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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What is a simple way to explain the disciplines and benefits of UX to a client?
What is the clearest way to explain to a client the disciplines and benefits of User Experience Design?
What I've got so far...
This is the clearest definition of the disciplines I've seen, but it ...
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Visualize next step in learning application?
I have an application where a younger audience can improve their math skills. It is still in development phase and I have made some usability tests observing users getting their hands on the ...
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Lightbox for “In-Context” Editing
Some sites effectively combine the concept of, for the lack of better term, "in-context editing" and lightbox to allow users to easily do page content update. For example, check out Schoola and try ...
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How to make this 'Enable SMS' more intuitive
People seem to be missing this 'Enable SMS notifications' link at the top (which i can understand), I'm just looking for a suggestion as to how to make this more intuitive while still keeping the same ...
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would a small application to store temporary data be useful [closed]
I am planning to create a nice free small application and I need your expert opinion about whether this application would be useful or not. Here we go:
Details about the Application
Imagine you ...
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Touchscreen interface for menu and dropdown menu ease of use
I'm doing webpage design using Twitter Bootstrap's dropdown menu.
Problem:
Suppose I have a horizontal menu as shown in the Twitter Bootstrap documentation. That menu bar that list pages I want to ...
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Horizontal Scrollable List or Spinner, in smartphones
I have a screen (Android Smartphone) where the user has to make a choice from 2 dropdowns / spinners, second dropdowns' options are dependent on first dropdown's choice.
The number of items in each ...
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How to work with visual designers who treat wireframes as literal graphic suggestions?
Recently I started to face quite many cases on my client projects when a visual designer on the team produces design that looks like wireframes produced by me, only colored. Perhaps, the obvious ...
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Where to place optimization controls in a scheduling interface with several vehicles and optimization criteria?
I'm involved in the design of a vehicle routing interface. It mainly consists of a Gantt-Chart, where jobs are arranged in a timeline. Each job is carried out at a different location. The total travel ...
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UXD Methodology - Best practices for identifying a Global Navigation Toolbar implementation
I am part of a large webapp project, but a small UX team (we just went from 1 to 2, a few weeks ago). We were brought in terribly late in the process, to the point where there was literally no chance ...
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Does gender affect the results of a usability test?
There's a question on Quora asking for opinions about subjects' gender impact on usability tests. I think this topic is very interesting given that people of different genders prefer different visual ...
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App interface for changing relational percentages
Has anyone ever seen or used a good app interface (web or mobile) for changing relational percentages? E.g I need to change 3 amounts to make up £100 and I need to be able to use any permutation to do ...
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Need advice which template is better?
I posted here recently looking to improve a template in hopes to increase engagement with the page and decrease bounce rate.
Here is an example of a page how it used to look before:
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Which is worse--making the user close a file before they can export a second time or having multiple similar files open?
I have an grid application that allows users to export the grid to Excel and display it. The application gives the Excel file a name that is related to the grid. If the user makes some changes and ...
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698 views
How to solve Design/UX problems using more tangible/fun techniques?
I am trying to compile a list of interesting/more tangible methods of solving UX/Creative problems - whether it be as individual, in small groups, workshops, in user testing etc...
I am already ...
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Comparison between Android and IOS apps UI one-to-one
I am currently doing some research trying to describe differences between IOS and Android UI in detail. I know, there are a few questions before and some stuff on Google (I'm already going through ...
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Displaying selections from a Dropdown Check List
First of all, I apologize for my Englsih and will try to be as clear as possible!
I'm currently having a problem with a Dropdown Check List.
I have, on the left of the search results, a Dropdown ...
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1answer
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Interactive table - with many levels of information
I have a table that users need to interact with (insideweb application), at the most basic level they need to place a checkmark which shows that an item is available on a product. If it were so simple ...
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How can I display progress through a multi-step wise process to be carried out by user? (Smartphones / Tablets) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you indicate progress to users in a multi-step form?
What is the best way to display progress in a multi-step process (for e.g. linear filling various forms) on ...
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Date Range for Saturday-Saturday or Sunday-Sunday Vacations
So I'm having an interesting problem while selling vacations.
Right now, I have two calendars for picking a date range. This date range is supposed to identify the days my customer is available to ...
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225 views
How can I convey the results of UX research to stakeholders?
How can I go about getting stakeholders to understand and "buy into" the results derived from UX research? For example, I ran across this great UX research plan by a Google UX researcher today.
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How best to describe ranking and prizes using icons?
I have a site with an online game, there is a ranking of players.
For each game the player gets points which are summed up in their ranking.
During the game I want to show how much the player won ...
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Should the results of a calculation happen automatically, or require a button push?
This is a problem I've ran into several times, and I imagine that others have ran across it too.
Basically, I have a complicated equation, and I want the user to type in the values needed to ...
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3answers
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Table data in Mobile phones
I want to display a table with 4/5 columns and possibly 100 rows (as in desktop app right now) in smartphones. The table cells are also editable. Now we want to port this desktop app to smartphones ...
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558 views
At what stage in a project would hiring a UX contractor provide the most value?
In this case it would be for a small company that can't afford lots of specialized positions, developing a new (browser based, this time) version of an enterprise application. The new version is a ...
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How to indicate which section you're in, in a flat list?
Think of a smartphone style flat list with items that can belong to one of three priorities: High, medium and low. Each priority is separated with an inline header.
Now suppose we have a small ...
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Update list when a user is viewing the list without annoying them
We have a list of items that the user will be interacting with frequently during sessions. Each session will last a minute or two and during that time they are changing state on items and updating ...
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How to provide great UX in navigation from bird's eye view web-component to smaller web-component and vice-versa?
I have a web application, let's call it "Molecule", that provides a bird's eye view over the status of several other web applications, let's call them "Atoms".
I want, somehow, to navigate from the ...
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Where can I find resources or information about the trade off of ease of use vs. safety in mission critical software UIs?
Systems that performs some critical or very important actions tend to be harder to complete than non-critical actions.
For example, launching missiles might require the user to complete a complex ...
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Is it safe to adopt idea of double-click on a radio button? [closed]
(I have first noticed this with MS Office applications, but I have seen it also ...somewhere in Gnome, I can't remember where...)
The idea
If a dialog pops up that basically asks you to choose only ...
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1answer
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How does a 3d shading impact circular button use?
I recently ran across a circular smiley icon with lambertian shading, specular shading, and cast shadows. The effect was a little like a ball on a table.
Here it is:
Clicking the icon toggled an ...
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2answers
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Better way to scroll through discrete horizontal list
As a javascript developer, the simplest way to implement sliding is to just put all items in a row and animate by changing a css property.
Are there any reasons to do it this way besides the ...
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3answers
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Form Input for Min/Max Field that can be Equal
I'm having a hard time coming up with a solution for this. I'm working on a travel site, and one question is "How many days do you want your trip to be?"
I want to handle two cases, "7 Days" or "7-9 ...
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Slider-less time selection.
I'm using the default datetime picker with rails. I'm mainly focusing on the time aspect of this because for my purposes the day will rarely ever be changed. I'm looking for some sort of way to make ...
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2answers
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Designing a good bulk ignore-feature
I'm designing an analysis tool which displays a number of result items in a list/table. The items are issues the user should pay attention to and react upon, like "There's a problem with X". The user ...
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interface suggestions
I have a simple site I'm creating that basically just allows you to set your status as away or available. Super easy and very simple. However, I'm definitely not a UX person and I really struggle at ...
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How to re-design an app's user interface?
I am new to the interaction design field, basically a student.
I have an assignment where I need to research into topic about Interaction Design of applications for smartphones / tablets when you ...
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Get user Birth location
So i need to get the exact location of where a person was born.
Currently, I have two maps on a page and an input field. So you can basically use either one. Right now the top map is a view of the ...
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Why two kind of links should be visually different in a site? [closed]
In a site we have different kind of links, some are pure user related, some are pure navigational. Some are linked headings (which are black).
Are we going too far away from best practices? Is there ...
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Is it ok to require certain users to have JavaScript enabled?
I am a firm believer sites should work perfectly fine for people who choose to disable Javascript while browsing any and all of the content.
However, when it comes to higher-level interaction (such ...
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3answers
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What Defines “On a Device”?
I'm currently working on a user experience problem that involves a user's multiple devices (smart phone, tablet, laptop, etc.)
What I'm trying to accomplish is that the app "intuitively senses" when ...
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Should validating an email automatically sign someone into an application?
When signing up for a new account with a web application, it is standard to send a validation email. I don't want to go into the pros and cons of the validation email though.
When receiving a ...
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2answers
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How to convey the notion of urgency and impact via symbols and/or ux
I'm creating an interface for help desk solution where users must define an urgency and impact for the case they are creating.
I thought about a slider like this Smiley Slider but the smiley doesn't ...
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1answer
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Design patterns for Complex Financial forms.?
I have a very big financial form of a budget, where it has lot of information spread across months of a year or future years. To just give you guys some background, budget is created for every year ...
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Which tools and methodologies are used in UX desig to build a UI from analytical data? [closed]
What are the most effective mental and methodological processes that UX designers use to convert analytical data to UI?
What cognitive tools are used?
While planning an "Introduction to UI" course ...
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Best way to show historical information of form fields?
I have a form where i have fields(15-30) of various types textbox/radio/checkbox/select. Now i have to show the historical information of all the fields. Right now, i handling it by providing a icon ...
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Smart phones, touch screens and the “Gorilla arm effect”?
I finally broke down and decided to get a smart phone for myself. While I find it really useful, I can't help wondering if any research has been done on the "gorilla arm effect" of holding a smart ...
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Why is the new Twitter menu bar on the bottom on iPhone?
Twitter recently released a complete redesign for all major platforms, in part the redesign has been made to unify the experience across platforms.
But, because of this goal I couldn't help noticing ...
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What are the best UX / Interaction Design masters courses in UK or Ireland? [closed]
Looking for the best taught masters programme in UK or Ireland in the field of User Experience / Interaction design. Ideally a 1-2 year full-time programme.
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What should be maximum and minimum length of persons User Name & Password?
I am wondering because I am trying to make sure that person have right amount of spaces for their user name.
User Name and Password are security measures and should not be easy to guess. I have fixed ...
