Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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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I have been thinking of rebuilding my portfolio since its pretty outdated and I wanted some views on the approach I should take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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What's the best way to make a user read terms and conditions before continuing a form?
What's the best way to make a user read terms and conditions before continuing a form?
Structure of Form:
Label1 [Textbox]
Label2 [Textbox]
Terms and Conditions [Textarea]
Checkbox ["I agree to the ...
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Credit Card input format
Somewhere, in one of the Usability books I read ( probably Donald Norman ), there was a suggestion that the normal format for entering credit cards was wrong. The usual format is 16 characters in a ...
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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 does a “random page” option help an application to succeed?
Some documentation applications, particularly wikis (including, of course, Wikipedia) have a Random Page function.
My question is - how important and useful is that? Is there any objective data ...
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Why do menu labels behave differently in desktop applications and websites?
In a desktop application when you click a menu, you see all the options which reside within it, in a drop-down/pop-up list.
In many websites with a navigation menu which has sub-categories, I have ...
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Placement of the logout button/link?
In my experience, having a "logout" button/link of some description in the upper right hand corner is (or was) pretty standard. Is this documented/recommended anywhere?
Sites that require javascript ...
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Change text color when hovering over hyperlink
Should the text color change when hovering over a hyperlink? I usually change my hyperlinks to a lighter shade of blue upon hover.
a:link {
color: #0088cc;
}
a:hover {
color: #0099dd;
}
I ...
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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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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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Why do webpages scroll vertically instead of horizontally?
It is a common convention that webpages scroll up and down instead of right to left, but all printed material that's not written on rolls of toilet paper 'scrolls' horizontally. Why did the web break ...
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Shouldn't automated translation be optional?
More and more websites use some automated translation into what they think is my language of choice, be that by relying on a browser setting (for which I'm looking for a fix) or worse by geolocation. ...
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Modal window action buttons, top or bottom
Scenario: File upload process for a website on desktop(not mobile) launches a modal window.
Question: Would it be better to place action buttons at the top or at the bottom of the window.
Pros & ...
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What image and message use in the “Not found” page (404 error page) [closed]
I've seen the robot of Google, the creature that has Github. I think that is question of imagination and what kind of data manages your web app to design a custom image and the message to show to the ...
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News Feed vs Message Log, Sort by Newest vs Sort by Oldest
I'm starting out on building an application that will be a hybrid of a messaging application, but with "news feed" like qualities. These qualities being rich media, advertisement, and conversations ...
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Internal Consistency vs. Consistency across the Industry
Does anyone have any recommendations on how to balance having styles/patterns/icons being consistent to a single website vs following recommended practices/patterns/icons that are popping up across ...
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Placement additional menu on video website; top, bottom or something else
A friend of mine is building a video website where you can watch user submitted videos. Those videos are of individuals speaking their dream in the camera. The focus is on letting people watch those ...
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“Toll Free” or “Call Us” Before Phone Number
This two parts, a general question and a question specific to my situation:
1) Is there any research that shows whether phone numbers in website headers have a higher conversion rate if they are next ...
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Which of the following options best draws attention to the “buy tickets” action without detracting from the surrounding visual hierarchy?
I'm working on touching up (as much as I'm allowed) some of the design elements for a website. One client requirement is to draw more attention to the "buy tickets" link as this action is one that ...
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Selecting all contents of an input field of text type when focusing
I am working on a registration form for a web application which requires you to enter your first name, last name, date of birth, address and so forth. If the user fills out all of the fields we are ...
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Are floating headers and footers good?
I'm making a website. I need to put in social media tools - facebook 'like' button and so on. It's been suggested to me that I use a floating, fixed position header or footer for this purpose.
For ...
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Should “Printer Friendly” buttons be used?
I have an intranet application that has a few "printer friendly" buttons on pages users were expected to print, and I really would like to get rid of them. The previous designers didn't know what they ...
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What are your thoughts on using italics for primary navigation in a page header? [closed]
I'm working on a redesign for a large blue chip's website and the company brand uses a san serif italic font for the headings in it's marketing collateral. The brand/creative team would like to use ...
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User Testing and other best/most effective ways to implement UX in webpage.
Just wondering what some effective ways to determine and implement user experience would be. I think that user testing is a very effective one, i.e. getting complete noobs to the system using and ...
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What is best practice for the sending behaviour of contact forms?
In a recent question I posted that one of my favourite patterns for a contact form was to sit it in a fat footer so that it was present on every page. (Edit - This does not have to be a ploy to hide ...
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Project dependency visualization and navigation
I have to visualize software project dependencies and provide a way to navigate through the dependencies. I want to combine showing the dependencies of the currently selected project as well as ...
