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 I display a “not available” option in my key, even when I know it will never be used
I've got a site which sells lots of different products. Due to the nature of the industry, it is necessary that multiple products can be displayed on screen at the same time.
To save space, the ...
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How to make it obvious that you can drag things that you normally can't?
My interface allows users to move things that usually have fixed positions in other applications, such as text boxes. What can I do to make it obvious to the user that they can move certain objects?
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Does having WiFi spots and similar equipment visible improve user experience?
Suppose I'm planning an office or a restaurant or a city. I need to plan where I have wireless communication spots installed. Those may be WiFi spots or cell towers or DECT phone spots.
I've planned ...
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How can users be prevented from pouring water into the bean compartment of a coffee machine?
Typical coffee machines have two user-accessible compartments: one for water and one for coffee beans. Pouring water into the bean compartment kills most machines, the repairs cost a fortune.
Now ...
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In place editing in search result and searching again
I am looking for existing solutions to a user interface problem. My users have the ability to search in a list of items. The items can be either single or composite items.
In the search result the ...
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Is database too technical a term for user?
Are these terms 'Database', 'Record', 'Table', 'Field', 'Row', and 'Column' too technical (or even relevant) for a normal online banking application user, especially when talking to a customer service ...
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A/B Testing Technique
My friend and I were having a discussion about different ways of A/B testing. His technique was to make a single small change (e.g. changing the colour of a button) and then perform A/B Testing to see ...
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Drop down list vs. clickable map
I'm working on a web tool that requires users to choose their region as a search filter. I'm trying to decide if it will be best to use a drop-down list (there will be 15 regions) or a clickable map ...
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How to quantitatively compare two interfaces?
I am in the process of building a tool to make some tasks easier than an existing application allows. Right now I am surveying users and receiving feedback but I want hard numbers.
The only ...
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What is the best method to undo an action?
Imagine for the sake of simplicity I have a web app to-do list, where each item is a line and has a check mark near it. When the user clicks the check mark, the task is then "done" and the line fades ...
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How do you provide interaction in plots and graphs on touch devices?
Traditional graphs like this
http://dygraphs.com/tests/range-selector.html or http://www.highcharts.com/products/highstock have tooltips to indicate the values at cursor position. Since there is no ...
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Is the middle power option 50% or 60%?
A friend of mine has a blender with 6 control selections: One off position, and five power settings in order of less to more power. Example below:
A discussion has erupted over whether or not the ...
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What's the best way to navigate from between two screens in an App?
What's the best way to navigate from between two screens in an App?
I'm writing an app which essentially consists of 2 screens of content, each displaying different type of news. I'm having a really ...
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Adding a state to a control that indicates a row hasn't been saved yet
I'm working on a web application that users use to approve a bunch of items from a list. Imagine, say, an expense report that someone has to approve every item that's listed.
Currently, the system ...
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What is a proper verb tense to use for a Web App?
I’m creating a web app for services like CRM, Helpdesk, etc, and I’m wondering what might be the best verb tense to use to address users… Why?
There will be a lot of tooltips, help guides, ...
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“Record in Use By Other User” Guidance: Try Again Later? Or Other Solution?
Considered we have a use case where the product technology doesn't allow edits of the same record at the same time (for example different users might be want to editing different parts of a customer ...
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de-emphasizing cancel
Is it a good idea to de-emphasize the cancel button?
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vs.
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Developer Flexibility with UX Components
We often see that requirements talk about fine nitty-gritty details that takes away the flexibility from developers from doing things the right way [keeping User Experience / Usability].
Like for ...
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Is a web form that sends an email bad UX versus native email client?
I am developing a web-browser-based contact form for our public web site. The form allows a user to enter their email address and compose a message. Upon submission an email is generated and sent to ...
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Are activity alerts effective? example: 5 people are viewing this hotel right now
For example, Expedia (and other hotel sites) have alerts that come and go that say things such as, "17 people have booked this hotel this week." Is there any documentation out there concerning this ...
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Live preview - alternative to split screen
I am working on a playground for designers and front end developers. One of the features it has is the live preview. This means that while you are changing your html or css code you can preview the ...
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Good user interface for multiple checkbox selection and a dropdown list (View/Editable mode)
I have a Dropdownlist and many Checkboxs. For any particular dropdown select value I will show all checkboxs and if their is already any database relation with that dropdown value I have set checkbox ...
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Prefer buttons over text links when designing for mobile?
When designing for mobile, should one prefer buttons over text links whenever possible?
I'm guessing buttons are better at encouraging tapping, whereas text links are increasingly becoming associated ...
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What are pleasant ways to move the user through a technical support request, if they are not very tech savvy?
Say a user has a request for service on equipment.
The person that will handle this might likely be someone who is either not familiar with the technology or even how to use the equipment. For ...
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Do non-technical/non-web savvy users understand the concept of tags?
Here at Stack Exchange we're currently wrestling with weaknesses in our tags system. As we open up new verticals – some of which include very non-technical users like cooking – we suspect that the ...
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Normal select box vs autocomplete widget UX wise
Was wondering is anyone had experience dealing with autocomplete widget vs using a select box when you got 100-200-300 items in the select box.
I think the general consensus is that the autocomplete ...
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Which do users like more as of now, 'Flat Design' or 'Skeuomorphic'?
I have read multiple articles on-line that say that the era of Skeuomorphic design on the web is over, and that a new era of so-called 'flat design' is now the new thing for developers, but do users ...
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Focus the form and block anything else?
In order to disable everything else on the website and focus the user to what they are really doing, I came with the solution of adding a layer over everything except over the current form.
I don't ...
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Why do we say we “browse” to a place on the Internet when we actually download a web server’s content to our browser? [closed]
Browsing the web is a common daily task for more than a billion users, and we do not pay much attention to it. We just “browse to a place” or ask our laughing friend across the table “where she is on ...
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Does number of screens affect usability of a specific software?
Does it matter to the user if the application has 70-80 screens as
long as all the functionality are provided?
Does it depend on the platform, e.g. Handheld devices vs Desktop ?
Is there a limit on ...
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How does “upload an image” behave in a Responsive Design environment?
i.e. "Upload CTA" usually launches an OS based file selection interface on desktop devices. How would this work within a responsive design environment if the user is on a mobile browser. Would it / ...
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What to add to my website, in order to make it look more elegant [closed]
I hope I'm in right section of stackoverflow, if not, sorry.
So I'm not a UI or UX engineer, and I just need your opinion/ help to make my web page look more elegant.
So what you think I need to ...
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Numeric data input in a web based scientific software
(Note: I'm more a backend developer, so please forgive my lack of UX terminologies. Don't hesitate to edit the text or the tags)
We are working on an online scientific software with specific ...
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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 ...
