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Should lists of users in an organization include yourself?
We have a platform that allows access to multiple people. There are two types of roles - Admin and Member.
On the page where it displays the list of people, is it standard practice to include yourself ...
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Usability disadvantages to an Opera-style menu as the standard navigation model for web sites?
Premises:
(1) Opera-style menu refers to a navigation menu which shows or hides when you click anywhere on the left edge of the application window. It must have been introduced by the original Opera ...
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Best practice for notification timeouts
The app I'm currently working on has a notification banner that appears when successful or unsuccessful network calls. It says things like "Your address was updated successfully!" or "...
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Is there a best practice or best way to design form navigation?
I'm creating a KYC form, and the question of navigation arose. The main doubt I have is if there is any best practice in order to make navigation easy, yet non-intrusive. There are the two options I ...
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Is it a best practice to place a button action column on every row within a web page list?
Let me set the stage:
Think of a web page with a pages long list of rows of data with a handful of columns.
Now there is work planned to add an action button column to this list such that every row ...
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Placing a non working icon or menu option in an application
My CEO asks me to place in a MVP (alpha version of a product in production) icons for functionality that does not yet exist. Specifically a filter icon. This way he will be able to tell - when he ...
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Why does Google use `user-select: none;` on the text in their google meets web app?
Whenever I'm reading a webpage, I often double click text to orient myself on the page (and for something to do I guess).
I recently landed on https://meet.google.com/ after a meeting and was ...
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Why should users be allowed to edit cart items directly in the order review step?
The task of going back a few steps in the checkout process to edit a section within the cart is observed to be a cumbersome process. What evidence exists around why allowing the user to edit their ...
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Cancel wizard tab-2 when I checked ch-3 checkbox in tab-1
Welcome I made a wizard and linked several questions in the first tab and everything works fine. Required: In the first tab and in the first question, there are several checkbox-type options. I want ...
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Does anyone know the term for this mobile "grabber" section?
Does anyone know the term for mobile sections that can be collapsed/expanded using a grabber? In the image below this is the section with the white background.
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Does anyone know what this component is called?
I'm trying to find what this particular list/picker unit is called as I'm researching the best way to allow a user to select from hundreds of options in various categories.
The user will be able to ...
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Requiring a complex action before sharing externally
This is my first post to UXStackExchange, so I apologize if I miss something or am too long.
I have been tasked with solving a complex problem for an internal enterprise app. We are working on ...
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Should Search User be capitalised
I have a search bar and I don't know what should be capitalised and what not.
There would be two solutions:
Search User
Search user
Which one should I use?
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What are the best practices for discount promotion on web and mobile?
Looking for the information of how to promote discount in web and mobile app experience, both for existing users who already made purchases AND for those who haven't yet.
If you ran into any valuable ...
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Should single input be wrapped in a form?
Should those single inputs be wrapped in <form> tags so that screen readers can announce them as such?
Sometimes in our project (Web based SaaS) we use single input fields to operate some ...
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Reading Pattern and Button + Text Hierarchy
I currently preparing a CRO validated design and I have questions relating to the layout.
Below is an image of two options, Option 1 is the original and Option 2 is my proposed tweak which simply ...
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Why don't Wifi router UI's use confirmation password boxes?
Consider the scenario of trying to update the Wifi password for a router. Pulling up two sources I have access to, both OpenWRT and Google's Home/Wifi app only have a single input box for changing the ...
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Colorblindness-friendly color scale with a clear progression, without using red/purple/pink
I have a case where a strong pink has already a reserved meaning ("missing data"), so red/purple/pink should not be used at all.
Additionally, colours should really distinct as it will be ...
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How can I make this habit tracker interface more visually interesting? [closed]
I'm designing an interface for a habit tracker app where a user can view a list of their habits for the day and tap a button to mark a habit as complete.
I think the habit containers (meditate, ...
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From a user's point of view, is it important to distinguish between the terms extensions, plug-ins, add-ons and widgets?
With a lot of focus towards customisation of software functionality and interface components, there are some software platforms that choose to go down the path of creating APIs and exposing some of ...
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Naming items based on their position in coordinates
I am making the base of an animation that will be used by third parties. It's a kind of radial animation with items around an object. Each "ray" should have a name so that its function is ...
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Disable buttons while data loading
I have a view in my mobile app with two buttons, before allowing user to click on them I need to wait for some data to load, should I disable them while it happens ?
Should I show a loading indicator ...
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How to display prices in offers tables?
I am working on displaying offers (consisting of 3 - 4 plans) in table style and am currently stuck in showing the prices. I was working on showing offers per column / vertically with having the price ...
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Multi-Step forms as classic multiple choice form or chatbot?
I'm currently working on a landingpage that includes a digital user advisor where they can find out more about topics that fit to their life/work conditions.
Example:
Company X is working in ...
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Most natural way to visualize portions of highly skewed data (within a small space)
I'm currently working with a dataset that consists of numbers ranging from 0-255, but that's heavily skewed towards the 70-100 range. Anything below 70 is considered low and anything above ~110 is ...
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Which way of displaying unread messages count is better
I am in a dilemma over deciding user favored way of displaying unread messages count, currently, there are two ways in my mind, like Facebook Messenger and like Instagram, Whatsapp, and lots of other ...
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Best Practices working with design freelancers/contractors [closed]
When you work with design freelancers/contractors, what are best practices that you implement when working with them?
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Yes/No Button Toggle Design
So, 2 design options for how to style the toggle button for Y/N answers. There could be anywhere from 4-12 questions on a single page. Which one is better and why?
(I have a few thoughts on this ...
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What plugins, websites, tools can I use to evaluate the user experience in web, mobile applications currently in production? [closed]
How can I evaluate mobile or web applications currently developed and evaluate the user experience.
Are there plugins? tools or sites?
In order to have real metrics or statistics of system users.
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User Research Estimation
What are the units/factors you take into account when estimating or scoping your user research?
Other than the business domain's complexity, remote/in-person research and the difficulty of participant ...
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Solutions disguised as problem statements
As UX professionals, especially in enterprise settings, we are excluded from the problem exploration and we are given solutions instead. At that point, we start our process from the middle. Depending ...
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Visualize average asset condition over time
I have 3300 road inspection records in an Oracle database.
I've summarized the inspection records in a SQL query as follows:
YEAR AVG CONDITION CLASS ROAD_COUNT
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Adding new attributes to a screen
I am trying add three new attributes to the screen. I am very much confused and not sure where to add would be best for the below screen. Please suggest. Also if you can suggest how it would look like,...
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Should the undo stack be unique to each node in a tree structured user project?
I'm working on some electronics simulation software that manages projects that are organised in a tree structure: modules in modules in modules, etc... (For instance, the project may contain modules A ...
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Pause and cancel button next to each other?
So I am designing a feature for our app that allows users to pause, resume, and cancel their app's updates. I came up with a design that allows for the user to tap on the icon to pause/resume and ...
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Expandable textbox as the main component on the screen
I have a screen that its main component is a text box.
Users add the text by pasting it in the text box and then click on the button, which results with an image generated in the screen.
it is the ...
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When you are designing for a web browser can you create a different design for mobile than for desktop? or does it have to be the same for both
Would this be considered a responsive design?
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Variable App Colors (for Branding) and Accessibility
A feature that was sold to clients long before I joined was enabling use of custom primary and secondary colors in our mobile app. This allows their branding to be communicated to users for a more ...
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Alignment of first column in table when it is numerical
Best practices for tables suggest to align numerical values to the right. This makes them better scanable and comparable. In our software, numerical values are mostly right-aligned in tables.
However, ...
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product detail page - sticky right column?
It seems to me that for the desktop view of a product detail page, it makes perfect sense to make the right column (the one containing the critical, above the fold info) sticky... assuming those ...
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What is the name for the "request trial" pattern?
This is a very common pattern with SAAS: instead of giving you a price, they ask you to request a trial or demo. Sometimes you will find the price hidden somewhere on the website, but most of the time ...
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Letting user know that button is for picture and update data?
We have a mobile app where the information is updated when the user takes a picture. I'm attaching the screen.
As you can see there's a huge button that says "Update Information (by just taking a ...
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Checklist and radio button alternative
What is the best way to display this information?
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I am in the process of creating an application form for a Scottish college. We have 8-9 accessibility statements for applicants to select in ...
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Transition stage [closed]
Hello all my name is Marina. I am a graphics designer and I have eight years of experience. This past year, I'm trying to switch to UX/UI design. I want to ask you what title I should put on my CV.
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What do you refer to the feature for creating a category tree as?
I'm designing a module for managers to perform administrative operations on fleets of buses they are assigned to. This includes the following parts,
Manage buses: add, remove, update bus details
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Best practice for popup if whole message can't fit in window
I recently added a popup to my app/website warning users of a coming maintenance window. On phones, it appeared as a little window, slightly smaller than the webpage beneath it. The popup had an &...
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Tab based main navigation - best way to display current page for secondary icon based navigation
What is the best way to show a page is a current page being viewed for a secondary navigation item that is icon based when the main navigation is tabbed-based?
A selected state for the icon, or are ...
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2 steps process in side-panel
We are designing an e-commerce website where our client is a marketplace for merchants to offer discounts or great prices on services/products to end users.
Some merchants may give multiple options ...
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Best software for shooting highlight reels of user tests? [closed]
I'm interviewing users and am trying to consolidate down my output for my team. What software do people use to trim videos and make them digestable?
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Prompting users to click on prototype
When conducting user testing I sometimes find that participants describe how they will click on links within the prototype and talk about the actions they will do rather than actually physically ...
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