Questions tagged [user-expectation]

The attitude that the user develops as a result of previous experience with similar products/service or previous experience with the product/service in question that evolves over time. Tag must be used only when there's a change or shift in an otherwise common user expectation.

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Usability of Purchase Experience

This is a product card within a carousel, showing a past purchases and aims to encourage a repurchase. My question is, does the interaction at the bottom of the card get missed? Do you understand what ...
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Is having a light theme necessary?

let me just preface this by saying that this question stems from my lack of knowledge about others' opinions regarding this matter, so the only prior knowledge I have is my own preferences. So, I use ...
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Notifications Drawer

We are working on a desktop app with lots of events/alerts/notifications. Because of that, we created a 'notification drawer', similar to the this one: My question is: do you expect the snackbars and ...
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Can a collapsible card have move/drag functionality?

While working on a sidebar panel of an application, I have encountered a unique problem. A user needs to create steps (think in terms of creating an online course via a builder). One can add as many ...
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What is the best way for user to be able to select a Category and Subcategory?

The user should be able to: Only select ONE Category Select multiple Subcategories Idea (A): Use autocomplete select dropdown so user can search through both Categories and Subcategories Close ...
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Should I empty the wrongly filled fields or leave as user has filled after validation message?

In our mobile applications (intended for Android and iOS platforms), we have fields that should be filled by users. If the user fills the field not in required format what should I do show the ...
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What is the best practise for a Search button state - should we always keep search button active or make it active after user inputs?

I have seen that in some sites they always keep " Search Button" in active / enabled state even if input fields are empty. Is it a correct way or should we make it enable only when user selects / ...
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Are two sidebars good for a website design?

I am working on a website which is learning content based and I am planning to have two sidebars, one for the main navigation and other for the table of contents. Is that okay to have two or three ...
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what is the best products sort option on e-commerce website?

I am trying to add a new products types collection on my website after I added a collection the first page of Pet Shop Collection will only contain one type (last type have been added) like the ...
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Back button fatigue

Let's say I have two pages, a list of products "Product List" and the "Product Page" itself. When I click on a product (e.g. a phone) I'd like to explore its variations (e.g. ...
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UX for Range Control within a Carbon Footprint Tracking App

I am working on redesigning the UX for a carbon footprint tracking app. The issue is when it comes to letting users select miles travelled via airplane, car, bicycle etc..with airplanes, the data ...
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Where should I redirect after filling a "creation" form?

HI hope y'all doing well I have an app where users need to create different items. There's a page that displays all the items created that as a "Create new..." button. The user's path: ...
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How to communicate that something can be long-pressed (mobile)?

Imagine I want to build something like Instagram profile pages, which show a gallery of pictures, and upon long-pressing, will zoom-in, focus on the picture, and display some secondary information (...
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Text Field Validation vs Prevention

I've been having a debate (mostly with myself) over the best approach to deal with invalid input in text fields -- validation versus prevention. Taking a numeric text field as an example, is it ...
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Given Item VS Custom Amount

As a user I'm able to donate money in two different ways: by choosing the amount from the given items, OR in alterative, by typing my custom amount. How would you better visualize these two options, ...
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Will it be distracting to shift from dark to light background?

I’m working on a portfolio and the landing page I imagined with dark background and white text, while rest of the pages are normal black text on white background. This landing page won’t be scrollable ...
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Should data tables be sorted up or down first?

We have a table with performance data in our application with some identifier columns such as id and name and some metric columns such as revenue and cost. A user can click on a column to sort based ...
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What are some good alternatives for using a lot of icons in software?

This is my first time posting here. The company I work for uses A LOT of icons (100+) in every color to specify the meaning of a specific table row. See the image below for clarification: I've been ...
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Best UX for incomplete date

Situation: The user entered an invalid or incomplete date into a date picker. For example, the user entered 01/01 then exited the field. Question: How should the date picker behave? PrimeNG controls ...
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is enable Google reCAPTCHA for e-commerce good or not?

I am opening anew e-commerce website, my question is is enable Google reCAPTCHA user friendly or not? actually,I am planing to disable reCAPTCH for users for the first three months that will make ...
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Refund policy for a risk-free purchase of a short online course [closed]

I am building a website for celling and teaching online courses of my own making. Consider a course that consists of 50 videos for a total of seven hours. I would like to offer a refund policy that ...
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Should the order of like/dislike buttons in Youtube Music be considered an oversight or intentional?

YouTube Music shows the dislike button before the like button. Personally I feel a bit disorientated every time I want to like a song since in most websites (Netflix, YouTube itself, etc.) that I use ...
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Having a different design and interactions between mobile and tablet devices can have a big impact from overall UX?

I have 2 design approach for a specific module 1 is for mobile and 1 is for tablet. The goal of this is for analyzation of the historical dates of the financial data. A. Mobile phone design - ...
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How to engage user if some API is taking time on website or app

What are the methods using which we can engage the user on website or mobile app page where some backend API take more time to provide the output.
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User-needs approach

Do you think that an approach that consists of asking the user directly what their profile or sector of activity is and then refining the value proposition or directing them to a landing page that ...
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Should all options appear on a view screen? [closed]

I'm designing screens for a business web app. I have view and edit modes for records, with each mode having its own screen. Should I display all options on the view screens, but with the widgets ...
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First page of a commercial service web site - explain what you offer or win the visitor's trust?

If you have a web site describing some type of a commercial service, where customer trust is a deal-breaker (e.g. construction work company), which perception model is more common among visitors: a) ...
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UX Affordance for Distinguishing User-Created from System-Generated Content

Our system has a collection of objects (school classes, to be specific) that are currently all system-generated through an integration with an external database. The classes are displayed as a grid of ...
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Is it safe to assume everyone uses / has mouse wheels?

Is it safe to assume all users are aware of using the mouse wheel to scroll and that all users have a mouse wheel on their mouse? I'm hoping to implement a scrollbar which stays hidden even when you ...
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How to hide main navigation?

I'm designing an application where the main nav is on the left. This is because there isn't enough space if I put the main nav on top (to fit both the main nav and the utility nav). So this is how ...
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Best way to show to a user a list of quotes sent by other users

I have a website (not native mobile app) where users can send their quotes about a specific service. Let's say User X sends a request to find someone that can fix his TV, so... dozens of other users ...
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Is double-click the right approach for desktop versions?

To open a folder in desktop versions, we usually have to click on the folder name. However, Google Drive uses a double-click on the folder to open it, while Onedrive uses a single-click on the folder ...
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How to handle "forgot password" when user has not confirmed email?

If you follow the pattern of allowing users access to your application without having confirmed an email (generally considered good UX), how do handle the case where they forgot their password? Very ...
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Should user simply be able to upload a PDF?

I'm working on an application where a user can submit an important document that contains information we need from them. The information contains details such as - event name, event location, duration,...
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Double click to edit the row in a table or edit icon

I have a dashboard with a few tasks in a laboratory application, and each task has a large number of data displayed in the data grid. I need to implement the edit functionality of a record. What is ...
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Delete value in a modal

I have a page that contains a section that has a button for the user to assign a contact. This button will bring up a modal that has a field where the user can input the contact's name. Adding a ...
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Where to put a Map on the Contact Us page?

I’m working on a Contact Us page and trying to keep it minimal with only 3 sections (in order): Map Contact Us Form Footer Does it matter if it is: Contact Us Form Map Footer? Edit: I have removed ...
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"Did you mean" search results

Problem: This UI allows the user to add names of people (with matching User IDs). The problem is that, there has been many instances where users accidentally add people that already exist, resulting ...
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UX Party Game Design - Should an action that is not available for all players disabled or simply hidden?

I am working on a party game for both PC (mouse+keyboard, which supports mouse over and clicks), but also for tablet (Android/iOS, which only supports clicks), but I am stuck on which UX pattern is be ...
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Best design for product list page of an e-commerce website

I am working on an e-commerce website. I want to display the summary of search result and want to know which layout is the best? The information that I am sowing are: Ad title Price Location ...
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Cross Domain Query - eCommerce Website [closed]

I've a client who is insisting on having a second website for successful purchase of the product. Is it good from user point of view? To elaborate, a user will view the product on abc but when he ...
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How to make coloured object of the same 'weight' as its white counterpart?

I'm currently doing a report and this is one of the cards presented on the report. I feel that the header seems a little flat and out of place - I assume it's because it is coloured, but I may be ...
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An alternative name for a Dashboard, with more functions?

We have an app that works in two separate pages. It involves sharing content and presenting information with other users. The secondary, optional (but highly recommended) page is called a dashboard. ...
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How to support a "Save draft" to a wizard approach when the user takes a long time to complete a step?

I have simple user workflow, in which the User has to complete the process sequentially. But the step 2 might take a day or more to get completed. In the Current UI, If user decides to complete the ...
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Why google material design has Import icon which is used as export in other design system?

When my teammate and myself were discussing the Import option for our application which adopts Material design Icons & Components. We founded that there is a slight variant of the Import Icon is ...
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How do I best make a tally of items on a mobile phone

I'm designing a wireframe for a mobile app for logging materials. One of the features needs to be able to log the makeup of a material. fx in the case of a technical fabric the composition can look ...
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How can the StackExchange websites have a better user experience (cookie banner and new user information banner)? [closed]

Long ago, I remember reading either Joel Spolsky's or Jeff Atwood's blog post (can't find it now) about how StackOverflow was founded as a way for people to find answers to questions easily. This was ...
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Different Homepage Interfaces for New Users versus Return Users

There is enthusiasm in my organization for non-retail webpages to have one interface when users visit the site for the first time, and a different interface for return visits. The interface would ...
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What's the best way to present a feature as free, but only if requested

There's this feature we have that some customers really want. And we're going to be including it for free. However, from an economics perspective, there are a ton of savings to not having users use ...
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Should the "open new window" icon ever be the only way to click a link?

I have a request from a user to remove the link from the text and ONLY have the "open new window" icon be what is clickable for that link. The reason is that the text is something he wants ...

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