Questions tagged [documentation]
text, usually about how to use a program.
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What is best for sharing "Corporate Application Design and UX Guidelines"? A Printout, a pdf on or a website?
For a long-term project, I'm working on part of the ux- and design guidelines for a corporate application. Till last year they use a 'static' pdf on a fileserver where it gets outdated and nobody is ...
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Why do US food labels intermix desirable and undesirable properties without distinction?
I find it remarkable that the US FDA, after years of tweaking and no doubt lots of time and money invested, could only come up with a food label that is terribly confusing! The left side shows a ...
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What is the standard of validating business requirements?
When a vendor is designing a website for a client - an organisation with Business Analysts and Project Managers assigned to the project - we need to provide concepts/wireframes and with annotations, ...
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Need a exact naming for the Doc [closed]
I'm working on User Interface Document for a client project. It's actually a mobile project. I need to give a document to the client which include all the finalized User Interfaces (only the final ...
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explaining/documenting an intricate mechanism
I'm torn between two worlds, I have this very intuitive (but intricate) mechanism in a command line tool, and I'm wondering as to what extent I should explain this.
I can go the simple way, not ...
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Industry standard for documenting IxD / UI Design Patterns?
What's the industry-standard way to document a design pattern?
I have seen websites like ui-patterns.com and patternry.com that host and share design patterns, but when creating an reusing a design ...
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What do you do after paper prototyping? [closed]
Lot's of us - UX people. Love to start their work on paper. Either sketching or using sticky notes. What's the next step for you? I usually redraw whole paper prototype in Axure. Making the same thing ...
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What should be covered in a UI Standards document?
I'm a coop student who is creating a web/desktop application design standards document for a company I'm working at. Each standard in the document needs to be supported by a reputable source.
What ...
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How should I design a small help system for a Windows application?
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I've written a simple, business application which generates a report from information in a database. The only user input required are two file paths--one to a list of items to report on and ...
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What is the name of the document form where the text (content) for a User Interface is defined?
Like: Do we call it File or Document. Especially important if you make an interface that will be adopted for several languages.
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What is a good method for creating a guide for standardized markup?
I need to create a guide or wiki that outlines different standardized techniques for marking up reusable elements in our software. When adding new features our developers are often able to reuse or ...
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Which type of help system is best?
At my company we create Windows based desktop applications. In the past, we have created .chm files for our help documentation and have been happy with it. We have now been faced with some issues ...
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How do you source your persona photographs?
Like many of you I'm sure, I consider the creation of user personas to be a crucial part of the UCD process, particularly when starting a new project.
While we all have our own techniques and styles ...
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Quoting time and effort for UX research
Edit : I've added a little more detail to the main question here.
There are many techniques and practices at our disposal to gain an understanding of the target audiences motivations and needs when ...
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example of a good software design document
Anyone got any online examples of good software design documents. I want personas, goals, scenarios and all that good stuff.
I wish Cooper would have included a document with his books.
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How can I make my UX work more "fun"? [closed]
I work as a User Experience Specialist at a relatively big company (400-500 employees), I sit here all day mostly cranking out big UX documents telling other people what they should do with their ...
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Allow uploaded Word documents or require markdown?
I have a site for writing tutoring that currently requires the student to copy and paste from Word into an HTML textarea, removing all formatting.
We've thought about letting the student upload the ...
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Does UX apply to other documents, such as Word or Spreadsheets?
Does UX apply to documents such as a Word document, or a PowerPoint presentation?
In other words, should the writer take into consideration the readers' experience of the document?
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What nomenclature do you use for UI Elements
Having worked with multiple OSs, platforms and UI Kits I always run into the problem of how to consistently naming things be that larger structures with names like Widgets, Views, Forms, Controls or ...
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Built in user guides
I want my web application to be self-explanatory. There are input fields and whole pages which need some paragraphs of explanation. How to integrate these user guides to my application? How to make ...
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Interactive 'page turn' documents - the case against using these?
What do people feel about interactive page turn documents? Here's an example (I'm not focusing on this report specifically - just happened to be an example I knew off the top of my head).
Do these ...
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Full lifecycle, version controlled, UX documentation - Is this possible?
I'm currently trying to implement a usable UX documentation system , streamlining the flow of work between User Researchers/Usability specialists, Information Architects and Visual Designers.
Just to ...