The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
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Combobox-clutter… how to solve?
I'm involved in the fixing of an Online Dating Service.
They have a registration form (all fields required), and 11 fields out of 16 are comboboxes.
The fields are (in order, with comboboxes in ...
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Details and Pricing Change Based on Location
I'm working on a site for a home builder who operates a number of franchises throughout the U.S. Because of local zoning laws, etc., a single floor plan will have a different price and be built to ...
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How to design for optional extras which are conditionally available?
We have an online app for flower deliveries. For any given order the customer can specify a delivery date, and two more options.
If the floral arrangement is to be delivered today (and the order is ...
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What examples are there for grouping multiple site tools under one button or dropdown?
We're considering moving links to all our site tools under one button. Clicking the button would open a modal exposing links to these tools. The button would be in the header and be available on all ...
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How to protect a user from accidentally deleting/redacting when Undo isn't available yet?
The next release of our [edit: java] application will allow users to delete and redact text that they've selected, based on right clicking and choosing one of those options. Unfortunately, we haven't ...
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The most complex touch application?
Nowadays, there seems to be a limit to how complex you can make an application solely for touch, the controls needs a lot more space plus removal of "unecessary" tools is so much more taken into ...
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Quick Booking UX/UI design [closed]
I am using Twitter Bootstrap UI for developing screens for my application.
I created the booking / appointment page.
This page will be used by hospital staffs. They want to quickly fill the data, ...
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Best practice for a desktop version dropdown hover menu to work on mobile?
I'll give my example as it explains exactly what I mean. We have a store that on the main menu has a "Shop" link that when hovered over, will display a dropdown menu of categories and subcategories. ...
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Displaying million records in Master Detail Grid (Million in both master detail)
I am facing a design and UX issue while creating a master detail grid in which both master and detail can have over a million rows.
The simplest solution would be to enable paging (click) in both ...
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Is it “unsafe” to rely only on placeholders (input fields)? [duplicate]
I've noticed that in many sites, the text within input fields are always either label tags and span tags. Twitter's example:
(in this case, the labels seem to be inside the input field).
I never ...
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What is the best method to show selected filters from very long lists?
I need to find a solution for displaying flagged items from a very long list.
The following pics shows the filter panel of the iPad App.
Users can select all the items or search for specific items ...
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How to archive paper prototypes and physical objects from design process?
I have looked around UXSE for questions on this and haven't found anything yet.
I am looking for solutions to managing paper prototypes and sketches and other physical objects created during a design ...
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using iframe in modal window good or bad?
I am working on a flow that as part of it can ask the user to select an address but if the address is not in the system i am using a modal window to allow them add one so not to move them away from ...
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What UX metrics can I get from a web application?
I think of Google Analytics as a tool that I can incorporate in my web application to get more information about my UI and UX in general. This is in addition to user testing and other tools, but I'm ...
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Intuitive AND/OR condition for query builder
Use case: User wants to find employees from a list based on some criteria. To simplify things let's say it is spoken language attribute only.
Case 1: user wants to find person speaking multilingual - ...
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Displaying selections from a Dropdown Check List
First of all, I apologize for my Englsih and will try to be as clear as possible!
I'm currently having a problem with a Dropdown Check List.
I have, on the left of the search results, a Dropdown ...
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Testing with current clients
I'm working on improving a product that rarely gets new customers (since it targets a very small specialized niche), and I'm not sure how usability testing would work here. I assume that current ...
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Order of items in a list, like the Stack Exchange “all sites” list
I've asked this question at Meta Programmers regarding the order that sites are listed in the StackExchange -> All sites menu on all the SE sites, and the answer confused me...
Press Stack Exchange ...
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Best way of handling a special requirement in shopping cart
I'm mocking up a shopping cart for a hair salon. It's going to end up on their Facebook fan page so I'm restricted to Facebook's tab size of 520px.
Because of this I've decided to use an accordion ...
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Optional Comments on Saving
Maybe I'm crazy, but every UI mockup I seem to get passed to me, I end up ripping apart. And in the end, my suggestions are often shot down. We end up creating UI's with what I consider to be a ...
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Fixed/floating button on mobile app
We're developing a new mobile app for premium users. It is basically a content reading app. The content will be updated periodically; we have 3 fixed "topics". These topics are going to be updated ...
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Is there a need for save/cancel buttons in iOS app?
I am developing an investment property evaluator app that allows the user to record information about a potential investment property and evaluates the property based on certain metrics. It uses drill ...
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Which is better option Create/Save for Activity and Circle? [closed]
I want to create an Activity as well as Circle for networking. Which button will be suitable 'Create' or 'Save'.
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Playlists: horizontal or vertical?
Let's assume that playlists are groups of items that are selected for some reason (to be played, to be converted or to be used in any other operation).
My question is: what is the best way (if there ...
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Favourite or Visible?
I am currently analysing the GUI of one application. It happens that the application has a list of locations that only displays favourite locations. When you create a location, the new location is ...
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How should we format numbers on a mobile device for a POS app?
We are working on an point of sale app, and need to figure out how to format the numbers on the screen for when a client is entering a credit card number.
The two options are:
1) The way a phone ...
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What should the default selected action be for destructive actions in a dialog?
When a user is about to perform a destructive action that cannot be undone, what should the default selected option be on the confirmation/warning dialog box?
In this example, the user is about to ...
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Readability issues and presentation of Price
I am trying to find some research or thoughts on any readability issues around displaying price.
We are tossing up the idea around displaying the price with a small $ symbol and small cents.
An ...
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Globalization Patterns for Dates Without Year
In my application, there is a field that represents the end of the accounting year for an entity. This "date" is the same every year, so what we currently present to the user is field with a month ...
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How do you go about comparing the usability of platforms?
We're currently doing usability analysis a set of kiosks and we're in the comparative analysis phase. The trouble is, we're not exactly sure how to compare the usability of a platform (as opposed to a ...
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GUI for a add-and-combine workflow?
I have the following scenario: the user picks a set of entities from a palette (each palette entry can belong to a different class, and each class can belong to a different subclass).
After ...
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Redirect non-desktop users to mobile site or just change template and keep the same url?
I want to know what would be the best way to present my site to users when they are not using desktop computers (and they are using mobile phones, smartphones or tablets)? I am currently working on a ...
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How effective are conventions when applied to inexperienced users?
As I was writing another question here at UX, I realized that I wanted to discuss more things pertaining to the same problem. I thought it would be a good idea to split the question into two since ...
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company email vs company field + email field
In an attempt to reduce to the very minimal the number of fields for a user to register to our services I am wondering whether to replace the fields
company and email with only one "company's email".
...
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How should I design a small help system for a Windows application?
Context
I've written a simple, business application which generates a report from information in a database. The only user input required are two file paths--one to a list of items to report on and ...
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Inline review and confirmation while you type
I love the way that as I am typing this question, I am seeing what I am typing appear below, and it makes errors much easier to spot. Can anyone enlighten me to the science or technique behind this - ...
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How can I display lots of controls that are contained within expanders?
I'm currently building and Dashboard system for a factory and there is a control panel to control all the displays in the factory and to decide which detail(KPI type) to be displayed. Following is the ...
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Design paradigm for order process where customer has no existing record
I'm creating an intranet app (MVC and razor) for a jewellery business. One of the forms is for creating a custom piece of jewellery, sometimes these are made for display purposes and have no initial ...
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why must point of sale have a bill-preview on the same page as product selection?
Most of the POS system images I see from google image search on "Point of Sale' have a bill- preview section on the same screen where the products are selected. Is this driven due to user-habit of ...
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Best way to display domain/workgroup name in the datagrid of computer list
We are have been developing the application for distributed computer network, and every computer can be domain member or workgroup member. So we have a view, where all computers are listed in the ...
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How to show unfilled fields on view mode?
How can i show to user an unfilled fields of a edit mode on a view mode page?
I have on the form, on edit mode, this type of fields.
Label: (input) (type of unit) (button with contextual help)
If ...
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A tabbed Android UX element similar to iOS App card?
Is there a standard Android layout that allows for tabs within a context menu? Something similar to the iOS app card would be great.
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Should you be allowed to change your own data?
Let's imagine you were about to use a CRM Enterprise-Application that contains your working-data (street, housenumber, office phone number and so on).
Should we allow the user to change this data at ...
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Grouping menu items
I've got an issue, with a menu on my website. The menu has 15 items, which are not simply navigation, but contains links to tools, settings aswell as regular navigational links.
The website is a ...
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Displaying a list of items in a neat and readable way [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When displaying statistics to a user, is it better to bold the data or the label?
I often have to display 2 column lists like this -
Name: Bob
Age: 30
Shoes: ...
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Price ranges vs concrete price for 3rd party vendors
I'm building a website for a consulting firm that creates websites for its customers. In the website there is a small section that mentions a few hosting services as well as their prices (just for the ...
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1answer
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Advantages of big forms (especially in ecommerce)
What are the advantages or disadvantages using big forms? (especially in ecommerce)
I notice sites like Stack Exchange are using big form input fields with big bold labels inside of them ...
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Will combining fixed and flexible layouts on the same page confuse people?
I've recently put a limit on the maximum width of my web app (similar to the Stack Exchange sites) to avoid looking ridiculous at very high resolutions and large monitors.
Most pages are limited to ...
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How long should I wait before a user is unable to change a page rating?
I'm currently building a page rating/feedback component. Some of the requirements I'm trying to figure out is how long should I wait before preventing a user from changing their mind/page rating?
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How to visualize a large Neural Net?
How to visualize a Neural Net with thousands of input nodes and tens of thousands of connections?
The image above does not have any connection values, but the visualization that I am creating does. ...
