the way user interacts with an artifact and the reaction and/or behavior to the environment
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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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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 ...
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2k views
Easiest to read fonts
Has there been studies to determine what fonts make it easiest to read? I'm interested in the font type, but also size and color. For example, is dark gray better than pitch black?
Also of interest ...
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254 views
Would you consider this a button? [closed]
I am working on a web interface and I want to emphasize a portion of it and make it attractive for people to click on it, which will show additional content (with a 3d css flip animation).
The first ...
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2answers
151 views
Enabling spell check in the UI
We are building an application which will contain spell checking features for areas where users will enter input.
We have already implemented the feature for our rich text editors, whereby spell ...
4
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5answers
426 views
Should social media sharing icons be placed on the homepage as well as article pages?
I'm working on an online magazine, and we are considering which pages in the sitemap should have social media sharing icons.
We have looked at four examples of related precedent sites throughout this ...
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409 views
Should I use customized social buttons
I am facing a cornelian choice.
Should I use custom social sharing buttons for UI consistency or should I keep them original for better recognition ?
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Is offering more than one openid/social-sign-in option a good idea?
Lots of sites nowadays offer the option to log in via Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on, and sometimes a standard username/password option as well.
While this goes a long way toward helping users ...
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How to convert a visitor/ browser to a user?
I run a social learning network that enables anyone to create a class/ workshop on almost any non-academic topic and allows users to register online. Anybody can be a teacher or learner. Its free.
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4
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235 views
Balance between mandatory fields and optional fields
I am working on the project part of which is building a user profile page that is used to collect some information from the user so that this can be used to display better matching results for that ...
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1answer
203 views
Search input on mobile device
I'm designing an mobile-web-app (ie: not a native app) for touchscreen smartphones.
When you add a search input, do we need to add the search button (for processing the search) or use the one present ...
2
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1answer
349 views
How do interstitial ads impact site UX?
(Spawned by How should Ad splash pages be handled for those with ads disabled?)
Has any data been published on the impact of interstitial (whole page ads between content) on the user's experience? Is ...
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2answers
444 views
Auto-suggest confuses users; How do I improve it?
I wanted to get some ideas on how a problem like this might be avoided. A mobile app (android, ios) that I work on uses a local sqllite DB to power an auto-suggest feature on the search screen. The ...
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6answers
355 views
Creating Interfaces that Build Emotional Bonds
What are factors in the user experience that lead to users having an emotional tie to an interface, why, and what would be an example of each factor.
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When is a right-handed navigation sidebar appropriate?
When is a right-handed sidebar for navigation a good choice? If possible, I would like some examples where it has been used, such as this sidebar from Google's official blog.
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2answers
388 views
What are the best practices for site-wide maintenance notices?
I manage a set of websites with a largely non-technical user base. We want to occasionally provide site-wide notices for forthcoming planned maintenance.
We've tried using a messages with red ...
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4answers
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Why is the “dislike” button going into extinction?
I've noticed that Facebook and now Google+ only have a "Like" (or +1) button, in spite of users wanting a "Dislike" button. This seems to be a bit of trend. Disqus also dropped their dislike vote - ...
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1answer
202 views
Is my UI for indicating the ability to add margins to text appropriate?
Curious. I have a Silverlight application where you can choose set margins for a piece of text. Thus you can choose set the margin on more than one side of the text (top, bottom, left, right). ...
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387 views
Does SSL on a company's website make the company appear more credible?
I recently had a thought about the way many modern browsers display information about a site's security certificates. At least Firefox shows a very noticeable blue box in the address bar on sites that ...
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2answers
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Page on inline frame VS Page in new tab
I am building a feed aggregator for and one problem that cam into my mind is whether to use an inline popup that show the external article page. In the first picture below is how my aggregator looked ...
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7answers
295 views
Should we delay the website launch to work on improving user experience and accessibility?
Should we delay the Website launch to make it more and more better for User Experience and accessible, Is there any limit?
I was making a website and i tried to make it as good as possible for better ...
4
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7answers
353 views
Progress Indicator suggestions for multithreaded operations?
In the old version of our application, the operations performed during loading were sequential. We indicated progress by updating a single-line text string with the component that was being loaded. ...
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3answers
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On an unlabelled slider, why does right mean higher, and left mean lesser?
Horizontal volume sliders, for instance, are often unlabelled. Other than the VLC player volume slider, I've never seen a label saying that the right means things get louder.
How did that convention ...
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3answers
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Should field labels be nouns or verbs?
On a web form should field labels be nouns or verbs? This issue arose from two fields on an account request form that currently read:
Temporary Password
Re-Enter Temporary Password
There is debate ...
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8answers
355 views
Name for a rule about re-using terminology
Does the rule "Don't use the same name/word to refer to two different things" have a name, and, if so, what is that name?
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3answers
689 views
How can the classic footer elements be integrated into an infinite scrolling layout?
Infinite Scrolling is a fairly new and effective way to display practically infinite amounts of data in a user's window, but one page element simply does not suit itself to this method; the footer. A ...
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3answers
426 views
When and how to validate forms in a usability perspective?
I am implementing a business application and wounder what's the best way to validate forms, and when.
An example is a form where three textfields where a currency amount is expected. A valid input is ...
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OpenID login takes a second, how do I make it feel quicker?
Users on my site log in via OpenID. This is what loggin in looks like:
Click the login link in the header
Click one of 6 OpenID providers
(wait one second)
If they're there for the first time: Log ...
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2answers
136 views
Load more posts with sliding effect?
I created a feed aggregator with a "load more" button at the end of the posts. When the user clicks on it, loads some more posts and when it is completed, the list of the new posts slides to the top ...
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7answers
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Red buttons in an e-commerce site?
I'm designing an e-commerce site with red buttons. It has a yellow/white background and it looks quite good that way.
Now, my boss finds the same, he likes it, but he is doubtful, because red could ...
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5answers
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What to do with non priced products when sorting by price?
On a page that lists products, we would like to give the user the option to sort the products by price.
The problem is some products do not have their price displayed and are "request a price." What ...
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12answers
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Why shouldn't we use words such as 'here' and 'this' in textlinks?
Over the years of surfing on the web I have found numerous examples of people saying that you shouldn't use the word "here" in a textlink etc. Personally I like the idea of using the word, because it ...
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How to say that an online demo is interactive in 2-3 words?
Basically, they can play around with the app, to get a feel for it in a advance. The target audience is business owners who may or may not (likely not) be technologically inclined.
Demo implies that ...
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3answers
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Does your average web user understand the concept of the clipboard?
I'm designing a web site where I would expect the intended audience to have limited computer skills.
An important part of my site's functionality will require the end user to copy an URL that my site ...
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8answers
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Why people tend to go traditional instead of using their cool reminder phone app?
We all have some cool reminders applications in our phones, that have all the features to remind as at a specific time a task we have to do.
Besides this, as I read in a review/survey, people tend ...
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3answers
502 views
Jumping progress bar or running process indicator?
I'm developing a process with a predefined number of steps to complete so while process is running I can know how far the process has gotten and how much is there still to be done.
My process ...
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5answers
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Should i use country flags in language selection fields?
My users can create content in different languages, and i need to provide an option to choose the language when they enter new content.
Right now there are only 5 languages (en, fr, de, pt, es), and ...
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2answers
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What are the use cases for advanced search?
I'm working on a search engine for bibliographic data, and I'm trying to understand the use cases for an advanced search feature. Typically seen on the web, this feature will search specific fields ...
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2answers
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How to mark cells in a spreadsheet that are meant to be edited?
I just put together a spreadsheet to demonstrate how some calculations work. Three of the cells act as inputs. The values in those cells kick off a cascade of calculations in other cells containing ...
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1answer
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Which one output format is the best for the user?
I am creating a feed reader ( I posted in another question some info about it, nothing related to this one) that gets about 10 different sources.
In the my front page, I show the image, title, date, ...
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3answers
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Do users make use of “expand to read more” feature?
I am building a posts feed aggregator, where when a user wants to visit/read a post he is interested in, clicks on the title and the original post opens in a new tab. My post previews contain Title, ...
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How easy should I make it to delete content?
We want to make it easy for people to perform task in an application, but we also want to prevent them from accidentally deleting something. Where is the middle ground between these two opposing ...
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1answer
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Do users change settings in mobile apps?
I have just read this article and i am curious if users have this same behavior in mobile applications, i suspect so, but it is only based on intuition.
Does anyone know of some public studies or ...
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Alternative wording to 'upgrade from free trial to a paying plan'?
Looking for an alternative to 'upgrade'. The problem is that in our web-app ui and communication, we are currently using two different versions of upgrade:
the common upgrade/downgrade of the ...
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4answers
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Is there a better way to show 3 states of 2 types of data?
We are writing a web-based testing application where the user (teacher) can't move on to the next step in the process until all students (a young age group) have completed 2 separate tests. First all ...
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2answers
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Should I provide a default selection?
[this whole feature is a new one for us so we don't have real-world data]
I have a form that requires the user to select one of predefined items (equivalent to, say, shipping addresses). The user is ...
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How to measure self reported computer proficiency? Ideally with one item
For a usability test, I'd like to have a simple measure for computer proficiency, to be able to see, whether it has an impact on successfully handling the tasks.
How can we best measure that?
A ...
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With 'OK' button, 'Cancel' should appear as secondary button or link?
When I make web application designs, every time I style form or overlay boxes with OK and Cancel button. I think of making them different. But is it a good practice?
Some people recommend primary and ...
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How do people react to domain names without a logical meaning, such as wadja?
I would like to know how people initially react to web sites whose domain name does not have a vocabulary/dictionary meaning, such as wadja and other strange names I can not think now.
Let's say ...
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Is this domain name idea suitable for companies, business men & sellers social network?
I am not 100% sure that this is a question for here but I guess it is related to UX. If, not sorry for this, where should I post it?
I currently own the domain name iBuy with TLD my country's domain. ...
