Questions tagged [mental-models]
is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something works in the real world.
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Selection state position after selecting/onload
I'm wondering for a UI element like this, where users can select an option, what should the on-load positioning be? Should the selected item be first? or should I have a divider for selected and the ...
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How can we measure meaning in both our organization and competition?
This question is about Meaningful UX or the Meaning Model. It's not about meaning in the sense of dialectics and semiotics. For those who don't know, please see http://nathan.com/making-meaning/
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UI: Why not negative elevations?
Since Material Design came to the surface, we "learned" to design according to 3D planes based on the sheets metaphor. This replaced flat design, which in turn replaced skeuomorphic design.
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How do I design a skeleton screen when the screen has an unknown number of "grey boxes" needed?
I want to design a skeleton screen but I am conflicted on how it should be implemented. On the screen I want to use a skeleton for, there can be any number of rows from 2-5. All rows under the "...
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I'm looking for an advice how to crate an intuitive web UI for linear regression model
Persona: non-technical user who defines several examples of their work and resulting prices. She is a crochet artist who can give several items with their properties. (e.g: 8cm high bear, crochet loop ...
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Why do spin buttons work the way they do?
Spin buttons have annoyed me for many years, and I wonder why it was chosen that they should work the way they do. I can only assume that someone decided that UP means increasing, and so pressing UP ...
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Form input - Follow expected sequence or offer field validation?
Validation opposed to expectations
My team proposed to change the usual sequence of an address form. They want to put the country before the other address fields so they can validate the following ...
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Should the form used for "editing" a record always echo the fields which were in the form used for "adding" the same record?
I am designing a form for editing some employee records of an attendance marking system. In the system, when a manager is adding an employee, he has to assign the employee to a workgroup.
Later when ...
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Features of a complex interface: learnability or discoverability?
I am currently working on a new version of a Saas which clients can use to manage all of the content on their screens, which is going to be quite extended and complex.
To make sure it will be easy ...
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Conceptual Model of Contactless Cards
Contactless card is a card for limited value transactions that one doesn't need to add a PIN on a POS, just tap on it, that's why they are also known as "tap-and-go" cards. (More info)
On my research,...
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Canonical Data Model Help
I'm tasked with showing a model (from a business perspective) how 4 systems are being incoporated into one model (like a common data model). The data model is very high-level (non technical) and ...
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What's concretely the designer's mental model?
In the book "The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience", the authors mention in chapter 8.2 designer's mental model (also called conceptual model). They first define ...
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Form navigation mental model
If an user comes from Windows based software, where in forms you navigate through the inputs with enter key and save by ctrl+s, to browser based software where the default navigation is done with the ...
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Conceptual Design VS Conceptual Model [closed]
What is the difference between a conceptual design and a conceptual model?
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how well can a user factually describe their own mental model?
I found the following CUA prep question (T/F):
"Users are typically able to factually describe their own mental models"
On one hand, I would say that this is true. Users know what they think. Of ...
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Is it necessary to show a label/icon next to language picker inputs? If so, is there an universal way (icon/word/etc) to express "Language"?
An example of a classic language picker (label + dropdown):
Is it really necessary to show a label or icon next to the input?
If so, why? and what would be the best choice?
Are labels(like the one in ...
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What URL's characteristics have a real impact on the UX?
I'm starting a blog soon so I've been thinking about what I should take into account when choosing an URL.
Some variables I've thought about: Length, meaning, suffix, memorability, SEO.
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Can a website have two different search paths, one dedicated and one global?
I am building a moderation portal - basically users can report dubious behaviour, which gets flagged. The moderator needs to audit each flagged item on the moderation portal.
My question comes ...
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Handling validation discrepancies between user mental model and domain model
I am implementing an image editing feature in a mobile productivity app. The feature is used to crop and rectify a camera image of a document. (This is also known as dewarping, straightening, or ...
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Is the mental model of time advancing to the right in charts globally accepted?
Is it a common mental model, that in a chart visualizing a time dimension, the time is advancing to the right?
I'm currently working with the Internation Business Communication Standards (IBCS). They ...
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Window model for document-centric analysis
I'm writing an application. This application allows the user to interactively analyze (and lightly modify) specific bundles of files. Each file in the bundle is individually editable by other ...
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Grouping participants in a card sort analysis?
Instead of having one large subject pool of card sorting participants, has anyone ever tried segmenting their participants with a supplemental survey to define which persona they may fall into? If so, ...
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Responsive Intranet Design - Changing order of elements between views?
I'm currently implementing a responsive design on an intranet, which has the following view in desktop width equal to or greater than 1024 px. The tablet view is anything less than 1024 px width. ...
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How do you arrive at a information architecture from a mental model?
We have created a mental model for a large website redesign project. We are in the process of mapping content and functionality to task towers.
While I understand how it gives an indication of what ...
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Poor and good conceptual model [closed]
I read about the conceptual model in this book: Design of Everyday things.
Could someone told me an another good and bad conceptual model, not the fridge one?
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How do you sell UX to someone that doesn't want it?
The problem:
Handling company information with spreadsheets, including
Versioning over email
Lack of format consistency
Soft workarounds to Hard problems
Susceptibility to human error in data input
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"Tool" or "target" on vacuum cleaner pedal?
I always get confused by the icons on my vacuum cleaner pedal.
Take a look at the upper icon.
Is that icon representing
1) The tool. I.e. "Your now using the pedal without the brush" (ergo, on a ...
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"Pharma" UX Model? [closed]
Is there any known "Pharma" like UX examples or flows out there in the digital world?
Example: Doctor recommends a drug to a patient, hands off prescription to receptionist to make a copy. ...
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How to design a change state action
My application manages a few types of entities, each of them has its own workflow.
For example - a task entity workflow will look something like this:
(this is a functional/logical drawing, this is ...
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Do we need to indicate that an activity that ran very quickly didn't error-out immediately?
We have a system that has a few maintenance activities that run very quickly (less than a second). Problem is, when users look at the log file for the system, seeing an activity that ran for 0 seconds ...
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How to visualize cause and effect relationships with diagrams?
How can I model relationships where one or more causes produces an effect? I hope that such diagrams may make some of my ideas clearer to the user than just a block of text. Are there some tools that ...
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Phrase for a view dropdown for showing items that are both missing and ready but with warnings
The Setup
A grid has a status for each line item. These statuses are, Missing, Ready, Missing W/ Warning, Ready W/ Warning. A warning is triggered when the last external update to that item was ...
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Help user develop a mental model for version control system
We are developing an integrated version control system for a large enterprise application. When users change something to the underlying data in the system they do so through a "Work Item"
This is ...
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How does a "mental model" relate to an information model
In UI design we often talk about "mental models" that users need to form. I'm wondering if there is a particular relationship between that mental model and the actual information model that the system ...
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Should animations pause on mouseover?
Should animations pause on mouseover? I have my opinion, but I was wondering if there was any evidence to support/refute the idea that users expect this to happen.
EDIT: I'm specifically concerned ...
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Filtering: Additive or subtractive model?
A lot of sites use an additive filtration system while there is also subtractive now is used.
A difference in an interaction method:
Additive
First of all you need to choose a set of the options ...
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Derive universal mental model from bunch of user mental models, good practice or not?
If you have a bunch of mental models derived from card sort and user interview data from a single user group, is it okay to attempt to form a universal mental model by looking at patterns in the ...
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What is it about our mental models that app-centric seems more intuitive than content-centric?
I always thought that content-centric was the easiest for people to deal with, i.e. "I want to change this document", and not "Let's run this app so I can then change that document".
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