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Displaying tri-state field in a data grid. What's the best cell control?
I have a data set where a column can have three values: true, false and null.
My first instinct was to use a checkbox for the Boolean values and hide the control altogether in case of null.
Am I on ...
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How to leverage team effects in HCI?
Humans and Computers can act as if they were a team.
Clifford Nass shows in his experiments that even though we would deny it, we treat computers as little humans ("social actors"). In his chapter ...
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Are “About” views necessary in applications?
I am currently assisting in the development of an app for mobile and the web. Someone recently pointed out that we haven't discussed the "About" view yet. My first reaction was, "Do we need one?"
An ...
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Best UX for filtering
I have a text files which looks like this:
1 0.9 0.2 0.9
1 0.5 0.2 0.5
1 0.1 0.2 0.5
1 0.5 0.2 0.5
1 0.2 0.2 0.0
1 0.5 0.9 0.5
1 0.1 0.2 0.9
1 0.5 0.4 0.5
2 0.3 0.6 1.0
2 0.8 0.6 1.0
Where first ...
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Should a new project be started in Flash? [closed]
I am looking for opinions with a little reason behind them for this question.
I am starting a new project for work that will need to be supported (by me) for the next 3 years. It is a suitable ...
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What is the most user-friendly way of displaying data?
I am working on a Password Manages program which allow to add and remove entries from database file. The problem is that my display as showing below. I get impression that if a new user to a program ...
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Approach for archiving a site for an annual event
I maintain a site for an annual event: http://abetterworldbydesign.com . Every year after the event, we struggle with the question of how to change the site to reflect an archive of the past year's ...
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Will users scroll the autocomplete results on a mobile device?
I am working on search functionality for a mobile website. We are using a drop down list of smart auto complete suggestions so that the user won't have to type as much. In this case, a travel app, the ...
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8answers
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How do I indicate that mutliple sets of radio buttons are mutually exclusive?
I have a panel where a user selects a camera to view from a location so they can load images from that camera. They can only load images from one camera and one location. Because of this I used radio ...
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Is the concept of versions out of date?
I recently noticed some copy stating that something was compatable with "Firefoz 3.6, IE 8 and Google Chrome". I realized I don't know what version my copy of chrome is, yet it's always up to date. ...
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How do you create or select an icon for a feature?
How do you work out what icon type or image you need for a feature?
There's been quite a lot of very small questions here in the form of "What is a good icon for feature X?".
Instead we should be ...
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1answer
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What should be included in the UX design artifact for engineers? [closed]
It's unclear what level of detail and what format should be used to best communicate UX designs to engineering. I am afraid of making it too detailed or not detailed enough.
Format possibilities:
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How to design user friendly aliases for command line interface element identifiers?
I've run into this problem, i'm making a CLI that enables the user to make bookmarks, notes or comments on elements. Each element has it's internal unique identifiers and usual entity stuff. The ...
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Usability vs. Security [closed]
This question has started to preoccupy since read Stevey's Google Platforms Rant by Steve Yegge. (The original post was removed.) Among many other things he asserts that usability is more important ...
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How to display hardware life expectancy?
For a web application I'm developing my manager has asked me to display the life expectancy of a hardware component. The component will according to the manufacturer handle at least 16 000 000 ...
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Is there any HTML5 or Javascript based Wireframing tool which can work on iPad? [closed]
I want to keep my ipad with me to show my ideas to client because laptop is heavy and I think iPad can do this.
Is there any HTML5 or Javascript based Wireframing tool which can work on iPad and can ...
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UI design with MINIMUM number of clicks
Project : ASP.NET with C#
Client side : JavaScript and jQuery
Consider the scenario,
I have a number of user to use the software. I will classify them into different groups. Then, I would like to ...
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1answer
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Example of taxonomies in interface design and its benefits and drawbacks? [closed]
What is an example(s) of taxonomies in interface design? What are the benefits? What are the drawbacks?
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Windows Application Guideline
Is there a guideline for designing Windows Applications, whereas they specify font size and spacing, best screen resolution?
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2answers
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Date of birth input… best approach? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Most User-Friendly Form Fields for Entering Date/Time?
Whats the best way to display DOB form fields?
Entering your date of birth into a form should be straight ...
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4answers
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For required fields, should we add the red asterisk before or after the field label?
Should we add red asterisk before or after the label of required fields, i.e., to the left or the right of the field name? My boss prefers to add the asterisk before the labels, but I like to add them ...
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1answer
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Forcing user to enter correct data
Consider the following scenario for a form with two fields "Full name" and "email".
When user starts editing the "Full name" field I will not allow user to start editing "email" field until "Full ...
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How to notify the user of a system error (out of their control)?
What's an easy-to-understand error message for situations where the error is a system error (out of the control of the user and cannot be fixed by the user)?
Here's a few that I came up with, but ...
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Choose, set, or edit?
In the situation where someone has not yet chosen to set some optional data (such as their display name, gender, or birthday), which term is the better description for the action which they take to ...
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How do you document your interaction flows?
For many years I've been using an evolved version of Jesse James Garrett's Visvocab diagramming style for documenting information architecture and interaction design concepts.
Today though we're ...
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What is a more intuitive way to present a 3-option toggle?
Stack Exchange's tag popup card/thingy has a star which you can toggle between "Favorite" (gold star), "Ignored" (red cross), and "Normal" (grey star).
Favorite:
Ignored:
Normal:
This is not ...
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Interface Flowchart Examples [closed]
Looking for examples of "high-end" user interface flowcharts. I've personally designed lots of flowscharts, and created internal standards for them, but it's been years and I'm looking to see what the ...
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5answers
757 views
Best way to execute heuristic reviews
When reviewing an interface without the benefit of usabilties testing results, is there a standard way to do heuristic evalutions of an interface?
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What makes a UX User Story?
How does one create a user story as used in Agile methodologies? How should they be written; is there a standard?
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1answer
333 views
Collapsing header / mega-menu
I have a website with a mega-menu. On the homepage we're looking for maximum exposure of the website categories (and we can spare the room) while the internal pages have plenty of content.
So I've ...
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Can anyone suggest a way to label a default phone number?
I couldn't come up with much more than simply putting (Default) next to the number, which I'm not too fond of.
Example:
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1answer
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Does a “Wish List” help conversion rates or hurt them?
This feature is highly requested by my clients but I'd like to hear some other perspective on it, some actual numbers wouldn't hurt either.
I think it will do nothing but:
Make the objective of ...
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How to use user research to help design system-specific interfaces?
I work for a company that builds patient safety software; basically a records management system. However, a large portion of the application is focused on administrative tasks that do not bear any ...
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what is the ideal order of fields to have in a contact form?
I'm working on a contact form and was wondering on the order of fields.
if I should start with the subject first and then name, email and message field or name, email subject and message field.
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1answer
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Validating wizard-style form
I have a long sign up form with 16 fields. I've split that form into 3 steps by data category. User navigates through steps by pressing Back/Forward buttons.
How should I approach the field ...
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What's a good scroll bar equivalent for a spiral script?
One of my friends is writing a fictional story about a people who use a script that is read in a spiral from the inside out. They write on long coils of flexible material, and longer texts are fed ...
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How to combine Suggestions with Filtering in a searchbox?
I got a textfield/combobox for typing a search string (or selecting a recent searchstring). The search results are presented in a list below the box.
I also got a textfield for filtering the list.
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How a comment service should work in a CMS or CRM like online application?
We are just finalizing the comment service in our new CRM/CMS application and arrived to a point, where we have to decide how exactly the comment service should work?
Facebook style - Fresh comment ...
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What is a good text for a tooltip to explain a tour's intensity on a website?
I'm working in a website that will sells tours. Each tour has a physical intensity. We have a slider bar that represents that intensity. It goes from green - yellow - red. The current text that appear ...
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What is your design Methodology?
I was asked this question once and the only honest answer I could think of was "It depends" since the process would depend on the needs of the project and what the end goal is .However do you have a ...
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What are good visual metaphors for exploring many-to-many relationships?
Right now I'm using two lists side by side where clicking on an item in list A filters list B to offer only the Bs related to the selected A, and Vice Versa. So clicking on B3 make A2 and A5 disappear ...
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How do I explain correct usage of the MS Comic Sans font to a client?
I have a client who wants to use comic sans ms for lots of things on a website I'm doing for him. How can I explain that comic sans ms is so bad? He's fairly easily persuaded, I think I just need the ...
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What are the User Experience disciplines in the analog world?
It is clear to me that User Experience (UX) is about how a person feels about using a product, system or service.
This website is focused on the digital world, but what happens on the analog world? ...
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Where would you put the 'take' button on a touchscreen phone camera app?
Imagine a simple camera app for a touch screen phone. The app can't use any hardware buttons and needs no other controls than one button to take the picture.
Some things to consider/ideas:
Phone ...
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Do you know any good research on self-service technology (kiosk) within retail environments?
I have been doing a fair amount of research on Self-Service Technology (SST or kiosks) UX best-practices within a retail environment and how people behave within that context.
I would like to expand ...
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Should I use a radial menu design for a touchscreen game?
We are working on a game for android. We had a normal menu where each menu entry is below the other. As we find this boring, we looked to different approaches and came across the lock screen on ...
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Hover for More Info on a data grid
Should a data grid be able to use a hover for more information pattern? This type of pattern is commonly used in interfaces that have more of a thumbmail view of items, for instance on Netflix when ...
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Why do manufacturers of most small/medium refrigerators default the door to swing counter-clockwise?
Most people are right-handed, right hand is handy.
However, most small/medium refrigerator doors swing counter-clockwise by default. This forces you to move/arrange heavy things with your left hand.
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User testing browser add-on
I'm working on a browser add-on that has some novel usability ideas, and I'd like to test them out on some users. The add-on interacts with the user's password data and usage, and I'd like to collect ...
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best approach to notification/error message notifications
in the application i'm working on, there are 2 types of notifications:
Confirmation messages (successful action results) and Alerts (unsuccessful action results/errors and Session expiration prompts). ...
