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Two things are possible:
Do not force the application to gain focus. Show the message and keep waiting till user switches to the application.
Implement blinking notifications. This is OS dependent. May or may not be feasible in other OS but in Windows operating system, there is system tray (systray in short). Application can be coded in such a way that if ...
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My view is prevent applications being 'arrogant' and demanding immediate attention. A well mannered application will wait it's time whilst somehow making you aware it's there. On macs this is done by bouncing the application icon. Too many applications assume they have your full and undivided attention when, increasingly, we're bouncing beween multiple ...
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You should present the most important information first, and so that will determine the order that you present the logs in.
For most logging applications, the most recent logs are more important, and so it's better UX to present the newest items first.
However, there are situations where each log is fairly long, and either the older logs are more critical, ...
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I would do it the easiest way: new logs at the top. Many applications with a dated list of items do their sorting this way; Outlook, gmail, twitter, windows event viewer, etc. Your users will be familiar with this style of layout, and find it easy to use - with the most urgent events immediately visible at the top.
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A lot of application designers - and I am one - suffer from the delusion that their application is the most important application that a user has the privilege of running on their system. They simply cannot imagine that a user would not want keep their application running. Or auto starting for that matter. So, they come up with tricks like minimizing on ...
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Skype (and other communication applications) need to keep running in the background in order to be able to receive messages and calls.
For communication applications (and a few other application categories, antivirus for example), this is - as far as I know - pretty much standard behavior.
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Solution is the kay, if your design is a solution to the problem, you are within the safe circle - but - this is essentially the starting point of your UX adventure.
Next - try to understand usability theme of your organization. An application/organization uses a specific theme to layout its information architecture. This theme should followed to the ...
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One of the first things you should explain to others about UX is that there isn't a golden standard, or a "perfect" design.
So long as you hit certain base elements (uniformity, intentionality), and you can find support (or examples, or case studies, or relevant theories) for your design, you'll have a strong case for your product.
Essentially, it's highly ...
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Skype, being a peer-to-peer telecoms application, works much like BitTorrent and other P2P distribution methods by relying on users' own machines and internet connections to route the traffic of other people's calls. This means that, as a Skype user, your machine is being used to facilitate other people's connections even when you aren't making a call ...
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In OSX it is very common for closing a window to not remove the application from the dock. In many applications the window represents a document in the application, while the application itself doesn't have a window. There are also applications like iTunes and Spotify, that don't require a window to continue to play music. Skype doesn't need to have a window ...
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I believe this application (Skype) and many other communication type applications including instant-messengers, email clients and other VOIP apps, hi-jack the "X" button to minimize the more user-frustrating event of accidentally ending a users communication session. In many cases, users might simply want to get the application of the screen, the fastest and ...
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Skype is not the only application which does that. This is a standard behavior of Mac OS applications too.
When you select the 'x' on the window, you are closing the window. Closing windows has different meaning in different applications, in chrome, you are effectively closing all your tabs, but in itunes or outlook, you are effectively just minimizing the ...
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