the GUI element, not the Operating System
4
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1answer
53 views
Best way to display support, contact, and preferences in Mac App
I'm trying to decide what the best way to display the following options to a user is:
Contact / Social Connection Links (ex. find "company name" on Twitter / Facebook)
Support options (ex. in-app ...
10
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2answers
184 views
Is Desktop Window Title Necessary?
I'm currently working on a desktop app and wonder if the program name is really necessary in the title bar?
I know that latest versions of App Store and iTunes doesn't have it at all. But if we ...
131
votes
14answers
16k views
Do people really want to look at multiple windows at once?
I'm referring to Jakob Nielsen's alertbox from November 19, 2012. He complains about the lack of windows in Windows 8:
Lack of Multiple Windows = Memory Overload for Complex Tasks
One of the ...
1
vote
2answers
366 views
Why does new Gmail interface has a compose window at the bottom right corner? [closed]
Updated Gmail interface has a compose window at the bottom right corner. My initial
impression is that it just doesn't feel right because it breaks the standard middle of the screen placement. I got ...
0
votes
1answer
137 views
Opening a new browser tab [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Opening website external links in new window — published usability tests
Should you open a new tab when linking to an external website.
Historically I know this ...
-4
votes
1answer
264 views
What is better - window buttons on the left (OS X) or on the right (Windows)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
close button on the left or right side?
Windows has window buttons (minimize, maximize, close) on the right, OS X on the left. Is one of these objectively better or is ...
5
votes
3answers
314 views
Is it good UX that in Windows 7 & 8 the “windows” of the same application are automatically grouped into one button?
In Windows 7 and 8, all the windows of every application are by default automatically grouped into one icon on the taskbar. This happens even when there are two instances of the application running ...
17
votes
4answers
1k views
Is viewport size a useful design constraint, and how are viewport sizes distributed?
I'm trying to support or falsify the hypothesis that desktop browser viewport size is distributed multimodally (that is, with "peaks" in the distribution that might make for useful website design ...
3
votes
5answers
228 views
Main Window Side Pane Positioning
I want to add a side pane to an application, the side pane will contain the user favorite screens, recently used screens and a screens search. In which side of the application shall I put it? Given ...
3
votes
3answers
994 views
What should the size of a game's window be?
I'm making a game with XNA, what I'm wondering is; what should the dimensions in pixels be of the window? It needs to be a size that will work on the majority of computers. I'm not sure if there's ...
4
votes
2answers
305 views
Usability of window docking
I'm working on a WPF desktop application. A stakeholder requested window docking (like Visual Studio 2010) for managing multiple windows inside the application. This option makes sense for the design ...
33
votes
9answers
3k views
What are the drawbacks of designing a Windows application to look like a Mac application?
I'm working with a company whose product is a Microsoft Windows application.
As the UI/UX designer (and as a Mac user) I want to redesign the application so it is more visually appealing.
Are there ...
1
vote
3answers
77 views
Document-specific menu?
I'm making a kind of editor that have tool views (on sides of the main window) and documents being edited. In fact those documents are themselves "views" of a specific document, so you can have ...
12
votes
4answers
3k views
What are the advantages and disadvantages of multi-window functionality vs single-window functionality?
I am considering porting a windows application to a web application for one of my clients. The windows application is an MDI app (multiple forms open at once), but obviously the web app would be much ...
