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Best approach to presenting data that is being compared and the differences within it
I am developing an app that compares source data and destination data (the data is transferred from one database into another)
I would like to create the best possible interface that clearly and ...
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Handling bad network connections in a mobile app [closed]
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis about loading data in mobile applications (native/web based).
I already searched for UX studies how to handle disconnects and slow loading of data but ...
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How to design a futuristic-looking application
I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced UX developers. I have been presented with a unique challenge by my customer, and I feel like I am failing.
Specifically, they want a UI that ...
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Look and Feel Consistency for existing app with new features
I have an existing app, which is almost two year old and I am planning to build new UI screens using bootstrap framework. I start to realize that new UI screens are NOT having the same look and feel. ...
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How can branches of a query language be added dynamically in a browser? [closed]
Our group developed a stream-oriented NetFlow query language, called NFQL.
Given that it can have multiple filtering/grouping stages and a number of branches, defining a query in a text file can ...
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How often is too often to do focus groups while designing a web app?
I'm trying to come up with a strategy for putting together focus groups while designing a web application, but I'm starting to wonder how often is too often to do focus groups? In my mind, they would ...
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Best UI to allow expert users to enter an ip address? (IPv4)
I am working on a web application which requires users to enter an IPv4 address (in dotted-quad decimal notation) for most of the primary tasks they need to perform. Our primary target "user" is a ...
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Different ways to show photo being selected with tag
I am trying to do a UI that show a photo (or box) being selected and tagged. For example:
http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/59549/projects/3012199/8c0a114a08fa35bfbb0e6bc32936a525.jpg
Original ...
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Best usability: visual presets or simple action?
I'm working on a webapp that lets designers generate CSS through an intuitive interface. Right now I'm working on the Shadows panel and I can't decided which option has the most versatile usability. ...
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Identify different types of clickable shapes?
We're building an application that is like an interactive flow chart. When users are viewing the flow chart, they can interact with certain shapes:
Link to another flow chart.
Link to an external ...
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2answers
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Looking for enterprise web application design inspiration [closed]
I've checked many websites to be inspired about what the look and feel of a serious enterprise web-application should look like. But the whole I saw were designed for being used by single users and ...
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UI to let user pick some movies (3 - 6) from all movies released till now (>1 M)
I am working on a web app where users tell their favourite movies. Since there are too many movies to pick from I am not able to provide a select box. The jquery autocomplete works nicely but I wanted ...
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Disappearing input field placeholder aesthetics for web apps
Background
Users may provide various categorized input entries (e.g., danger, warning, avoid, and relax), such as those in the following image (e.g., "Relax #1", "Avoid #1", etc.):
Problem
When ...
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1answer
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Currently designing a “Help” page, what would be considered too-much help to see on one page?
The page for "help" within the site is designed well. The site totals about 40 questions, which has been reduced down from 86. My objective is to simplify the user experience for viewing/navigating ...
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1answer
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Intuitive way to present chained 1-N relationships
I have the following entity-relationship diagram (simplified, just the part for this question and there are extra attrributes in reality)
A [Maintenance Ticket] has N assigned WorkOrders, each ...
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“Modernizing” legacy applications and legacy users
I'm tasked with modernizing many older UNIX based applications to new, web-based applications. The UNIX applications are completely keyboard-based (ie. "04" to select the fourth application, "Enter" ...
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1answer
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Best way for a user to specify budget/price range?
When designing for a shopping service, the user should be able to specify what they're willing to spend on an item.
Problems:
There's no automated way to know what price range on the item, so the ...
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items?
I am creating a UI where a user can manage users by creating a group, and then dragging and dropping them to fill the groups as they would like. One problem I am faced with is that the complexity of ...
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What does it take to be a UX Champion? [closed]
In my User Interface position, we are facing the challenge of transitioning design emphasis from functional(level of effort, technical capability) to User Experience.
So far it is a slow transition. ...
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3answers
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What are the little arrows called that hide additional details?
In UI design, sometimes settings are hidden behind a little arrow or "+" symbol. When the user clicks on it, the item expands to show additional details.
Does this UI pattern have a name? Other ...
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Language Selector plus Action control
A web application I'm working on has a primary content action to "Add" something to a collection. As a secondary choice, the user can choose a language particular to this content item.
I implemented ...
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Help panels inside application
Are there good UX reasons for not putting a "help panel" within a web application? (one that can be shown or hidden).
Most applications open help in a different browser tab. I'm thinking of just ...
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When is themeing applicable in web application?
I have seen few applications with the ability to change themes, for example, in my case, a HRMS application (there are many such). But, people seldom use custom themes or care about them in such ...
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Lightbox for “In-Context” Editing
Some sites effectively combine the concept of, for the lack of better term, "in-context editing" and lightbox to allow users to easily do page content update. For example, check out Schoola and try ...
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1answer
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Multi-pane code editor with preview: help me find a good compromise between usability and complexity
I am creating a simple web site/app for testing JavScript code in the browser, similar to jsbin.com, jsfiddle.net, and tinkerbin.com.
The usual approach is to have 3 code editors (for JS, CSS, and ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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6answers
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Blinking, bouncing and flashing elements
I'm 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 ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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3answers
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Is there any free tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen? [closed]
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 ...
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Would you consider this a button? [closed]
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 ...
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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 ...
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3answers
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What are the good UI/UX elements of a web bug tracker
What are the good UI/UX elements of a web bug tracker?
Does anybody have an example of good web bug tracking UI or elements of good UX design of a bug tracker?
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Selection of multiple items and then selected one as default
I'm trying to design a web interface in which users pick particular "items" and set one of them as default. The textbox for searching uses autocomplete to find the matching item. I've come up with the ...
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How could I handle product returns through this interface?
I have a dialog where users allocate product on an order to various available lots of product.
So basically if there are 100 units on a line item of an order, the user would have to allocate this ...
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I'm looking for good examples of Welcome pages, and any good theory on how to go about it [closed]
Kind of a discussion based question, but bare with me anyway.
I am working on a web app that provides reporting. It makes reporting fun, honest!
I am struggling to design the Welcome page. It's a ...
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2answers
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Looking for a perfect control panel user interface
So I'm kinda stuck and I hope someone here can help me. I'm building this Control Panel for a data center, and I'm not very good with that. I want to make it as simplistic as possible, but expandable ...
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Multiple, hierarchical selections for web application
We are currently making improvements to the user interface of our real estate management web-app. One big problem we have is multiple, hierarchical selections for big amounts of data in input masks.
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Looking for some ideas of for an alternative display of Full Name@Company Name
I'm trying to find a sexy/elegant way of displaying a user's full name and the company they represent.
Currently, I'm doing Full Name@Company Name, for example Bob Smith@Microsoft or Sally ...
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Do users know the difference between a web application and a desktop application?
As cloud applications become more prevalent and the line between what is a desktop app and what is a web app becomes very blurry, different patterns for design, security, privacy and user experience ...
