Questions tagged [organization]
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What is the best way to organize my personal/work computer folder/file structure in order to be organized by design?
It may not sound like a ux.stackexchange question, but I really think that UX designers may be the best people to answer something like that
I want to organize my computer's folder organization ...
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What are good principles for organizing files?
My job is to organize department shared drives - which often contain hundreds of thousands of documents (mostly Word documents, but also spreadsheets and media). I'm quickly coming to the realization ...
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What would be the best way to organize a form development tool that has questions that can optionally be grouped by categories and subcategories?
I am building a form design tool for some clients to use when filling out some surveys.
The form can be populated with questions which map to varying form elements (Text, Select, Checkboxes, etc) - ...
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Does .org really makes your visitor trust you more than .com?
I'm currently launching a new storytelling community, which its goal isn't targeted as making profit. Should we use .com or .org?
Talking beside buying both, I prefer .org since we're a community ...
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Graph Showing Quantities of Multiple Categories for Multiple Years
I have three sets of data:
+--------+------+------+------+
| Apples | | | |
+--------+------+------+------+
| | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Jan | 40 | 36 | 44 |
| Feb | ...
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Ways of organizing a lot of cards
For an intranet application we've developed a way for users to create dashboards.
Each dashboard is named and then displayed as a card. In the beginning this was very easy to work with. Now we have ...
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Organization of 500+ items
Our team has to work with a very large number of image resources (over 500). We're struggling to figure out how best to organize these items such that they are easy to work with. We're specifically ...
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How to deal with a lot (250+) of settings?
I'm currently working on an Android application that has a lot of (over 250) individual settings. During most of the app's existence there was no designer working on it, so the settings UI is mostly (...
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Card Sorting - Huge Company
We're going to redesign the company's website that I work on but I have a lot of menus and different services to organize
We offer all these kind of services:
Education
Short-Term Courses, ...
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“Starred” or “Favorited” items in an organizational app
I am designing an organizational app, and, per the specs, it has a "favorites" tag/shortcut/folder. This would exist alongside folders and tags. In your experience, is it a good idea to include "...
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Dropping the UX title in a fully mature organisation [closed]
I have not worked in a fully mature organisation (feel free to rate yours using any type of UX maturity model), but I want to know whether the designers and developers are simply called designers and ...
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What are best practices for naming convention, hierarchy structure for shared drives? [closed]
I'm working on a project to organize a Google Drive used to share company folders and files. I don't want to make changes for the sake of change. I do want to base the changes on a well documented ...
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Multiple Contact Us forms and how to handle them
What is the best approach to organize multiple forms? Simple websites might only have 1 contact form for any type of questions.
However, some sites have contact forms for difference users. For ...
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Is there any better way of organising details in page [closed]
Please have a look at screen shot attached. Is there any way to organise the details.
I am not a designer but tried with following but looks clumsy
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mobile screen game: 2 list of options
We have mobile game which includes 3 levels (training, public, expert), this game has 4 modes.
now we have added new modes for training mode, these new modes are related to Training level only, what ...
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Naming conventions /terminology for different types of users?
Let's start with the most basic example:
an UX company creates a website for a client (user). The website
will be ran by a staff (users). This staff is divided in admin/tech
staff (users) and ...
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Navigation position
I'm re-rethinking my website and I would like to know what's the best for users.
A navigation centered on the page + a centered logo
A navigation on the left or right with a logo on the opposite (...
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Should large corporations have dedicated UX teams? [closed]
I'm just curious if my opinion is outside the norm. I work at a large corporation with a 200+ person IT department -- which includes 2 UX Architects, 3-4 frontend web developers, and a couple graphic ...
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What to do when your application has an “unmanageable” number of settings?
I like how Google's Material Design approaches patterns for application settings:
Settings should be well-organized, predictable, and contain a manageable number of options (emphasis added).
The ...
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What are common terms for sections of a web application behind and not-behind login?
I'm looking for some concise recognizable terms to help code organization for pages or content of a web application that are either behind a login or not behind a login.
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Where is UX in an organizational structure?
My context/problem:
I've worked in few organizations as a freelance UX consultant (researcher, analyst, coach, designer)... and I had always huge problems to make others in the company feel empathy ...
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Folders and Tagging pattern for a shared files?
I'm developing a user interface for an enterprise product that has programs that are created, run, and shared by members of an organization (i.e. a company).
I want users to be able to easily find ...
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How to handle lists with 10,000+ entries?
I'm working on a feature that will allow administrators to manage lists of resources (people, vehicles) that number in the thousands. One client even has over a million entries.
Making a simple list ...
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Design patterns for unstructured storage and search of information
The prevalence of tags seems to have helped drive a trend towards unstructured storage of information, and instead supporting unstructured or intelligent search features to help retrieve stored ...
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Shouldn't we separate UX from 'UX integration'?
I have been doing research on how software development organisations adapt UX practices as natural part of their processes and accept it in the whole organisation, what some researchers including me ...
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Date in the url
I am in the early stages of a web site where I post every week. each post has a file. I thought it was better not to include the date in the name of the file and that makes the url the same way. I try ...
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Should the UX team be organizationally with IT or Product Management?
I'm a UX veteran but new to company that has a Product management team. There is often questions about UX being under Product instead of the IT area. What are your thoughts? If it helps, my UX team ...
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What are conventions for keyboard shortcuts in Windows and OSX?
Keyboard shortcuts in Windows appear to follow some sort of convention based on the modifier key, but I can't figure out precisely what it is. Here is my current best guess:
Ctrl-* often does a ...
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Do training groups sit under or parallel to UX groups?
So we all know the goal of UX is to develop simple designs that require little training. However some complex system just require training, no matter how well the UI is designed. My question is should ...
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Passive tabs on a drop down navigation menu?
Asumming I have the case of a menu where I have several options in only some categories (products):
Should I always put some content on the button "Products"? Or I can skip it so people go to option ...
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Name for specific design type instance
So if you look at my little visual example below, the format on top I assume would just be technically referred to as a Grid or Tabular format, but if you were to break each of those rows out and make ...
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Self registration vs. Admin registration
We are building a web system where each organization/institution has an account to manage credits (pricing). Each institution can then have individual users (with separate logins) that use the same ...
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Folders with one option vs the one option alone
I am designing a site for a school and I have reached a problem: I am putting teachers' websites (where the teachers post homework) under folders by the class they teach. However, some classes are ...
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Organizing content using tabs and sidebar
In my customers dashboard (web), they can select products and see their respective stats, edit them... This is organized like this on PC:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq ...
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Why is lexicographical organization not considered a continuum?
http://usabilityfriction.com/2009/09/29/five-hat-racks/
Both Lexicographical (alphabetical) and Chronological seem like they are members of Continuum to me. They can be plotted like any other member ...
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How do I make every user's data “the most important”?
I'm working on an internal website for our employees. [Apologies if this background is too vague, but this isn't a public-facing website.] This site tracks a huge amount of data made up of many ...
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How to display large amounts of data on one page with existing tabs as navigation?
I have a web application that uses the left navigation for major functionality and tabs for displaying different information within a function. One function is to enroll in something. There are ...
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Organizing UX bookmarks folder [closed]
I enjoy stumbling upon the web for finding great and inspirational UX resources which I bookmark for future reference.
I think I have a well organized UI & Design bookmark folder tree that ...
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Main menu organization and usability patterns
I have a main menu at my application.
We are refactoring the UI of the application, and we are thinking about reorganize the menu items.
We are considering 2 options:
leave as it's
alpha sort
My ...
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Should you separate Pictures and Video or is it better to have a multimedia section?
Is there any research or case studies regarding combining pictures and video into one page (multimedia section) is better (or worse) than separating the two into individual sections?
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UI pattern for organizing/categorization where items can become a category?
The picture below show pretty much where I am right now, category on the left & in my app I can drag items in categories & move it like that.
The issue I have right now is that an Item can be ...
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Organising Spices for Cooking
In my kitchen I use a variety of spices, both powders and loose whole spices, numbering maybe 30 or 40 individual ingredients. Each one needs to be kept separate and reasonably well sealed while also ...
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Best way to organize data gathered during research?
What is the best and most scientific way to organize all the qualtative data gathered during research? I think this is important because with easy to understand research and data, it will be difficult ...
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Managing/organizing a portfolio of UX for a company
Working as a full-time UX professional for a company, after a while you can build up many projects that should also be kept track of and watched carefully. If you think about a site as having an ...
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What is the best way to visualize an org chart when people have multiple responsibilities?
I have asked the following question on stackoverflow around modeling an org chart. This focused on the DB modeling details, etc but I want to ask a related question here focusing purely on the user ...
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Does leaving a field blank - mean “everyone”
I'm beating myself up over this one, since we had just that discussion today. We were arguing why a customer was eager to pay a week of work for something that could be trained. And to me it’s pretty ...
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Why do webpages scroll vertically instead of horizontally?
It is a common convention that webpages scroll up and down instead of right to left, but all printed material that's not written on rolls of toilet paper 'scrolls' horizontally. Why did the web break ...
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Best way for users to explore non-visual content
I'm working on a project that offers a library of content to choose from. The challenge is that the content is purely textual. My users will roughly know what they want, but they'll also want to ...
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Best way to combine object selection and object editing in a dialog
There might potentially be a very straight forward solution to this, but I'm can't see it, hence the question. I'm wondering what is the best way to structure a dialog where the user can select items ...
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Spacing of items inside a panel (WrapPanel)
Many sites and applications using WrapPanel to display your items.
Items are queued from left to right and when there is no more space tend to skip to the next line.
For Example:
What is the best ...
