a fundamental notion referring to the recognition of patterns and relationships of entities
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How to best market my business Online? [closed]
As a personal injury and medical negligence firm, we are looking to improve our online visibility. What would be the best way to promote http://www.claimsdirect.co.uk/injury-claims
online?
I was ...
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2answers
230 views
Does an “Other” category on a Help page have any value?
When designing a Help page or FAQ that is broken down into categories, is a category titled "Other" useful, or does it indicate a poor information architecture?
Sometimes there are truly items that ...
6
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5answers
228 views
Massive menu on website, how to solve it?
I must change the following menu in some web site.
This menu contain almost 30 items!
Screenshot:
Any idea?
Categories:
Home, Games, Leisure Children, Openly Software, Recipes, Study Lessons, ...
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2answers
124 views
Issues with Tabbed Layout
Larger View
Here's a screenshot of something I'm currently working on. I decided to use tabs at the top because filling in the "Office Details" is just as important as the list of employees and ...
1
vote
3answers
108 views
At which point do you have the sitemap fully worked out?
Reviewed the project plan for a redesign I'm working on which was put together by a project manager and not informed by a UX'er. The project plan asks for the site map deliverable to be documented ...
1
vote
1answer
84 views
Working out the site navigation
I've been tasked with a corporate website re-design. The first thing I did was a content audit. A column in my audit was 'content type' I went through every page of the website and recorded the ...
10
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11answers
965 views
Website redesign how do you know how to organize the navigation structure?
I know this question is extremely broad but I would like to know the steps a UX'er would take in order to understand what content there is on a site and then how to organize this content in terms of ...
5
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3answers
115 views
Why do we always need to integrate search with structure?
Jakob Nielsen posted in May 2009 an article called “Top 10 Information Architecture Mistakes” where he states that mistake no 2 is not having an integrated search with the structure of the site. I’ve ...
1
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1answer
245 views
Alternative to 2 tab bars in iPhone app
I am working on an iPhone app. I am in the early stages of designing the structure.
I will be using word department as a node in the information architecture structure of an app.
I encountered a ...
1
vote
1answer
65 views
Whare are the best structures for defining different levels of products or services
What types of product (or loyalty) structures provide the best user experience when choosing between different options or prices for a product / service?
The types of typical structures, rankings and ...
2
votes
1answer
240 views
What's the best way to present multiple many to many options in a form?
I'm working on a web app where the data is structured as follows:
CLIENTS may have one or more CONTRACTS
CONTRACTS may have one or more CASES
CASES may have one or more CLIENTS
...
3
votes
2answers
254 views
How should a small team approach the redesign and relaunch a large, complex intranet? [closed]
I'm embarking on a redesign of a corporate intranet. The project will likely result in a complete structural overhaul of the site. However, the project team will be relatively small.
This poses a ...
4
votes
2answers
536 views
How to structure complex forms for business documents?
In our enterprise management software we use forms to record document like customers, invoices, sales order, tasks, products, etc. We wanted forms to look like their hard paper version.
Below is an ...
5
votes
2answers
370 views
How to display a connected boxes with inputs and outputs in a smartphone?
Imagine the concept of a black box, that can have inputs and outputs.
A box can connect with other boxes.
We have something like this:
Now imagine a smartphone. "Ok, this guy is crazy." You ...
2
votes
1answer
102 views
top level menu takes you to a random sub level menu
I'm looking at a re-structure of an existing site and I have the following situation:
There is a top level menu for example: Home; About; News; Resources;
Within Resources there are various ...
7
votes
3answers
387 views
Domain strategy from a UX perspective?
Having a domain strategy seem to be the latest thing. The discussion about it circles mostly around legal, seo or branding issues but if you want to look at it from a usability perspective - how ...
0
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3answers
106 views
Solution for randomly created usernames
I'm working on an app that creates random usernames (in the form of usr+id: usr12351) and passwords automatically, which are then given out to employees.
My questions is: Should the employees be ...
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2answers
210 views
Profile for users and Page for companies?
My question is mostly about the name of it.A company to view their personal account options visiting domain.com/page
On the other hand, users can see their personal account options with ...
4
votes
3answers
1k views
What is the purpose of a website's homepage?
The title says it all really.
While I realize the answer to this question is somewhat dependent on the visitors you're targeting, I'm wondering if there are any specific guidelines to follow.
It's ...
51
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11answers
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Should people be able to change their usernames?
So, you want to change your username to something new. Should an application allow you to do this?
Let's say that you have a unique URL that points to your profile. Let's assume it is human ...
