a message to a user about some event.
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Use old or new name for an update confirmation message when name itself has been updated?
I want to provide a user of a web application some confirmation message like:
The task "foobar" has been successfully updated.
Now, in term of usability, if the update consists in changing ...
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Should a mobile media app lower volume or pause?
When designing mobile media apps (specifically audio-only ones), what should they do when a notification comes in and phone volume is on?
I noticed two different behaviors on my phone - Spotify will ...
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Pop-under: Really that bad?
We're currently discussing to add pop-unders to one of our platforms to get users to use one of our notification features. As you can probably imagine, as a UX person I'm really against the use of ...
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Why do alarm clocks not all come with 5/7 day alarms for the working week?
In all the advances in usability why do alarm clocks still wake us up on Saturday? Why not only Monday to Friday instead of being set every night?
Do we have to rely on our mobile phone if we want ...
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The notification tray at the top of Stack Exchange sites: what is it called? And are there other good examples of this?
I'm trying to clean up notifications for a client site and was wondering if the notification pattern that Stack Exchange employs has a name that I can use to search for more examples.
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How long should a temporary notification appear?
For our intranet application we have little notification messages that indicate successful operations like "information saved," "logged out" etc. Most of them are not important enough to require a ...
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Best Practices for Warning of Session Expiration
Our application has a 30 min auto-expiring session - the session is renewed on server communication.
What is the best way to communicate an expiring session to the user?
My initial thought is a to ...
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How to define/classify messages and notifications
I have seen content from various style guides and UX guidelines about this, and was wondering if there is a much more simple system to create a consistent and easy to implement design for various ...
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Design pattern or best practices for top notification bars?
The top notification bar on SE pops up to show messages like 'badge x earned'. What are the best practices for this type of UI?
Specific details:
On showing - Displace content downward (like on SE) ...
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What is a “toast notification”?
Microsoft mentions the toast as a visual element in the package manifest for Metro-style apps with the attribute ToastCapable="true".
What does this mean?
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How to tell the user that an input box is autocomplete-enabled?
Is there a good graphical sign which tells the user that a particular field on the page is autocomplete enabled?
For instance, the field name says "Document author". When you start typing in that ...
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Page updating: “full”, “notification” or “replacing”
What is the best user experience with the auto-updating pages - for example, a list of songs. Currently I'm thinking about three good possible solutions:
"Full" update: when the new content appear ...
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Snoozing an alarm: should the alarm grow progressively louder or softer?
Hypothetical design question: upon snoozing an alarm, should the alarm grow progressively louder or softer?
Case for louder: you’ve been snoozing too much; wake up now.
Case for softer: maybe you ...
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Alerting visitors to a website of a current event (e.g. breaking news)
Backstory:
We have a website for a conference. As part of the process of the conference, we invite people to submit sessions, but only for a limited period of time. We want to alert visitors to the ...
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Is there a standard for the frequencies and or duration used for beeps?
Is there a standard for the frequencies and or duration used for error or alert beeps?
When I hear a ding or bing sound, I sometimes find that the frequency of the tone is too high or low (in my ...
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What is a good clean way of notifying the user their action was registered?
I am developing an internal website for managing company resources. The user sees very few full page refreshes. Therefore, when they click "Save" to save their changes, they don't get a refreshed page ...
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Messaging a user success and error messages at the same time
There's a screen in our app where the user performs a batch action to list some products on their online store. In the UI, they select the products from a list and click a 'list' button.
During this ...
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Given CSRF protection, how can I deal with an extremely slow user?
We use a CSRF cookie on all of our forms that send data via HTTP POST. By default, the CSRF cookie out lives the session cookie by 2+ hours, in order to ensure it does not expire for users that still ...
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How should I handle playing multiple alarms?
I have a web application that monitors a service (polls) every 30 seconds or so, and displays any new records (notifications). Each one of these must be acknowledged by an operator. The customer has ...
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Timer for undos (aka ctrl + z for pointing devices)
We are in the middle of an endless conversation* in the office :
Should undos have a timer before disappearance or should they be displayed until next action?
In our discussion, closing or changing ...
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1answer
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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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Are “Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter” emails necessary?
I am about to disable the "Send a Thank You for Unsubscribing to our Newsletter" message for some of our clients as I think it's superfluous and unnecessary.
My suggestion was to have an Unsubscribe ...
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How best to draw the users to a potential issue in the data they have entered
I have a form where the user can update project information. A project is linked to an organisation, and an organisation has license(s) - which has an expiry date. When updating the project, if the ...
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Best pattern for posting to social networks
I have an app (RateBeer for Android) that allows users to post updates to the social network, like publishing a beer review, setting their current status, setting a star-rating or adding availability ...
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What will be the Best notifications and error messages?
As a UI architect, I am always wondering about the best format to display errors and notifications to users.
Which of the following examples is the best format?
Name is required
Name cannot be ...
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UI : Is it fine to have MessageBox without a caption?
A trivial UI guideline question - Is it ok to have MessageBox without caption ? I have a Winforms GUI with 3 confirmation boxes at different scenarios. Can anybody provide me some formal UI guidelines ...
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Should a confirmation of the style “Your message has been deleted” be green, yellow, red?
For success messages, I usually use green, for warnings yellow and for errors red. Now in the trash folder users can delete messages permanently and restore messages.
I got confused which color would ...
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Notification - Best practice
We have been working on developing a web application and I am currently researching best practice for user prompts notifications. We are currently using standard system notifications which work well ...
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4answers
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Partial success message when deleting items
In one of our applications, the user can select multiple items and delete as many of them as they wish in single click.
However, while processing this request there is some validation and ...
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2answers
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Mobile App: Data Update Notification
I have a mobile app that displays simple data for a large set of items. The entire database is downloaded to the device (<5MB) on first run but requires updates in between source code updates.
...
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2answers
329 views
What image and message use in the “Not found” page (404 error page) [closed]
I've seen the robot of Google, the creature that has Github. I think that is question of imagination and what kind of data manages your web app to design a custom image and the message to show to the ...
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Email notification service - registration required or not?
I am creating a notification service in my web app that will allow people to be notified when certain types of postings are published according to their tastes.
They will be able to sign up for ...
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2answers
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Correct terminology for that circle/bubble with number of notifications in it?
Some applications will overlay some colored bubble/circle with a number to show how many unread messages/notifications or "things to do" are currently available. For instance, it's on Skype to show ...
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Handling inactive notifications icons
With our app, there's currently a list of notification icons in the left side of the page. This are to alert you to events or things to do (e.g. you haven't contacted customer x for 30 days, you have ...
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Is this a good way of attracting a user's attention to a message?
I need to draw my users' attention to a warning message, alerting them to a problem and giving guidance of what they need to do next. The message does not appear on a popup box, since that would mean ...
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Why people tend to go traditional instead of using their cool reminder phone app?
We all have some cool reminders applications in our phones, that have all the features to remind as at a specific time a task we have to do.
Besides this, as I read in a review/survey, people tend ...
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4answers
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Which case is good UX? A Peugeot VS BMW Story [closed]
This question applies to a different product than most UX designers are used to discuss: cars.
Long story short, in my short 7 year driving experience I've be mostly driving two cars: a 2005 Peugeot ...
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What icon could be used to mean 'notifications'? [closed]
As part of a web-based application, we have a toolbar at the top of the page. The toolbar contains buttons that consist of small (30x30) icons with a single word underneath (for example, a search ...
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What is the most effective color to be used on notifications?
I need to choose a color to be used with notifications. I was placing an exclamation mark over a red circle, but I was told it looks more like an error if you haven't seen it in the UI before. So now ...
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2answers
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What are the best practices for site-wide maintenance notices?
I manage a set of websites with a largely non-technical user base. We want to occasionally provide site-wide notices for forthcoming planned maintenance.
We've tried using a messages with red ...
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2answers
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Best Way to provide Notifications to user using Metro UI approach?
I'm a developer, not a designer or UI designer.
I'm developing a system and trying to use Metro UI concepts.
What is the best (or correct) way to provide a user notifications about errors using ...
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2answers
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What is the optimal alarm handling for a calendar (or todo) event?
I am not statisfied with current alarm handling methods. It got worse, when I moved to my current home, which is a small town, 20 km to the capital. The problem is, that IMHO there should be more than ...
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3answers
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best approach to notification/error message notifications
in the application i'm working on, there are 2 types of notifications:
Confirmation messages (successful action results) and Alerts (unsuccessful action results/errors and Session expiration prompts). ...
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When to display a success notification from modal window
I'm working on a web app which heavily uses modal windows to display forms/options for different tasks. Some of the modals have a one time only 'confirm' action which warrants a 'success notification' ...
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Notification when user leaves a page, if a background task is running?
I am developing a page which allows users to select files to upload to my server. While the files are being uploaded, if the user navigates to a different page (using the browser back button, for ...
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Good examples of notification systems (other than iphone/android)? [closed]
Has anyone seen any good examples of notifications systems out there, aside from iphone or android? I'm looking to design a notifications system that will give the user a gentle nudge (as they work in ...
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How long can a user remember what they were working on?
A web application lets the user browse its screens for future or past months. The time period the user is currently viewing follows the user through every screen of the system. But users can be ...
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How to announce launch of mobile version (Native apps + website) of a website
What is best way to inform to user of desktop website that now website have Mobile version of website and native apps for many platforms?
A permanent section on website to tell about it with icons.
...
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When is it appropriate to use fading animated messages for feedback and notification.
To clarify: these are messages (text or symbols) that appear right at the point of interaction, and then float away and fade out.
You see this kind of animation when adding people to your Circle in ...
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Should I send the private message body in the notifying email?
My website is a bit similar to StackExchange sites in regards of user interaction, but additionally it has a private messaging system. A message has a subject and a body.
Every time a new message or ...
