Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.
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Most intuitive way to offer manual sorting?
all. I'm designing an online form builder (think Forms in Google Docs / Spreadsheets). The functionality is complete, but I'm not happy with the sorting capabilities. Everyone that I have done ...
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Is it possible to organize a web site based on roles for anonymous users?
In my development team we're gotten a question from our stakeholders to make a navigation based on user roles (Students, Teachers, Course Administrators). I feel that is quite complicated of a task, ...
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Is there ever a circumstance where the user should be notified of a user interface no-op?
The headline may be a bit confusing, so here's a web example (although this question is equally applicable to desktop applications):
I open up the same eBay listing in 2 separate tabs of my web ...
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What design principles and/or guidelines we should use for vote-up/vote-down and counters?
Several times I have clicked the icons next to the counters totals (vote-up/vote-down) on YouTube while trying to vote up or like a video.
What are the design guidelines and/or principles for placing ...
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Should we show how many views a page has?
As part of a new site design I've put in the functionality to track and count unique page views. This is predominately used to create a list of popular articles and blog posts.
Is there a negative or ...
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Is a website sidebar a user blind spot?
I've seen studies about how ad blindness can prevent users from even noticing ads exist on a website, but are there any studies that perform the same research for the entire sidebar?
On some sites, ...
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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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Is it good to leave Select dropdown with default style for better UX and Accessibility?
When I design websites. many time I try make the select drop-down more attractive.
example
By default select drop-down looks slightly different in almost each Desktop and Mobile browser
but ...
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Infinite scrolling and page views
I'm working on a content-delivery portal restyle. Basically, it has huge lists of addresses and numbers (sort of whitepages). What I was wondering is:
I wanted to test infinite scrolling and avoid ...
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Search form vs. unified search in a web application
I am looking for some help regarding UX/design guidelines targeted at (web) application internal search functionality. I have tried searching the Google and this site, but the overwhelming majority of ...
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Best way to display whether someone is the right age for a match on an online dating site?
When I visit another person's dating profile, I'd like to see a visual indicator that communicates something about a person's age so I can determine whether they might be a good match for me--without ...
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WYSIWYG vs MarkDown - is there a middle ground?
I'm trying to figure out how to let my users edit their content on my site. It's currently just text formatted depending on the screenwidth, but I'd like to give them more control over their content: ...
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Tag cloud for web site actions - a no-no?
I am building a website, and my designer came up with the idea of using a (3d) tag cloud to display the different actions a user can take (the site's functionality is somewhat complex, and so ...
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Should a date field be pre-filled or left blank for hotel and flight booking forms?
Should a date field be pre-filled or left blank for hotel and flight booking forms?
For example should i keep date field un-selected by default like this
or with dates of next 3-4 days. and user ...
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How does the orientation of a pricing table affect conversion rates?
Do people buy more when products are presented horizontally across the page or when they are presented vertically on the left?
My company is in the first stages of redesigning one of our e-commerce ...
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Most common ways users scroll a website
Are there any studies that show the percent usage of the following techniques for scrolling a long web page?
Mouse scroll wheel
Up/Down arrow key
Page Up / Page Down | Home / End keys
Dragging ...
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What are the best practices for tooltips on mobile websites?
What are the best practices for tooltips on mobile websites? I'm designing the mobile version of a website for customers' accounts (where they can see their latest bill and settings for their ...
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How should a website's title be structured?
Are there any best practices for choosing the title of web pages? There are a lot of resources online oriented toward SEO, but not toward users.
My impression is that most sites have something ...
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Why web-safe colors only?
We are often told to only use web-safe colors for font's and background colors etc when not using an image. I don't understand why this is? Most websites contain high quality jpegs these days with ...
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Why is high website availability good for UX?
I'm trying to understand how much should I invest in website availability.
What impact does a not so good availability (let's say 95% - 18 days in a year) have in User Experience.
Why is it that ...
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How to say that an online demo is interactive in 2-3 words?
Basically, they can play around with the app, to get a feel for it in a advance. The target audience is business owners who may or may not (likely not) be technologically inclined.
Demo implies that ...
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Has anyone been to Jakob Nielsen or Steve Krug's day-long seminars?
Both these gentlemen are offering day-long seminars in London this spring:
Jakob Nielsen - Fundamental Guidelines for Web Usability for £458
Steve Krug - Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing: The ...
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How to visually suggest to the viewer that there is more than meets the eye in a elegant, neat looking way?
From a user experience design point of view, what would be a good way to let the viewer know, or better said, I want the user to "get it as he sees it" without further explanation that what I am ...
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Is the “Help” feature really helping?
Almost all apps/sites have a feature 'help' regardless of type and subject of the app/site. I have rarely seen people using the same for their benefit. I would want to know if it's worth putting the ...
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What would be the best layout width when traffic monitor sizes are mostly 1280 x 1024?
I am arguing with my client, that 960 pixels layout width will be okay for the site. He keeps suggestion that the layout width should be larger. He gave me these Statistics
In % descending order:
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Is it good to strike through visited links?
I've seen in some websites such as http://twomovies.name/watch_movie/Shutter_Island that visited links are striked.
Is this good practice?
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Responsive design on desktop
I am creating a responsive UI application for desktop, tablet and smartphone. And it looks and works fine.
Most of the site has a responsive design like microsoft or nokia global. It also changes ...
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A good solution how to localize and let user choose language on HTML page
I read another question where a poster states that flags should not be used for languages since flags represent countries. In my mind I agree but in my eye this solution is the best:
Do you agree ...
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What is a good web page resolution to design for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Common screen resolution in 2011?
What would be a good web page resolution to design for?
I currently work according to 1024px wide resolution screens. and create UIs ...
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Hiding information when a user has expressed a reason for visiting a website
In the process of implementing an registration page that will be seen by two types of users (those registering to buy from the site, and those registering to sell on the site). The current ...
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Is it okay to open a help link in a new window?
I have read Jacob Nielson's usability book and he says links should never open in a new window. Here are some of his reasons:
Novice users cannot manage multiple windows and become disoriented.
The ...
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Correct length for login timeout?
My company has created lots of computer software but one issue we have is with login timeouts.
Some developers want to make them shorter for security, while most users want it be infinite? Is there ...
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What would be the best way to fill “space” in an User Interface for irregular image sizes gallery?
What would be the best way to fill "space" in user interface for irregular image sizes gallery?
Conditions:
The row are subjected to hold maximum 3 images only.
Float left
If the total width of the ...
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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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In which cases does it make sense to use an explanatory video on a homepage?
I am a junior designer and I working on a web service's site design. I am not sure what should I place at the homepage i.e.:
Some services like dropbox and readability have a quick video tour which ...
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Is using the alt-attribute for text-as-graphics ok?
There are several ways to present text on your web page in exactly the font your designer decided; as an image, a flash hack, some javascript hack, dynamic fonts. But to this day, the only thing that ...
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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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Resource/advice for deciding a design process?
I've been having a debate with my peers as to which is the best process to use when we're designing web apps. Our development phases are working well but I think there's room for change in the ...
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In what scope should a search take place?
I'm in the process of implementing a search feature on my website and am wondering the best practises to do with the scope of a search. Currently, when viewing a certain section of the website search ...
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Recording website speed
Are there any excellent sites out there that evaluate a website's loading speed at different levels of Internet connection?
I have used this site in the past but the information is out of date and I ...
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How much should be on the homepage of a website?
Some websites I've noticed hardly have much on their website's homepage (i.e. google.com) where as some have a lot on their webpage (i.e. msn.com). Neither of them look good to me (google has too ...
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Is there any issues with approaching a website re-design from a mobile first perspective?
I've read the book Mobile First and agree with many of the points made. However, I still do not approach a project creating a set of mobile wireframes and then desktop. I still design the other way ...
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Why would you use SlideDeck (horizontal accordion) instead of a carousel?
I'm reviewing a client's site and their designers have used an unusual element to present some of their key points. The element is called SlideDeck and it's basically an accordion menu that is turned ...
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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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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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Why can't you update options in shopping carts?
I've been researching shopping cart designs, and so far it seems like the consensus is that the only thing you can update in a shopping cart is quantities. Let's say I've added a large t-shirt to the ...
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Gender considerations in web usage
Are there particular gender differences in web usage/preferences? I'm about to start designing an information-based site with a predominantly female audience. I was wondering what research already ...
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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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What websites present artwork well? [closed]
I was wondering if anyone had seen some exceptionally good layout design in presenting a variety of paintings. My go-to resource so far has been the MOMA, but they are a little cluttered for my taste.
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How to handle account disabling and enabling
I'm currently building a small online dating service and am wondering what the best task flow is if a user disables their account.
(When an account is disabled, all their data is retained but they ...
