Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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Dynamic Banners on Websites [closed]
Often on webpages, you see scrolling banners with messages. I would like to know how these are created. To make my question more clear, consider this webpage: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk.
On the top, ...
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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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How to combine Faceted Search with 'browsing' action?
I don't have a UX background, so forgive me if I am missing something. I am working on a small demo, to explore browsing a list of items (movies) combined with faceted search.
I was wondering what ...
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Alternatives to scrolling to display long text? [duplicate]
As you can see on the picture below, my text is displayed within a 'relatively small' DIV. Currently users have the possibility to scroll down within the DIV to read the full text but I don't really ...
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Is it okay to use breadcrumb navigation on some pages and not on others?
Breadcrumbs would be redundant for some of my pages and quite pointless, but effective on others which are a bit deeper.
Is it bad practice to only implement breadcrumbs on some of the pages?
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Will animated feedback be annoying or nice?
I'm developing a website called Fablelane which allows you to write your own stories and have others contribute outcomes or "chunks" to that story.
Right now (if you go to the website), there's an ...
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What sort of demographic representation do exit surveys provide? [closed]
This question has a couple of really good answers basically saying, "don't do exit surveys." Comments seem to agree this is overall bad practice.
In spite of that, exit surveys are quite popular. ...
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Buttons instead of radio buttons or a dropdown
In a recent project of ours I am tasked with creating an interface that solves the same problem as radio buttons or a dropdown menu would, but using buttons instead.
It approximately looks like this:
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red checkmark vs. a red “X”
I am currently designing a panel in my business application that shows a table of data to a user. The data in the table is the company's percentage (this is equated by many different values), whether ...
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Would like some clarification on screen resolutions [duplicate]
While working on a website, I asked a friend what his monitor size was. He said his monitor was 32" but added that the size of the screen does not matter in web design, It's the resolution and that ...
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Login without breaking the user flow
Let's say a user wants to perform an action that requires him to be logged in (e.g. sending a private message) so a link is provided to him to log in with a message similar to the following:
Only ...
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Is it absolutely necessary to show the currently selected language in a language selector?
There are three choices of language. At least on mobile it would be nice if I could save a little space in the footer by omitting the currently active language. This seems risky though as it means the ...
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Two-level menus: Why? and When?
Two level menus: should they be used? Why are they important?
I never found any resource explaining this.
Should I avoid them and only use them when you really have too much stuff to present?
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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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Adding “Select…” as first option (placeholder) of dropdown list
Would it be considered a good practice to add the word "Select..." as the first option of a dropdown list? I think it's redundant and not at all necessary and what is in the dropdown list should be ...
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When to combine comboboxes?
Let's say that my GUI has two fields to configure: input and output.
Both fields are implemented with comboboxes that may have the following values:
Input Values: A, B, C, D, E, F
Output Values: 1, ...
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Should I use pagination in a forum's thread
I am designing a forum with large discussions, with no specific need to order answers. Do I need to implement pagination or should I maintain one unique page per thread?
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What is the difference between the home page and landing page [duplicate]
Iam stuck and am not able to distinguish between the home page and a landing page; Iam very new and just don't know anything about websites; Thanks
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Should I use 'Load More' or Automatic Loading? [duplicate]
I am creating a website that I want to have an infinite loading system on the home page. This page contains a tiled list that will fill up the page from left to right, and also most likely from top to ...
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Time Scheduler UI
Working on a doctor availability schedule page. In this page I need to setup the available time for each day in a week for a doctor.
This is one time activity. Samething is repeated for every week. I ...
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What steps should I follow designing a web site? [closed]
I'm a web developer with basic skills in Web Design. I'm following a lot of websites containing tips and tutorials how to design.
Can you tell me what steps I should follow from the beginning to the ...
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Are modals usable on smartphones, or is there a better alternative?
I want to make a simple popover (or modal) that allows a user to subscribe to a newsletter (of course only when a user clicks on "subscribe to newsletter", I don't want to be obnoxious). It'll be a ...
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How to best deal with many thumbnails in a product image gallery
We have an image gallery with thumbnails that can be clicked to reveal a larger version of them in a viewport.
Here are some conditions that the layout needs to meet:
The Gallery has to cater to ...
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Country/Region Specific locales: How much is it important?
In our website, we are providing more than one language choice, so users will be able to use the website if they knew any of these languages.
However, it surprised me that one site I've visited ...
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Web app keyboard shorcuts
Is it a good practice to give keyboard shortcuts to web apps that allows a user to do tasks that are repeated often. In my personal experience, I've rarely used keyboard shortcuts offered by GMail to ...
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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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Force a PDF download vs allowing the user to view in browser first
Every once in a while, I come across a business requirement asking me to force a PDF document to be downloaded from a website instead of opened in the user's browser. While I question this every time ...
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How to show progress towards goal?
On our intranet we display some numbers for our employees so they can keep track of their performance goals. Currently it's just a table.
We'd like something more visual, and this was the first ...
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Quick Booking UX/UI design [closed]
I am using Twitter Bootstrap UI for developing screens for my application.
I created the booking / appointment page.
This page will be used by hospital staffs. They want to quickly fill the data, ...
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Contact page. Which is the better wording?
What is the most appropriate Contact page title for a website?
Contact, Contacts, Contact us or other?
Contacts is used, among others, in iOS and Android.
Seems to me more related to a list of ...
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Single or Multi page web application
Is it better UX wise, to build a web application with traditional multi-page transitions or to have a single page application where the other components of the page use AJAX and jQuery to load content ...
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Skeuomorph or OS-consistency?
Skeuomorphic UIs should give the user something that looks like a familiar object, presumably making it easier for them to understand what it should do and how it should be used. Even if the UI isn't ...
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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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Components of a site that would cause imitation concerns [closed]
I'm new to the web design and web comic fields.
I'm a huge fan of The Oatmeal, and thought his tile layout was a good way to share the most amount of comics for given real estate.
So, following the ...
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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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Improving communication with UX Designers [duplicate]
What is a good book (or series of articles) to read that would teach me the basics of breaking down the design of a page.
You see, whenever I see a webpage that looks great, I don't know how to ...
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Building search interfaces with a large number of options
I'm about to start developing a web interface to a search - it indexes a large number of items with a lot of metadata, so there is a need to enable searching in multiple ways over lots of data.
There ...
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What unicode symbol should I use for EDIT?
I'm trying to keep a very light payload on a wordpress plugin I'm writing.
Users will be able to:
add - +
refresh - ⟳
edit
I'm thinking of using the pencil glyph: ✎, but I'm not sure about it. ...
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Colours to use in a fashion website [closed]
I am working on a fashion website for my own portfolio. However it allows users to have their own account where they can save fashion related items. A sort of Pinterest for fashion items.
Now, I know ...
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How to make other tabs more noticeable?
We have a dialog that allows the user to choose the "type" of a shape: text, pop up and link. Changing the type also changes the modal's body. Our current design uses an underline to indicate the ...
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DropDownLists becoming TextBoxes - Should the user be able to go back?
So I have a menu on web application I am developing. In this menu, there is an option for how many Project vacancies one wishes to create. The user can choose as many as they need (large numbers will ...
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Display comments order - best practice
I wonder what is the best comments order on the website. I assume there are two major methods to display comments:
from newest to oldest,
from oldest to newest.
Facebook uses method one and ...
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When to display a link as a previously visited link?
Websites of today contains a variety of links including logo link, global and local navigation links, supplementary or related links, other header links, footer links, inline related links and more. ...
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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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Alerting visitors to a website of a current event (e.g. breaking news)
Backstory:
We have a website for a conference. As part of the process of the conference, we invite people to submit sessions, but only for a limited period of time. We want to alert visitors to the ...
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How to test usability on competing mock ups cost-effectively?
I have a client that is very opinionated about what she likes and dislikes about my design and moves things around to where they "look right" for her. I want to test my original mock-ups vs her ...
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Help menu - “?” or “Help”?
It is a very simple question, but it has been bothering me for quite some time: when creating an application, should the help menu (in the menu bar) be called "?" or "Help"?
I can see a few ...
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Minimalism, Maximalism(?) or whatever?
Tufte & Nielsen believe that screen real estate is one of the most important asset for a (UX) designer. Utilize available screen space - Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox: May 9, 2011 & The Visual ...
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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 ...
