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Tagged with desktop-application website-design
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Is there an Interface Hall of Shame and Fame for web design?
There's the Interface Hall of Shame and also the Interface Hall of Fame for desktop UI design. The company that created the site doesn't exist since quite a time. Their site has been archived by ...
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How can I make my website more "self explanatory"
I built the following website MyChessNotebook some months ago. The purpose is simple: it is a text editor where a user can insert some pictures of chessboards easily.
I use it and find it super easy ...
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What Micro Interaction to use When Hovering Over a Button?
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We are trying to learn/understand UX from first principals and build the most intuitive UI.
We are creating buttons in an App and want to know what the ideal micro interaction is when hovering ...
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Are Scroll Bars Dead?
I recently heard a designer say something to the effect that modern web designs don't use visual scrollbars - or at least they're only visible when scrolling. I'm a front-end developer and hadn't ...
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What design pattern should I use to migrate windows lists with buttons to web?
I have a Windows application that I need to migrate to web. This application has many forms that follow the same pattern: (1) a grid on the left with columns and rows than can be selected, and (2) ...
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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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For a wall of text, is a lot of columns or one long column better? [closed]
I'm designing a website, and it's probably going to have some long walls of text because it'll be an info site. I have two design ideas that would make it easier to read, but I can't decide.
Both ...
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Why do menu labels behave differently in desktop applications and websites?
In a desktop application when you click a menu, you see all the options which reside within it, in a drop-down/pop-up list.
In many websites with a navigation menu which has sub-categories, I have ...
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Is there ever a circumstance where the user should be notified of a user interface no-op?
The headline may be a bit confusing, so here's a web example (although this question is equally applicable to desktop applications):
I open up the same eBay listing in 2 separate tabs of my web ...
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Should I redesign my desktop application so it looks and acts like a website?
I'm in the process of redesigning one of my older desktop applications. The original design I did was based on a 640 X 480 screen. Times have changed and there several different screen resolutions ...
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Is it good to make different website for Desktop and iPad?
Is it good to make different website for Desktop and iPad? or same site is more better?
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Why do most websites have a custom skin where as most desktop applications don't?
You rarely ever see websites with a UI that has the same skin as the operating system. But, desktop application rarely ever change skins. Why do custom-skins work so well for webpages but not for ...