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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Too many checkboxes in a table?
A user should be able to change the settings for 5 different options for each day of the week at the same time.
I was thinking of something like this, but it seems a bit messy... Too many things ...
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Where to place controls on a tree/list
I have a chronological list of items. The user can operate on these items with three actions.
So each row has three actions (or buttons for example).
My dilemma is thus:
Having three buttons on ...
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Why use a 3-column layout like StackExchange, Facebook and YouTube?
Why do sites like StackExchange, Facebook and YouTube center their content and reduce its width? As opposed to sites like Reddit that go full width.
Are they trying to spare the user from too much ...
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What are good online resources for testing designs of an IPhone app? [closed]
I am looking for a tool/website that I can use to test my IPhone designs on my current users, I'd like this tool/website to upload my new designs and have a dedicated link where I can share it with my ...
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Best way to implement a chained category selection
Im in the process of making a website where user must select a category between +400 categories and/or subcategories.
The forms needs Parent category and x child categories. What is the best way of ...
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Edit user modal box [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Expressing that new password is optional
I have built a simple user management system on my webserver. There is a list of users, each of which is either "Administrator" ...
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show ip history to login user
Show ip history, like last 100 logins IP and time, can be scare user?
I think maybe user think why service provider store my IP? of course after some storing we can have fraud detection
my solution ...
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“Important” Items Box versus Pinned Items
I am designing an application which has panel with a list of items. The items in the list can be re-ordered by drag and drop:
The number of items in the list has the potential to be very large.
In ...
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Should actions that leave your app require confirmation?
Our app has a 'Facebook' button that opens another user's facebook profile.
Based on the assumptions that: most people who network also have higher facebook privacy settings, and also people who use ...
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Hyphenating URLs and email addresses that would overflow their container?
This is clearly bad UX and web development:
It's important to make sure that email addresses and URLs don't overflow the container, but also that they are fully visible.
But should the email ...
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Easiest way to have a user select a letter grade?
I have a report card form that I'm creating for customers to rate performance in several areas. Our old format was using radio buttons, each labeled A-F with one N/A option. The current idea from ...
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Dashboard and its overall simplicity [closed]
I would like some feedback and suggestions on overall look and feel of this dashboard mock-up for a file-sharing site. I do personally think that there is an over use of gray.
The project is for a ...
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How to handle nonfunctional elements in prototype?
In an interactive prototype there often tends to be elements displayed that don't function the way they eventually will, due to time constraints, not being a part of that particular user test, etc. ...
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Registration: Parent and child
currently working on redesigning a registration that serves three different audiences:
Parent and Child
Self (adult)
Third party paying on behalf of someone else
I am less worried about in which ...
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Paging buttons position – Top, Bottom or both?
The question is on where to place the paging buttons on a catalog page. We have some basic choices here.
Only on bottom.
Both on bottom and on the top.
The obvious argument to place it only on ...
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Non-standard symbols indicates special function
Everyone most web users understand that the asterisk (*) indicates that the fields on a form are required. But what about non-standard symbols?
Our UX team is currently working with an application ...
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Visual differentiation between in-site links to outbound links
I'm trying to solve the differentiation between in-site links vs. outbound links. Currently I'm using for all links the blue from my palette and underline on hover. Due to the nature of the site, that ...
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Mouse scroll wheel should target focus or hover?
I've noticed an inconsistency with controls responding to scroll input. Different OSs (and even different programs within the same OS) behave differently.
Here's the scenario:-
Imagine you have two ...
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Best way to warn a user of potentially bad data
I have a web page with an autocomplete enabled combo textbox/dropdown. The user is able to enter values manually or pick a value from the list. While free text input is acceptable, I would like to ...
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Should we be designing for touch first?
Touch interaction is becoming more ubiquitous and often the only option. Should we be designing for touch first or even touch only?
What are the ramifications of taking this approach?
As someone ...
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UX considerations for interactive mobile maps?
Embedding a mapping service like Google Maps into a website is pretty easy (i.e. using their API, which has recently been updated for mobile performance).
What are the most important UX ...
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How to give users feedback about rejected input?
I've got a mobile app where the user takes a photo of an object. This photo is to go through some heavy-duty image processing server-side, so to prevent large wastage of time, a simple pre-check is ...
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Is domain name important for user experience?
Is it important for the domain of a website to be chosen so that it is simple to type?
For example, consider delicious-dot-ly (delicious.ly).
Would it be fair to say that the difficulty of typing ...
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Making buttons easier to read
Sometime ago I found an article about making buttons, or what is written on the buttons more readable. Not so much by design but by what was written on them. For example.
Not so good
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What is the purpose of having unique URLs for each customer?
What do you think are the most bold reasons for using a unique user panel URL for each customer?
For example:
customer1.serviceprovider.com
customer2.serviceprovider.com
In what cases should ...
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Walk the user through initial data entry after the first login
Are there any guidelines or set of best practices on how to implement the initial data entry after the user has logged in for the first time? For example, I'm thinking of a web application for ...
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Case-study for hiding the optional fields?
I am currently designing a web form for the Online Travel Insurance System and I am thinking of hiding the optional fields since there were so many of them. Like the image below.
I put a Show More ...
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Transitioning from flat comments to threaded comments
I'm transitioning a basic oldest -> newest comment system to a threaded system. The new system will allow for a single level of depth and the threads will be sorted by newest -> oldest. Under each ...
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Do Google still differentiate between pressing “Enter” and clicking “Search”(magnifying glass icon) button? If Yes, why? [closed]
Of course, I am talking about when Instant Search is disabled.
Quite a while ago, Google certainly did differentiate between "Enter" vs. Click. And, according to Google, "Click"ing was recommended.
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A Linux OS as Single Display Groupware [closed]
I was told on the Linux stack exchange that this was a better place to post this question.
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/59199/a-linux-os-as-single-display-groupware
For use in extreme ...
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Should action buttons be separate or part of a single toolbar?
This is a follow-up question from the previous question managing taxonomy hierarchies UI patterns.
Question: When an item in a list has action buttons that perform create/edit/delete actions, is ...
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Interesting visualizations for a personnel in-out control
I have a database with the data of all the company personnel in and out through several facilities (All people must put their fingerprint in the scanner to open doors)
I'm looking for interesting way ...
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Taxonomy Hierarchy Management UI Pattern
Overview
I have a custom lightweight web CMS I am developing. It has a feature that allows business users to define hierarchical taxonomies, add/edit/delete nodes, change their sort order relative ...
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Refresh button on a website
Is it useful/sensible to display a 'Refresh' button on a website's page (simple page, not dialog!), like the picture below?
First I thought it's a good idea, but know I start to think it's not so ...
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Alternatives to pop-up in JSF
Modal pop-ups feel like ugly work-arounds in web applications. They seem to be hard to manage, can have problems with pop-up blockers, and the modality can create user confusion.
What are ...
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Is it ok to force a user to reenter data instead of editing existing
Is it acceptable to force users to delete and recreate data they entered incorrectly or should they be provided with a way to edit every instance of that particular data?
Use Case:
The wireframe ...
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user interface for multiple selection filter?
I have a user interface where there is a field with multiple options. There are a great many options so I'm using a type-ahead filter to assist discovery and selection.
Is there any another good way ...
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Feature Matrix: Compare Products by Date/Time Range?
Problem Statement
It is common to allow a user to compare two or more products in a matrix that lists features/benefits down one axis and the selected products along the other. But how do you ...
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Are there any recent studies of the “Keyboard vs Mouse”-issue?
Back in the late 80's, Apple Human Interface concluded that the mouse is faster than the keyboard, objectively. But also that every test person subjectively thought that the keyboard was faster.
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Keyboard shortcuts on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts
I've been using the Dvorak keyboard layout for a few years, and something that's always bothered me is keyboard shortcuts. On a QWERTY keyboard copy and paste are conveniently positioned as Ctrl+C and ...
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Are increase and decrease arrows redundant on scrollbars?
Surely these days users are either using touch devices to scroll with gestures or are dragging the thumb of the scrollbar or clicking inside the track. Would it be a bad idea to remove the arrow ...
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Alternatives to failing a form to ask for additional input
I have a simple form that asks the user to enter details about an airplane he or she has flown:
The form asks for the model of the aircraft (172, 182), it's registration (N-261GY) and its home ...
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Page updating: “full”, “notification” or “replacing”
What is the best user experience with the auto-updating pages - for example, a list of songs. Currently I'm thinking about three good possible solutions:
"Full" update: when the new content appear ...
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How to paginate alphabetically grouped items?
I am in the process of creating an interface for browsing contacts in a CRM. I have the contacts displayed in alphabetical groups. like so:
A------------------------------
Andrew Bloggs
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Should printed graphics of a domain start with www, uppercase/lowercase? How to make the user understand that it's a domain?
Consider a car used by a company which has "advertising" printed on it regarding the actual company.
How should domains be displayed on such a car? Is there any research regarding this? With a wide ...
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Optimizing the selection process [closed]
I am developing a mobile application in which the user selects the fields that s/he wants to enter information into. At the moment, I have two screens - one for selecting the fields and other for ...
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Search solution for user who does not know Regex
I have list(few million rows) of data all of type string. I need to provide search for that list, but my users don't want to use regex(they don't know how to write regex). Can some tell me few options ...
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Android: Back Button Only vs. Extra Navigation
General UX question for Android:
Assume a simple view (activity or fragment) hierarchy, like so: A --> B. The transition from A to B is added to Android's back stack.
On screen B, is it best to ...
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Industry standard drop rate percentages?
When evaluating the registration of a product, and have access to the analytics, is there a good measurement on what a decent "drop-rate" percentage might be?
By drop-rate, I am referring to how many ...
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Should I allow users to reorganise menu items?
I am working on a video sharing application. Would it be best if I allow the user to organize the menu items: e.g.
Home Videos Users Account
User would be able to organize them as:
Account ...
