is an object of communication with the goal to pass information between communicators (human or non-human)
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Should flash messages fade out or contain a close button or stay forever?
Note: By flash message, I do not mean Adobe Flash, but messages that should be displayed on completion of an action.
I am designing a web application and messages will be displayed after a certain ...
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Graphically displaying a conversation between more than two people
I'm working on a project that involves displaying a text-only conversation between anywhere from two to ten or more people. The reader will be either zero or one of the participants.
The main UI will ...
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Periods at the end of a sentence in alert message
How to classify what type of messages should've a fullstop/period and what should not?
Because there are certain error/warning/success/info messages (be it a dialog, banner, contextual or ones in a ...
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When should the message informing the user that the password they entered is wrong go away?
This is a follow up to this question since it got closed. In a log in form, after the user enters the wrong password, when should the message saying "wrong password or user name" go away? For example ...
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News Feed vs Message Log, Sort by Newest vs Sort by Oldest
I'm starting out on building an application that will be a hybrid of a messaging application, but with "news feed" like qualities. These qualities being rich media, advertisement, and conversations ...
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Popup for a check box
Say there's a form (XAML) with a checkbox on it. If the check box is checked the user should be warned about something. The message to the user is basically, if you enable this then be aware that such ...
