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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Animation and motion on the web = bad [closed]
I read in Designing Visual Interfaces by Kevin Mullet that 3D buttons afford the possibility of being clicked or pressed by the user. After being mindful of this for some time, I noticed that I feel ...
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What is the name of this UI message element/dialog?
I'm trying to figure out what the name of this type of element is. If the user couldn't do anything else on the screen without dealing with the element, it would be a "modal". Some might call this a ...
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Expert consultation request: Best solution for multiple choice and pricing of large number of products / services
I am looking for a solution for multiple choice and pricing of a large number of products or services. Available studies are related, in my opinion, to small amount of items, hence I am asking for ...
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How to best enter long digits on a small touch device without using keyboard input
my current task is to create an user interface for a mobile strategy game. stuff can be transported from point a to point b. the user can select an amount of stuff between 1 and 1.000.000. it is ...
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What is a good way to auto-generate an attribute value?
We are building an application that includes a lot of automation. Part of the initialization of this task is to specify the rules for generating specific attribute values. But it is difficult to find ...
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Are “beginner/advanced/expert grades user interface” within the same app common for modern iPhone/iPad apps?
One of my favorite PC games of all time is Birthright: The Gorgons alliance. It is a very deep and complicated game that had much more than many single player games at that time.
For example, the ...
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What are some good patterns for displaying large lists on the web?
I'm creating a web application which will contain a large list of ingredients. You can see my current approach below:
However as the list grows it starts to take too much of the screen estate. Here ...
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How best to represent the addition to / presence of pairs?
I'm currently designing a dashboard that allows a user to manage ANDSF policies. The Policy model allows for a number of start time/end time pairs to be added to it.
Currently, policies are created ...
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What are some great resources for improving UI/UX sketching and designing skills? [closed]
I was hoping to see if anyone could help me out by sharing suggestions for great places to check out for tutorials, worksheets, tips and even books to improve ui design skill. This would perhaps be ...
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How to simplify an interface for assignment of objects?
We're trying to solve a UX problem of assigning one set of objects to another (very large) set of objects in a quick, clean, and lightweight manner.
We have up to 12 different items that need to be ...
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Placing buttons on section headers is correct or not?
Is placing buttons on headers to the middle or extreme right side is correct or not? Could you please suggest me the appropriate place?
Example:
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What is the idea behind the download dialog of Internet Explorer?
In the latest editions of the Internet Explorer the file download dialog is arranged at the bottom of the window. I know many people not knowing where to find the corresponding "save" and "open" ...
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Alternative actions: nested submenu or interactive question?
I have a user interface that provides two alternatives for one action. The alternatives describe how the chosen action should be performed by the computer (different goal functions or heuristics of an ...
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How can I best display these options?
We have a converter that enables you to state what amount you want in a currency or the amount you have in a currency.
The problem I find is that we have these radio buttons that need to be selected ...
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How to represent asynchronous states?
I am working on an interface where there is a list of things (tests) that can be running, drafts or running and pending tests.
In the latter options the same object represents two states (A - the ...
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Button Action: Left Click vs. Right Click
Has anyone ever seen the following design pattern in use, and if so, is there ever a good time to use it?
(Button) labeled "Do Something"
[User] left-clicks on (Button)
[System] action A (Add) is ...
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Reply all replies to self?
The mail client Microsoft Outlook have the option to use “Reply All” in a mail conversation. When you hit the “Reply All”-button, your name sometimes turn up in the to-box, meaning you’ll also receive ...
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How can you show human element without showing pictures of people?
With a company that changes all the time, how can you show the personal touch of human interaction without showing pictures of humans? Essentially, blurring the line between technology and people, ...
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Single 'Edit' link or two 'Edit' & 'Add' links for insert/update/delete operations
I have a dropdownlist and the user has the ability to delete and edit the selected option, or add a new option by clicking a hyperlink which brings up a popup with a form.
Would an 'Edit' link be ...
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Does that make me a bad designer if I don't care about the business model of the client? [closed]
Does that make me a bad designer if I don't care about the business model of the client? I am talking about something like interaction design.
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What information should be gathered through interviews? [closed]
This is my first project in Interaction design. I'm planning to design a portal for on-line florist. If I'm planning for a face to face interview with florists, What kind of information should I ...
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What's the terminology for bad practice around emulating browser functionality in your website?
Background
We've just updated one of our 10-year old web applications and in doing so have removed a "back" and "forward" button on the main menu. Our reasoning behind this change is that the web ...
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How long can a user remember what they were working on?
A web application lets the user browse its screens for future or past months. The time period the user is currently viewing follows the user through every screen of the system. But users can be ...
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Are in-app tabs bad practice?
I have certain advanced use cases of a web-app that can be handled by allowing users to open details of items in new tabs (i.e. a single page app with an unlimited row of in-app tabs which imitate the ...
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What are acceptable results in a click test?
I've run a few online click tests to find out where people click on my design screenshot to figure out what type of button for a specific task works best. Turned out about half of the people clicked ...
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Pattern to display Many to Many Relationships in two grids
Following is the data that needs to be displayed, to which the user can make changes or add new entries.
For capturing a contract, there is a set of documents that is maintained and for each document ...
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When best to perform a heuristic evaluation?
I am currently introducing industry standard usability practices & processes into our software development cycle.
The following prototype phase has been introduced which consists of the following
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Are circular menu / button interfaces intuitive?
I have been seeing a few of these 'Circular menu' UI concepts around.
Recently a similar UI was proposed as a central element for a large project I know of. For example, one of the options would be ...
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How can I describe what checkboxes do in a long list of items?
In my web app, I have a long list of items on one side of the screen and a shopping basket list on the other.
Here is an example:
The app works by checking the boxes next to items and then clicking ...
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Building logical criteria (with AND , OR, etc)
I am looking for inspiration on this. We have a Dot.Net web application, where we are building pretty complicated criteria. It works, but I would like to change this, re-shape this, possibly from the ...
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What are the “Big Three” Gestures in Mobile Development?
last week, our project manager mentioned that we needed to incorporate more of the "big 3" gestures in our mobile software. unfortunately, she's off on vacation now and none of us know what exactly ...
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List Selection mechanisms - OK to mix?
I have a window with multiple tabpages. On one tab, I have a set of controls designed to allow the user to "include" or "exclude" any of a set of pre-defined items from some consideration. You've seen ...
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why we need multi-column page layout? Why we do need sidebars? [closed]
Some websites only have one column.
Some websites have multi-columns.
So why we need sidebar, or why we need multi-column page layout in web /print media ?
Is there any UX principles?
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Button for making submissions per month
I'm working on an interface for allowing users to submit data via a button and wanted some advice on the best approach. The data for one or more whole months has to be submitted at precisely the last ...
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Task-based navigation with menu-items expanding to Mega Menus
First let me apologize for the length of this question, but I want to explain it pretty thoroughly.
Some background/rationale first: As part of the design of a new travel website I've gone with a ...
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Fitts' law and minimum target size
You can read everywhere that bigger targets are easier to hit. But say I have a given input modality and want to know the minimum button size for the interface. How would I go about that?
Fitts' law ...
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Press-and-hold or Long-Press Gestures: Unintuitive?
Often, I find people struggle with the usage of press-and-hold gestures on mobile/web platforms. The mere thought of having a user press on a defined object and hold for an arbitrary amount of time ...
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iPad specific button UX question (rating/feedback interaction system)
TL;DR : how would you design better buttons than my 5 buttons for "I disagree" / Neutral / "I agree" feedback ?
I am doing an iPad application used by participants of an event during a presentation, ...
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SharePoint 2010 : UX design considerations? [closed]
We are designing a portal with Share Point 2010 platform. Content is more informational oriented with hardly transactional tasks within it. I understand there are many views on SP UX but can someone ...
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Root Node design for a hierarchy/treeview in the user interface
I want to display hierarchical data in the user interface in a treeview control.
The question is should the user has the freedom to define its first root node itself.
I do not care wether a tree has ...
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Interaction Design, User Centered Design, User Experience and HCI [closed]
Can someone give me please a comparison in a nutshell?
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Is task-based the same as user-centric?
Well, I think that the question is self-explanatory.
In order to explain something to someone in the office I used task-based instead of user-centric and I was surprised. I'm usually complaining ...
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How long should I wait before a user is unable to change a page rating?
I'm currently building a page rating/feedback component. Some of the requirements I'm trying to figure out is how long should I wait before preventing a user from changing their mind/page rating?
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Drop-down list inside add button or panel
I have a screen where user defines his competencies. Each competency have to be later described with some details, so each is presented as a separate panel. Below the last Competency panel I put an ...
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UI suggesstions for enterting info in a spreadsheet
A Win32 Application has a spread sheet.
Spreadsheet has some columns. What columns and what type of data in each column? that's determined when we load the spreadsheet application, it reads the data ...
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How can I make the purpose of a complex user interface element more obvious?
I am the author of SQL Fiddle, an online environment for testing and sharing database problems. The target audience for my site is for pretty technically-sophisticated users (database programmers, ...
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How to encourage users to create more content?
Imagine a web service where users post notes grouped by tags. Notes are public and the tags are essential, because other users will see notes based on its tags (they can 'follow'). I want users to ...
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How Do I Teach People Rules When They Don't Read?
I'm the product guy for a fantasy sports gaming website. We often find that we need to give people basic rules to get started playing the games, but people always skip reading and try to dive right ...
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Placement of Buttons in Touch Screen Scenario
I am working on a Mobile Application primarily for Android Platform. The Application will have a lot of screens which will take user input and we need to have a save and cancel button for them.
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Default choice for a “leave without saving changes”-dialog
I have an existing design (web application) where users can edit small parts in a webpage. A small editor will open up with the editable fields and three buttons: [Cancel & Close] [Clear] and ...
