the way user interacts with an artifact and the reaction and/or behavior to the environment
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Rely on user awareness by autoselecting or prompt the user to actively choose?
I came across a small dilemma in my development, namely whether as a designer I should rely on a user to actively review settings before submitting an action, thereby justifying having it pre-set, or ...
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What is the best way to motivate users to participate in completing tedious tasks?
I am working for a company that is looking to crowdsource some tasks in a fun, engaging way. The problem is that the task is very tedious. How do we keep our users engaged long enough to complete the ...
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4answers
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How can the user know that he can enter list of emails separated by commas?
Is it necessary to add instructions, or is it something we expect the user to try ? In this case there's an input where you type an email and add it to a list. Input is only one line, so it doesn't ...
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171 views
Customer Journey Maps - Good Examples [closed]
I am looking for some thoughts on Customer Journey Mapping, and what makes a map that much better, as well as some examples on the net. I have found a few through my research - but was hoping for some ...
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2answers
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Is it OK to nest clickable items?
I've noticed this on the SE network, and realised that when a clickable link is nested in a clickable item, users (me at any rate) tend to forget that the item is clickable. It took me a while to ...
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1answer
147 views
Drawing/Paint UI's for children [closed]
Does anyone have any good examples of paint or draw program UIs that are designed for children. In particular handling vectors and bitmaps in a way that's intuitive and kid friendly.
Or does anyone ...
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7answers
953 views
Is it ok to style a label as a link to “trick” users into hover it?
The title alone would probably result in a chanting "NO!" as a popular answer, but please let me elaborate.
Background
We have a table of Something:s. Each Something can hold 1-5 Items. In the table ...
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1answer
122 views
When is it ok to have two different layouts for the same page inside a web application?
I have a page inside the application that will be displayed inside a popup on other page. Since the page was not designed for the popup size I wanted to create a compact view for it. Would this be ...
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2answers
89 views
How to differentiate between items a user 'Appreciates' and the 'Appreciations Received' from others
I am building a feature that gives my users the ability to "Appreciate" other users' images, posts and content. But I can not find a elegant method of displaying the two different types of ...
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2answers
177 views
Can a salesperson be a good UX designer, as compared to who are not? [closed]
Can a salesperson be a good UX designer, as compared to who are not?
I just want to know, if a person who knows how to play with users mind, OR read the users mind would be a good UX designer as ...
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4answers
755 views
Is there a reason to keep a Facebook 'Share' button?
For over a year now, the Like button enables you to add a comment, and it shares the story on Facebook with the thumbnail and all.
Although the share dialog gives more options to the user - they are ...
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5answers
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What relevance does it have to show MORE search results on a SEARCH engine?
There is a study that users do not go past top 3-5 pages in a Google search, on which predominantly everybody would agree. If you would get your best results - it means to be within the top 5 page at ...
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1answer
125 views
UX and UI copy / knockoffs - looking for stories [closed]
I'm researching the concept of copying experiences and design for a lecture I'm about to give. Why are we copying, what are the right and wrong considerations we take, and how does it effect the user ...
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4answers
303 views
Use of Radio Buttons (Identification Context)
I want to design a 2 steps sign up screen:
identification
personal info
My question is regarding step 1. In this step the user will have to choose between ID or passport number. Once he choose, he ...
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1answer
185 views
Eye tracking websites? [closed]
I'm looking for eye tracking service. I went online and couldn't really find much.
It doesn't have to be free. Which is the best company that provides this service?
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2answers
323 views
designing an “online / offline ” status indicator and examples of existing ones with good practice
Im trying to integrate an online / offline User Interface element in my application ( web app) I have some trouble getting it matches with the other user interface elements, and wonder what you guys ...
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2answers
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Quantifying downloaded audio: minutes?
I have this app I am making that seeks to quantify a user's book reading patterns based on what the users input themselves. it records how many pages they read (for physical books) or CDs listened to ...
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4answers
375 views
Which case is good UX? A Peugeot VS BMW Story [closed]
This question applies to a different product than most UX designers are used to discuss: cars.
Long story short, in my short 7 year driving experience I've be mostly driving two cars: a 2005 Peugeot ...
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2answers
437 views
Input for Multiple Links
We would like users to specify certain pages an action can occur on. There are two conventional ways:
textarea with some delimiter (whitespace, commas) between the urls. This is OK since usually the ...
2
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5answers
206 views
Need advice for lowering bounce rate on a template
I have a template that has content which people discover via SEO usually.
Here is an example of the template: http://www.problemio.com/problems/problem.php?problem_id=145
The problem I am ...
4
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1answer
685 views
Know any good UI/UX jokes? [closed]
Are there any UI jokes out there? Seems like other industries have their own jokes, I was trying to think of UI design, couldn't come up with much - but that's not to say they don't exist?
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2answers
204 views
Best methods to find users for in-person user testing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recruit user test participants?
There are a number of new tools available to conduct automated, oftentimes remote user testing (Treejack, Chalkmark, etc.). ...
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3answers
553 views
Which users actions are worth logging, to gain better perspective on their behavior?
I am currently implementing a "User action log", that will keep interesting actions of users within our system.
Any advice on what to log? Of course, the answer is "everything you feasibly can", but ...
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6answers
798 views
How did multi-touch interfaces become natural when it should have been unnatural?
After stumbling on a webpage that rants about the fallacy of "picture under glass", I began to wonder what was it that made multi-touch interfaces seemingly become so natural to all of us today?
We ...
8
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4answers
331 views
How long should a press-and-hold-button action be?
How long should a button need to be pushed in order to indicate "this is a press and hold action rather than a simple press"?
E.g., to unlock the OSD of my Dell monitor, I have to
Press and hold ...
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10answers
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What is the best way to inspire users to choose strong password?
Most of the users use weak passwords. They may use weak passwords even for services where they store sensitive information. I think it's because they don't believe that their password may be ...
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2answers
549 views
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3answers
238 views
How to determine Internet usage experience
How much experience a web site visitor has with Internet usage could help us decide what structure, functionality and design we should focus on.
If the target group is novice users we need to build ...
4
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1answer
100 views
How should I list some categories in my case?
I'm working on a web solution that allows you to create a banner with a product from your online shop. The user will set his shop, we will crawl it and get all the products and display them in ...
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4answers
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Unit of measure and Quantity in Purchase Orders
I have written an application that my clients use to keep inventory. The inventory system includes a purchase order module. Each purchase order has a list of line items including:
Description of ...
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8answers
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Do android users press the menu button?
I want to add a new function to my android application, but am a little bit confused in deciding where exactly to display the functionality.
I can either show it as a button in the application or add ...
4
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1answer
170 views
Perform bulk functionality in a grid
I'm trying to decide the best control and UI indicators to provide to users performing bulk functionality on a group of users in a grid.
I'm trying to approach this two different ways. The first is ...
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1answer
177 views
During sign ups, how to best instill confidence that email addresses will be safe
Many sign up forms will ask you for an email address so that they can contact you.
Even the most minimal sign-up (other than no sign up) will need an email address to send you a validation email.
...
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4answers
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Where should the GUI light source come from?
I know that historically the light source on GUIs is in the upper left, casting a shadow on the bottom-right of buttons and the upper left of fields. Now, I see some places (like Apple) use a top ...
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1answer
299 views
Examples of good use of animation on web pages
I'm currently redesigning our company's Magento theme, with the aim of increasing our conversion rate as much as possible (obviously :-) ). I have what I feel to be a good overall layout with the eye ...
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3answers
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How to encourage non-techie users to print the high resolution version in a photo gallery?
I am designing a photo gallery site where every picture page has a link for a high resolution version of the picture intended for printing, but I found out that people are simply clicking 'save as...' ...
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3answers
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How should the [Big Buy Now Button] in the right gutter be linked?
I'm redisigning my website and would like to know how the "Big Buy Now Button" in the right gutter should be linked. This button will be available on every page of the site.
I sell two software ...
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0answers
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How to build a site targetet to well paid male company managers [closed]
I'm building a global web site that is targeted to well-paid male company managers. In what way should this user profile direct my user interface decisions?
For example they will not have much time ...
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2answers
207 views
Welcome screen for Arab countries
On their website, my company wants to welcome visitors from Arab countries with some kind of "intro page" specifically tailored to comfort Arab visitors.
Currently, we are thinking about a welcome ...
2
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2answers
157 views
Do people click items that are 'recommended for you'?
Many sites, such as youtube and other video sites and online stores have a 'recommended for you' section.
Is there any data available on how often these are used?
On youtube I always click the ...
2
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3answers
84 views
Improving UX based on inaccurate stats
I've installed Google Analytics in our company's web applications. The problem is the application use legacy code (frames), so the stats we receive aren't very accurate.
My question is, as a UX ...
3
votes
2answers
429 views
Will users scroll the autocomplete results on a mobile device?
I am working on search functionality for a mobile website. We are using a drop down list of smart auto complete suggestions so that the user won't have to type as much. In this case, a travel app, the ...
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3answers
237 views
How to differentiate icons for *client* from *server* IT services (mail, web, filesharing and so on)
I need to design a UI that includes widgets to control a server computer, and a client computer.
This means I'll be doing similar pairs of icons for mail (mail program vs mail server), web (browser ...
3
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6answers
233 views
Why do some webmasters INSIST on having auto-playing music elements on their webpages? [closed]
Is there any positive reason why someone might implement an auto-playing audio feature onto a webpage? I seem to see it all the time, especially on band pages and so on. The frustrating thing is ...
4
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3answers
102 views
Actions without text or hidden actions
In web UI as of late there seems to be a change in how actions (buttons and links) are displayed. Here are a couple of examples:
Actions are hidden until the user scrolls over the "thing" upon which ...
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vote
1answer
125 views
Why at some web are pages always from 1,2,3 … for newest messages?
When I visit some pages, they have newest items first; page 1 has always the newest items. Some examples are imdb boards and icanhascheezburger.
I think this is case of top posting, because messages ...
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0answers
117 views
Why do people get confuse about the “U” universe? [closed]
On this article http://boxed.hu/en/articles/ui-and-ux/ we have a great definition about UX and UI. Like the author says "There are huge differences between the two, but the most important is probably ...
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6answers
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Should tabs changes in a web app be part of the browser history?
I've implemented a JavaScript plugin that tracks tab changes in through the browser history. Here's a brief overview of how it works:
Once tab is clicked, the URL hashtag (the part that looks like ...
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5answers
434 views
What makes people vote?
What drives people to upvote or downvote content? I'm looking for the je-ne-sais-quoi quality on successful voting systems and I just can't put my finger on. Let's look at three examples:
...
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4answers
209 views
How do social communities sort users to display / encourage uploading profile pictures?
For a relatively new social networking community, not many users have uploaded their profile pictures yet. We think having an image will cultivate a sense of trust and encourage participation, so we ...
