Questions tagged [displays]
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should I scale down for low-resolution devices?
after developing my design, everything is very huge, not messed up, but huge. for example, in 1920px devices, if you make browser smaller everything is alright, but if you use a POS system(with 1024px ...
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Designing a Queue with Flashing Animation for New Queue Numbers. How long should the flashes be?
I'm designing a Queue display for a typical service counters which shows a bunch of queue numbers.
There are approximately 8 counters
Queue numbers need not be displayed in sequence
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Is it preferable to describe a computer's ephemeral visual data output device as a "monitor", "display", "screen", or something else?
In English language UIs, is it preferable to describe a computer's ephemeral data visual data output device as a "monitor", "display", "screen", or something else?
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Practical 'lightest' shade of grey for contrast with white
I often use a light shade of grey such as rgb(242,242,242) in my designs to provide a subtle contrast to white, e.g. for the background of alternating rows in a table.
I can easily distinguish ...
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Proper display for Rejection of Request
I'm currently working on a project where user submit a media request, which then will be reviewed by another user (verifier).
I have done the display of information, but I'm not sure how can I show ...
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Text visibility / accessability on public information screens
I'm in the process with our supplier of upgrading the technology behind our Flight Information Display System for our airport, this runs the flight information screens in the terminal showing the ...
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Guidelines on the interaction and content design of visual displays inside elevators
I found the question What makes the elevator experience so awkward? rather interesting, but for practical purposes thought it was better to focus on one aspect of the experience that designers have ...
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Are there any guidelines or best practices for the design of multi-monitor systems?
By multi-monitor I mean systems which arrive out of the box with several physical monitors, each with predefined functionality. These are usually industrial systems running their own software.
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Colors VS Screens - Colors to avoid
I'm working on my personal webpage, my primary background color (apart from white) is straight-forward turquoise (#40e0d0) from the styles selection in my navigator.
On my laptop, the color is more ...
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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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How can I hide some UI elements until the mobile version is out?
The first picture depicts a design of notification preferences that is really strongly inspired by Backplane's solution (the second picture), because it suits my case perfectly.
The client saw the ...
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What's a good 'empty state' for a Delayed Buses display? [closed]
I am designing a screen display wireframe that will show late buses on the screen. But I am wondering if the buses are still en-route, what would be good to show in the screen as there is no ...
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How would you display users engaging in the same app activity with the same first name and last name?
(Super edge case?). I'm making an app that will pit users against each other. How would I display 2 people with exactly the same name against each other. If they have avatars, it would be easy (just ...
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Why colors are set to high saturated in most smarphones?
From the very first time of buying android smartphones, we see those colors which are less realistic. Only few percentage of people change it by going deep level down inside settings.
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Is a mirror link mandatory in any email?
I have to design emails on mobile first for B2B users.
Some professional mailboxes don't support HTML5, and display may be broken.
I wonder if the mirror link (e.g. 'If you can't see this email, click ...
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Set screen brightness based on time or manually?
Consider an IoT device with a touchscreen, e.g. an advanced alarm clock (doesn't matter). The device has a simple UI and will be on during day and night. However, the screen is very bright, too bright ...
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How can a user-friendly Braille key refresh be programmed/refreshed?
I have watched a very nice video where I saw a girl use a Braille display. In the video she quickly shifts either the right hand or the left hand over the degradable keys.
I haven't watched it ...
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Better Approach to Dashboards on TV
Im currently redesigning some dashboards for a team.The Goal for this redesign is to be able to see which servers are down just from looking at the dashboards. The team would be viewing these on ...
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What is better... "Hello, [First Name]" or "Hello, [First and Last Name]"?
Just looking for some suggestions or best practice thoughts... If a user logs in and the site displays a welcome message, is "Hello, John" better than "Hello, John Doe?"
Displaying the only first name ...
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Why are most Automation displays so UX outdated? [closed]
When working on the Automation industry sector, it's very common to see equipments with a huge lack of advance in their UX/UI display design over time.
Most of them still uses the old fashioned "X"-...
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What are some clear and aesthetic ways to display information about speech signals?
I'm developing software for forensic linguistic research. One of the things that I'll need to do is show if a person is nervous or worried. Or if a sentence is a statement or a question (the ...
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Alternative to power-hungry screen displays
For devices that run on a battery, the screen is the component that drains the the battery the most. So I began to wonder if there is an alternative.
Has someone ever tried another type of interface ...
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gathering requirments from client who thought she had already made everything clear
I had accepted the task of building a client a website. She had the requirement “it had to scale to mobile devices”. Not even that, but I’m assuming her screen size she viewed the site on is a little ...
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What's the better design approach? Displaying existing data along with the simple search OR just a simple search for choosing the existing data
Scenario: User selecting the existing data to create new subset
User Profile: Advanced User, user knows very well what to choose
Which approach is better and why?
Displaying existing data along ...
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UX principles for maximizing web page visibility at a distance?
This post is about maximizing visual clarity of a page, not SEO.
Some info about my project:
The page will be displayed on a 1080p 42" television.
Users will be standing 3 - 6 feet from the TV.
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Is it really a bad thing to place an ad TV in front of the stairs?
We have the following room arrangement with a plan on a 40 inch TV mounted on the wall.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
In this place people usually walk ...
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Different levels of user experience in public transport system stop information
On my infrequent trips overseas I have taken some interest in the public transport systems and how they announce or display the stops, in particular for high volume metro systems.
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Statistics or research on browser window size based on the display screen size
There are many sources and references for reports on screen resolution and display sizes for desktop (and mobile), and there are less information about browser window sizes. I think both pieces of ...
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Why are TV bezels there?
Isn't it true that LCD display units only have ribbon wirings on their bottom (or any one side)? So, this should leave the other sides from covering up their edges, shouldn't it? I have read somewhere ...
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How to display login link to admin user
I am working on a small application, which will display pictures of cakes to the users. At this stage only admin users will have access to update content of the pages, upload pictures, etc.
I still ...
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Email address entry field on public kiosk system
Interesting discussion internally at this end re a sign-up/login mechanic that will be running within a public kiosk/display application.
The question we have is related to whether or not we should ...
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Best way to display the floor numbers when someone is inside the lift?
I have seen lifts which displays the currently crossing floor number in the display so that we can know where(In which floor) we are. (This is commonly found in most lifts) Recently I have used a set ...
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What do you call non-retina displays?
With the introduction of high density pixel displays (Retina being the brand name Apple uses) what do we now call non-retina (low pixel density) displays?
Legacy Displays
Low Pixel Density Displays
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