The wording or presentation of legally important text or information. Remember questions are posed to designers, not lawyers; this is not for "is X legal" questions.
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If nobody reads Privacy Policies or Terms and Conditions, why not change them?
Once I read that if you were to read all the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy and similar documents that you ideally need to read before using software or online services in a given year, you'd ...
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What UX solutions are there for the EU cookie legislation?
The EU cookie legislation http://www.out-law.com/page-10510 is rightly or wrongly are being introduced, there has been much negative comment from both legal and technical commentators - that said it ...
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3answers
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What's the best way to make a user read terms and conditions before continuing a form?
What's the best way to make a user read terms and conditions before continuing a form?
Structure of Form:
Label1 [Textbox]
Label2 [Textbox]
Terms and Conditions [Textarea]
Checkbox ["I agree to the ...
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3answers
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Opt-ins versus opt-outs in forms - does nobody else care?
Whilst filling out a form on the Royal Mail site this morning, I came across this heresy of form design: the self-negating checkbox...
This required careful (re)reading to ensure that:
I was ...
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1answer
333 views
What kind of legal protection can I obtain for a user interface design?
I'm looking to protect an innovative user interface design idea for a mobile application. It took a lot of work and creative effort to come up with a design that satisfies the particular constraints ...
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2answers
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“By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions”
Is it okay to have a "By posting this, you agree to our terms and conditions" (i.e. like 4chan) as opposed to a "I agree to the terms and conditions" checkbox?
I read about automatic agreement to ...
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1answer
167 views
Automatic agreement to terms of service
Is it acceptable (or even legal) to have "I agree to the terms and service" checkbox automatically checked when a new user signs up with our website? I'm trying to convince the person in charge to not ...
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2answers
513 views
How to design usable web site terms & conditions?
What are some guidelines and examples for designing usable legal terms for web sites? I know that most users don't read it, but are there innovative ways to improve readability and presentation of ...
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4answers
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Forcing the user to view the entire disclosure before continuing on a kiosk
For a KIOSK application, the user is required to view the entire disclosure before they are allowed to continue. This is a legal requirement, the legal team also turned down an 'I agree' checkbox. We ...
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4answers
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Is the absence of a visible scroll bar confusing when asking users to agree with license terms?
This is for a web application, where the user is asked to accept the terms and conditions. Those license terms are displayed in a small window with the Accept button at the bottom. The full text does ...
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1answer
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Different approaches to prompting Mac users about accepting an EULA
I’m a bit technical in my reasoning here but I hope that will be okay.
What other approaches are there for displaying the EULA? Are there any who actually offer a non-disruptive prompt? Is there even ...
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votes
2answers
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Programs or markup viewers for legal or logical content?
I am interested in user interfaces that represent legal argumentation and/or logical reasoning. For professionals dealing with complex reasoning and argumentation that is mainly language-based, what ...
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4answers
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How to balance formality against ease and friendliness for electronic signatures?
We have some legal forms we would like entrants to sign before and/or after participating in contests and sweepstakes conducted on our websites. (We authenticate before any of this, so we'll know ...
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3answers
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Design requirements for displaying Terms and Conditions / Privacy Policy
My clients needs to put Terms of Conditions and a Privacy Policy on their site. I know little about this area and I am wondering if there are any design specific requirements (legal?) that I need to ...
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votes
2answers
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Studies showing what prompts users to view the privacy policy of a website that does not have user accounts?
As opposed to websites where A user signs up and can be concerned about their privacy (i.e. Instagram, etc). What have case studies shown to motivate a user to look through a website's privacy policy? ...
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2answers
255 views
Is UX Copyrightable?
After the recent "Look and Feel" Apple vs Samsung lawsuits, I've been wondering to what extent this might affect websites/webapps that offer functionality similar to other existing sites.
So what ...
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vote
2answers
289 views
Legal stance on using application icons within our product
We're in the process of building an application that has the ability for a user to store their files within it. When they view a certain page within our product, we need to display a list of all the ...
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1answer
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Can intranet work be shown in portfolio? [closed]
I know that some clients and employers have restrictions about putting their work in your portfolio website. And I know that internal UX and UI work (wireframes, interaction flow, etc) is typically ...
