Questions tagged [business-application]
a program written to be used by a business.
85
questions
4
votes
5
answers
933
views
Name of the logged off part of an application/a website
I'd like to know how you would call the part of the application which is not the showcase, not the app itself, but the part between both.
Let me explain with more details. It is something very common ...
- 143
10
votes
3
answers
8k
views
Showing/Hiding vs.Enable/Disabling form fields
I would like to know the benefits and drawbacks regarding to form design of "dependent fields". For example, in my form I have a Marital Status field, and depending on it's value, I need to know the ...
- 348
3
votes
1
answer
204
views
Usability concerns for managing queues of items to be worked
Here's a genericized story for an issue I'm curious about:
A secure website for ACME Company has a
table of thousands of widget orders in an
"initial" status that need to be processed online.
...
- 1,300
6
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Common screen resolution? (In a business environment)
Inspired by "Common screen resolution?" and a debate at work where I defended the teachings of this site...
In the debate we argued about how the business environment differ from home environment in ...
- 5,938
4
votes
5
answers
318
views
Deleting object when a related item is in use
I have a problem with an application that I've written. The usage is about to change and now multiple users will interact with the system.
Given that there will be multiple administrators what is ...
- 225
1
vote
1
answer
115
views
When to apply/save a modification of a nested list of objects
I have a customers detail view with things like their name. At the top there is a toolbar where they can save, reload, delete etc...
On of the properties they can edit is a list of phone numbers. ...
- 111
17
votes
5
answers
22k
views
Truncating long text labels - Best Practices?
I was wondering whether there are any studies around truncated labels, in case if they ever get too long and layouts can't fix it? Does it confuse users if a label is truncated with an ellipsis ...
- 443
2
votes
0
answers
268
views
web application redesign suggestion [closed]
We had built a application using Ext JS web desktop. Something similar to:
http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.0/examples/desktop/desktop.html
The application is basically a web based ...
- 121
4
votes
2
answers
3k
views
Reason that most (business) applications have a blue theme?
Most applications use blue as their central color, particularly business applications (e.g. Windows uses blue in most of it's chrome).
I am being pushed to use purple throughout our current ...
- 151
11
votes
5
answers
2k
views
Folding columns of a kanban view
In our enterprise management software, we use "kanban" views for different purposes; pipeline of business opportunities, tasks, recruitment process, bugtracker, etc. The example bellow shows the ...
- 173
6
votes
2
answers
3k
views
How to structure complex forms for business documents?
In our enterprise management software we use forms to record document like customers, invoices, sales order, tasks, products, etc. We wanted forms to look like their hard paper version.
Below is an ...
- 173
2
votes
3
answers
384
views
Forcing users to take a specific path
I am all for providing flexibility for users in their interface, because I know that users are different, and want to find things and process things in different ways. This is especially the case when ...
- 9,131
81
votes
22
answers
17k
views
Do we need good-looking design for a program internal only to our company?
Do we need to make the user-interface look good (adding images, animations, etc.) for a program internal only to the company?
Making the user-interface look good might slow the performance of the ...
- 1,605
8
votes
4
answers
693
views
upgrade-friendly visual treatment for features disabled in the free version of a freemium product
My company is preparing to launch a "freemium" web application for business users. Most of the surface area of the app will be enabled in the free version, but a few features (e.g. ability to assign ...
- 1,833
6
votes
7
answers
1k
views
How to communicate foreign key constraints in a business application?
I have a business app with various business forms where users edit data. When a user deletes a record - it shows "FK_ABC_AA.. constraint violated, etc."
I want to do better than that and tell the ...
- 183
3
votes
2
answers
268
views
space-efficient UI to choose between auto-generated text or manual text entry
I'm building a part of an HTML form (titled "New Commission Rule") in a web application used by business users to enter and report on sales commissions in a retail store. See http://jsfiddle.net/q3KaH/...
- 1,833
3
votes
2
answers
2k
views
Where and when to show currency symbols for TextFields containing currency?
How should I design a form that is easy to use and understand that has a few textfields for currency?
Should the currency symbol be put outside or in the textfield?
One variant is to show the ...
- 483
5
votes
1
answer
337
views
How to manage actions that could be nested 3 or 4 levels deep?
I have a site that has a main menu that is tabbed, and a sub-menu that always displays actions for the current selected tab.
For more areas on the site, this works perfectly, but one of the tabs is ...
- 373
1
vote
3
answers
99
views
Setting safe defaults for user interface configuration by client
I am currently a consultant working for a software development company who is building an application for their client. The dev company feels that every aspect of the ui should be customize-able, ...
- 181
1
vote
3
answers
269
views
This feels too bland
Take a look at this communication app I am making for our small company (you might need to open it in a new window to see it clearly):
The application is docked on the right side of the screen. It ...
- 429
3
votes
2
answers
1k
views
How should I design an MS Access application for Excel users?
I work for a public health study, and I have been asked to help manage the workflow for an upcoming project. We will be choosing subjects, tracking our contact with them, interviewing them, placing ...
- 131
4
votes
2
answers
1k
views
Alternative control to drag and drop for assigning tasks to an individual?
I am working on a web application for Branch Managers at an investment bank to assign accounts that are without Financial Advisers for whatever reason. Some reasons are the Financial Adviser has ...
- 41
5
votes
7
answers
312
views
How to display a distinction between actions which affect the 'real world' vs. actions that affect only the information in the application?
I have the following challenge:
I'm designing a web application that is supposed to manage IT components. Meaning - when the user creates an IT component in the application or updates an existing one,...
- 405
6
votes
3
answers
1k
views
Recommended books for enterprise application interface design [closed]
I've been reading a lot on UX lately with the intention of improving the user experience on the custom applications we develop. Most of the resources I used are targeting informational websites. I ...
- 161
17
votes
5
answers
5k
views
Should Dialogs be avoided in modern applications?
I have used a few dialogs on the last system I designed. The application was a business application with many database tables and I used many datagrids to show data. It was common that I placed a ...
- 483
8
votes
1
answer
2k
views
Reporting web app - how to design large data tables?
I'm working on a legacy webapp that's mainly focused on reporting large amounts of data - ie tables with 20+ columns reporting financial data. The main problem is table layout inconsistency depending ...
- 181
15
votes
7
answers
23k
views
Good design for Web Apps with Large Forms [closed]
I've been browsing through the web for good templates/themes but I've never seen a really, really good example for the typical Business App with 20-40 fields per page and 2-5 tabs in between. Most of ...
- 253
3
votes
6
answers
2k
views
How to create bands of number ranges for a field?
I have a field in a system called "Score" which ranges from an undetermined negative number to an undetermined positive number. I am trying to figure out a UI for the user to create "bands" of ...
- 11.7k
3
votes
1
answer
668
views
Reporting in a CRUD application
It is yet another enterprise related app dilemma.
Most professional apps use report writers that are way too complicated for the general user, even though most of them are wysiwyg.
Some simple apps ...
- 219
2
votes
6
answers
1k
views
WebApp User Login Screen
I am currently considering options for a web/intranet application login screen and this seems like a good place to share.
Not much work has gone into the current screen since creation and it exists ...
- 23
73
votes
6
answers
160k
views
Preferred format to display negative currency (US English)? [closed]
Which would be the more readable way to format negative numbers:
-$99.99
($99.99)
Some other format I haven't considered
Details:
Most of our user base has finance experience, but some have none at ...
- 1,505
7
votes
4
answers
2k
views
How to get the difference between Corporate and Consumer Branding across to clients?
This seems to be a regular question that comes up during conversations at work. We provide solutions to corporate companies but the end users are inevitably consumers. We seem to be in a Design by ...
2
votes
3
answers
211
views
"mandatories" to take into account for a wide 32" touch screen interface?
What are the best practices/"mandatory issues" to be taken into account and implemented on a 32" wide-aspect touch screen for a totem-kiosk application?
Especially appreciated issues on usability, ...
- 121
5
votes
2
answers
910
views
Dealing with Effective Dates in an Administrative Application
When dealing with Insurance based information, we often need to implement the use of Effective Dates on most of our data. There are numerous reasons for this that I won't get into, needless to say ...
- 811
3
votes
6
answers
129
views
How do you convince people that social software applications are good for business? [closed]
We're trying to introduce social software applications into our organisation but attempts thus far are meeting resistance because:
we're a large, conservative organisation that will always be a late ...
- 711