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I'm a moderator on User Experience Stack Exchange.
Programmer/Systems Analyst working mostly in PHP/HTML/CSS. Enthusiast follower of User Experience topics and solutions.
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May 11 |
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Pop-up, slider or? @DinaNeishtadt yeah, annoying new user restriction; if you can post links to images (imgur.com is wonderful) we can edit them into embedded images though |
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May 3 |
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Best way to provide two ways of the login, using card OR by checking DB Still not quite sure what you need help with; is there any reason you can't just default to checking via the internet, and if no connection is found give a "please swipe card" prompt before/after username/password entry? |
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May 3 |
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Is it OK to have a global navigation tab link to another site? As an example Fox News' series of sites does this fairly well: foxnews.com the very topmost nav bar is all links to "other" sites but they're all the same parent brand (Fox), all maintain the topmost navbar and general navigation structure. |
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May 2 |
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Size of Background Image for Landing Page @kurzweilguy well in reality, that's all the site is; a nav menu, the name, and the copyright image. Since the name of the site makes the content obvious enough I dont' think it's a big enough problem that a couple hundred milliseconds are a major problem. |
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May 1 |
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How to phrase button labels? Related: ux.stackexchange.com/a/25160/7627 |
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Apr 26 |
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What is the standard / benchmark test for user familiarity or proficiency with computer technology? Related/possible duplicate: How to best ask for computer experience in a survey? |
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Apr 26 |
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Do IT workers interact more with carousels? I don't see why they would...carousels are generally used to display content for marketing purposes; IT people don't really interact with marketing more often than anyone else |
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Apr 25 |
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Why do some sites use “If you are not <user>, click here” instead of “Log out”?"Log in" and "Log out" are odd concepts It's honestly odd to me that these seem like odd concepts; thousands of real life locations have "please sign in" to mean more or less the same thing, it is a metaphor to real life (maybe it's just the "log" verb that's confusing) |
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Apr 18 |
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Ideal number of data points per 100 pixels for a chart Youtibe (and google analytical tools in general) has a nice way of dealing with this; in data-over-time charts they usually let you pick whether each point is a day, week or month, giving you a nice range of granularity. By-month charts are very smooth but by-day charts show the peaks and valleys. |
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Apr 18 |
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Skeuomorph or OS-consistency? Related to the issue of matching OS consistency is What are the drawbacks of designing a Windows application to look like a Mac application? |
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Apr 17 |
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Are downvotes/dislikes useful if not highlighted? RE the point about stars, see another answer of mine on star rating systems |
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Apr 16 |
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When is it okay to give a form inconsistent label placements? What's the inconsistent placement, the final row? Or just that some fields are multiple column/not full width? |
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Apr 13 |
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What unicode symbol should I use for EDIT? I would strongly recommend using an icon font rather than unicode symbols in this case |
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Apr 9 |
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Why did Microsoft make Windows 8 hard to Power Off? That's not really it, "off" will still initiate the fast-wake cycle in Windows 8. Plus the sleep/restart buttons are similarly hidden. |
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Apr 9 |
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How should I handle playing multiple alarms? How unique and urgent is each alarm? Is it important that the user know Alarm 1 AND alarm 2 are going off, or is "alarms are going off" or "2 alarms are going off" sufficient? |
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Mar 28 |
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How fast does autocomplete need to be for a good user experience? 1 second would be pretty long for simpler autocompeltes. As I note in this answer many big-name apps have effectively instant autocomplete |
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Mar 26 |
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Should radio buttons be pre-selected? @Dani no selection should never have hidden meaning, it should be used to force a choice (but not a default choice). If you have a survey and Ice Cream is the default, and Ice Cream wins by 80%, did 80% of people really vote for Ice Cream or did they just not change the form field? It's impossible to tell. |
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Mar 26 |
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Should radio buttons be pre-selected? Plenty of paper forms enforce only a single choice; most tests, many surveys or other forms. It's just that the paper itself doesn't enforce it, the enforcement comes later down the line when a human or machine reads it, and by then the whole form has to be invalidated. |
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Mar 25 |
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Should radio buttons be pre-selected? I don't particularly agree with that; defaults are generally good, but sometimes choice is important and defaults simply bias choices. After all real-world forms very often come with no defaults. |
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Mar 25 |
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Should radio buttons be pre-selected?What is the meaning of a group of radio buttons without a selected item? to force a choice, of course. That way there's no default which will be set the majority of time for careless/disinterested users. I don't think it's as clear cut as you make it sound |
