A web app(lication) uses technologies such as javascript, CSS, and HTML5 and is executed in a web browser.
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What is the best way to introduce a user to your interface?
I'm redesigning the new user experience for my web app, onepagerapp.com. We need to communicate to the user (typically not very web savvy) how to add content to their page, modify their page design ...
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Folding columns of a kanban view
In our enterprise management software, we use "kanban" views for different purposes; pipeline of business opportunities, tasks, recruitment process, bugtracker, etc. The example bellow shows the ...
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CMS interfaces: forms based vs click and change?
In regard to CMS interfaces I would say we could split them in 2 main branches [*1]:
the ones with a control panel, where you go and usually see a list of pages (blog articles/ecommerce products), ...
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Internal Vs. Consumer site UX
I am in the middle of designing a web application for a company that deals with institutions, there are both the end-user facing site (what the schools will see and use), and the "behind-the-scenes" ...
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A Good “Invitation to Connect” Experience
We are building an "connect with your friends" part of our app and I curious as to a good way to do this. My first thought is do like everyone else...so I look to Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, ...
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What are some best practices for displaying lists of items having many attributes, but no natural identifier?
I have a database of full of items with nondescript names like "X0001", "X0002", etc. where each item has ~30 features which are usually strings of ~10 characters, but could be ranges or 50 ...
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Loading Times / Breaking points
We all know that a user is not going to wait forever for a website to load. Given there are certain factors and circumstances that can apply to this, is there a breakdown of users stages/breaking ...
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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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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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For a web-app, how to differentiate “cluster” marker icons from normal icons on a map?
We have a map with around a dozen different kinds of markers, and there are too many to display at once so we're using cluster icons to represent multiple markers that are close together.
What ...
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When given the choice on a website; are people more likely to download the app or keep using the browser?
When you go to Zappos.com on an iOS device you're greeted with a splash screen saying "We made an App!" and it gives you the choice to "Download Now" or "No Thanks, I'll just use the browser."
I was ...
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Voting System - Which Symbols to use
A lot of sites out there allow their users to either vote-up or vote-down content to determine both it's quality and relevance (just like this one!). My question is which set of symbols would be more ...
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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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A cross between a DropDownList and AutoComplete Text Box
I am trying to come up with an web interface that allows the addition of an item to a list. For simplicity I'll use an example of a list of names which, when selected will be assigned to a club/group. ...
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Very simple Welcome page/menu vs functionality
I am writing a small intranet web app for ticket managing. Most users will only be able to create new tickets and search/consult tickets previously created by themselves.
The question I have is what ...
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Admin interfaces for reporting data
I am trying to design how an assigned administrator for a web app that manages students and audiobooks, can generate a report to view the data in longituginal graph. The admin can either view ...
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Contextual menu in a web-app for professionals (i.e. formed by ourselves)
Introduction
I'm working on an application that runs in browsers. This application displays several windows (the user can open and close them), in which multiple things are displayed : charts, grids, ...
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What should be done when user leaves a web page either by clicking the browser back button, closes tab or F5?
I noticed in SharePoint 2010 publishing pages that the page content is being saved if user clicks the browser back button or closes browser tab without warning him if he needs to save content or not? ...
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Date Range: Is automatically making “To” the same as “From” a good practice when searching data in the past?
I couldn't think of a more descriptive title, but this is what I'm wondering:
I have a Date Range selector box. It's quite straightforward, it has two calendars, one for the "From" date, and another ...
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Making clicks meaningful on iPad
As a web designer building a shopping cart for the iPad, I find the lack of down and click states difficult.
What's a good way without raising a confirmation pop up or something terrible and ugly to ...
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How do you choose which sharing buttons to offer on your web app? [closed]
Are many sharing buttons good on a web app? How about design for a online book reading app. What matters on choosing sharing tools? My feeling is to know the function of sharing widgets and know the ...
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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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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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What's the best way to open links from widgets?
I have a portal consists of set of widgets, each widget contains a block of data and a link to an application . it appears like this .My question is : what 's the best user experience to open the ...
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What are some good examples of well-illustrated web apps? [closed]
Sites out there like Vimeo and CarWoo do a really good job of incorporating illustrations as primary design elements. Are there any others out there that you like?
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Action confirmation through double clicking (click-twice confirmation)
Clarification:
Let me clarify first: By double-click I mean clicking something twice but not in a quick succession.
So here is the question/suggestion:
Usually on the web applications, designers have ...
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Natural UI: Best way to show a time range and interact with it
I have a time range filter (for a web app, desktop and mobile) that looks like this:
In this case, time is not relative to the user in terms of number of days (7 days ago), but it respects the ...
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Flash User Interface without Flash? [closed]
These are exciting times for developers that want to spread their wings with interactive-design. And I have a project forth coming that I wish to give the user a great experience every time they use ...
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What icon could be used to mean 'notifications'? [closed]
As part of a web-based application, we have a toolbar at the top of the page. The toolbar contains buttons that consist of small (30x30) icons with a single word underneath (for example, a search ...
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What Is the Best Approach To Minimalist Buttons (Icons)?
My web app, like most, is trying to utilize as much space as possible by trying to use an icon as a button to perform specific tasks. I have quite a few that would make for a pretty obscure button, ...
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How best to design a UI that allows for the user to add multiple objects to one master object?
I am in the process of designing a form that allows a user to build a "book" from a group of documents. The documents are selected by the user selecting several options/filters using buttons.
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When is it ok to have two different layouts for the same page inside a web application?
I have a page inside the application that will be displayed inside a popup on other page. Since the page was not designed for the popup size I wanted to create a compact view for it. Would this be ...
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Should sign up be available from both Mobile and web?
Let's say I have an iPhone application AND a website that works synergetically with the app. For example it might allow the user to manage the iPhone app's data.
In this case how should the sign up ...
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Best way to allow registration to an invite only web app?
I'm in the process of planning a web app which will offer an advice service to people who earn above a certain salary threshold. The thinking is that the new users will be procured through their ...
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How should I get location information in a website or mobile device?
I've created a website that stores location information for certain places: for example, basketball courts.
I'm looking for a way to allow users to add location information (to the exact GPS ...
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Multiple or Single Checkbox for ToDo List?
Would you suggest for a To-Do List section of a progject management app I am working on have multiple checkboxes inspired by Speckle
Or keep things simple and "common" using single checkbox like ...
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Menu design for web app with multiple “projects”
I'm designing the UI for a PMS (project management system) web app which handles multiple projects. Basically, it's an app that is pretty similar in functionality to Basecamp so it needs to contain ...
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What is better better for the main buttons: icons or text? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When to use icons vs. icons with text vs. just text links?
I'm currently making a ticket system, but I don't know what would be better, icons for the main buttons or ...
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Native tablet apps or web app
I am in the initial phase of a project. I have been asked to design a website compatible with tablet. This is more of an application than website.
Users of this application are a niche group who have ...
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Case studies on using gradients in a design
Are there any case studies on the use of gradients in a web design? I'm looking for answers similar to this answer about the usability of rounded corners.
Specifically, I'd like to know:
Is there a ...
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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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Should I allow users to edit replies in a ticketing system?
I'm making a ticket system, and on each ticket users and employees can add replies. I'm just wondering, would it be a good idea to allow users to edit replies?
A lot of web apps/websites allow users ...
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Width For Group Of Buttons
We are implementing browser based client, and we are having a little debate reg. setting width of buttons which are grouped together (either just layout wise or both layout and functionality wise). I ...
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Positioning of additional form entry fields to avoid natural flow of entry
I'm re-engineering a registration form on a client's site that is primarily targeted at UK users only. The site provides a post-code look up for easy identification of the end user's postal address. ...
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App icons borderless or on a button?
In an app, when using icons, we can have place it on a button, or have the icon borderless. I would think that having it on a button gives better affordance, but it seems that many reputable ...
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custom drag able boxes, when to utilize them?
If anyone has used igoogle they would know that they can customize various boxes according to their choice. I was developing an web app and am really confused whether to give such an customization ...
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Mapping navigation to content in a CMS backend
I'm trying (desperately) to collect good ideas for a backend form to manually map various types of content to navigation items.
The problem is apparently very common, but since there are gazillion ...
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Should double click be avoided in web applications?
I find that double click is a great gesture that could be successfully used in graphical interfaces but for some reason has negative connotation on the web. Should it be avoided at all costs?
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Combining Inline Edit with Create mode for new entries?
With inline edit I'm trying to provide a quick way to edit entries. However I feel that inline editing to create new entries is not intuitive (and would need to provide defaults) so I created a ...
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When is a persistent (Facebook-like) profile sidebar appropriate?
For example, I'm developing a site that is a mixture of Google Reader, Quora and StackOverflow.
Users can only see questions tagged with tags they have subscribed to:
This made me wonder; when is ...
