the way user interacts with an artifact and the reaction and/or behavior to the environment
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Speech Bubbles meaning
I am developing a toon story to illustrate my company's offerings. May be I'll use a landing page, or just create it on the home page.
I have 3 actors in it, a cab driver, a bpo company owner and ...
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What impacts the user's visual flow on geometrically non-traditional web layouts?
I'm interested in making pages that don't conform to the traditional layout of a rectangular grid, for example:
Using a grid of hexagons or triangles.
Placing the title in the center of the page ...
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Should your Help section have questions or topics?
Which is more user friendly? Organizing your Help section with popular phrased questions or topics?
Clear topics are easier to scan whereas with popular phrased questions you have a chance to match ...
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Is there a good reason to have HTML and PDF version of TOS?
We have our Terms of service available as HTML and PDF. Is there a good reason to keep providing PDF version?
It's extra work:
Several languages
Privacy policy / tos
Room for mistakes between html ...
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What are the advantages of existing real world patterns in Information Architecture
When explaining real data structures to users, companies often use a parallel to the real world to help explain it. An example is the newsstand on an iPhone.
When is it a good idea to do something ...
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Should we stop using “Home” in navigation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Home button vs Logo link?
The following must be true for most (if not all) websites:
Clicking the logo or website name leads to the homepage (/index.html).
But the ...
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Use of Twitter Conversation Box
I'm designing the wires for an event page, with a phased approach. Phase 1 only includes registration and information, prior to the speakers being announced etc. In past years they have used a twitter ...
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Different approaches to prompting Mac users about accepting an EULA
I’m a bit technical in my reasoning here but I hope that will be okay.
What other approaches are there for displaying the EULA? Are there any who actually offer a non-disruptive prompt? Is there even ...
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How do users use spatial memory?
I have some questions about how spatial memory works and the effects on user interfaces:
Do users seek items by spatial memory? What do they actually "link" to a position - a particular object ...
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Reinventing a habitual process: When can it be justified?
A process that a user has become accustomed to, can sometimes receive reinvention for a number of reasons:
The process can be simplified
The process can become a experience unique to a certain ...
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When applications get personal
Has anyone come across research on the use of first names in applications?
We're working on an application with many questions. There's a desire to use the first name of the user, their spouse's name ...
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Putting a one-page view of my website on other websites I do
When I do websites, most times I add a page dedicated only to my main website to serve as publicity and awareness..this is normally done after seeking the consent of the website owner.
The issues I'm ...
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Banner Blindness on Non-Profit Web Site With Zero Ads
I am currently considering a page structure that would include a video.
The context of the page is it is a kind of landing page meant to provide access to informational and educational materials ...
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Deleting object when a related item is in use
I have a problem with an application that I've written. The usage is about to change and now multiple users will interact with the system.
Given that there will be multiple administrators what is ...
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Overriding Default Behavior of Mobile Browsers
In desktop web development, a big user experience no-no is to create a behavior that is not native to the browser. Such as:
Disabling the right-click mouse button
Creating your own context menu
Not ...
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Is pausing button under a scrolling banner necessary?
Carousels appear massively in my web projects, usually for making users able to check each "slides" in detail, we will make the scrolling paused when hovering on the banner content.
However, one ...
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Deliberately annoying users to discourage certain behaviour. Is this a bad idea?
In my software, some users deliberately disable certain security provisions or practice bad security practice (such as running the software as root/admin). In the former case there a couple of ...
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Pinterest: Can first time users understand “Repin” & “Like”? Why should'nt I simply “like” it as a behavioral attribute?
Similar to Twitter, where RT and Favorites are around - which in is an extension as in on Pinterest. But how often people to manage to understand stark differences on "Repin" and "Like" - If I repin ...
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UX Research: Can I improve conversion rates with the use of lifestyle over still life product photography
I work for a large UK-based clothing retailer. After some initial customer testing with our product details page there has been some debate on the following question:
Do customers generally react ...
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Is it a good idea to show a warning to users who are typing tags incorrectly?
On our site, we have a tag field that looks like the following:
Today, while looking at some of our users interacting with the site, I noticed that one of them had used only spaces to separate ...
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In what situations is a “barrier to entry” training requirement before use appropriate?
Sparked by this discussion.
Is there ever an argument to be made that products should be deliberately made difficult to use as a barrier to entry for the use of that product?
If so, in what sorts of ...
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Yelp Like Adjective Rating System
I am building a website that has users list their outdoor adventures (skydiving, surfing, base jumping, etc) and the other people can comment on them.
I want to have a rating system like Yelp which ...
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Do users use Home or Back button to minimize their Android app?
I want to know if there's resarch on to what extent users use the Home button or the Back button when they want to minimize the app. I am very well aware that the "correct" way is to use the Home ...
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Benefits gained by forcing users to register to access content?
Corporate websites often make available white-papers, articles, or other content-related materials pertaining to the company's area of expertise.
While this pattern is consistent, the methods of ...
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How can I encourage users to select the 'correct' reason on a contact form instead of just the one which actually sends a message?
On one of my sites I have a contact form. And on that form the user is first asked to select from a short list of common reasons for why they wish to contact me.
The actual form itself will either be ...
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Reply all replies to self?
The mail client Microsoft Outlook have the option to use “Reply All” in a mail conversation. When you hit the “Reply All”-button, your name sometimes turn up in the to-box, meaning you’ll also receive ...
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What should the behaviour be of tabs in a form?
I'm implementing a (subscription)form which is designed by another party.
A description of the form:
- First there are a couple of text-fields
- Then there is a section with tabs which contain ...
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Most useful survey questions for user research?
In your experience, what are the most important questions to ask in a survey for a product redesign?
Direct interaction with users is prohibited by my organization, but I have been allowed to conduct ...
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Unexpected A/B testing results
We've just run an A/B test for one of our landing pages using Visual Website Optimizer.
We are an online hotel booking reservation site.
The landing page shows information about a particular hotel ...
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How to make enterprise information systems more engaging?
“The EPR-system is boring, nothing really happens, and it’s all dull.” I get these kind of claims from my clients, and they expect me to make their software more fun and engaging.
The problem is, I ...
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Why do users erase all the password when they hit one wrong key, instead of just the last wrong character?
We login to applications almost every day. The password is stored in our fingers, as an automated process (if they have used it long enough). When users realize they have entered a wrong character ...
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How does a CCTLD affect user behavior?
I'm in the process of consolidating several sites into one. Content that previously lived at http://example.co.uk/ will now live at http://example.com/uk/, content from http://example.fr/ will move to ...
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How to document user interviews
What are the best practices to document interviews with users - do you just document the conclusions and take aways or do you do a full transcript or both?
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Less frequent but relevant information more seldom or more frequent but less relevant information more often?
In a project I’m participating in we are in a crucial crossroad. We’re discussing whether it’s better to fill an intranet with information, even if it’s not directly targeted at this particular user, ...
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Could this be a problem for conversion rate?
I just started using a Skype similar application on my Android.
The application automatically imports your contacts and facebook friends to have them visible as callable contacts in the application.
...
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Inviting users to send crash reports instead of bad reviews
I'm developing an Android app and I'm planning to use ACRA - Application Crash Report for Android to get crash reports from users.
It seems that a crash report has to survive to many user choices to ...
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ideas on instant messenger implementation on a website
Im looking for a discussions, feedback and ideas on implementing a custom instant messenger implementation in my webapp. I have tried some ideas but they all lack and I dont feel like "ok this feels ...
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Multiple profiles in one single login
I shall allow my users to have multiple profiles in my website, to allow them to impersonate identities they create to post. But I have doubts about the best way to accomplish this.
Assume that I ...
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Pan/zoom/select in multitouch
I'm currently working on creating a tablet-compatible version of an application. First off, I know that the worst thing to do is to try and shoe-horn in a bad implementation of multi-touch into an ...
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Is duping the consumer really a good business practice?
I have had this at the back of my mind for sometime and I believe UX is the proper place to post this though I may not phrase the question right so please chime in if you have suggestions!
There are ...
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Maximum set of stairs users are willing to climb before needing an elevator
I know this question has many variables related to ones own ambition / physical condition, but I'm wondering if you were to have a multi story building, what would be the maximum set of stairs a user ...
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How to better name modal buttons “Cancel Request” (submit), “Cancel” (cancel)? [duplicate]
One modal-box asks the user wether they want to really cancel the request. Now there are two buttons (submit) and (cancel), but how to best name them? All other modals use text like "proceed" (submit) ...
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At what point do you let users opt in to a redesign?
I'm doing a "refresh".. mainly we are going responsive so that users over 1366px width will see a large layout with bigger media objects, users below 1366px will see the same layout with a slightly ...
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How often do people use the browser tabs [closed]
What percentage of Internet users use browser tabs, compared to those who always navigate in the same tab?
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Web surfing: people “wandering” from page to page vs people following their goals
When browsing Wikipedia, I often see me drifting from my initial goal to other pages infinitely through hyperlinks. I end up reading pages about things that are far away from the information I was ...
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Unclosable last tab in firefox. Is this a real decision?
Is there any convincing reason behind the decision to make to last open tab un-closable in Firefox? This change has been introduced several versions ago, and I still can not understand why I'm not ...
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“Here will be your logo” - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
We are a company offering free demo of client's website, before going for a deal.
Although, the ...
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Any “non-tangible” elements of user experience to consider?
Remember that facebook launched on iterations in an only-university-user rollout? This made facebook an elite platform that only users from prestigious universities could use (and of course, by the ...
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What is the UX strategy behind Facebook forcing users to use the timeline?
A few months back facebook took the unusual step of forcing most users to switch to the timeline view of their profile page.
I am interested to work out what the strategy was behind this move. On ...
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Loading Times / Breaking points
We all know that a user is not going to wait forever for a website to load. Given there are certain factors and circumstances that can apply to this, is there a breakdown of users stages/breaking ...
