User interaction is generally what happens when a user interacts with an artifact. How the users thinks and experience the interaction is what is placed on this tag.
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Should you clear user errors when the error is perceived as fixed or when it is confirmed as fixed?
When a website or application has user input controls that validates the input, the user is (usually) notified in one way or another if the input doesn't meet the requirements. Eg. incorrect email ...
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What is an appropriate UI for a prepopulated textbox that you can overwrite?
Suppose I have an edit box that gets prepopulated with text. For example, in tax prep software, there may be a function that computes a value that is displayed, but then also allows you to change that ...
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Should I manually hyperlink phone numbers using “tel:” on my websites?
In code, you have the ability to make a phone number on a website into a link by prepending the phone number in the href with a "tel:"
So, for example, you can create a link to 800-867-5309 with the ...
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Using the “X” as a close button vs a button labeled “close window” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Closing modal dialogs
I'm developing a flash application that has buttons that popup a window with more text, and information when they click it. This happens throughout ...
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Can stairs have a user experience?
Is there any UX consideration that goes into the design/construction of stairs? I know there are various local building codes and the ADA which regulate these things to some degree but stairs at ...
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How to classify content and actions?
How can I classify a type of action or content? Such as distinguishing two actions and content, the Customer and the Seller.
Would the use of colours be convenient? Example:
Blue buttons indicate ...
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How to arrange Buttons and Tabs together?
A web app has two parts - A header and A body.
The header consists of a set of tabs. When hovered on, the body is loaded with appropriate content. One of the tabs, is also clickable (In the mock - ...
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Action confirmation through double clicking (click-twice confirmation)
Clarification:
Let me clarify first: By double-click I mean clicking something twice but not in a quick succession.
So here is the question/suggestion:
Usually on the web applications, designers have ...
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Should a date field be pre-filled or left blank for hotel and flight booking forms?
Should a date field be pre-filled or left blank for hotel and flight booking forms?
For example should i keep date field un-selected by default like this
or with dates of next 3-4 days. and user ...
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Shortened vs full domain name as primary domain
I'm working for a non-profit company, and I was wondering what your thoughts are on the following options for the primary domain name:
thexyzalliance.org
txyz.org
thexyz.org
Originally, I was going ...
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Providing feedback to the user when an entry that is added is the same as a current entry
I'm trying to give the user the ability to add alarm times for a reminder.
In this view, you can see that I have 1:19am twice. What happens is if you press the plus button, then I add a row based ...
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“Sign Up” vs “Create an Account”
Which pick is better for a service? Especially if I would like the website to resemble American style.
Gmail and Dropbox say: "Sign In or create an account"
Yahoo says: "Sign In. New here? Sign ...
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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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Evaluating Usability of existing tools (to see which fits our context) [closed]
I've been working on a project over the past few months to choose a new help desk tool for our company. After narrowing down our choices to just a few, we now at a stage at which we'd like to assess ...
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What Is the Best Approach To Minimalist Buttons (Icons)?
My web app, like most, is trying to utilize as much space as possible by trying to use an icon as a button to perform specific tasks. I have quite a few that would make for a pretty obscure button, ...
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How to ensure a user knows a box is clickable/hoverable
I have a calendar interface that indexes a bunch of gym classes for a user to pick among. These classes are represented as small boxes on the calendar, in a similar manner to how hipmunk.com does ...
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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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User Interface that adjust itself to the user behaviour
I've been wondering why there so few apps that will adjust itself to the user needs? e.g. a user uses one button very often, so it will be bigger that the others. or a listbox item that is more used ...
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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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Completing a process in linear steps - what should happen if a user changes one of the previously entered steps?
I'm working on a tool made for professionals to calculate advice for their customers.
The user is following predefined steps. The steps are represented as tabs (with arrows) in the interface.
The ...
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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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How can I implement a scarcity pattern in the gamification of a forum
StackExchange uses a scarcity design pattern when new users are restricted in how many comments, up votes, and down votes they can post contingent on their score/rank.
My client wants to implement ...
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Best way to allow registration to an invite only web app?
I'm in the process of planning a web app which will offer an advice service to people who earn above a certain salary threshold. The thinking is that the new users will be procured through their ...
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Adding comment in a pop-up
In our system whenever a user wishes to move one entity from its module to another module he has to enter a comment in a pop-up.
I want to provide the similar functionality in another module with ...
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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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User registration form and already registered
We have a registration form like the below. I'm curious if I should be displaying different text for an email address that already exists in our database. It seems like that could be used for spam ...
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Any library for Interactive possibly-changing image navigation? [closed]
There is a large repository of images. I want users to be able to navigate them fast or see small previews about the directory fast. There are many subdirectories (many similar images in ...
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How should I design a “filter” screen where you can filter on many fields
I have a webpage that has a filter screen where you can select filters on one or many fields and these filters are applied on other pages when it grabs data from my DB. Some of the fields have ...
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Menu design for web app with multiple “projects”
I'm designing the UI for a PMS (project management system) web app which handles multiple projects. Basically, it's an app that is pretty similar in functionality to Basecamp so it needs to contain ...
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Responsive web design for e-commerce website?
I'm going to build a big e-commerce website and client want that website should be for all user Desktop, Tablets and Smartphones. and budget is not a problem. Site is an e-commerce website lost of ...
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How to give feedback to users that the site is processing?
I'm designing a website that is just a 16 x 16 tile with squares of different colors (small squares).
-> A user can click a tile to change its color.
The problem is that computing the color the tile ...
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Is it necessary to include an interface's “hidden functions” in the manual / help?
Background
A well designed interface allows any type of user, beginner, advanced, or expert, to achieve their objective quickly. In most cases, help information contains the description of elements ...
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In a ComboBox containing years, should I sort them in ascending or descending order?
My guess is descending, but I want to have some theoretical background. I was using an application and my intuition told me to click the scroll bar down just to find previous years, and I felt ...
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Distracting User Attention with elements [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Blinking, bouncing and flashing elements
Following my previous question, I have another question to ask of you.
We've been asked on this UI build to consider adding RSS ...
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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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How to use many sliders with lengthy textual descriptions
I have the following problem:
On my website, there is a personal settings page, where the user is able to define health-levels for her specific body parts.
To mix it up a little, some body part's ...
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How to inform user that he can use mouse wheel to interact with an object?
On a website I have a map-like gizmo and list-like object. Both has their controls - the map has a google-map-like zoom giozmo and the list has simplified scroll bar. But both can be navigated using ...
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Why do most image gallery popups have Previous and Next arrows so far apart?
This is one of those things that has persisted on the web without getting fixed for so long that I'm starting to wonder if there's something wrong with me for having a beef with this design pattern.
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Help find the fastest and easiest-to-grasp approach to let a user go through a complex schedule
I want to let users view schedules on a mobile phone.
Its a generic schedule of events
Events can be spread across multiple days
Events can be spread across multiple venues
An event has a time slot ...
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What makes users register?
First off - I want users to register on my site. It's a site for image sharing, sort of like imgur.com. But what makes a user on a website register? I have people coming back to my site but they ...
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“Selling” the management on need for UX focus
After the novelty of finding this SO section wore off (and being rightfully shamed of asking a duplicate question), I'd like to rephrase this question so it would target what I feel is a gap in ...
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What are the benefits to software that has no installation wizard?
There are some Windows software packages out there (ie Eclipse, VLC prior to its current version) that do not rely on an installation wizard. Instead of using a wizard there is simply a folder with ...
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What constitutes an effective Brand/System Persona?
I'm looking at the idea of creating a brand(or system) persona for the application I am working on.
After reading the book 'Designing for Emotion'(and the corresponding list apart article) by Aarron ...
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Indicating A Document Has Been Drawn On
Imagine layed out in front of you is a large board with little white pieces of paper representing the cover pages of system files on them. You are shown a title, and a modification date. How might ...
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Best way to tell a user that another one blocked him/her?
In the context of a social networking service, community or forum, what's the best to tell a user that he/she has been blocked by another person? If a message is displayed that says X has blocked you ...
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Hidden optional fields in form design
On a web-app I'm working on,
we have many forms inside dropdown menus.
On many of them we have an optional field: Description.
This field has been added for the users that want to work on a more ...
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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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How long to keep an Undo option available?
I'm working on a medical decision support app, taking certain actions in the app may result in legal consequences, therefore I'm adding an Undo. It's a single step incremental Undo and if not used for ...
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Maximum amount of people in a single chat room
Ok, is there a number, an ideal or a maximum amount of people that can participate in a single real-time conversation? Something similar to the Dunbar's number.
I'm asking this because I'm developing ...
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How should refer to data validation that happens mid-process?
I'm developing some guidelines and I can't work out what to call the type of data validation that takes place as the user enters data. i.e. an error message appears as soon as the field is unfocused.
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