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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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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1answer
272 views
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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3answers
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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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1answer
166 views
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 ...
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UX/design issue on combining different grid system [closed]
The guys behind Gumby framework have added the hybrid (12+16 columns) grid.
Which means on the same page you can have the 2 systems that cohabit at the same time.
What about the the design ...
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What technique(s) would you use to evaluate and [re]define fields in a lengthy and complex form?
We were commissioned the redesign of a web application for real estate agencies. During the first stage of our user research, which was a contextual inquiry, we found that the form fields (or data ...
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How to present articles & videos in the same section
This might seem really obvious but i'm working on a cookery site and under the tab 'How to cook' there will be videos to show you this as well as step-by-step articles the user can print.
Within this ...
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Making space for the “drop cue” in a drag-n-drop design
I'm developing a drag-and-drop reordering interface for books on shelves.
(You can try it live if you're on the latest WebKit.)
When you drag a book over a shelf, it accommodates space for it by ...
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Google / Maps for Mobile Web
Does anyone have experience with embedded maps for Mobile Web? (NOT APP)
My experience is that it introduces another frame into the page with a separate set of scrolling behavior - not a good thing. ...
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2answers
287 views
Pagination on navigation links?
On a web application we have two ways to navigate to our collaborative project sites. One is the “recent visits” and the other is alphabetical. That navigation element has a fixed element height of ...
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4answers
875 views
What is safe area / minimum distance for iPhone 4
What is safe area / minimum distance for iPhone 4 canvas?
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Can user experience be mutually exclusive for two groups of users?
Is it possible for an item to have good usability and a positive user experience for one core group of users and, by virtue of that design, make the experience worse for another core group of users? ...
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Should form elements work in a form creation application?
I am building a part of an application where users will be able to create and edit existing forms:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
The submit button is ...
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Creating prototypes using keynote for ipad
I have hi-fi wireframes for each screen, which are flattened images in JPEG format. These wireframes can be connected by hotspots in Fireworks or any other tool that creates clickable prototypes.
How ...
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Layout of multi-purpose status update box
I'm building a status update box similar to the one found on Facebook and Google+. Mine will allow for multiple types of posts such as status updates, code snippets, images, projects and applications. ...
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1answer
323 views
Prominent Notification Areas in a Desktop Application
I am working on ux for a desktop application for users. I am looking to find out more information, answers, best practices when it comes to handling notifications of actions and other alerts within a ...
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1answer
194 views
Switch to login view automatically, or ask the user to log in?
I'm currently designing a mini-application which displays user info (such as unread private messages, profile views, etc.) for a website which requires users to log in. Thus, naturally, the mini-app ...
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3answers
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My sign-up process has too many options - should I shut some down?
We have a service that involves syncing between devices. You can either:
a) sign-up on the web, download the client and sign-in
b) download and sign-up within the client
c) download a mobile app, ...
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4answers
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Need a way to position a “change” and “delete” button
I am currently working on an interface for administrators to edit user profiles. Due to space constraints, I am unsure as to what's the best way to position the "Change Picture" and "Delete Picture" ...
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What are the UX considerations/issues when porting an iOS app to Windows Phone?
I've noted the previous topics on Windows Phone 7 best practices and will be reading the suggested docs over several coffees this evening, but to help me on my way I'd appreciate any input you all may ...
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1answer
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What is the optimal layout for a form with two respondents?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
I'm redesigning a form that is used by office workers who interview respondents in person. In some cases, there will be two ...
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1answer
112 views
Flash User Interface without Flash? [closed]
These are exciting times for developers that want to spread their wings with interactive-design. And I have a project forth coming that I wish to give the user a great experience every time they use ...
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5answers
226 views
Help panels inside application
Are there good UX reasons for not putting a "help panel" within a web application? (one that can be shown or hidden).
Most applications open help in a different browser tab. I'm thinking of just ...
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1answer
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Globalization Patterns for Dates Without Year
In my application, there is a field that represents the end of the accounting year for an entity. This "date" is the same every year, so what we currently present to the user is field with a month ...
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How do I represent actions that can be performed on a canvas?
I have an SVG on top of which there are some circles. The following are the actions that can be performed:
Single-click + Hold on top of canvas and then move mouse to pan the canvas
Double-click to ...
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3answers
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Standards for HTML access keys
Wanted to see if anyone has done some research on standard HTML access key. I have notices after doing some research many sites including Apple have incorporated the accesskey="s" on its search box. I ...
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1answer
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Trial Expiring Email frequency
I am building a SAAS service which as a 30 day trial period. We know we need/want to notify trial accounts when the they are coming close to expiring.
But what is the right frequency?
We were ...
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1answer
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Any library for Interactive possibly-changing image navigation? [closed]
There is a large repository of images. I want users to be able to navigate them fast or see small previews about the directory fast. There are many subdirectories (many similar images in ...
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1answer
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Quickly and intuitively entering quantity and item
I am trying to find an intuitive input control to create a list of QUANTITY x ITEM lines. The items already exist in the database and the simplest way to do this would be:
In order to make it ...
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3answers
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How to give feedback to users that the site is processing?
I'm designing a website that is just a 16 x 16 tile with squares of different colors (small squares).
-> A user can click a tile to change its color.
The problem is that computing the color the tile ...
5
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2answers
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How should I Redirect/Handoff users to a 3rd party site?
Does anyone have any experience with handing off users to another website with a good user experience?
We offer a product, and if the user doesn't qualify for our product, we hand the user off to a ...
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2answers
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Syncing: should we visualize the “everything-is-up-to-date” state?
Here is screenshot of some Dropbox folder:
I'm working on implementing a web-interface for cloud data storage, so Dropbox is one of my sources of inspiration. My question is - why should we try to ...
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2answers
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Should all browsers share the same experience?
I'm creating a page that uses history.pushState() which is only supported by html5 browsers. As such, should users of older browsers have a different experience? Here are two options that I can think ...
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Best way to organize interface
I have an application where users can select some items from a catalogue and add into their reports.
Some users prefer to add positions one by one, first opening the catalogue, adding a new ...
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UI for interfacing with hardware
I recently came across an interesting question, that I think is quite thought provoking. The original question was, how the person in question could make a radio button look and act enabled, but not ...
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How should I handle conditional content for product listings?
I have a client who wants to have conditional content in the product catalogue of their website for each market/user base. The client has a lot of "user bases" and markets, each with different needs, ...
