The body of terms used with a particular technical application in a subject of study, theory, profession, etc.
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In user instructions, which term is more widely understood to mean a character A thru Z, letter, alpha or something else?
In the terms of a search where a user can enter an account number into a text field, what is the most straight forward instruction for a group that may not be tech savvy.
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How to display NumPad keys to user
We are trying to map how a user will see key presses for custom hotkeys. However, there is some debate which I cannot find a standard for:
How to display the number pad keys:
num1, num2, numPLUS, ...
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What do you call websites that make heavy use of vertical scrolling?
This question is similar to Why did scrolling vertically became a pattern?
I see a lot of modern websites moving to larger, singular pages with more content and more vertical scrolling. This is often ...
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Does the average user understand the median?
I have a bunch of statistical data and I want to present a short summary to the user (non-technical consumer). Now I want to show an average and need to decide between arithmetic mean and median. From ...
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Distinguish Web Template and Web Theme
I am building my own CMS, and it's time to work with front-end stuff. I do research and am confused why Wordpress uses a folder named theme while Joomla uses template instead. (Can anyone explain ...
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Is there a name for the reflections used on Apple demo images?
If you look at the advertising image of any Apple product (just go on the apple homepage) you'll see that they all have the screen reflecting light in such a way that half the reflection is dark, the ...
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When “Cancel” is your action, how do you let the user cancel it? [duplicate]
In the application I'm working on, an admin user can see a list of tasks which have been scheduled to happen at certain times. The admin can choose to cancel these tasks. How does one phrase the ...
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Is the term account confusing when referencing the user of a site or app?
I'm currently working on a user menu for a site and I'm worried that the term Account could be confusing because of the nature of the relationship. Just like with a bank one user may have multiple ...
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Which phrase is better: “Sort chronologically” or “Sort by date”?
I'm adding on to an advanced search screen, the standard few sort orders: by date, by name, etc.
I'm just wondering what the more commonly used/accepted way of phrasing it would be. "Chronologically" ...
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Multiple email input
In Live Mail, and I believe Google Mail too, you can specify multiple recipients within the same input box and separate them with either a tab, a space or a comma in some cases. This is also the same ...
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Does the UX of Obama's donate form demonstrate “phased obligation”?
I caught this term at a UX workshop recently, and jotted it down. A couple of weeks later, I can't find a reference for it - and I'm wondering if I misheard (miswrote?).
"Phased obligation", as I ...
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Difference between VD,UI and UX? [duplicate]
I want to have a clear understanding of difference between user interface, user experience and visual design?
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Name of special character selection feature of mobile keyboards
I am working on a application, for which I intend to suggest the use of a feature similar to what is used on most smartphones' keyboards to select special characters:
However, while it is easy to ...
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Name for a combo box that shows and edits multiple items?
Is there an accepted name for a UI element that allows the user to enter multiple values, displaying each value as visually distinct, and provides autocomplete matching like a combo box?
Examples ...
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User Experience Designer / Interaction Designer - Who Am I? [closed]
I have been into User Experience area since last 1.5 Years. Still a newbie here. UX is a fresh concept to my organization. And I & Organization are working together to make UX an integral part of ...
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Is there a name for a “search” box which does more than just search?
My team and I are developing a search box which will allow for more than just searching. The goal is to allow users to do not only complex queries, but also use the box for go-tos and some ...
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How to explain to my client the difference between Front End and Back End?
I'm currently managing a project to bring a medium-sized shop into the online world for the first time.
The very non-technical shop owner is failing to understand what "front-end" and "back-end" ...
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Synonym for 'GUI' for non-technical people?
Does anyone know a good synonym for 'GUI' that non-technical people will understand? Or a simple sentence explaining it that still won't scare them off?
Edit: Thanks for the answers :-) But I meant ...
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What is the difference between user journey and task flow
I was wondering if you could explain me what is the difference between a user journey and a task flow? I tried to read and look for example images in Google...and I can't find the difference between ...
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Label for a results page: List View vs.?
I'm working on a look-up tool that enables users to search for various physical assets that they own, and present them with a number of "results", either in a List View or in an Overview ...
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Contact page. Which is the better wording?
What is the most appropriate Contact page title for a website?
Contact, Contacts, Contact us or other?
Contacts is used, among others, in iOS and Android.
Seems to me more related to a list of ...
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What do you call pseudo-values in a Dropdown List (for example)
This is a simple terminology question. If you have a dropdown list (as an example) with user-defined values, what do you call values such as "All", "None" that you might also have in the list?
For ...
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Nomenclature: Folder or Directory in UI?
I often see the terms "folder" and "directory" being used in user interfaces as well as in programming almost as synonyms.
Do I have to stick with one? or can I use both interchangeably? Do users ...
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Is the term 'real-time' understood outside the tech community?
We are making a website for pixel art that will have a diverse audience.
Our leading tagline for the site is: "Real-time, collaborative pixel art." Real-time meaning updates to the pages will be ...
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What word can be used to mean either click or tap?
Very often we need to speak generically about clicking or tapping an item, but there seems to be a lack of vocabulary in English for this. We could just say "click or tap" every time, but that is ...
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What’s the origin of the metaphor “cloud”?
Today we use the term “cloud” without thinking about it. We use it mainly in terms of storage online, far away and unreachable. We can’t plug in a USB memory in the cloud to download data. We plug the ...
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Should we use Microsoft's feature names, or our own? “Autofilter” vs “Column filter”
Many Microsoft softwares, like the Office suite and the Windows Explorer, feature a type of column filter that they have dubbed the Autofilter.
It filters rows based on column content.
It adapts the ...
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Persona has to be a person? Difference between Brand ambassador, mascot and persona? Validating persona
Actually, these are three inter related sub questions.
Q1. Does Persona have to be a person because ultimately whatever we will create (product/service) that will be used by human being only, and ...
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What do you think is a better label “New” or “Add”
At the moment I am building a web application that stores a lot of data inside of tables. In each of the pages containing the tables the users have many actions; they can add, delete, or edit the ...
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Vertical stack of images? [closed]
Imagine that you are looking down at a vertical stack of images.
You can toss the image left or right. When you do so, the next image will appear where the tossed image was once residing.
When you ...
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What do I call a Lightbox feature for multimedia?
I'm designing a feature that is similar to a Lightbox, not the preview feature, but rather the photo-house variety. You can save pictures, video and text to a folder to be downloaded later.
Because ...
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Is there a technical term for really long vertical sites with anchored links?
I am talking about sites like these::
http://www.hegartyonadvertising.com/
http://activatedrinks.com/#/activate
http://community.saucony.com/kinvara3/
http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/#welcome
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What do you call non-retina displays?
With the introduction of high density pixel displays (Retina being the brand name Apple uses) what do we now call non-retina (low pixel density) displays?
Legacy Displays
Low Pixel Density Displays
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Is database too technical a term for user?
Are these terms 'Database', 'Record', 'Table', 'Field', 'Row', and 'Column' too technical (or even relevant) for a normal online banking application user, especially when talking to a customer service ...
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Is ”User Friendly” a valid term in User Experience?
I remember that we had a fierce discussion in school around the term “User Friendly” where our lecturer with emphasis stated that “… there is no such thing as user friendly. The only valid term you ...
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Name or data on this error alert phenomenon?
This is just a curiosity on my part, but I'm wondering if there's a name or studies for what I'm going to describe.
I've noticed in many UX scenarios, not just computer related, that when there's an ...
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What is the name of someone who does not know how to use a computer or the web?
People who cannot read or write are named "illiterate".
Does a word exist to qualify someone in the same position but about using a computer or a web application?
This term would be really usefull ...
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What is the term for numeric textboxes with arrows?
I was wondering whether there was a standard UI term for numeric textboxes with arrows that allow you to change the numeric value up or down, provided by some UI toolkits like Winforms. Here's an ...
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Do non-technical/non-web savvy users understand the concept of tags?
Here at Stack Exchange we're currently wrestling with weaknesses in our tags system. As we open up new verticals – some of which include very non-technical users like cooking – we suspect that the ...
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Why do we say we “browse” to a place on the Internet when we actually download a web server’s content to our browser? [closed]
Browsing the web is a common daily task for more than a billion users, and we do not pay much attention to it. We just “browse to a place” or ask our laughing friend across the table “where she is on ...
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Explaining complex terms
I'm working on a financial services project, which includes a questionnaire. Some of the terms used in this questionnaire are financial and won't make sense to some users , but in order to explain ...
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What is an acceptable word to indicate a link?
We're working on an application in which users can add hyperlinks. However, we're having a hard time finding an acceptable word that is easily understood by our users. We've asked about 10 users and ...
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What is this side menu called that can be found in many multi-touch apps, and where does it originate from?
It can be found for example in the YouTube and Facebook app.
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What's the common name for this button?
I'm trying to find out what is the way to call this kind of button:
To be precise, I'm talking about a button which acts like a regular one for most of its area, but has also a "more" area, ...
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What's the term for expanding search results to include variations of a word?
It's not uncommon for a search engine to take a word that is searched for, say "vase" or "obscure", and extrapolate the results to include common versions of the word. So using the earlier examples, ...
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What do you call the method for ranking a set of items using a series of questions comparing just 2 at each time
I have n-items (n being somewhere between 5 and 9) that I would like participants to sort in relative order of importance.
Although I have used visual 'drag and drop' approaches before, I found that ...
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What is the correct spelling of wire frame? [closed]
What is the correct spelling of wire frame?
Is it wireframe, wire-frame or wire frame?
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Term for menu that appears at the top of many webpages
What is the term for the menu that appears at the top right of many webpages? Here are two examples:
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Is there a proper name for the accordion-like stacked panels?
Essentially, it's a collection of panels, stacked towards the top. Each can be expanded or collapsed on its own. When a header is expanded, the headers below it "stick" to its bottom. This is in ...
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Content Performance
What is a right word to describe the heading Content/Performance? It is about best and effective content that form a complete artefact.
The example of heading and paragraph as below:
5.4.1 ...
