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When is horizontal-scrolling ok? [duplicate]
Here's a picture of my site:
Now, ignoring the "erased" stuff, is there any way I can make this interface be reasonable? It will never fit on the screen no matter what I do, even if I go to 2 lines ...
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Hiding the bottom half of a table [closed]
I have a view in a webapp which looks like this, though generally with many more rows:
Currently, all rows with a Status of 'Deprecated' are sorted to the bottom. I want to update this view to ...
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1answer
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What is a good method for organizing internal team tools and public comments?
I'm creating a mobile web application for debates. There is a public discussion between two people displayed on a "card", with buttons to tell the other person they made a good point, and to add a new ...
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Low-fidelty vs high-fidelity: Do they elicit different types of reactions?
You often read claims that lower fidelity prototypes illicit different reactions than higher fidelity prototypes.
This came to mind again today because I came across it when reading a post on UIE ...
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What options to give for multiple choice subjective feedback?
I'm working on a very brief feedback survey as part of our product. To encourage use and simplify the received data I was thinking of restricting it to:
Do you like [product name]?
Any ...
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1answer
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How can I direct the user to add a home screen widget after configuring it?
I have an Android app which includes a home screen widget with complicated configuration options. To make it easier to configure a widget, I've made it possible to set up a widget configuration in an ...
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2answers
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Using a Timeline in a Responsive Design?
I might already know the answer to this but would like some feedback / opinions on this. I am currently putting together a responsive design that will use a linear horizontal timeline. This works ...
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How to make users expect app-like features on a website?
I have a website with some app-like features like drag and drop. I use the standard indicators for these features, but testers don't discover them in user tests. When these features are pointed out, ...
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1answer
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Is the back button in Windows 8 apps purely chronological?
The back button is ubiquitous in Windows 8 ("Metro") apps.
What exactly is its meaning? The Microsoft apps I have seen and the Visual Studio page templates use the button in a chronological manner ...
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Are users more likely to sign up with social login? [duplicate]
These days social login (via Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc.) is becoming more and more popular. But it has problems: some users are reluctant to link their accounts on different sites to each other, ...
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How should email threads be ordered?
I thought I had the answer to this question. If you view raw email, you can see that the most recent email is at the top, with the rest below in reverse chronological order. I think it's fair to say ...
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1answer
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Tree manage in ribbon UI
I'm implementing ribbon UI in one of my application. It manages some trees so I move all the options to the ribbon (contextual tabs) but it just doesn't look fluent.
Is placing tree options ...
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Is it okay to have a login requiring users to first select from multiple services?
We have two services with logins on a page, the question is "should" we consider having a single login box which asks users to select which service they want to login to before hitting the login ...
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How high should a top floating menu be?
More and more websites are getting top menus that always stay when you scroll.
Examples:
https://9gag.com/
http://www.ign.com/
http://phpmaster.com/
Personally I don't like them ...
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2answers
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Menu tray + Back button on mobile: any reason why this shouldn't work?
I am trying to understand if there is any issue linked to the presence on the same interface of a menu-tray icon (top nav-bar) and a back button.
This design will affect both iPad and iPhone.
Is ...
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My team has to build an app that requires a Facebook auth to enter a sweepstakes. At what stage should the authorization happen?
Would it be better to require this authorization when the user first lands, or let them play the app first and only prompt them once they try to enter the sweepstakes?
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Java GUI - JLIST + Refresh
I need to create an interface which includes a list of events.
The events are saved into a Vector List and I need to be able to display a list of their 3 variables like this:
13/05/2003 Task 1 ...
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2answers
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Using icons as checkboxes?
How unusable is it to use icons as checkboxes?
It's a cool concept when it is implemented, however I am worried that it is not obvious that the icon is clickable. What are people's opinions about a) ...
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What is the optimal snooze time for a task (mobile software)?
I'm developing a mobile application like the stock Reminders.app offered by Apple, and I'm deploying a "snooze" functionality for overdue tasks.
I'm not sure what the optimal snooze time is or how to ...
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3answers
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Are there any commonly used icons that don't internationalize well? [closed]
I am a UX designer for a software company, and our product has been translated for the following:
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Romanian
Japanese
Chinese
Are there any icons that are commonly used ...
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3answers
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What are some ways to visually communicate hierarchy between two different select elements?
The use case having two input elements, in which second select input depends on the first one; so when first one is updated, options on the second changes.
Conceptually; both of these elements are ...
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Wireframing tool for native Windows app
I am looking for a good wireframing tool that has a big library of assets for building a native Windows application. I just downloaded Axure and Pencil (among others), but there are not a whole lot of ...
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Best IT CRM and Project management system [closed]
We are working in IT technologies and we manage multiples type of projects. We developps web sites, mobiles site and custom applications. We manage thoses project in agile , some are waterfall project ...
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2answers
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In usability testing, what consensus from users is enough to throw out an idea in future iterations?
I am in the midst of adding about 100 images to one of my current projects after completing a round of usability testing on a low/medium fidelity prototype yesterday. I included ideas for 4 pages in ...
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What good is this moving captcha from Apple
A Hacker News article pointed me to http://www.apple.com/itunes/50-billion-app-countdown/entry-form/ where they use moving captchas:
I assume that its a way to make shorter (and therefore ...
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Searchresults on same page or on 'searchresults.php'
What is the best way for searching on a webpage.
Should i show the searchresults on a new page or on the same page? (maybe with autocomplete).
I personally like searchresults on the same page as my ...
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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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How should hotkeys be handled in the translation of a program? [duplicate]
I have been helping to translate MarkdownPad into German and have come across a problem that has always made me wonder.
How do you handle translation in regards to hotkeys? The problem being, the ...
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3answers
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Usability of transparency in navigation menu
I have seen a couple of websites using some css properties to make the navigation menu semi-transparent. I assume this has to do with giving the user a more continuous feel to the page scroll, but it ...
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2answers
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How best to handle a popup gaining focus in the middle of the user typing?
Often I'll set some process off, then change focus to another program and be typing away in a textbox (for example), when the first thing pops up into view, maybe with a Yes / No box which I'd then ...
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1answer
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What are some unusual job titles for UX designers [closed]
Since many of us don't work exclusively in a specific team, and that many startups like to be creative with titles, I was wondering if anyone has heard of any creative titles or descriptions for the ...
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Name of special character selection feature of mobile keyboards
I am working on a application, for which I intend to suggest the use of a feature similar to what is used on most smartphones' keyboards to select special characters:
However, while it is easy to ...
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Managing Facebook comments with unregistered users
I have a website at Flickwit. The website has the option to login by email registration or Facebook Connect. The issue that I have is that if users are already logged into Facebook in a previous ...
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UX for encouraging naming of an auto-saved item
I’m working on a web application where users can generate results after answers questions in a workflow. Over time, they will use this workflow to generate additional, different results. Our goals ...
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Is there a payment platform where public guests can make payments to my client's users without having to register for the actual payment platform? [closed]
I've got a client with users that are going to create event pages.
These users invite people to view the events, and some of these public guests choose to donate to the event using a credit card.
...
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Hungriness chart - where to find?
So, I have a funny, border-UX question...
My friend will have a wedding soon. I'm the best man or whatever it's called - organizer.
We'll have some users called guests. Some will travel a long way ...
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Two Distinct User Types (buyers/sellers) best approach
I am designing a site that has two, distinct user types: buyers and vendors from a specific industry.
A buyer will log on and make a note of what service they want. Then, a potential vendor will ...
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How to visualize sentiment analysis of social media (ex: tweets)?
I'm trying to research potential ideas for visualizing sentiment analysis - specifically sentiment analysis of Tweets about a subject. I have some data and have bucketed the tweets into three buckets ...
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What's a better label for the traditional “Browse…” button for selecting files to upload?
I've been working on an advanced file uploader, complete with folders and animated progress bars, and wanted to improve the vague "browse" button generally used for launching a file selector window. ...
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Why aren't Gmail-like “on-page” dialogs more popular UI solutions?
A few months ago, Gmail gave us the choice to switch to a new UI, with many new features (...) including an "on-page-docked" window. I personally find this piece of UI very useful as it allows users ...
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Is “Never tell your password to anyone” message in chat really necessary?
In almost every chat window I open, there's this fairly obvious statement:
Never tell your [password/credit card/social security/etc] to anyone.
Are there some standards for chat functionality that ...
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Editing relationships between two tables [closed]
I have a table which have composite primary keys consisting of columns kin and child (each of which is foreign key for two other tables, but now I am not about these tables) and also a column of the ...
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Keyboard number row ordering
On a typical keyboard, why is the 0 in the number row next to the 9 instead of the 1?
This seems like a question which should have a straight-forward answer, but the only one I could find is this ...
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Entering optional list values with other components in the UI layout
I can clearly see that the layout location is not optimal here... trying not to overload the UI on the one hand, but to make it clear on the other...
A small wireframe! that explains the subject
Is ...
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1answer
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Enable users to add parameters to integration code mindfully
I'm trying to design a screen that will allow our customers to generate integration code (to integrate to our application). I would like to demonstrate to the customers that they can add additional ...
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Should Carousels auto-scroll?
I am redesigning a portfolio site and a suggestion was given that we should use a carousel to show featured works. This would allow us the flexibility to define as many featured works as needed. ...
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How to analyse the result of a focus group which has given highly diverse opinions
I was involved in a recent focus group study where we had six different requests from the users about what they wanted in the site (And all six are different and dont really have any correlation with ...
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Where to place a delete button in a modal
Currently in our application we have tables of information that give you some of the most important data and them we have a view more link that pops open a modal dialog and gives the user all of the ...
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Forms: Sample description- for label or field? what should be the placement?
I need to place example input text [abc@pqr.com] for a field or label.
Where should I place example (or sample) input description? Here, I have shown four examples of an email ID input for ...
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What is the most familiar wording of linking to a PDF file?
For certain industries and user-bases, it can make sense to include a link to a PDF version of a HTML web page — so that visitors can either view or download it.
From a recognizability and ...
