Questions tagged [design]
Design is a plan for making an object. Anything that will ever be built usually has a design up front before production of the object. A design can be a wire frame, a prototype, a schema, an image or a drawing.
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Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green?
Designing an interface for a CMS (Content Management System), I stumbled upon a paradox and I'm a bit confused about what to do and why to do it..
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Before deleting an album, the user is asked ...
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Why do many sites leave half of each webpage empty?
Why do many sites leave half of each webpage empty? Isn't this a waste of screen space?
One nice example of this is the Stack Exchange Network sites:
As you can see, there is a ton of whitespace ...
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What's the best way to show you can scroll on mobile devices?
I'm trying to find the best method of showing users on mobile devices that they can scroll in a <div>.
As iPhones/iPads don't have scrollbars, I will need an indicator to show that you can ...
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Original design choice of back and forward directions?
There are numerous of evidence around us where forward and backward directions are predetermined. As if they are a conscious choice we all know. At least this in true in left-to-right reading ...
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Design recommendation for a button
I have a form in which the user requests a report to the system by clicking the Send Report Request button. The system then produces scheduled reports according to the interval the user selected (...
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How to showcase UX work?
Presenting your UX design on the portfolio is more than just showing off some screenshots of the wireframe or finished graphics. I am just wondering what your thoughts are on the ideal way to display ...
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Mixing rounded corners and square corners
The question of the usability of rounded corners versus square corners has already be answered here. My question revolves more about the consequence of having them intermingled. I've heard some ...
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UX responsibilities
Is there a number of responsibilities that fall under UX (for example, graphic design, usability etc), or is UX a sub responsibility of design?
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Difference between Notice and Info messages?
I designed a program that is used to send data through the socket. In each program action, I display a message about process state.
I'm confused by when to display a Notice message or Info message. ...
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Usage of Golden Ratio [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does the golden ratio work? Or does it?
How is that to use the Golden Ratio for the design of graphical interfaces.
when I use it or should I?
and on designing ...
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What reason could Nintendo have had for putting the A and B buttons in a non-alphabetical order?
When Nintendo brought out its first game system, the NES, it had a controller with four buttons:
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B
However, somewhere, a designer, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the A and B ...
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Design pattern for sorting / ordering items in card view
In a table design pattern there is usually a 'primary' key value which all the other values can be sorted by, and it is easy to sort or order the rest of the attributes associated with the item.
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UX vs Product Design, what's the difference?
I've notice that more and more people who used to call themselves UX Designers are now calling themselves Product Designers. I have a rough feel for the differences but I'm struggling to find any good ...
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Why is everything becoming flatter? [duplicate]
Things in the design world seem to be getting flatter! I can produce infinite examples; iOS7, Windows 8 (and everything else in Windows 8), Pepsi, the Dropbox logo, even things outside the computer ...
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What is the difference between web design, interaction design, user experience design, and user interface design?
It seems all four of these branches of design relate to each other at one point or another, and one can easily be confused for another by novices or outsiders looking in. Job postings online ...
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Alternatives for Radio Button?
Both Radio button and Switch button does the same job - Selecting one option at a time. Is there any other way for choosing between the two given options other than Radio/switch buttons?
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Best resolution for creating a design
I'm just starting to learn web design and ux and I have a very simple question. What is the best resolution to design for?
For example, I want to design a WP Plugin settings page, what resolution ...
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pros and cons of multi search box vs one search box
I have been asked to come up with a search mechanism for a database. The database stores details about electors.
Is a multiple search field interface better than a single search field interface? The ...
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Do signs printed on the road offer a significant advantage for the user over signs on a post?
I was driving earlier today and I came across a stretch of road that didn't have signs for the speed limit but instead had it written on the road like so:
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It got me thinking that it ...
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Why are messages on the road printed in reverse?
After reading this question, something occurred to me that I've always wondered - but never thought to ask.
Why are road messages/signs printed in reverse?
(source https://xkcd.com/781/)
Anytime I ...
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Why rounding odd font sizes to even?
Today I started implementing a design that had some copy text with font size 17px. My fellow web developer told me that we should round that to 18px and more in general that we should not use odd font ...
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Traffic lights: "yellow" is progress, not state
When thinking about how (real-world) traffic lights work, I wonder if there is a more intuitive way to display the yellow light. The meaning of Green and Red are states:
Green: Ok, you can go!
Red: ...
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Is it crucial for a UX designer to understand the principles and concepts behind Object Oriented Programming?
As a designer and sometimes coder myself, I have been exposed to the idea and principles behind Object Oriented Programming, and having a knowledge in this area definitely helps when it comes to ...
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Should input fields be cleared out when the user selects them?
I have a few input fields in my form with some default values (numbers). Please note, they are not just placeholders, i.e. they can be used as is, if they are not changed.
I was wondering if I should ...
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Any data available on using Skeuomorphic Design in apps?
I've recently come across an article about Skeuomorphism that peaked my curiosity.
Skeuomorphism: ..."an element of design or structure that serves little or no purpose in the artifact fashioned ...
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What default font to choose for desktop applications?
Finding the right font for an application seems to be an art.
There seem to be many standards.
Arial seems to be used in most applications I have seen,
Segoe UI is the standard for Microsoft Windows ...
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When to use static (i.e., sticky) navigation bars?
As an amateur web designer I've been paying close attention to websites' designs to improve my grasp on this field, I noticed that some websites are using sticky navigation bars while others are using ...
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How can you embody 'luxury' qualities in UX design?
I recently observed a group of branding professionals brainstorming ideas for a luxury brand. They used a host of inspirations to hopefully inspire a sense of exclusivity and quality. These included ...
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Is user centered design only about hygiene factors?
There is one thing that bothers me about UX-design. One of the shortcomings of a user centered design approach, is that it only focuses on existing needs and not on new revolutionary ideas. For ...
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Case studies on using gradients in a design
Are there any case studies on the use of gradients in a web design? I'm looking for answers similar to this answer about the usability of rounded corners.
Specifically, I'd like to know:
Is there a ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of "minimal" design?
E.g. Google has minimal web design (just a search box). How do you define minimal design? How does this relate to minimalism in general? Is Facebook also minimalism at least from the beginning?
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Showing which direction a value should go towards
I have an interesting UI challenge. I have a ratio that I am showing in two ways: one using a percentage surrounded by a circumference pie chart, and the other showing a status bar. In some cases a ...
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Why most of the microphones are placed on the left of headsets / headphones?
I've noticed that the mayority of the well-known brands (Sennheiser, Logitech, Plantronics, Razer, SteelSeries, Audio-Technica, Phillips, etc) tend to make headsets with the microphone on the left, is ...
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How to not make my website have a "1990's" look
I recently launched a comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, which I created from scratch. I created my own design because I wanted to keep it unique, and used no templates.
Unfortunately, ...
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How could petrol forecourts be designed to improve efficiency?
I am always shocked when I go to a petrol station. The layout- in the UK, at least- seems to be fairly standard. But it always seems to me to be incredibly inefficient.
These are the issues:
When ...
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Developer with HCI background studying graphic design
I'm thinking about going to design school for a year, studying graphic design.
I want to get work as a UX designer/researcher, with the possibility of day to day activities like user research, user ...
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How to make long forms engaging?
In a form I have over 30 fields on a single section of an application these 30+ fields can't be broken up into two parts along with the other sections.
Long forms like this are really exhausting to ...
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Simultaneous task -Design Advice
I have to design the workflow where a user sets up multiple tasks that will run automatically.
Those tasks have two possibilities:
They do something simultaneously - Task 1 and Task 2 run at the ...
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Dropdown navigation menus - should top menu option link to content?
I have a client with a group of users which seem to have constant troubles using a menu like these two examples:
Pages (links to a list of pages in a grid from where the user has
access to edit/...
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Speech Bubbles meaning
I am developing a toon story to illustrate my company's offerings. May be I'll use a landing page, or just create it on the home page.
I have 3 actors in it, a cab driver, a bpo company owner and me....
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What does an folded corner (earmarked page) represent to a user?
I'm designing a user interface where the user will be editing letter templates. I'm wondering what a folder corner (earmarked page) represents in UX design. Thanks!
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Finding out how users respond to look and feel
If you wanted to put designs in front of users and test how they feel about the visual designs look and feel. What questions could you ask to explore how users feel without being leading?
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Design consistency and style guide
My company has 3 different products, 2 of them are more similar in the interface (one is an advertising/publishing platform, the other is a platform to publish web and mobile applications), and the ...
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Arranging menu or buttons in Mobile apps
if we can figure out by which hand user is using his phone so that we could arrange the menu items or buttons to the convenient side.
I think if a user is using his phone by right hand then the ...
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Is this color readable?
I'm not sure that this orange color meshes well with my green and white theme, or that it's easily readable.
If it is not readable, is there a better color that would be more easily readable? Should ...
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Grid text alignment rules
I was wondering if someone has come across rules used by web designers for text alignment in a grid.
I was observing that majority of text is aligned towards left, but financial figures with ...
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UX to consider on a business card design
On a UX stance, what are the best practices to consider when designing a business card?
I've done some research in order to find some that I might not have considered and I have to admit that I've ...
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Dropping the UX title in a fully mature organisation [closed]
I have not worked in a fully mature organisation (feel free to rate yours using any type of UX maturity model), but I want to know whether the designers and developers are simply called designers and ...
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Which should be the correct behavior for sort in multi-page list?
We are building an application which may have thousands item in the table list. As we decide each page only show 25 item, so there maybe 10-100 pages.
We allow the user click the table column header ...
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Is the Agile Manifesto based on UX philosophies (or vice versa)?
Looking at the statements in the agile manifesto, it seems to reflect user-centered design principles quite well.
With a few very minor wording changes, it would probably work for a UX manifesto. I ...
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