Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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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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Web - How to represent a numeric input that is limited to increments of some number
I have a requirement for a form that restricts a field value to fixed increments of 50 and I'm not sure what would be the most elegant way to represent that constraint in a meaningful fashion.
The ...
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How Do I Teach People Rules When They Don't Read?
I'm the product guy for a fantasy sports gaming website. We often find that we need to give people basic rules to get started playing the games, but people always skip reading and try to dive right ...
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Responsive web design Vs Separate website for Mobile
Responsive Web design is buzzword these days. which means to create a same website and optimized for all devices.
There are also some website which convert the desktop websites into Mobile website
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Is it ok to add content when the users selects and “copies” something on the page?
Some websites (using tools like tynt) have started to add something a little surprising at first : When the reader copies part of the article or blog post, something, say the url of the piece, is ...
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To what extent should a client be involved in UI/UX Design?
To what extent should a client be involved in User Interaface and User Experience Design?
For instance, in a web design job, at what extent the client should be involved in the structure of the ...
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How do you conquer the challenge of designing for large screen real-estate?
This question is a bit more subjective, but I'm hoping to get some new perspective. I'm so used to designing for a certain screen size (typically 1024x768) that I find that size to not be a problem. ...
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Stamping the current date & time on a page
I recently wrote to First Capital Connect to raise a number of issues with them relating to their St Pancras Thameslink station layout, and also complained that their site features the current date ...
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Do online-feedback tools generate useful feedback?
We'd like to gather feedback from our users after the re-launch of our website. We do usability tests and interviews but I'd like to provide an easy way to give feedback for any user.
There are tons ...
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How do I elegantly limit text area input by size not by character count.
I am building a web app that requires user input of text and images to be placed on a PDF page which will later be printed as a letter. This page will have a specified area for text and a specified ...
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What is the best way to visually present a sitemap?
Do you know which are the common patterns for a graphical representation of a sitemap?
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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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What control to use to select multiple months?
I want to offer the users a way to select a range of months within a year. The selected months are used to display a table of data. The control should be placed above the table and since vertical ...
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“Sign Up” vs “Create an Account”
Which pick is better for a service? Especially if I would like the website to resemble American style.
Gmail and Dropbox say: "Sign In or create an account"
Yahoo says: "Sign In. New here? Sign ...
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What are the rules of thumb for margins in web design?
My web designer tells me that in a web page, the empty margins or padding should always be multiples of a standard. For example 6 px, 12px, 18px. This should produce nicely balanced lay-outs. I would ...
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Multiple choice with Yes, No and 'No answer'
I am working on a Quiz Application for Multiple Choice question. Instead of normal Multiple Choice Questions with the two answers yes and no. I am working on one that allows a user to abstain to a ...
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Do people use tag clouds
A lot of blogs, or other types of sites with a lot of content units use tag clouds, where trending words are shown, with more trending words being displayed bigger, and less popular words having a ...
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What approaches are there to learn design, coming from a development background?
I'm a web developer trying to become a web designer. But seems that I'm lost in the world of design.
But I don't know what to do, and from where should I start. I'm even unable to find good resources ...
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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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What do you say to a complete web design newbie to not crush his spirit?
I have a newbie for web design activity. He sends me a link to his new website, and it's all blinking gifs and marquees and Comic Sans. My goal is to encourage him to learn and keep trying. What can I ...
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“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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How can the classic footer elements be integrated into an infinite scrolling layout?
Infinite Scrolling is a fairly new and effective way to display practically infinite amounts of data in a user's window, but one page element simply does not suit itself to this method; the footer. A ...
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Displaying a panda's family tree
I have a section on my website that displays information about all known captive pandas, (Nearly 700) in total.
Each panda has a single page which display it's name, birth / death and where it has ...
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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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Building logical criteria (with AND , OR, etc)
I am looking for inspiration on this. We have a Dot.Net web application, where we are building pretty complicated criteria. It works, but I would like to change this, re-shape this, possibly from the ...
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Designing a web front end for launching long running batch processes
I'm looking for an example of a "web portal" application which has a well-done, easy-to-learn user interface.
By "web portal", I mean a web interface to a batch-processed system that runs ...
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Creative alternatives for word 'Home' on a web application
What could be creative alternatives for word 'Home' on a social network applications that implies as a default space/ a living space or a place where all the updates gather?
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Better approach to blue/underlined for link?
We have a web application that allows users to query a database.
The results are returned in a breadcrumb style interface.
We brought this change in at a new version, and assumed it was ...
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Another phrasing for the term “Directions” in this case?
Below is a short browser based linux simulator for training purposes. It basically starts off with a blank screen, and gives directions for the user to enter a linux command to do a given task. If the ...
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Good UX for a page
I am working on a UI design. I have good CSS/HTML knowledge. But not good in UX.
Attached image is the UI I created for one page.
I tried alter it nearly 10 ways, still my customer says it looks ...
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Who designs great UIs with usability testing?
If you want to make a usability expert twitchy and uncomfortable, ask her how companies like Apple can create acclaimed, wildly successful, and usable products using top-down design without ...
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My boss has a different idea of a website's UX
Let me explain the situation.
I started transforming an "old (.Net 2.0)" Application into a webapplication.
Problem here is, that no-one here is really acquainted with the UX of a website (simple, ...
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Alternative graphical representation of a goal achievement?
The client has a set goal X that he wants to achieve every month and he wants this represented graphically and I agree that it would be a good way for people to easily see how far along they are.
The ...
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How do I make a table row on a web page look draggable?
I have a table on a web page where I need to let the user reorder the rows. I was thinking of letting the user drag the rows to reorder them. But how would I let the user know that he could do that? ...
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What's the terminology for bad practice around emulating browser functionality in your website?
Background
We've just updated one of our 10-year old web applications and in doing so have removed a "back" and "forward" button on the main menu. Our reasoning behind this change is that the web ...
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Should general 404 page be shown to the user if he clicks one-time link second time?
There is a Sign up function in a web application. After user signs up, an email message with confirmation link is sent to his email address. This confirmation link is obviously valid only one time.
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Caption below or above image for navigation purposes?
It was already discussed here that for layout purposes, where images and video appear on a web page, ordinary captions are probably best placed below the graphic — largely due to convention.
I want ...
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HTML buttons vs hyperlinks for navigation
When creating an overall site style guide, how do you determine when a button or a hyperlink should be for something other than navigation?
I see many time with the heavy usage of jQuery and AJAX, ...
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Page updating: “full”, “notification” or “replacing”
What is the best user experience with the auto-updating pages - for example, a list of songs. Currently I'm thinking about three good possible solutions:
"Full" update: when the new content appear ...
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Free Video tutorials about Web Usability and Accessibility [closed]
What are free Video tutorials about Web Usability available on net? from Basic to advanced.
Do you have any good links?
I found some:
Web Form Design
http://videos.visitmix.com/mix09/c17f
Web ...
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How to generate product ideas as a group?
I work for a smaller startup, and for the past several months we've been conducting weeklong "Design Sprints" which are a great group product exercise based on an idea from Google Ventures.
While ...
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How do I represent null values in a line chart?
I am building a web-based analytics platform. I am looking to plot a line chart that represents the number of seconds it took for me to reach a live service agent via phone on a given day.
In the ...
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If a sticky window panel is larger than the screen size, how should I display it?
I have one panel at the right where users can choose search options that is a sticky panel.
However, on different screen sizes etc., if the height of this panel is higher than the screen height not ...
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Pagination Best Practice [closed]
I am not sure on the best way to handle some pagination I need to perform on a table that could potentially get very big (5,000 rows plus).
My first question is should the amount of rows shown per ...
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How to design a form that requires the user fill in one text field out of three
I am having a form where I want the user to fill in one text field out of 3. These 3 fields are used to identify other clients in different ways (Phone number, Email or Name). The last text field is a ...
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Error message that always appears in the same place
Is it okay if error messages always appear in the same place on a website? I know the right thing to do is place errors inline, close to where the error occured. But there's hundreds of errors that ...
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Should hyperlink text color be changed after visited
I must admit sometimes it is useful but i realy dislike it.
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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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What is a wireframe?
Ok. I sort of know what is a wireframe, but I still need a lot of help. The question actually wants to ask how to get started when "designing" a wireframe for an online shop. I am doing an internship ...
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What does “mobile-first” mean?
So I've been trying to find a legitimate answer to this question for a couple days. I read an interview in Awwwards recent publication Trends Web and Mobile 2013 with the following answer in regards ...
