A user is an agent, often a human agent (end-user) instead of a software agent, who uses a computer or network service.
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How to discover what users NEED and not what they WANT?
I have been thinking a lot about my favorite quote from Henry Ford:
If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'Faster Horses'. -Henry Ford
The trouble I have been having is that ...
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How to “force” users to upgrade their browser?
I couldn't think of a better title for this question, but please don't jump to conclusions - I don't really want to point a gun at my users heads!
I have a site that works well with the modern ...
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A better condom user experience
The lack of use of condoms is one of the most critical issues in global health today. However the problems with condoms have little to do with how effective they are when used. Instead the problems ...
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Verification of consequences
I have a situation where a user is about to do something with consequences important enough that it's imperative they understand them. In this particular case they are about to revoke their right to ...
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What are some good ways to ban people?
I'd like to implement several types of ban of my website, not just the "classical one" (i.e. being unable to log in). My website is a Q&A one, if this can help.
Some time ago, I read an article ...
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Should we worry about dial up users?
I am looking to design a site which is going to be fairly image heavy and a question came up about what should we do if the users access it through a a dial up or a really low speed internet ...
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Interaction pattern for creating/editing organization hierarchy; assigning people to groups in hierarchy
I'm looking for an Interaction pattern for creating/editing organization hierarchy and assigning people to groups in the hierarchy. For example, the app's users will need to define a hierarchical ...
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Can we assume users know the devices they're working on?
I'm developing an iPhone app that uses pretty standard UI, follows Apple's human-interface guidelines, and in some cases imitates behavior as seen in stock iPhone apps. For example, a table view from ...
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Should pagination be capped in web app search results?
Search results can be a funky thing to design sometimes when it comes to the value of results for a user. IN this Web App I am helping build, the global search bar, when searched, can lists results ...
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Representing different plans without offending users?
My users can be part of multiple organisations, which may or may not have a paid account.
When we discussed lately how we should make paid accounts stand out in a list, concerns were raised by senior ...
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What are the real differences between UI/UX and front-end development?
front-end developer here.
I'm working in a tiny startup: one back-end developer and me as the front-end developer. My boss is calling me UX boy since I've worked there, even if I don't specially ...
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Any “non-tangible” elements of user experience to consider?
Remember that facebook launched on iterations in an only-university-user rollout? This made facebook an elite platform that only users from prestigious universities could use (and of course, by the ...
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What is the most user-friendly way to update a Web site?
From time to time I need to bring down my website for maintenance, bug fixing, upgrading etc. I have seen that many sites just place the "Site is under maintenance, please visit later" sign on the ...
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Defining relationships between many users in one UI?
We have a UI on a web-page, where relationships between users can be defined by admins. Users are divided to two roles, in this case "Lorem" and "Lorem ipsum".
Right now a relationship between ...
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Is this a good way of attracting a user's attention to a message?
I need to draw my users' attention to a warning message, alerting them to a problem and giving guidance of what they need to do next. The message does not appear on a popup box, since that would mean ...
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Do users read pop up messages/notifications/error messages, etc.?
Should you bother with popups? Do users read them? How can you get them to read them? Should you try to design your application so it doesn't need or use pop up messages/notifications?
This applies ...
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Conditioning users
Playing around with my heat in my new vw gti ;), I noticed when you press the heated seats button once, it's starts you off with maximum greatness (3 / 3) press it again it goes down ( 2 / 3) (1 / 3) ...
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In a website, how to make two segments of users follow the desired path
I was asked to design a website for a company that has two different segments: B2C (business to customers) and B2B (business 2 business)...
The company says both segments are equally important.
How ...
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In a multilingual website should we provide the local language of the country even most of the people understand english there?
In a multilingual website should we provide the local language of the country even if most of the people understand english there?
For example, In India. Most of the people who use computer and shop ...
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Is that Microphone or a Reset Button?
Have you ever poked a microphone thinking that is was a reset/eject button (the kind that require a paper clip to be used)? Why have companies (apparently) completely overlooked the need for a label? ...
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When user testing, how important are representative users?
I work at a company where we design software that, in most cases, is targeted at leasing agents in the multi-family housing industry, a very specific group of people.
When I want to go about testing ...
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Low-Hanging Fruit for User Discovery In A Social App w/o Showing Number of Actual Users
I'm working on a social app that helps users tap into their friends and our community to get fast feedback before making apparel and accessory purchases online. Right now, I'm revamping the site and ...
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iPhone Dropdown Menu element
Designing mobile applications is something I find extremely interesting, but I have recently become more interested in the UI element of a drop down menu for IOS applications. It does seem to always ...
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What is a good name for non-administrator users?
Not sure if this is the proper place for this question. In my opinion, it is related to user experience, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
If you have a site/application that separate users with ...
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Small real-estate for long list choices
Given the context that this is an institutional product, it is a web-app that enables educators to manage students. The way the UI has been designed, there is a pop-up that will allow a user to add ...
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Which term seems more appropriate to use for a user, “player” or device"
Working on a site that allows users to listen to audio through some sort of playback. Whether it is on their desktop (software) iPhone, iPad, touch (App) or special hardware, they can choose one of ...
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Ensuring invitees are recognized and found by the system
I have an app that users can invite other people to by sending them an e-mail address. These invitees get stored in a special table that gets queried when a user signs up, connecting email addresses ...
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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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Best type of UX for a asking visitors on a site a question?
I am trying to design a UX that allows random visitors on a website to quickly give us information about what books they/their child are reading in school. The site itself is a company that provides ...
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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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What's a good way to find a user and display personal information?
On the site I'm working on, users will at some point have to assign a user as the manager for a particular resource. Let's make up a resource and a manager, just to illustrate what's going on here:
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“Burn” or “Save” [closed]
Estou com uma dúvida e gostaria de saber se alguém possui alguma referência a respeito disso.
O usuário preenche formulários, insere dados em uma tabela, gera vários tipos de interação na página, ...
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How to perform a task analysis?
What are your methods to understand the task the visitors to your web site want to solve? Surveys? Interviews? What questions do you ask? Simple asking them about their main reason for visiting the ...
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How do you deal with technologically impaired and ignorant clients? [closed]
I got an email today from my parents, that the navigation in their website/shop (Prestashop) is broken and they get an error if they click it. I had a look, and it turns out they manually deleted at ...
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Best practices for attracting users to a new social media based site [closed]
Hi guys I was wondering if you can share with us, some tips on how to get traction to a new social media website which is only attractive when it has a lot of users that share content?
Making a beta ...
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How to find the target user groups for an app?
I would like to know if there is a general way of finding target user groups for simple mobile apps.
In this instance, it might be a simple webapp or an iPhone app which allows users to send real ...
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User friendly language for notifications?
What is the most user friendly way to notify an user that "The items in the rows needs to be re-arranged"
What I have is
Re-sequencing items required, press update button
How can I make this ...
