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Should users be directed to a 404 page or a landing page?
We have two pages. One is a landing page, given by the route /region. The other is a detail page for a particular region, given by the route /region/summary/{id}. The landing page is the normal way by ...
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4answers
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Does Lack of Content Contribute to Higher Bounce Rate?
I've been doing some research in Analytics to hopefully discover why my bounce rate is higher post-redesign, and thus far, my results have been inconclusive.
How important is it that a site has ...
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3answers
323 views
Tags or hashtags?
I have a website at www.flickwit.com. I would like to introduce tags to allow users to search for content more specifically than channels. I have been wondering which option would be more acceptable ...
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4answers
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Do we need to show Cart page after user clicked “Add to Cart” from list page?
Suppose if a user clicked "Add to Cart" from a product listing page, Do we need to redirect to Cart page instantly? Or stay on the same page and show "Added to Cart" with disabled style ?
How do we ...
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2answers
127 views
Should we still provide social sharing options in a responsive design?
Since the majority of the browsers on small devices (and Safari on desktop as well) already provide a function where the user can share the content on—for example—Twitter, should we still ...
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3answers
124 views
Is it a good practice to include a feedback button?
Is it a good practice to include a feedback button on the side of the website? or how do you recommend to get feedback from users at a initial phase of a project?
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Are age verification banners effective?
I'm curious as to whether or not these Age Verification banners that appear on some sites are really "effective". That is to say, do these really help to deter/prevent users that are underage from ...
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2answers
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Forms: Is it right to show empty fields in an info page?
In an application i am designing, there is a form, where the user completes the fields and some of them might remain empty (not filled by the user). Then we have the info page showing all these fields ...
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2answers
136 views
Are people used to seeing a “My Cart” link in the header?
I have been designing an E-commerce platform where users will be able to buy Apps from the marketplace.
I had thought of placing "My Cart" links in a number of places, such as:
Docked widget in ...
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7answers
249 views
Show 6 share buttons vs one button that opens tooltip with 6 share buttons
I have a web application that hosts some user content, say tutorials.
I'd want to give users opportunity to share this content using social network buttons like Facebook Like/Share, Twitter, Reddit, ...
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4answers
101 views
Which is the better option Share or Post button? [closed]
On my website I am using the 'Share' button to post a comment, document, or to have a poll.
I'm confused either to use 'Share' or 'Post'.
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5answers
287 views
How many social buttons?
There are millions of social networks out there. Of the top popular ones, like Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.,
Q: How many, in numbers, should be put up at all?
UPDATE: Organization ...
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3answers
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What the best way to make the users rank a page?
I have music portal where I need to make the users to rank pages.
Type of pages:
Playlist
Artist
I need the user to:
View rank.
Vote up or down.
The ranking must be a up / down vote system.
I ...
4
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2answers
106 views
Tab order for previous/next buttons in a form
We have a multi-step form that has 2 buttons (Previous and Next) at the bottom of each page.
The Previous button is on the bottom left-hand side, and the Next on the bottom right-hand side.
What ...
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5answers
142 views
How best to draw the users to a potential issue in the data they have entered
I have a form where the user can update project information. A project is linked to an organisation, and an organisation has license(s) - which has an expiry date. When updating the project, if the ...
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190 views
Tag cloud for web site actions - a no-no?
I am building a website, and my designer came up with the idea of using a (3d) tag cloud to display the different actions a user can take (the site's functionality is somewhat complex, and so ...
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1answer
190 views
Are there any performance or usage statistics for landing pages with no navigation?
Im noticing a trend of landing pages,
where the landing page would not have the websites navigation on it, nor the footer, but would stand as its own micro website, with only the logo at the top left ...
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3answers
152 views
Is a Q&A site a reasonable replacement for a forum for a software product?
I'm building a website for an open source piece of software that revolves around backups and cloning. I was originally going to use phpBB for the forums, but then thought about the possibility of ...
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3answers
124 views
Where should I display 'free shipping if payment by debit card'?
I've been working on an e-commerce website, and the stakeholders want to add the following text: 'free shipping if payment by debit card'. Where should I display this on the website?
I think the most ...
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3answers
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Asking for more info on whitepaper download then on trial sign up
Im currently researching how to handle lead generation forms.
I came across a website which has 3 slightly different forms for downloading a white paper, downloading an ebook, and downloading the ...
7
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8answers
535 views
How to visually suggest to the viewer that there is more than meets the eye in a elegant, neat looking way?
From a user experience design point of view, what would be a good way to let the viewer know, or better said, I want the user to "get it as he sees it" without further explanation that what I am ...
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6answers
518 views
Greyed-Out vs Invisible
What is a good criterion or rule-of-thumb for determining when a control should be greyed-out and when should it be completely invisible?
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4answers
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'Contact Us' in Navigation bars
So looking at a particular site's analytics, you usually find 'Contact' very high on the list of destination page views.
My question is... Do you think people expect 'contact us' to be the last ...
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4answers
275 views
Should I add a floating, fixed feedback button on the pages of my website?
I would like to add a Feedback feature to my website.
Should I add it as a floating,fixed button on the side?
Is that considered something users are annoyed by?
If I shouldn't, which method is ...
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3answers
139 views
When do you present a website UX survey?
I'm wanting to build a usability survey on a website that's used by mortgage brokers.
It's a website where users will come not to browse, but to find mortgage product information while a client is ...
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1answer
69 views
How does publicly displaying market-based pricing affect sales?
I've seen a website promoting a software that shows a dynamic chart displaying the software price's variation over time :
Saying :
Pricing is market-based, increasing or decreasing ...
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1answer
394 views
Are activity alerts effective? example: 5 people are viewing this hotel right now
For example, Expedia (and other hotel sites) have alerts that come and go that say things such as, "17 people have booked this hotel this week." Is there any documentation out there concerning this ...
4
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8answers
595 views
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 ...
3
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1answer
71 views
Multiple items in one basket that get processed at different rates on completion of checkout
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to solve the problem of having multiple products in one order (basket) that are processed at different rates once the user completes their purchase?
An example ...
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4answers
190 views
Should we show how many views a page has?
As part of a new site design I've put in the functionality to track and count unique page views. This is predominately used to create a list of popular articles and blog posts.
Is there a negative or ...
5
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2answers
67 views
Focus the form and block anything else?
In order to disable everything else on the website and focus the user to what they are really doing, I came with the solution of adding a layer over everything except over the current form.
I don't ...
5
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3answers
254 views
Showing facebook profile picture to show logged in user
Let's say you login on a web shop using a facebook connect button.
Do you think it is good practice for the site to retrieve your profile pic and display it just by your login name?
I wonder if it ...
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298 views
Should I Put a Phone Number in the Header?
I see that it is really popular with web services nowadays to have their phone number in the header of the website. Is it really that effective? Does it make the company look more legit?
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4answers
651 views
“Shaking” button leading to increase in conversion rate?
I'm just running an experiment on the UX Pin homepage. One group got a "shaking" button (the big orange sign up starts to shake after few seconds) and the other group got traditional "static" button.
...
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2answers
143 views
Subject line of mailto: links?
It's easy to add a pre-filled subject, body and CC/BCC in mailto: links.
It would be useful for website owners to know if an email originated from their website, or from an email address ...
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5answers
560 views
Encouraging the user to enter a value in an optional field?
This is a follow-up question from the previous question Case-study for hiding the optional fields?
I have taken all the responses from my previous question and I have come up with this mockup, ...
3
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1answer
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Name and Company - One field or Two?
I am laying out a form on a website with the typical name & address fields. While I've done this a number of times, I have began to try and trim fields from my forms that will be on smaller ...
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4answers
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Is a short stay on Web Page always bad?
There are a lot of articles discussing the fact that users tend to leave a web page in a very short time. Anything from 10 to 30 seconds is what you can expect from a user - and that is generally bad. ...
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1answer
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Putting a one-page view of my website on other websites I do
When I do websites, most times I add a page dedicated only to my main website to serve as publicity and awareness..this is normally done after seeking the consent of the website owner.
The issues I'm ...
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4answers
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Banner Blindness on Non-Profit Web Site With Zero Ads
I am currently considering a page structure that would include a video.
The context of the page is it is a kind of landing page meant to provide access to informational and educational materials ...
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4answers
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Is pausing button under a scrolling banner necessary?
Carousels appear massively in my web projects, usually for making users able to check each "slides" in detail, we will make the scrolling paused when hovering on the banner content.
However, one ...
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2answers
141 views
Multiple profiles in one single login
I shall allow my users to have multiple profiles in my website, to allow them to impersonate identities they create to post. But I have doubts about the best way to accomplish this.
Assume that I ...
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3answers
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“Here will be your logo” - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
We are a company offering free demo of client's website, before going for a deal.
Although, the ...
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4answers
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Use of Radio Buttons (Identification Context)
I want to design a 2 steps sign up screen:
identification
personal info
My question is regarding step 1. In this step the user will have to choose between ID or passport number. Once he choose, he ...
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2answers
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Input for Multiple Links
We would like users to specify certain pages an action can occur on. There are two conventional ways:
textarea with some delimiter (whitespace, commas) between the urls. This is OK since usually the ...
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5answers
206 views
Need advice for lowering bounce rate on a template
I have a template that has content which people discover via SEO usually.
Here is an example of the template: http://www.problemio.com/problems/problem.php?problem_id=145
The problem I am ...
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2answers
555 views
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During sign ups, how to best instill confidence that email addresses will be safe
Many sign up forms will ask you for an email address so that they can contact you.
Even the most minimal sign-up (other than no sign up) will need an email address to send you a validation email.
...
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1answer
299 views
Examples of good use of animation on web pages
I'm currently redesigning our company's Magento theme, with the aim of increasing our conversion rate as much as possible (obviously :-) ). I have what I feel to be a good overall layout with the eye ...
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2answers
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Welcome screen for Arab countries
On their website, my company wants to welcome visitors from Arab countries with some kind of "intro page" specifically tailored to comfort Arab visitors.
Currently, we are thinking about a welcome ...
