A web app is an application that uses technologies such as Javascript, CSS, and HTML5 and is executed in a web browser. Developers release their applications as web apps because of the larger flexibility of the format. The application can be run directly from a website, or, if it ...
4
votes
3answers
38 views
Should survey for canceling subscription be before or after the subscription is canceled?
We want to collect data about why our users cancel our product subscription.
Should we put the survey form on the same page? Since it might be more likely that they will fill it in, but probably at ...
2
votes
1answer
55 views
Best Approach When Using Trial Subscriptions
In terms of UX what do you guys think is the best approach when integrating a trial period for subscriptions?
My application offers a 15 day trial, at the minute the user can sign up without ...
5
votes
5answers
126 views
Update list when a user is viewing the list without annoying them
We have a list of items that the user will be interacting with frequently during sessions. Each session will last a minute or two and during that time they are changing state on items and updating ...
7
votes
3answers
180 views
When closing a tab, which tab makes the most sense to focus on?
I work on a web application that allows users to create tabs and fill them with modules that display analytic data. So one tab may have a series of bar graphs, and another may have a group of tables. ...
5
votes
4answers
166 views
When are shadowless icons preferred over shadowed icons?
My question is when, if ever, a shadowless version of an icon is preferred over the shadowed version.
By shadowed I mean the tiny, almost imperceptible little black gaussian blur below the icon.
I ...
0
votes
0answers
83 views
Best Practices for UI/UX design for Web 2.0 applications [closed]
I've seen some questions on specific UI and UX designs best practices, like for Android, but are there best practices for UI and/or UX for each of the three different Web Components for Web 2.0: RIA, ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
How to provide great UX in navigation from bird's eye view web-component to smaller web-component and vice-versa?
I have a web application, let's call it "Molecule", that provides a bird's eye view over the status of several other web applications, let's call them "Atoms".
I want, somehow, to navigate from the ...
1
vote
2answers
62 views
Should I reload only those areas of site where data has changed?
I think the rule is: Reload only those areas of site where data has changed. Don't fetch the areas where no changes have been made.
The pros of this rule are:
1. Users will be able to examine ...
9
votes
5answers
263 views
Blinking , bouncing and flashing elements
Im am responsible for the UI/UX in a software development company.
During my absence, some developers decided to implement a "bounce" effect on a button of a website that they think should have more ...
0
votes
3answers
66 views
Best way to show and switch between metric and US customary units for distance (km/mi)
My site shows trails and currently shows distance in km and elevation in m.
US users don't like this and want to see things in miles and feet respectively.
Does anybody have any evidence for the best ...
4
votes
3answers
80 views
Remember the State of a Page when navigating to other pages?
In a web application, let's say the user has several sections, which are lists of records of data that can be searched, sorted, etc.
Example navigation:
- Clients
- Accounts
- Projects
let's say ...
0
votes
1answer
73 views
Design large web form for entry mode
At my company I am developing and designing a web app(one man effort :( ) for entering data for a directory , basically the directory structure is as follows :
Categories
-> Offices (>=1)
...
15
votes
10answers
441 views
Is it ok to require certain users to have JavaScript enabled?
I am a firm believer sites should work perfectly fine for people who choose to disable Javascript while browsing any and all of the content.
However, when it comes to higher-level interaction (such ...
0
votes
1answer
65 views
What is a good visual format for a “show” page?
Let's say the user clicks on something that is an entity in the system. In my case, it's a template for a course that students take.
On this screen, I want to show various properties of the template ...
2
votes
4answers
142 views
How to choose a slug for “friendly url”? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Underscores vs. hyphens in URLs
I'm going to implement a sort of "friendly url" for geography like a regex
/<region>/<city>/<category>?
and then I ...
3
votes
3answers
200 views
Why is the new Twitter menu bar on the bottom on iPhone?
Twitter recently released a complete redesign for all major platforms, in part the redesign has been made to unify the experience across platforms.
But, because of this goal I couldn't help noticing ...
-1
votes
3answers
136 views
Where can I find style guides for web apps online?
I am developing a style guide for a web application. I would like to find some good example style guides online to refer to. I am not having much luck with Google. What are some good resources to help ...
4
votes
4answers
151 views
Are “About” views necessary in applications?
I am currently assisting in the development of an app for mobile and the web. Someone recently pointed out that we haven't discussed the "About" view yet. My first reaction was, "Do we need one?"
An ...
1
vote
4answers
178 views
“startup” sites have a certain look and feel - does that style have a name?
I have been looking on various freelancing sites for a designer for my web startup. A lot of startups have a certain style which I am having difficulty describing, these are the sort of sites I mean:
...
2
votes
1answer
64 views
Efficient insert/update in web applications
What are some efficient ways to insert/change some amount of data in a web application for users that are used to do it in Excel sheets?
(the most efficient could be kind of subjective, and I would ...
4
votes
3answers
65 views
When to use 2 accounts (buyers and sellers) and when to combine them into 1 account?
I'm struggling with the idea of either making separate buyer and seller accounts for a marketplace I'm creating, OR to combine the accounts.
The main hurdle in my mind is the rarity that in this ...
1
vote
1answer
86 views
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:
...
2
votes
3answers
72 views
Is there any free tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen?
Is there any tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen?
I have all screenshot images for all pages of websites, Some are lightbox on same page. some ...
2
votes
1answer
105 views
Where should I put a sub-menu on the screen?
This might seem like an odd question, but where should I put a sub-menu on the screen, assuming the main menu is horizontal - similar to the Questions/Tags/Users/Badges menu on this site.
The ...
1
vote
0answers
33 views
Batch Adding of Inventory Materials [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best Web UI for Large Amounts of Data Input
I would like to create a front end web design wherein I would like to upload inventory materials. There are fields for ...
4
votes
6answers
391 views
Best way to let user select one of 100 values?
In our app we have a page that allows users to select an account type and there are 100 different ones. It's basically a word + number, something along the lines of the number of users you want to ...
4
votes
6answers
171 views
Radio Buttons in the header?
Our web app allows users to switch between (currently 3, potentially more in the near future) different "contexts". For example, they could choose to view the app from the point of view of a ...
-1
votes
4answers
69 views
Breaking down everything on a single error, or just break down that part? [closed]
In PHP, if a module of your site has a problem, you can turn off error messages, so that only that module won't be displayed. This means for example, if you have a weblog based on PHP, and archive ...
5
votes
3answers
207 views
Why doesn't YouTube append the video title to the video URL?
How come YouTube doesn't append the video title to the video URL?
I know they are owned by Google so good SEO isn't exactly necessary, but from a user experience stand point it makes much more sense. ...
4
votes
4answers
214 views
Would you consider this a button?
I am working on a web interface and I want to emphasize a portion of it and make it attractive for people to click on it, which will show additional content (with a 3d css flip animation).
The first ...
0
votes
1answer
200 views
Is a fixed footer menu in a web app bad practice?
We are building a (non-native web app) that looks and behaves like a native iPhone app (using jQuery Mobile). Now the client wants a fixed footer menu which reduced the screen estate. Is a footer menu ...
15
votes
5answers
188 views
Should apps allow the use of non-Latin names?
When you have an application with an intended international audience, you are likely to run into issues with names. The W3C has some interesting documentation on names, but I'm not sure how good it ...
6
votes
3answers
208 views
Breadcrumb or tabbed form or best of both?
We have a web application that allows users to query a database.
The results are returned in a breadcrumb style interface.
We brought this change in at a new version, and our users have been ...
3
votes
5answers
160 views
Form - time input
I saw a few posts about dates and what not. I was wondering what the best solution would be to get time. It needs to be an exact time and it would be nice to support both time formats.
Should i just ...
3
votes
1answer
138 views
HTML table cell wrapping issue
One of the problems in a tabular representation of data, is text wrapping inside cells. There are some options available, like:
Fixing the width of the columns, and enlarging the rows height to ...
1
vote
2answers
81 views
Web App on PC & Tablet - Tablet cue for scrollable panel?
I have a web app that's meant to be targeted to both PC and tablet users. The app has two main "panes" side-by-side (a map and a legend, effectively), and I'm finding that the "scrollability" (did I ...
3
votes
4answers
121 views
How to best let a user sequence items in their queue
We have a queue on our users' project page. And we want to introduce sequencing. Currently all actions that are applied are First In; First Out.
What is the best method for sequencing?
We have come ...
1
vote
1answer
108 views
Can this double picker be achieved by a web app (not a native app)?
Can this double picker be achieved by a web app in HTML (not a native app)?
0
votes
1answer
64 views
What are some of the best e-tailer / catalogue iPhone apps or webapps you have seen, and what makes them great? [closed]
I've seen a few webapps or iPhone apps that have an enormous and heterogenous amount of items for sale, while managing information architecture / user experience so that is simple and easy to browse ...
2
votes
4answers
142 views
What icon to use for archive and for restore?
In our web-app there is a message centre with a time-line of communications. We let the user move instances of these into what we are calling an archive. On each of the listed messages there appears a ...
2
votes
2answers
70 views
Long lists to fill page
I have a task where I need to display a long list of categories (variable number). Underneath each category is a list of subcategories (once again variable number). Now I could just have a single ...
1
vote
2answers
64 views
What effect does requiring a plugin have on conversion rate in a web app?
An HCI professor of mine found in a small study that requiring an added plugin (Java Silverlight ext) to view certain content resulted in a greater than 50% drop in users completing the task. Users ...
1
vote
3answers
128 views
Is it good to create separate screen for change password?
I have a web-page to create new user; Now, I want to use same page for editing their profile. Is it good for change password also OR Do i have to create a separate page to change password, which asks ...
1
vote
3answers
51 views
Setting safe defaults for user interface configuration by client
I am currently a consultant working for a software development company who is building an application for their client. The dev company feels that every aspect of the ui should be customize-able, ...
1
vote
2answers
71 views
Controlling app's beta users with HTML5 Geolocation
I'm a beginner to user experience (and programming) and am interested in feedback on an idea I had for setting up my homepage.
The goal is that a user would enter their information and after ...
1
vote
3answers
93 views
What is the best way to indicate to the user to type/select production numbers
I need to ask to the user for this fields: area planted, area harvested and the yield.
I got this approaches:
1
2
3
Obviously the three fields are numbers, they are between 1 and 40 for the ...
2
votes
1answer
100 views
Alerting Users of “FrameBusters”
I'm currently developing a web app that uses iframes that contain other people's sites (Think StumbleUpon). Some sites contain "Framebuster' though, these busters redirect my app to the site that the ...
2
votes
2answers
126 views
What image and message use in the “Not found” page (404 error page)
I've seen the robot of Google, the creature that has Github. I think that is question of imagination and what kind of data manages your web app to design a custom image and the message to show to the ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views
Options of options in web form
So I have some options that a user can choose from, and then from those options they can choose sub options.
Right now it is setup using the jquery accordion, where the main option is clicked and ...
4
votes
3answers
131 views
Alternative wording to 'upgrade from free trial to a paying plan'?
Looking for an alternative to 'upgrade'. The problem is that in our web-app ui and communication, we are currently using two different versions of upgrade:
the common upgrade/downgrade of the ...
