Questions tagged [changes]
For questions regarding how changes in an interface, copywriting etc affect User Experience
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How to update stale page content without interrupting user
I have a mobile application that supports offline usage, but can also work online. There are several pages of content (mostly long lists of items) that are loaded from server when user visits specific ...
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How to show that a form has been dirtied (edited) using a Material design?
I have a vertical list of expansion panels. Each panel has a form under it. I would like to know the best style for showing that the form has been dirtied (edited) on the expansion panel title. The ...
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Is Cumulative Layout Shift a consideration while the page is still visibly loading?
Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) refers to unexpected change in the position of content on a page, and usually happens because resources are loaded asynchronously or DOM elements get added to the page ...
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Cumulative Layout Shift is becoming a ranking factor - (Thought and what it means?)
Has anyone heard of the Cumulative Layout Shift becoming a ranking factor?
I need to prepare for it, but really trying to work out what it all means from a design point of view, it seems it is aimed ...
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What effect does interface change have on user behavior?
I drive past a gas station every day that displays its gas prices using cards. I don't know whether the attendant has to manually change the cards every time they change the price or whether they have ...
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Best UX for a sudden Theme change
I'm currently working on a project that is a partnership with another brand. The problem I'm having is as the customer is progressing through the application themed for the partner there is a point ...
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Changing the habit of login in a system
There's a system that users can either login with their national id and their password OR their customer id and their password. The password is common in both cases for a certain customer (every user ...
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Constantly evolving dynamic UI
AI will recognize usage patterns and create subtle changes to the UI.
These small changes will have a compound effect over time, designing
the ideal interface to accommodate a persons needs and ...
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Should a legacy app that uses universal shortcuts for non-standard functions change to more traditional keyboard shortcuts?
I have inherited code maintenance of a legacy app that has been used for 10+ years. We have a small group of users who use it and only 1 or 2 new ones each year, due to employee turnover etc.
One ...
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Notifying The User When Something Changes [closed]
What are some general UX best practices when notifying the user that something in your app has changed?
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Notifying user that a specific feature will require login in the future
So, I'm in this situation. I have a widely used and strongly advertised feature in my app, that, like almost any other features in my app, does not require a user login.
Here's the problem. Say, I ...
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Messaging A Site Redesign To Users: Does This Taint A/B Testing Data
The company I work for (a deal roundup site) has redesigned the look of our deal information tiles. (Changing the layout of how the item's image, price, and other information is arranged.) We're going ...
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Big change vs. small incremental changes
Users usually consider changes in the UI of a product as very negative. Two examples:
The Facebook's timeline (with its two columns display of the events) was subject to controversy for a long time ...
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How to inform a user of (possible) compatibility issues?
Situation:
We've recently updated one of our software features with new functionality. Most of the source code for that feature has been rewritten with compatibility in mind, meaning that if the user ...
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How do I determine if I should go through a change that would affect the users both positively and negatively?
I had a request from one of our staff to change the forms to not require the email address because a single person (out of probably 1000 applicants) cannot submit the form because, apparently, that ...
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Inform user of an update without being intrusive?
How could I inform users of my website that I'm removing some features like author, duration, etc on the search results and explain that it causes it to slow down drastically without being too ...
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Would emailing everyone who used our commenting system (over the last year) about a change be intrusive?
My company's news site is relaunching, and as part of this we are replacing our old commenting platform with Disqus. The team came up with the idea to email everyone who used the old platform to give ...
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How much design change can users and stakeholders appreciate?
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When you seek to improve a bad design, how do you get enough buy-in from stakeholders and users to "rip the band aid off", or is incremental improvement usually the only way to get enough buy-...
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Should I avoid changing a "clunky" UI?
This seems like a broad question, so I'll outline my specific example.
I support an old Windows program. And I mean OLD. It originated as a 1997 rewrite of ever older software. It's a kind of ...
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What's the most user friendly way to inform users that a feature is temporarily going away?
Guests to our site are able to favorite items and see a list of items they favorited on their account page. However, we are planning to temporarily hide this favorite page in their account page for ...
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How to show or highlight changed content
We are currently designing a web application for internal use. In the attached screenshot you can see a table where the second record is selected. The text right of the table are further fields of ...
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Changing password in user settings. Best method
I'm trying to think of the 'best' way for a user to change its password along with its user settings(Like name, e-mail etc.)
I've got a form like this:
Name: [text input]
E-mailaddress: [text input]
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Can we build UX into old, large legacy systems?
For huge corporate, legacy applications we dont tend to have the luxury of re-vamping the UI after assessing the UX of the process that those apps support. However, just because there has been a lack ...
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Communicating changes and new feature in my web application
We are currently in the early phases of developing a web application for a client. We have regular sprint demo's during which we take the client through the new features and changes from the last ...
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URL Acquisition Messaging
I work for an online retailer, and my company is acquiring the URLs from another online retail. We don't have plans to retain the acquired brands identity. We will simply be redirecting traffic to our ...
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Is making an important action harder to find an effective practice, when trying to discourage its use?
The recent Android Gmail App is a perfect example of what I'm talking about (see screenshot below). When you open an email to view, Google has moved the Delete action into the sub-menu. In previous ...
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Changing keyboard shortcuts that has been introduced quite a while?
Let's say I have developed a publicly available application which has a keyboard shortcut available. However, after a while of further development, I've decided that the current keyboard shortcut is ...
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What's wrong with the old Firefox? [closed]
Firefox has changed a lot after version 3. I personally think the main reason is the advent of Google Chrome.
For example,
To open the Downloads window, one has to press Chrome's combination Ctrl+J ...
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Are there any studies or research documenting how people react to change in UI?
I recall seeing a new article ages back about a study someone did about how people react to changes in UI. The general conclusion was that no matter what you do, people will complain. Facebook was ...
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Does allowing users to delay a change help them adapt to a new layout?
I've noticed that when Google and Facebook roll out a new interface they often either allow users to opt out of the new look for a brief period or they delay the release but allow users to opt in to ...
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How to deliver wireframe changes to team members
I'm working in a small project team as an interaction designer. The product is in development and not released to the public yet.
In the beginning all the product's features have been designed in ...
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Making changes to existing products
I keep coming across this situation and was hoping someone would have more information on this:
We have an existing product and I have been requested to "make something work better", so I start by ...
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Does Usability/design matter in admin(client) sites?
I worked at many organization, few of my old employers developed old system for clients which is running from more than 5 years and work perfect.
They do not care about any user experience(design, ...
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How and when to go about challenging a tried and true user behavior?
There are many user behaviors that have been ingrained in us over time. Some of them good, and some of them just because, "that's the way that it has been done for years, people expect it." The ...
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Tracking/displaying changes in documents
Modern office products has a feature to track and highlight changes. Old versions of Miscrosoft Word used two colors (striked-out red for deleted and green for inserted text), while recent version ...
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Major redesign vs Gradual enhancement
UX Myth #11 examines the perception that websites need to be redesigned periodically.
As the article explains, there's quite a lot of evidence to suggest users are naturally opposed to major changes ...
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