program installed on user's machine as opposed to a program that runs remotely and is accessed via an internet browser.
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How to prompt existing customers to change their email
I'm looking for some UX examples to how other companies have handled this situation:
Scenario:
Devs are using an old password encrypting method (sha1) I believe and need to change it to a more secure ...
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41 views
What is the best book about designing interfaces for desktop applications? [closed]
A lot of articles on the web and on paper today are mostly focused on mobile and web design. I'm designing mostly for desktop applications, but it's very hard to come by some good information on ...
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2answers
42 views
Should a right-click in a desktop application always bring up a context menu?
In most every "modern" desktop application I've used, the right mouse click brings up some sort of context menu. In some though, especially high end engineering applications, right click is used to ...
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0answers
23 views
Global keyboard shortcut override conflicts for power users
Working on a Windows desktop tray application which listens to a global keyboard shortcut and provides a data readout from a device and sends the numbers (data) as key strokes to the application in ...
0
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2answers
49 views
Need examples of applications similar to TurboTax [closed]
I'm currently working through an application very similar to how TurboTax functions. I have a paper form that needs to be entered by users into my application (see example" https://www.cms.gov/...
1
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1answer
112 views
Design patterns for desktop context switching
I'm working on a project which has, mobile / tablet / desktop designs which progressively reveal more content.
In our app we have two key 'modes'. It's similar to an online ide so you could call ...
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0answers
50 views
Is there a use case for overriding/overpainting the OS-provided system menu?
An app developed by another team here at Acme Software overrides - in fact, erases - the operating system-provided system menu (it also custom paints the minimize, maximize, and close button, but that'...
2
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2answers
133 views
How to present a tree in which objects may appear more than once?
I have a window showing a number of objects that can be individually hidden or recolored. Accordingly, in a sidebar each has a checkbox and a color swatch that launches a color picker when clicked:
...
1
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1answer
119 views
How to alert users to come back to a desktop app?
We are working on a financial related desktop app. The user can commit their money in an escrow for a period of time, and the user must be online about/within 24hrs before the expiration of the escrow ...
2
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4answers
136 views
Is it better to disable a button and show hovering message, or show a popup message when click on it?
I'm talking about Desktop applications, Windows applications.
In my application, user needs to perform a certain steps, before a button can be clicked. The issue now is that for that button, what is ...
2
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1answer
114 views
Are zoom in/out buttons necessary anymore?
Zoom buttons still exist in almost all desktop applications as well as applications on the web (SAAS). It seems like these buttons would be gone by now (with pinch and mouse scroll wheel) but they are ...
3
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5answers
293 views
How to clarify ambiguity in “Save” behaviour on web based applications for users
I noticed on Office 365 applications and the Office 2016 applications that there is an Autosave feature (which I believe was started in OneNote).
The official explanation of how the feature works (or ...
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1answer
83 views
Design dilemma: how to show maximal amount of controls in a clean way
We are trying to improve and modernize the design of our desktop, dialog-based application:
If I look at the examples of modern user interfaces they all look pretty, but contain just a fraction of ...
2
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1answer
229 views
Phone number click to call on desktop?
I'm designing a web flow in which one of the outcomes is to call our support team. On mobile, this is simple enough as pressing on a phone number triggers the alert below.
However, I'm not sure what ...
0
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1answer
38 views
Ask metadata for each file added to a folder (possibly many files added at the same time)
I have a file sync Windows desktop application that looks very much like Dropbox:
Tray icon is the only GUI.
Users mostly uses the Windows file explorer, but also programs such as MS Word that open ...
1
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1answer
124 views
To meet WCAG AA on desktops, what is the minimum space required between two click targets?
I have already looked at these:
1. WCAG 2.1 for Target size
2. button sizes on web pages on Stack Exchange
3. Material Design Google Guidelines for Buttons
4. Spacing between UI components on Stack ...
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1answer
108 views
Distinguishing overlapping event types in a timeline
I am working with software that is used for scheduling astronomical observations. I've created a timeline view for the user to create, view, and edit observation schedules. Here's my mock-up:
Gray ...
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2answers
79 views
Where to display reset link content?
I am working on a desktop application and when the user requests a password reset link they got it in an email.
Now I am wondering where should I display the content of that reset link (setting new ...
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1answer
273 views
Can we make a tooltip as error message?
I have a form wich contains some fields,when the user leaves one of these fields empty,I change the border color to red and I attached a red tooltip to explain the error ,is it possible to make ...
3
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2answers
157 views
Are desktop applications called “apps” yet?
Now that we're in a mobile-dominated world, is it acceptable to call computer programs that run on desktop computers Apps?
Take this example from the OSS Podlove subscribe button. When activated on a ...
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2answers
108 views
Instant typing search pattern
I've been meaning to implement the pattern of an "instant search" on a Desktop site, which would work by simply starting to type and have the input focused on a search form.
The only example I have ...
1
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1answer
74 views
Native or custom look and feel for desktop applications [closed]
I am currently writing a library to create desktop user interfaces, and I am asking myself a question: is it better to have a native look and feel, or a consistent custom look and feel?
I personnally ...
5
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1answer
172 views
Performing serious tasks on mobile
I have a theory: A large percentage of users are reluctant to do something too serious on their mobile device. The smaller screen and lack of control here induces a sense of unease. It's possible that ...
0
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1answer
90 views
Why does it seem like achieving native-looking is a very good thing on Desktop applications?
I've seen a lot of developers trying hard to get their apps as native-looking as possible (relative to the OS) by using GUI toolkits like GTK+, WxWidgets and so on. It made me wonder if it is kind of ...
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2answers
123 views
How to Show result of different methods with one goal
In a part of a winform application, there are different methods to achieve one goal, where users can select one or multiple ones.
Suppose this part of the application is responsible for search ...
1
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1answer
47 views
Application state visibility from far away
I'm curious if there is any way to display the current application state in a good way, so it is visible from far away.
Currently it is done as you can see in the image.
The task is, to see the ...
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0answers
52 views
Designing a desktop-view for a primarily mobile user base
I'm currently working at a startup where the only product we have right know is a "Mobile-Responsive" website.
In their own kind of bible, this startup defines "Mobile-Responsive" as creating the ...
0
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3answers
197 views
Tap, Tap, Tap or Keyboard Entry
We are doing an internal makeover to our existing Timesheet Mac app. In that I ran into a situation where I have to decide either of the below options.
Option A : Tap, Tap, Tap
Like the smartphone ...
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0answers
44 views
Designing Limited Choices with Independent Options
Situation
I'm designing desktop software that is meant to be as easy to use as possible, without annoying power users. In other words, I have a very dispersed range of users, with no way to test the ...
1
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3answers
207 views
Is it bad practice to direct a user to a mobile friendly side of the site on screen resize
I have an html5 application that consists of two different interfaces. The desktop interface demands a minimum of 900 pixels in width to function properly. The mobile version is built in an entirely ...
1
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1answer
126 views
Modal content UX
I have a situation where I need to display a table with multiple rows of data. Row count can be from 1 to 99. Is a scrollable modal the correct UX, or should I display this info on its own page?
2
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1answer
100 views
Problem with layout of features
I have a set of features that adjust style of the graphs. They set existance, colors and size of the element. I must be able to apply size and existance to all the graphs. But I don't want to apply ...
0
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1answer
31 views
Does the Pencil Project have a reusable components feature? [closed]
The Pencil Project is a tool made for proto-typing and for that I would need a feature of reusable components. For instance, when creating a header component I want to re-use it several times in the ...
0
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1answer
169 views
Best solution to an awkward design?
For a Desktop application. Designing this page to add teams and assign players to the teams added. More, allow users to edit teams on the same page.
First: Add a Team. Second: add players to teams ...
0
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2answers
90 views
Limiting Action Due To Permissions
How would you prevent someone from performing an action on the front end (Obviously this would be enforced on the back end, but I'd imagine you don't want the user thinking they can perform an action ...
1
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2answers
208 views
How to transform a mobile-navigation design into a desktop one
Right now I have a mobile app where you can navigate like this:
I need to transform it into a desktop app. The only thing that I cannot change is the fact that the circles that are clickable options ...
4
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2answers
182 views
Multi-Workspaced UI
So I'm developing a word processor app in that also includes drawing tools. Nothing really crazy, just some simple vector drawing capabilities like node editing and layering. The problem I'm running ...
2
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1answer
176 views
Why draw a grid behind text/code in the editor?
Two GNOME applications (Builder and Text Editor) have an option to draw a faint grid in the background of the text editing window. The grid does not map neatly onto the fixed-width font.
Does this ...
2
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1answer
71 views
What is the name of the reveal-menu-bar-on-Alt interaction?
Firefox has the following interaction on the GNOME desktop (observed in Firefox ~55, GNOME ~3.26):
Starts with menu bar hidden
When you click Alt the menu bar appears [1] (and stays visible after the ...
1
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2answers
194 views
Standard for using the system tray?
I'm building an application which will be "running in the system tray" (an icon will be shown there) and a menu will be shown when the user clicks on the icon
When I look at different applications I ...
0
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2answers
97 views
Open new window to manage customers in a desktop application?
I am designing desktop application using Python tkinter.
I have a menu bar called "Customer" and it contains menu items "new customer", "update customer", and "delete customer". When user clicks on ...
1
vote
1answer
186 views
How to start with personas for internal use
Im wondering what is the best way to introduce personas and how to start the general workflow.
I work at a insurance company as a UI and UX designer, the people in the company use internal ...
1
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1answer
76 views
Should I center the content of the header?
A few years ago when Bootstrap was released everyone was centering their header-content. Nowadays, especially on "material" design websites, I see that header content is not centered even though the ...
0
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1answer
117 views
How can I make a mobile app responsive for desktop? [closed]
I am trying to make a desktop version of a mobile app. But not sure how to fill those full width cards to a desktop app.
1
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5answers
275 views
Why disable window exit button?
I have noticed that some software disables the window exit button. On MacOS the window exit button is the Red X in the upper left side.
This forces me to browse thru the application for another way ...
0
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1answer
182 views
What is a good GUI design for selecting items with conflicts and dependencies?
I'm designing a settings GUI component which requires the user to select items from an assortment. These items have conflicts and dependencies between them, so selecting an item might restrict you ...
1
vote
3answers
120 views
How to simultaneously open pages from different places in the hierarchy in the desktop app?
We have a desktop app where user has to enter information on different pages.
All pages in the app are placed in a hierarchy. For example:
Item 1
Item 1.1
Item 1.2
Item 2
Item 2.1
But you can ...
1
vote
2answers
165 views
Layers in editor for multiple images
I'm working on a desktop software that is in its core a simple image editor (apply filter, draw on image etc.) but the catch is that the user should be able to open multiple images, edit, and compare ...
3
votes
2answers
176 views
Can a Warning message consist of multiple messages within it?
Background: I am currently evaluating a medical enterprise application. This application enables certain tasks through the hardware ( medical device) for the patients.
As I redesign the User ...
1
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4answers
480 views
Design of Login/logout menu
I am designing a desktop application that has login functionality. The login dialog is placed on the main form and is only shown on startup, and it is not a part of my question.
In the main view, I ...
