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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What is better than top-posting and bottom-posting?
Chat programs usually put the most recent information or message below others (bottom posting). Forums and feeds put the most recent information above others (top posting). Is any one better than the ...
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How to display search results for different versions of an item?
The Apache Bloodhound defect tracker I'm working on may show historic results in search in a future version. That means even after an item has been altered (like the description text of a Ticket), ...
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Behavior of the Enter button in a form
What is a better experience for a user if they press enter when using a form?
Should it submit the form or move to the next field?
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How many social buttons?
There are millions of social networks out there. Of the top popular ones, like Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.,
Q: How many, in numbers, should be put up at all?
UPDATE: Organization ...
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Difference between android and ipad application
What are the key factors which makes an app more of android or iPad specific. Would like to hear about usability part of it also.
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4answers
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What is the best mechanism for language and country selection?
I need my users to choose their country to use my site. The French version has a totally different setup to the English version, for example.
I'm The trouble is, if I merely ask the user for their ...
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3answers
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Pagination usability in eCommerce
I've started to read that pagination in eCommerce is bad practice because of the implications it has on SEO (seo source 1 and seo source 2) . However, I feel like every site out there users pagination ...
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What is the best model for editing and viewing data that is summarized in a table?
I am designing a web application that has several tables displaying many rows of user entered objects. My users are fairly technically savvy. I’d like to bring the user to a place where they can view ...
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Is Markdown fundamentally unfriendly for most users? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is Markdown Friendly Enough for Non-Technical Users?
I'd love to know if using Markdown for a non-technical user base is fundamentally bad UX. Are there any studies that ...
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2answers
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Form design and placement of action buttons
This question involves a data entry form in a web application. The form will be
used in a desktop environment only; there's no need to account for mobile.
A single user of this web app could be ...
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3answers
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What is the definition of usability/ux problem?
I am about to ask for help on how to categorise usability/ux problems but after some googling I have realised that there is no standard definition of usability/ux problem. (Defining the Usability ...
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Is reliability as an important component of a user experience?
I'm asking that because, in my own experience, I sometimes have to use less usable or less featured competitors just because of a poor reliability of the tool of my choice. It makes me think that ...
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Heuristic approaches for users' evaluation of UX
A heuristic evaluation typically employs three main approaches;
Provide evaluators with a set of tasks to be carried out
Provide system goal’s and let evaluators develop their own tasks
Let ...
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Which one you think is better approach for viewing notification - facebook or quora/forrst?
Which one you think is better approach for viewing notification - facebook or quora/forrst (where you need to hitting the clear notification button) and why?
For reading notification in fb, you just ...
