Questions tagged [website-design]
Questions having the [tag:website-design] tag regard the design of a website in the context of user experience. For example, site-map, user flow, usability, navigation, or other information structure would fall under this tag.
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2 links to different paths within 1 image box
Similar to say images on the CNN or USA today home page. I have a slider display of images that will look like a bunch of small snapshots of reports. The reports will have the report name underneath ...
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Data visualization for small web projects
What's an example of good data visualization for a small web projects?
I don't want to overwhelm the client. I must track progress, and keep stakeholders engaged.
What I've got so far
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How to improve end user experience and data reporting in web application?
I have a decent working web application (Java/Servlet/Jsp) that I would like to improve the end user experience and what they get out of using the application. The web app captures business data ...
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Are there any guidelines for using the auto focus (programmatic focus) on a webpage by WCAG 2.0?
Regarding ADA compliance and web accessibility guidelines like WCAG and WAI-ARIA, is there a specific requirement recommending the auto-focusing of input fields after service failure error (not a ...
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Applicable alternatives to Dropdown when there are only 2 Options
Attached below is a concept for a entry field which leads to a Donation form. The intention is to have the user enter their donation amount in their preferred currency (EUR or USD) then proceed to the ...
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What is the best way to display "steps involved" in a UI?
I need to create a UI element for my website that illustrates how the main process works, using some steps. The element will have the header "How It Works" followed by three steps. However, ...
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Company internal tool with SSO auth [closed]
I am developing on a web project for the company I work for that uses SSO to login. You can't use the tool if you don't log in. The app will be available to everybody(dose not require company VPN or ...
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How should non-monospace code listings be marked up in HTML? [closed]
For marking up source code beyond small fragments embedded in normal text, the official recommendation seems to be to use the code and pre elements. And this works fine if your listings should reflect ...
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Non-fullscreen sections overflow handling
The problem
I am creating a website with non-fullscreen-sections at the moment:
I am using a fullscreen-library to "switch" between the section when the user is scrolling. That way the ...
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Responsive Web design [closed]
I am a self taught designer and learning nowadays from IDF. I have a few doubts about responsive design.
As a designer, while I am designing screens to give to to developers, for what sizes I should ...
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Strategies for temporary highlighting a tab
I was wondering what strategies can be used to temporarily highlight a tab. With temporarily I mean change its appearance for a week or month or so to notify that something on that tab has changed.
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Different border-radius in different field. Is it a good practice? [closed]
Using different border-radius for different fields (e.g. textboxes, buttons, cards) to make the curves looks similar. Curves on the large field doesn't look similar to small fields.
Expected:
What'...
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Alternatives to Justinmind for mac [closed]
For a long time, I have been using Justinmind on my Windows laptop to define complex cases in prototypes using conditions and events. Is there any similar tool for Mac that supports handling of ...
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Best Interface for an Auction Website MVC [closed]
I am designing an auction website using ASP.NET MVC. I am trying to get a home layout that is both appealing and functional for the users.
Here is my basic site as I have it now:
And here is what my ...
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Modular tabs or long page scroll
A content heavy real estate website is deciding whether to switch the navigation to using modular tabs, where content opens in the same pane. Currently, the site uses a long page scroll where all ...
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Navigation of sister sites
We've been given an idea by a company who wish to increase sales over the suite of sites they have - the main idea is that they have a series of tabbed links in a header across all of their sites. ...
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Minimizing Content on Blog Homepage Feed [closed]
When I say blog homepage feed I mean the whole wordpress frontpage where the title and all or just part of the blog articles are displayed.
My question is if having a little clickable minimize (or ...
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What do you call a UX component that opens a box with a chat or virtual assistant?
I mean that bar that appears at the bottom of some sites, saying something like "Chat with customer support". When you click on it, it slides up to become a chat box.
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How Far is it recommended to show large table content on mobile browsers [duplicate]
Is it good practice to show all content that is in desktop version to mobile browser.
Can mobile browser handle this kind of data,With low bandwidth.
How far is it legible to read with that huge ...
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User experience Web forms: show many items and details [closed]
I'm working on project to show every item with its deposit
every item should refer to its deposit in some way
lets assume that the item is parent and the deposit is the child, i want to show all ...
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Automatic Reordering items in the Cart. Read the case
Case:
I have a feature in my eCommerce website where I run bundle-offers (example: Buy 1 get 1 free, Buy any 2 shirts of Brand X and get 20% off on paid price)
User Journey:
User goes to the ...
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Displaying informations to fill the width? [closed]
I have the following page I am working on :
What bothers me, is am I right to display the informations under the picture like I did ?
I wonder if it's good to fill the width space with boxes next to ...
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Is it good practice to use Table of Contents on articles?
I was wondering if using some kind of a Table of Contents for an article that consists of different parts, is considered to be good practice.
Enabling users to move to the part that interests them the ...
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Why does a copyright on a website include? [duplicate]
I'm designing a new site and I take ideas from sites but mix them around a little bit. All companies have the copyright on their footer, what does the copyright include?
For example, can you ...
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Are expanding divs a bad idea for a mobile portfolio?
Brief overview: making a portfolio for game design, have three seperate categories with 4-5 individual projects under each. Home page has general links and links that segues the user into one of these ...
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Color grade system A,B,C,D,F [closed]
Hhhh, in my new porject I have color grade system that looks like this, but my A(A-,A+) and B(..) is very similar(color) and they are very difficult to distinguish. Any ideas how to do it *nicely ?
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Best way to stop a navigation from wrapping by changing design?
Didn't know whether this was a UI or a UX issue but I have been asked to change our header section so that the navigation items don't wrap to a second line when the user views our site on a smaller ...
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Structuring data on a blog/website
I've been doing web development for quite some time now but so far I've only been taking care of the coding/integration part. I'm just starting to work on websites from scratch and I'm having an issue ...
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Visual Indicators
I am a newbie to UI. I have seen in google and other sites that whenever a person visits for the first time he will be presented with the visual indicators such as Ok, skip , got it etc.. I need to ...
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At what stage in Development should a 'Coming Soon' page be displayed, if at all? [closed]
I have just begun developing a Web application, and have often seen 'Coming Soon' pages displayed on other sites before launch, with options such as signing up for notifications and a possibility of ...
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What is the best way to design a weather forecast (hourly/daily) [closed]
I've been experimenting with some different formats. This is for a web interface.
Give the following data points to show:
Hourly:
Forecast Icon
Forecast Text
Temp
Precip
Daily:
Same data but also ...
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How do I best deal with this information overload?
This represents a category of job times, which are broken down into timeframes.
Timeframes have:
Total (if fake is 0, shown without T, else with)
Fake (hidden if zero) as F
Built as B
Scheduled as S
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Are two separate websites useful when discussing mobile and desktop [duplicate]
I am doing an ecommerce web design that will be using a lot of images of realistic items than cant be created in CSS. One big goal I would like to do is have this site accessible through mobile ...
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Navigating a section in which content displayed varies depending on selected year
I have a page that lists a bunch of events depending on what year is given to the site (current, or via URL):
The page happens to be at the front of a sub-section, so I have the site's main ...
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Better way to show the calendars
I'm working on a single report page for a web app. I need to show how to filter the displayed data it be per day (diary) or between two dates (weekly).
When the user select diary (Diario), it shows a ...
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What is the new user interface that services like Google/Google+ are using? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the top navigation called when it is common to a network or suite of websites?
Recently Google/Google+ and other services have adjusted their menus to the top of the ...
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B2B / B2C, as one or two separate websites?
I'm in the middle of re-designing our company website and have found myself in a pinch when it comes dividing the site into B2C / B2B. (I've seen the other thread about this topic but didn't think it ...
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Which of the following layouts is better in terms of design and usability (Online date renting site)?
This is proposal number one:
This is proposal number two:
Which one is better in term of design, usability, accessibility, and visual appeal?
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Is this play video button placement confusing?
I'm creating a blog with videos in each posts. But, I'm not sure if triangular play icon inside of a circle at the right presents itself as the must-click part of the page or worse if it leaves the ...
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Icon for "title" and "subtitle" [closed]
I am creating a template for TV programme details. For each programme, I have a title and a subtitle. Instead of writing "Title" and "Subtitle" in full, I was thinking of using an icon.
What icon ...
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Best aesthetically solution to overflowing data in a table
I have the following table which I created as follows:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
background-color: #fff;
}
body{
text-align:center;
}
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Is it a good practice to place primary content below the footer?
What are the principles, use cases, and/or motivational factors behind placing content that pertains to the main body of the site, to instead exist below the footer?
I want to better understand the ...
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Does a donation site need login?
I have a task to redesign a donation website. The top navigation bar has search for donation events and login/register.
Is there a need for a login/register option? Especially considering when ...
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mailto: link on "Contact" button - good UX?
When I see "Contact" button in the header along with other menu items that lead to some page I expect "Contact" button link to the contact page not to open this dialog:
I have to close this dialog ...
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Is it a good idea to make radio inputs de-selectable and allow users to leave them blank?
Related question: Why is it impossible to deselect HTML "radio" inputs?
Radio buttons are supposed to be impossible to deselect, because users aren't supposed to leave radio inputs blank. ...
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How can I make the message of this hero image clearer?
You, like many others, may have some trouble understand what this hero shot means:
You can also check out the actual landing page to see how the same image looks on a big screen.
I intended to ...
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Album title before or after the photos?
On most web applications that involves albums (for example flickr or facebook), the album title is set before the photos. However, the photos are the main part of a album. So why aren't the photos ...
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UX is so subjective that BOSS is always right [closed]
Many times I tried to give UX advice to my boss and reporting manager and it gets discarded. Few of the times, I have built screens based on my UX understanding, and later asked to change that, which ...
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"Users don't know to keep scrolling"—Really?
On multiple occasions, I've spoken about a web design with clients who become concerned that the user will not know that they can scroll beyond a certain part of the website. Invariably, these are ...
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Style before layout or layout before style?
When designing something for the web, is it a better to focus first on the layout and then on the style or the reverse?