over the current form.
I don't ...
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Why do we say we “browse” to a place on the Internet when we actually download a web server’s content to our browser? [closed]
Browsing the web is a common daily task for more than a billion users, and we do not pay much attention to it. We just “browse to a place” or ask our laughing friend across the table “where she is on ...
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Too many checkboxes in a table?
A user should be able to change the settings for 5 different options for each day of the week at the same time.
I was thinking of something like this, but it seems a bit messy... Too many things ...
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Expandable Card Interaction
I'm trying to create a card with some text/images inside, which can expand down and expose more content if a user clicks on the expand button (a huge down arrow).
The natural way to do this obviously ...
