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Oct 5 |
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Breadcrumbs and selected page As an aside, although breadcrumbs may lead to your homepage, the homepage itself should not have breadcrumbs. See ux.stackexchange.com/questions/24608/… . |
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Oct 4 |
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items? @ChrisJanssen: It IS the design for windows, and I find it painful in some situations. In those situations, I use cut/copy/paste, which is also the design for windows. For consistency, both features are always available during folder navigation. However, I don't feel that they are completely effective in some situations (this is not a design flaw). :::Curses at OSX for not providing "cut" in the finder::: |
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Oct 4 |
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Is a drag and drop UI usable for organizing/categorizing items? @chester: Scrolling is very painful with drag and drop. Personally, within a file system, I will usually use copy/paste instead of drag/drop if my folders are too large to navigate without scrolling. |
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Oct 3 |
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Using a top bar to change language @fwr: IE7+ checks the system Locale, Safari checks the system language. So, that already means that you'll receive a useful Accept-Language pretty often. You can't rely on it, but if Accept-Language is not English, there is a high probability that it is accurate. That's enough to justify bugging a user once (and then remembering not to bug them again). |
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Oct 3 |
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Using a top bar to change language I would also consider proposing a different language based on the Accept-Language request header. Use a Content-Language response header to assist search engines. |
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Oct 3 |
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Impact of OpenID versus proprietary login on site traffic LifeHacker mentions that Yahoo tested this. That said, it's been 4 years since that article, so things might be better. Probably not much better, though. |
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Oct 1 |
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Multi step form vs single complex form An accordion is a nice compromise. That answer points out testing which shows accordions beating multi-page wizards. |
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Sep 27 |
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What direction do people read in when reading lists of checkboxes/radio buttons? If a radio button is "On" or "Off", it should usually be a checkbox. That said, sometimes a radio box can make things clearer, since you can provide explanatory text for both states rather than for only one. |
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Sep 20 |
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Can I use “Prev” instead of “Previous” on a button? @kretzm: I'm honestly a bit surprised that losing the text hurts so much. Maybe the answer is to run another usability test. If you don't want to spend the time/effort on it in house, a screenshot usability test service should be able to answer this question quickly and cheaply. Grab enough users for a decent statistical sampling and see how long it takes for users to find "prev" vs "previous". |
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Sep 20 |
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Can I use “Prev” instead of “Previous” on a button? @kretzm: Were the buttons without text the same size? Otherwise, you may be getting better click-through rates because the buttons are big, rather than because they are understandable. |
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Sep 13 |
answered | Using a virtual joystick for a game? |
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Sep 13 |
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Using a virtual joystick for a game? I've seen a few games which offer that as one of their control schemes, especially first person flying games. The phone acts as a sort of wheel. |
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Sep 12 |
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Pros & Cons? - Single dropdown VS double dropdown VS multi level dropdown Jakob Nielsen recommends solving this problem with mega menus. |
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Sep 6 |
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What is a good approach to starting a really big project? Talking with a user is not an ideal way improve UX. Far superior is to watch users. Watching real users (via metrics, video camera, etc.) is unlikely to be permissible in the case of a banking website, even if done in aggregate. |
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Sep 5 |
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How to prevent bias toward top filter results? Removing a user's ability to select a particular translator is a bad idea. Reordering is sufficient. If a user likes a particular translator (or prefers to always use the same translator to allow that translator to build up expertise with the specific product line), they will be unhappy. |
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Sep 5 |
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Why don't people use the “I'm feeling lucky” button more often? It's very much functional...as a search keyword to add to your browser. As you say, it doesn't provide real benefit over autosearch via the Google website. |
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Sep 4 |
answered | Game UX for hero with upgrade-able collectable boosts |
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Aug 31 |
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How could the Golden Ratio be used to improve form layouts? Suppose your form is 1000px wide. You could divide it into two columns of widths 618px (1000px / golden ratio) and 312px (1000px - 618px). |
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Aug 31 |
answered | How could the Golden Ratio be used to improve form layouts? |
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Aug 30 |
answered | Design flow for “cashed in installments” |
