Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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How would you handle two separate “save” buttons for different sections on the same page?
I notice on this particular page in Basecamp that they have two different buttons that are meant to save changes to two different sections. One section is above the fold and clearly has a "save ...
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Differentiating content with URL
I am developing a site that is going to be used as somewhat of a cloud service, we have a number of customers with a loose connection to each other via a parent organization. The site will look and ...
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Should a responsive or adaptive web design be done with only two layouts?
I am working on a small Drupal site that needs to be mobile and desktop optimized. Tablets are not a large part of the anticipated usage. The process has not been ideal. We are planning on taking a ...
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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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Would it be bad design (and unsafe) to put password guidelines next to a login box?
Different websites have different password requirements
Some are content with a combination of just lower case words
Some require a combination of lower case and upper case words
Some require ...
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Where would deliverables such as wireframes/interview schedules/heuristic evaluations/contextual enquires etc come under
I am in the process of redesigning my portfolio and I was planning to use create a portfolio with a filter, like this example.
Though my initial plan was to have just two major categories, namely ...
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Is it advisable to separate the landing page from the home page of a non profit organization?
I am helping out an organization on sparked which wants a landing page on which a video will be embedded along with some descriptive . However I am not sure if it is advisable to have a landing page ...
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How does a 3d shading impact circular button use?
I recently ran across a circular smiley icon with lambertian shading, specular shading, and cast shadows. The effect was a little like a ball on a table.
Here it is:
Clicking the icon toggled an ...
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Is it better to rasterize text into a header image or overlay it as text?
If you want to have a fixed header on a web page that also includes text, is it better to make that text part of the image, or to overlay the text in the header frame (such that the text is ...
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What are some reasons that not all websites have fluid layouts?
Recently, I was using Facebook and I resized it to 50% of my screen to look at something else.
What I saw was that most of the page was cut off.
What are some reasons for Facebook or any other major ...
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Why do so many websites have the restriction of user names starting with a letter?
Skype
Yahoo
What is the reasoning behind allowing only letters as the first characters of a username?
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Is the screen flicker during a partial page reload a bad user experience?
Background: I work for a community college with fairly limited resources, but we recently received a grant that allowed us to hire a new developer, and I'm responsible for the initial training. We ...
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How do I add the ability to cancel editing without a button?
We currently have an interface pattern that consists of a list of rows; clicking on one row activates "edit mode", where the lables turn into text-boxes, afterwards you can either save or cancel.
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Is it a good practice to have a subdomain for a big project?
We're (a company) designing three big projects:
One is used for purchase products, one for educational matters and the last but not least is our social network.
Some of our colleagues think that ...
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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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Slider-less time selection.
I'm using the default datetime picker with rails. I'm mainly focusing on the time aspect of this because for my purposes the day will rarely ever be changed. I'm looking for some sort of way to make ...
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What is a good search pattern for a photo sharing website?
I am building a photo hosting/sharing website.
In this website there are albums, slide shows and stories 'blog posts that contain photos from the website'.
Should I ask the user to select the search ...
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Should I let users tag everything in a photos website or just photos? [closed]
I am building a photo hosting/sharing website. I have a feature where users can tag their photos to be able to find and categorize them.
In this website there are albums, slide shows and stories ...
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How GMail's space increasing every second? [closed]
I'd many times checked my gmail account and found it shows `Lots of space
Over 7665.246837 megabytes (and counting) of free storage.` which is continuously increasing.
Can anybody tell me how this ...
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Best ux design for “add row” to enter multiple values
Ive seen this following method on Xing that allows multiple entries of unknown limit:
I want a better way, since the + and - look confusing i sometimes get confused myself, in addition the ...
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Building an UX design portfolio?
I have been thinking of rebuilding my portfolio since its pretty outdated and I wanted some views on the approach I should take
Option 1 : Have an approach in which I list all the projects (major ...
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Is an unread count in RSS and newsfeeds a good design decision? Is there a suitable alternative?
I use Google Reader for my RSS feeds. As seen in the image, along the left column there are counts for unread items.
My question is this: is showing an unread count a good design decision in terms ...
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Which to show first: login or register screen or both?
I have a site for which I am working to improve user onboarding.
What happens now is that when a user does some action that requires him to be logged in, I make a jQuery popup come up telling him to ...
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Will users actually leave sites that they find “boring”?
I'm redesigning my web design portfolio. Here is a piece of the layout:
I showed it to some people. One of them said that it is "too boring" which made me wonder if users do leave sites that they ...
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How best to display top-down decomposition data (hierarchical) with in place-editing and child addition?
We have an HTML/CSS UI where there exists a top-most item (root) - you click that you get a text box to enter some content and save. It shows up as indented/styled child of the parent. Basically the ...
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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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Is Amazon's layout good or bad from a UX and conversion optimization POV? [closed]
I'm in the process of designing a theme for my company's online store that will (obviously) hopefully boost our conversion rate as much as possible.
It seems only logical when planning the theme to ...
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“Desktop”-like web application
We are a group designing a big project. Its main purpose is educational matters (we run an online quiz).
I have designed a desktop-like interface for the website with icons and a start menu. I just ...
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Including the browser's UI in a web design portfolio's screenshot?
An example showing the browser's interface:
and without it:
I'm not sure if it is to improve the visualization of the work or it is just a aesthetic thing.
Thoughts?
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When is it appropriate to combine “help/support” with “contact us”?
Suppose we have a horizontal menu at the top of our website like this:
products | pricing | help | login | 800-555-1234
When is it appropriate to combine help/support with contact us?
We want to ...
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Use subdomains or directory structure for URLs?
I'm curious if it's considered better practice to use a subdomain (e.g. store.website.com) or a directory (e.g. www.website.com/store) when linking to separate sections of a site.
Assuming both ...
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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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Pop-under: Really that bad?
We're currently discussing to add pop-unders to one of our platforms to get users to use one of our notification features. As you can probably imagine, as a UX person I'm really against the use of ...
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Why is 13px Arial font the web standard?
If you use any of Google's applications, from search to Gmail you will find the base font used for most things is 13px Arial.
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
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corporate websites, stock photos, and intangible products
When I see a corporate website making use of stock photos, especially stock photos of supposed customers grinning their faces off or employees deep in thought, the site's credibility goes down a notch ...
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How to layout an article with illustrations?
I need to right an article/tutorial that has illustrations. The illustrations are not necessary, but are nice to have. They will help visually inclined people or people who just hate reading. How ...
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Designing a page for selecting an icon in HTML
I have a form on a page where the user can edit a lot of information for a specific model. One of the properties of this model is a small icon of about 20x20 px. There are about 100 of these small ...
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What are the must have elements of a web(site) ergonomics analysis?
I'm asked to deliver a website ergonomics analysis, and would like to get to know how you do it?
And what tools do you use to analyze the page itself?
I usually use 3M Vas to analyze a page, but I'm ...
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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 ...
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What deliverables can one provide in a pitch for a client to show to his/her boss and get approval for a project?
I am in the position where a client is asking for some visual materials to show to his boss in order to get the go-ahead to sponsor a new project.
This client has an existing site that we designed ...
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Sorting images in images hosting and sharing website
We are building an image hosting and sharing website, there will be a page where user can see all photos uploaded by website users.
In this page the user can sort the photos by votes, most comments, ...
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Why are most social networking sites in blue?
Why do most social media websites use blue as the main color? e.g., Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, foursquare, ...
I am only interested in answers based on some scientific research.
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Could a funny CAPTCHA be more pleasant?
I think one way to make CAPTCHA be more acceptable is to make it funny, but for some reason most CAPTCHA do not do this. Would this be seen as unprofessional or could this be a good way to make a ...
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What should be included in the UX design artifact for engineers? [closed]
It's unclear what level of detail and what format should be used to best communicate UX designs to engineering. I am afraid of making it too detailed or not detailed enough.
Format possibilities:
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How do I explain correct usage of the MS Comic Sans font to a client?
I have a client who wants to use comic sans ms for lots of things on a website I'm doing for him. How can I explain that comic sans ms is so bad? He's fairly easily persuaded, I think I just need the ...
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Is there a term for the person responsible for establishing the “tone” of a website?
We have a person on our team who has taken on the role of establishing the tone of our website. This includes the general style of the graphic design, the wording of our text...etc.
Is there a title ...
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How do you convert computer users to mobile users?
How do you convince your computer users to try out your mobile app? The problems I see are:
Detection - There's no way to read people's minds and figure out what phone they use based off of what ...
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How to improve discoverability of transient scrollbar?
Starting from Mac OS X Lion, scrollbars have been transient. That is, they disappear when your mouse stops moving. Some sites, like Facebook, even emulate this transient scrollbar for Windows users:
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Visitor's reactions on web development agency's page?
I need to step-up of the freelance side and step into a more business side of web agencies and I need your opinions about how people react on your philosophy and decide to go or leave you.
The way I ...
