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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App interface for changing relational percentages
Has anyone ever seen or used a good app interface (web or mobile) for changing relational percentages? E.g I need to change 3 amounts to make up £100 and I need to be able to use any permutation to do ...
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Need advice which template is better?
I posted here recently looking to improve a template in hopes to increase engagement with the page and decrease bounce rate.
Here is an example of a page how it used to look before:
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Which is worse--making the user close a file before they can export a second time or having multiple similar files open?
I have an grid application that allows users to export the grid to Excel and display it. The application gives the Excel file a name that is related to the grid. If the user makes some changes and ...
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In which situations is a popup window most appropriate?
There are many situations in which popup windows are currently used in modern UIs. Their primary use appears to be when displaying an error message or other descriptive information is desirable, ...
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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 ...
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Should I put an alert view notifying the user of a successful wall post with the Facebook SDK in iPhone?
I am currently developing an iPhone app that connects to Facebook trough its SDK. One of the main functionalities is the option to share a post with a news story from the feed.
So basically I show ...
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Admin Layout - where to put the categories list?
See the Admin layout (wireframe) below.
Header - Logo and Logout Link
Main navigation - Orders, Members, Shops, etc.
Sub-Navigation - List of links that is related to Main navigation. Eg: If you ...
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What is the best way to ask for repeating dates?
I've always struggled with the best way to allow a user to enter a repeating date. For example, scheduling a task you need to do repeatedly. There are a few different ways this can be expressed...
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Best approach for capturing data for items in a listbox
I have a series of cascading ListBoxes in an aspx page.
This UI was selected to allow the equipment list to be filtered by Assigned Services and then Equipment, which in-turn will allow the user to ...
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how to make compact UI for lists
I'm making an app with 2 lists in the main screen, and the space allocated for the 2 lists are equal. So there will be only 5 items visible for each list.
I'm thinking of an improvement on making ...
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Whats is the best UI interface for permission?
I would like to know what is the best user interface to represent Multi-group inheritance permission.
I am not sure the treeview is the best way to show permission. What should be the best UI ?
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Date Range for Saturday-Saturday or Sunday-Sunday Vacations
So I'm having an interesting problem while selling vacations.
Right now, I have two calendars for picking a date range. This date range is supposed to identify the days my customer is available to ...
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What does it mean to 'humanise' interfaces?
When people say 'humanise' an interface, what exactly do they mean? Or is there a more formal word to this idea.
The word 'humanise' sounds vague to me. It could mean several ideas if not taken ...
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Responsive website - navigation usability advice
I am developing a site which is to respond to different screen sizes. The site is fairly large and has up to 4 levels deep in terms of page/menu hierarchy. What I am wrestling with now is how to adapt ...
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Blue or red color for counter of new messages?
I'm trying to implement an inbox for users and there is an indicator in the site that shows you how many new messages you have.
When I use blue for notifications it nicely fits in the site, and red ...
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The calculator app question: preventing users from entering illegal input
I know there are a number of ways to prevent users from entering illegal input: disabling buttons, showing warnings, and other solutions that fit the domain of the problem. However, the usual ...
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Where to notify someone of an empty list?
Let's say that you have an app and the home page of the app has icons (with text) to link to various actions. One of the actions would typically show you a list of objects that you are subscribed to.
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Bus Ticket Booking Form - Mobile
While designing a Bus booking site - i was thinking on the number of inputs i will require for searching all the buses between two routes.
The Web version contains these forms
One Way/ Round Trip ...
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What to call a first-level navigation item that helps guide various user types to different parts of the site?
I'm working on a sitemap for a client who has a number of different user types (each of whom requires varying goals and tasks associated with using the site). They are concerned that the various ...
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What is the most intuitive way to force users to enter certain cells first in the new row of a data grid?
It was suggested that I post to this site the first half of a question I posted on StackOverflow.
Paraphrased…
I have a data grid (in my situation, Microsoft's .NET platform using WPF) wherein I ...
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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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Form Input for Min/Max Field that can be Equal
I'm having a hard time coming up with a solution for this. I'm working on a travel site, and one question is "How many days do you want your trip to be?"
I want to handle two cases, "7 Days" or "7-9 ...
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What do I need to know to get started as a professional UX/interaction designer?
I am a student of Software Engineering (mainly focusing on Requirements Engineering). I am a beginner in the field of UX. There already are a few questions on this forum regarding books etc. Still, I ...
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Regular pagination vs. infinite scroll
I'm currently making a dating site, my choice for pagination is between the traditional:
[<< Prev] [1] [2] [3] [Next >>]
vs
[ Load More ]
The 2nd is the "load more" bar or button ...
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Good alternatives for replacing multiple nested modal dialogs?
Having a mature and good-selling Windows desktop application, we are focusing on improving the user experience for the next release.
One thing that I try is to get rid of multiple nested modal dialog ...
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Is there a jQuery framework that provides FlipBoard style interface [closed]
I am curious if FlipBoard has been reproduced for the desktop/laptop environment.
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Is it better to have a UI that represents something real or to have a UI that creates a whole new language with any relation to the real world? [closed]
I've been thinking about this matter, specially when seeing the difference between apple and the new microsoft's UI. Apple has more of a attachment to the real world and the new Metro style is more of ...
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Looking to create a good user interface to ask 4 questions to users in the best possible way?
I am trying to create a good UI for the main page of my website.
I need to ask 4 questions to users in easiest possible way-
Query terms - e.g toyota Corola
Category (optional) - e.g. Cars
Location ...
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What does a user expect tapping album artwork to do?
I'm designing a music player app, which will play from a stream on the internet. In the app, I plan to show a navigation bar, a tab bar, and some info about the song that the user is listening to.
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Wizard for a process that can be exited and re-entered?
We are redesigning a 5 step repetitive process for some web software. Normally for a step-by-step process I would like to use a wizard but to me it implies the process must be complete in one sitting ...
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Acceptable length of idle time before considering a user is away?
Regarding my previous question on user activity, how long is the ideal amount of time to allow the computer to sit idly before considering the user to be away?
In my current application of this ...
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Get user Birth location
So i need to get the exact location of where a person was born.
Currently, I have two maps on a page and an input field. So you can basically use either one. Right now the top map is a view of the ...
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On mobile phones why is the green (call) button at the left and red (hang) button at the right side?
Some old mobile phones have switched position of green/red buttons.
Currently the green button is at the left and red button is at the right side on mobile phones.
Why? That is rationale? Which ...
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Where can I find research about UI Design Across Form-Factors/ Devices (e.g. TVs & entertainment systems)?
Has there been marketable research in new UI design ideas that could work across form-factors (from desktop down to smartphones on the one end and to widescreen HD TV for games on the other)? So that ...
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Why two kind of links should be visually different in a site? [closed]
In a site we have different kind of links, some are pure user related, some are pure navigational. Some are linked headings (which are black).
Are we going too far away from best practices? Is there ...
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company email vs company field + email field
In an attempt to reduce to the very minimal the number of fields for a user to register to our services I am wondering whether to replace the fields
company and email with only one "company's email".
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Repeating elements of a page to ensure they're noticed?
Does anyone have any experience with the effects of repeating an element on a page to ensure it is noticed (and hopefully used!).
In my case, it's the search function I want to bring to light - ...
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What Defines “On a Device”?
I'm currently working on a user experience problem that involves a user's multiple devices (smart phone, tablet, laptop, etc.)
What I'm trying to accomplish is that the app "intuitively senses" when ...
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How to convey the notion of urgency and impact via symbols and/or ux
I'm creating an interface for help desk solution where users must define an urgency and impact for the case they are creating.
I thought about a slider like this Smiley Slider but the smiley doesn't ...
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Best way to show historical information of form fields?
I have a form where i have fields(15-30) of various types textbox/radio/checkbox/select. Now i have to show the historical information of all the fields. Right now, i handling it by providing a icon ...
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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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Is it recommended you remove all non-essential links, navigation items, promo buckets etc when users engage in a elaborate tool/flow on your site?
I know this is the case for registration where you dont want the user to bail. A good example would be creating a map on Google Maps.
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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 ...
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How should I handle deleting a role when there are still users with it assigned
I presume this is a pretty common problem but I can never decide the best way to do it.
Simple system. It has users, users can be a assigned a role. Roles are defined by the admin users.
The ...
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Mouse usage pictograms
Is there a set of standard pictograms to explain using the mouse to navigate the interface? I would like to have icons for dragging an object, scrolling the mouse wheel above the object and similar. ...
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Best way to show field Level History for form fields
I have a form showing financial information of a project in a web app. My client wants to capture the history of all the fields in the form. The problem here is: form is having fileds count of 100-300 ...
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What is the most user-friendly way of displaying data?
I am working on a Password Manages program which allow to add and remove entries from database file. The problem is that my display as showing below. I get impression that if a new user to a program ...
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UI design with MINIMUM number of clicks
Project : ASP.NET with C#
Client side : JavaScript and jQuery
Consider the scenario,
I have a number of user to use the software. I will classify them into different groups. Then, I would like to ...
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What is a more intuitive way to present a 3-option toggle?
Stack Exchange's tag popup card/thingy has a star which you can toggle between "Favorite" (gold star), "Ignored" (red cross), and "Normal" (grey star).
Favorite:
Ignored:
Normal:
This is not ...
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How to indicate the word “interesting” with an icon? [closed]
In the project I am currently working on everything is based around the essence of "interests". One of the most important and bold UI elements in this project, is a button that when pressed gives us ...
