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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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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109 views
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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188 views
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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1answer
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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 ...
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Action buttons placement related to data tables
Background
Over the course of the last few months on common element shared between a large number of internal development teams, is the need to provide functionality on a data table. Once of the ...
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Internal Vs. Consumer site UX
I am in the middle of designing a web application for a company that deals with institutions, there are both the end-user facing site (what the schools will see and use), and the "behind-the-scenes" ...
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Why does iOS (iPhone) flip to show the home screen when installing apps?
When you click to install or update an app in iOS (iPhone or iPad) it exits from the app store and shows the apps installing on the home screen.
This differs from Android where the confirmation that ...
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Best practices for Responsive images from mobile to Desktop [closed]
I have Fullscreen image. This creates problems for mobile browsing for the images are large and hi-res.
Next problem is with things like retina display how does a design/programmer prepare to deal ...
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Is spacing between touch targets an unnecessary recommendation by Microsoft?
A recent Microsoft IE10 blogpost gave general guidelines for building touch friendly sites suggesting two rules for touch targets:
Target size
Margin between targets
Apple's iOS guidance only ...
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How do you treat overview and detail pages when displaying a progress bar?
I have a progress bar at the top of all pages in a signup process:
Personal details > Contact details > Choose membership package > Buy > Finish
The order of these steps is fixed but I ...
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Are Radio Buttons or a Drop-down more appropriate to scope a search?
Below are Mock-ups of the two choices to scope the search. The radio buttons would expose all choices initially. The drop-down search pattern I've seen more often, and I think users would be more ...
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What is this failed login visual shake feedback properly called? Is it beneficial?
Wordpress, Coursera and others have the "shake fail" feedback (see Coursera gif below).
Is there a name for this type of mimicry of a physical action (head shaking "no")?
Is there any evidence of ...
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What's the best solution to show the average results of a review?
I have a reviewing system that I've designed which uses three possibilities to review (using emotional icons)
Works really nice, but I have also to publish the average of the reviews.
I was ...
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1answer
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Do auto tab break the least astonishment principle? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Auto Advance to Next Field
Do auto tabbing a field break the Principle of Least Astonishment?
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Control buttons for a Remote Desktop Application
I need to provide a set of top level controls for a Remote Desktop Application and my concern is where should these control be placed on the screen.
Controls are:
Chat Icon
Keyboard options (if ...
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1answer
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Good practice to divide items into groups
I am currently working on an enterprise project, and I've come across a puzzle like this.
There are a range of items (about 10) I need to group. What I do is like a wizard in a single page, letting ...
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Search box: how to accept an autofill suggestion and run it
I have a search box with autocompletion based on recent searches. Let's say it searches for names. As a user types "Rob", it autocompletes it to "*Rob*ert". I'm trying to figure out a way for the user ...
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203 views
Problem with repeated icons
What's the best way to avoid repeating icons on each row, it clutters the layout and takes attention from other important elements.
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UI Metaphor or Examples of configuration preset selection
What is a good UI metaphor for selecting from a set of configuration options?
The tool I'm designing for has nearly 200 (!) inputs that can be set depending on your particular application and needs. ...
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Displaying millions of records usably
I'm playing with millions of records where I fetch 100 records per page with pagination and a search panel to help user if he wants some unique record.
But the questions are:
1: Do I really need to ...
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Can I learn UX design as I already have an idea about UI design, but not in coding? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do I need to know to get started as a professional UX/interaction designer?
Basically am working as graphic designer and animator in the e-learning industry past 8 ...
