A user is an agent, either a human agent (end-user) or software agent, who uses a computer or network service. Someone who uses the UI as opposed to someone developing it.
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How is “user attribution” defined?
I am working on a concept around this topic and would like to clarify its meaning before designing a solution for it.
Are there existing definitions of the terms "user attribution"? What is it ...
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Enterprise Social User Interview Questions?
I am in the process of creating a questionnaire for user interviews for a HUGE Enterprise Social Initiative where the end product is going to be an Intranet/ESocial application.I am trying to get some ...
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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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Is it OK to let users chose their own navigation in a Web App?
I have a web app with the main navigation in the left rail. One suggestion that has floated up is to give users the ability to rearrange the navigation. This would serve the purpose of putting nav ...
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What is a good UI metaphor for switching roles user plays in the application?
I am building a conference/tradeshow application where a user can assume multiple roles within the application and within a particular conference. For example a user can be an attendee, and have ...
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Who is the average user?
We get occasional questions about designing for the average user, but the term is bandied around pretty often - especially by clients who want to design their product or application so that it can be ...
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User Experience vs. UI Javascript Component Libraries
Anyone run into Agile Development teams that use UI Component Libraries (PrimeFaces and IceFaces) with horrible User Experiences ... who won't modify the code to support a better User Experience. ...
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Is it necessary to tell users that Usability was improved?
I'm about to release a polished version of a multiple-window gui-application I wrote years ago. I improved usability a lot (it was BAD!), with which i mean stuff like:
fixing tiny errors in ...
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Studies showing what prompts users to view the privacy policy of a website that does not have user accounts?
As opposed to websites where A user signs up and can be concerned about their privacy (i.e. Instagram, etc). What have case studies shown to motivate a user to look through a website's privacy policy? ...
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User Authentication/Timeout for web-app with personal Information
The concept behind "Remember my Username" and even allowing browsers to save your "username and password" for this site seems like it could be controversial.
Given that different audiences prefer ...
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Including everyone in the company User Story creation?
I am a firm believer that design happens in every part of a company. Encouraging participation in Story creation follows that vein.
We have been experimenting with encouraging anyone - programmers, ...
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Resources for UI Architectural Concepts [closed]
I started getting my hands around some of the following UI related concepts but I thought it would be wise to request the experts I am aware of along these lines…
• UI Design Concepts (Principles ...
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What is the difference between Scenario and User Journey?
I have been doing some research in order to understand what is an scenario and what is a user journey. As I understood, after you develop your personas then you can create the scenarios for each one. ...
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Placing buttons on section headers is correct or not?
Is placing buttons on headers to the middle or extreme right side is correct or not? Could you please suggest me the appropriate place?
Example:
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Benefits of testing at a wireframe prototype stage rather than design stage?
Trying to convince internally that testing at an interactive prototype stage will be more effective at ridding usability issues than at a design stage. What are the benefits of testing early other ...
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When is user authentication really necessary?
Better said, how much harder is to mantain a forum/message-board/community webiste with unauthenticated users and what would be the benefits and disadvantages in comparison to an account-based one?
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Identifying a fair and representative set of users for interviews and persona development
How do you make sure you have a statistically representative and accurate sample of users from a population and what criteria would you base that sample on?
I want to make sure that the people we ...
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Can users get angry if their posts get deleted automatically due to storage limitations?
I am making a web app similar to 4chan (for a very specific audience), but due to database storage limitations (currently at most 5 MB), the app needs to delete old posts by anonymous users to prevent ...
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How to depict a bottomless pit from a top-down perspective [closed]
I have an top-down perspective android game that uses opengl-es. In the game, the user moves around a cylinder to navigate obstacle courses. I have implemented a jump effect (user flicks the screen up ...
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Role management with Parameters
I am currently developing a User management Form.
Each User can be assigned to multiple Roles. I would create this as 2 Listboxes with one showing all selected Roles and the other all unselected ...
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Who are the most common visitor types to a web site?
Creating a detailed stakeholder analysis is fundamentally when you are planning to build a usable web site.
Prior to a workshop I've tried to list the most common stakeholders that are likely to ...
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Adding restrictions vs. adding options
I'm working on a b2b marketplace that is completely free as of yet but I'd like, in the near future, to give users the option of purchasing a premium account of some sort.
What I want to know here is, ...
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Design for users - Preliminary tests / methods?
Usability seems to be placed, after the application is developed.
What methods should we look at, when we want to build a user centred application, before we actually create a version for users ...
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The implications of showing the same content to different types of users but still making them believe it is specific to their needs?
Let me try to elaborate a bit more about my question:
Some websites, like financial institutions, target a large audience. They divide their business users into multiple segments(e.g.: corporations, ...
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What's the best way to allow users to reset their licence keys
Ok, so I'm making an ecommerce website with Drupal to sell my software. One of my application uses the standard licence key type method, where a licence key is generated and sent out to the user via ...
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Embedding options in a forum
I'm developing a forum/community site and I was thinking how much embedding options should I give to the users. Until now, it is possible upload images and the URLs in the posts are parsed and ...
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Button Names 'Click here' vs 'something else'
We're having internal arguments about how to label buttons with actions. Other folks in the internet teams, who aren't necessarily User-Focused, demanding that 'Action' buttons to simply read "click ...
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questions at the end of a user study (an online simple game) to see if they enjoyed the study or not [closed]
I have a question.
I am running a user study which is a simple online game. I am looking for a set of standard questions to ask the users at the end of the study to see if they enjoyed the study or ...
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How to build a site targetet to well paid male company managers [closed]
I'm building a global web site that is targeted to well-paid male company managers. In what way should this user profile direct my user interface decisions?
For example they will not have much time ...
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Should users be able to enter data directly into a pivot table
... or should I offer them a separate formular/window where the user can fill the data to the related person?
Its about entering marks/grades of pupils for a certain subject. So sliding to the wrong ...
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Interesting ways you can provide a client with feedback from user testing?
User testing reports are often pages long, lets face it how often do clients actually read this. What interesting ways can you share the results of user testing?
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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 “Cycle” for developing new products?
Given that everyone has their own "nitch" or style for developing new products/applications,
I was wondering if there is an ideal cycle that most ux professionals like to follow?
This could be ...
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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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What is the user centric business development model?
I've been asked to describe a user centric business development model to a lay person.
I say it is:
Research user behaviours > model users and workflows > define requirements and business needs > ...
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The right to remove an account, or change the username [duplicate]
The way web services handle account information, and allow (or disallow) account deletion, and respect their user's privacy is certainly a big part of the User Experience.
As an experiment, I'm ...
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Need information on designing big forms(questionnaire) [closed]
I'm working on an application where we are filtering data for user which will help us to show best products as per his/her likes. And to do this, we are asking lots of questions (radio button, user ...
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How do you know if the application you built is really useful to users before investing too much money in the process? [closed]
Can somebody explane to me how to do a survey to know the needs of potential users? Do you have always the time and the money to do so? Is it possible to know if an application if a "winner" before ...
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Is there a scale to measure ones proficiency in software? [closed]
I've often wondered why there is no general scale to visually show a persons proficiency in technology/hardware/software. Is there such a thing?
Something like... I could fill-out a questionnaire ...
