is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world.
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2answers
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Poor and good conceptual model [closed]
I read about the conceptual model in this book: Design of Everyday things.
Could someone told me an another good and bad conceptual model, not the fridge one?
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7answers
390 views
How do you sell UX to someone that doesn't want it?
The problem:
Handling company information with spreadsheets, including
Versioning over email
Lack of format consistency
Soft workarounds to Hard problems
Susceptibility to human error in data input
...
12
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11answers
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“Tool” or “target” on vacuum cleaner pedal?
I always get confused by the icons on my vacuum cleaner pedal.
Take a look at the upper icon.
Is that icon representing
1) The tool. I.e. "Your now using the pedal without the brush" (ergo, on a ...
2
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2answers
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“Pharma” UX Model? [closed]
Is there any known "Pharma" like UX examples or flows out there in the digital world?
Example: Doctor recommends a drug to a patient, hands off prescription to receptionist to make a copy. ...
2
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1answer
59 views
How to design a change state action
My application manages a few types of entities, each of them has its own workflow.
For example - a task entity workflow will look something like this:
(this is a functional/logical drawing, this is ...
2
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2answers
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Do we need to indicate that an activity that ran very quickly didn't error-out immediately?
We have a system that has a few maintenance activities that run very quickly (less than a second). Problem is, when users look at the log file for the system, seeing an activity that ran for 0 seconds ...
1
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1answer
111 views
How to visualize cause and effect relationships with diagrams?
How can I model relationships where one or more causes produces an effect? I hope that such diagrams may make some of my ideas clearer to the user than just a block of text. Are there some tools that ...
0
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2answers
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Phrase for a view dropdown for showing items that are both missing and ready but with warnings
The Setup
A grid has a status for each line item. These statuses are, Missing, Ready, Missing W/ Warning, Ready W/ Warning. A warning is triggered when the last external update to that item was ...
5
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2answers
147 views
Help user develop a mental model for version control system
We are developing an integrated version control system for a large enterprise application. When users change something to the underlying data in the system they do so through a "Work Item"
This is ...
4
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3answers
204 views
How does a “mental model” relate to an information model
In UI design we often talk about "mental models" that users need to form. I'm wondering if there is a particular relationship between that mental model and the actual information model that the system ...
5
votes
3answers
427 views
Should animations pause on mouseover?
Should animations pause on mouseover? I have my opinion, but I was wondering if there was any evidence to support/refute the idea that users expect this to happen.
EDIT: I'm specifically concerned ...
7
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2answers
539 views
Filtering: Additive or subtractive model?
A lot of sites use an additive filtration system while there is also subtractive now is used.
A difference in an interaction method:
Additive
First of all you need to choose a set of the options ...
1
vote
3answers
155 views
Derive universal mental model from bunch of user mental models, good practice or not?
If you have a bunch of mental models derived from card sort and user interview data from a single user group, is it okay to attempt to form a universal mental model by looking at patterns in the ...
13
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4answers
251 views
What is it about our mental models that app-centric seems more intuitive than content-centric?
I always thought that content-centric was the easiest for people to deal with, i.e. "I want to change this document", and not "Let's run this app so I can then change that document".
It seems that ...
