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Tagged with psychology user-behavior
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how to know a user real name with psychology questions?
I have developed an app/game that doesn't collect any user data, and I aim to pleasantly surprise users by revealing their real name during the gaming experience. The game follows a story-based format ...
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Where should a delete action be inside a menu?
I work on a product that has various menus throughout the application.
Recently a customer complained that they had accidentally deleted an object from the system, rather than edited.
They have ...
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How to avoid the bandwagon effect on users?
Users in a target audience are likely to experience the bandwagon effect because they rely on others' assessment of information. In some domains [1], it is expected that some users are less likely to ...
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How "buy now" act as trigger and drive into loop like "Hooks model"
Recently, I was trying to understand the 4 phases of the "Hook Model". Trigger, Action, Reward & Investment.
From the study, I found there is 2 main category of the trigger. Internal &...
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Which screen type is clearer, and why?
I know it's a dead-simple and an incredibly clear UI, but my question is when it comes to familiarity as the extension of the principle of clarity, which makes the good UI/UX to the user?
Why centered:...
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The psychology of 'none of the above'
I am working on a design for a formal registration service that demands users categorise themselves according to a closed list of options. The list is not exhaustive, so some users don't see an option ...
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Behavior modification vs usability [closed]
I'm working on a project that has me a bit stumped. Thanks for any help you can provide!
Background
I'm working on the interface that is shown to a student before they take a quiz. Students are ...
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Metro station stop design to prevent people from commiting suicide
How to design a metro train stop that would prevent people from endangering themselves by accessing the rails when a metro arrives (perhaps by implementing the design of special doors or elevators ...
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Why some users buy a product with higher price?
I recently talked to a person who is a supplier for an E-commerce website. In this website suppliers can provide their products at the price they choose. So it is probable that a specific product is ...
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What metrics have been used differentiate between user engagement and addiction?
There have been some recent press about the computer game Fortnite that has caused concern for parents of children that are spending excessive time playing due to its seemingly addictive effect on ...
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How important are avatars/profile images in the context of social feedback?
How important are avatars/profile images in the context of social feedback or inticing behavior as opposed to just the name of a user or an abstract avatar?
Specifically, in the case of consumer ...
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Can comments decrease content creation in fear of not receiving enough social feedback or acknowledgment?
It's been written that one of the reasons for Snapchat's success is the fact that they did not implement likes regarding photos. Some reasonably theories that likes inhibit the frequency of content ...
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Module Tab & Navigation tab Interaction
I am currently working on an enterprise website with loads of different views/content.
I have chosen tabs as a navigation and each tab has a new view in it .On top of this, i have grouped all these ...
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How to encourage quality content in small populations?
I'm creating an app that allows users to post content onto the app for other community members to use. The content is forever changing IE, eventually the content posted by a user will be deleted and ...
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Behavioral Research regarding wait time display
I'm going to be making the case to a client and am looking for evidence to my claim. I proposed that when their system is loading or "warming up", it would be better show the wait time as a count-up ...
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What defines the acceptance of fingerprints/smudges on touch screens?
This may be a very subjective observation, but everytime I ask people, more question marks occur.
Situation given:
When using a mobile touch device or laptop with touch screen, some (observed) ...
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Getting the real name of an user
Currently, when registering on my site, users are presented with a first name field and a lastname field (plus an email and password field as usual). My reasoning behind this was to encourage users to ...
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How do we help users save money? [duplicate]
We're developing a number of banking products to help our users save more money. More importantly, we'd like our users to develop money-saving habits. I'm pretty aware that lots of people have made ...
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Badges for donations
I am trying to implement a donation system for a website/app that isn't going to generate any money.
Once a person donates to the project, I was thinking I could give them a badge/icon that would be ...
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Too many reports because report button is too convenient
I have an app that enables users to exercise questions.
The users have an option to report a faulty question.
The problem is that the users use the option too frequently.
The reviewer has checked the ...
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How to emphasize/mark one option over the other?
I'm attaching screenshot of the current section.
The left option, is the free option(obviously), while the right one, is the paid option, marked with "locked" emoji.
I'm trying to increase the "...
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Rewards System: Points or Money?
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We have a soon to launch app which includes a rewards system. These rewards are real money, so a direct Rewards Balance: $xxxx should suffice (in theory). Basically put, rewards are a real ...
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Impact of plural vs singular names [closed]
I've just bought a domain for my mobile app/website project, and an interesting question popped to my mind.
I don't know what would be the impact of this decision in terms of user experience, user ...
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The psychology of color that a child would most likely choose
As a UI designer, I have always wondered if there has been any psychological studies that can prove that children will pick certain colors over other colors or if there is a common pattern that occurs ...
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How to handle "wait and watch" type customers?
I am involved in a Housing rental listings project where users are given a number of choices to choose their preferred home from. All choices fulfill their original criteria(Budget for rent, location, ...
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Why do we prefer shiny finish on cars and dull finish on devices?
Across the board, cars have shiny paint (which looks great), while computers, laptops and phones etc. tend to have a dull finish to them.
What’s the logic/psychology behind this?
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How to describe a redundant behaviour performed by the user
I am trying to find the right terminology or phrase to describe a type of behaviour that I often observe in the physical world, and would like to know if there is some equivalent behaviour in ...
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Priming in User Experience Design [closed]
How can we use priming / subliminal messages to increase the visitor / user's joy on a website?
The topic "Subliminal Perception" a.k.a. "Priming" is often used by marketeers to subliminally ...
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How do you call the concept of similar social validation options/choices?
Maybe I'm too burnt, but I can't come with the answer to this. I don't mean Overchoice, but the concept of choices or options that are similarly validated by peers creating a friction to user.
To be ...
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How to deal with perceived frustration in rewards based app?
I'm working on an app with a gamification approach and I kinda hit a wall with a problem: users may feel frustrated even though they've achieved a goal
Since this is a bit complex to understand ...
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How accepted is the "Hooked Model" by UX?
The Hook Model for designing habit-forming products is not frequently mentioned in UX lectures.
The model seems to be about creating "habits forming products".
How necessary this model, really, if ...
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Extend a subscription automatically or manually?
We offer different type of annual subscriptions.
At this time, we inform the customer 2 months before his subscriptions will end, that we are going to extend his subscriptions automatically. If he don'...
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Why would some high profile blog not allow commenting? [closed]
Comments have been an important part from the evolution of blog. But I can see some blogs like http://www.lukew.com not allowing comments at all.
It surely hurts the user experience for genuine ...
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Terminology for user fear of unbounded space
There is a term used for describing a behavioral pattern where users feel disoriented or anxious when a navigable space is unbounded and there is no reference point.
For example, in a 3D drawing ...
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Impact of images and icons on user perception when capturing personal information?
I am designing an account area where users are required to provide some personal information.I have came across research that suggests that the use of icons such as a "Padlock" or similar has a ...
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Which style of avatar is more reputable?
Is there any evidence which shows whether users are more likely to reciprocate positively towards a certain style of profile avatar?
For simplicity, let's break profile avatars into the following ...
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predict behavior based on emotional response
I'm a student so this is my first crack at designing a study.
Trying to develop a usability test that 1) gathers participants emotional reaction and 2) discovers what behavior they would display ...
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What is more memorable: Avatar or Username?
Is there any evidence which shows whether users are more able to recognise another user's Photo over their Username or vice versa?
I am interested in understanding this from a usability perspective.
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Would it be relevant to learn/understand how manipulation works as UX Designers?
When designing a service for users, we're constantly trying to push them to do things. We're creating systems to get them motivated so they see the value they'll get out of the product. Perfectly done,...
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How much customisation should be permitted?
The team I work in are in charge of approving and creating new team document storage/collaboration microsites for business areas within the company. These are currently being offered as SharePoint ...
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what is the list for list of sexual orientation options in a dating website?
males and females sexual orientations in a terminology that is easy for the user to select them.
Exmple .male straight , female straight
including gay and lesbian and other kinds.
please i am ...
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Which of those two design best symbolizes emptiness and makes you want to fill it?
I'm working on a service with limited credits and designing a counter displaying how much is left. I came across two approaches (below) and even if the first one looks simpler I feel like the second ...
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Best way to teach novice programmers?
I'm working on a project that aims to teach programming novices. I want them to follow specific guidelines of programming and get accustomed to those (due to the fact that these guidelines are ...
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Is giving users false assurance a good thing?
I've seen websites that show messages like - Sorry, Something went wrong, we're trying to fix this ASAP , when they really should be displaying : 404 - the page you're looking for does not exist
One ...
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Is it still effective and appropriate to use psychological pricing for IT people?
I need to build pricing plan for service that will be used mainly by developers and designers. I can't decide what price to use, e.g. $20 or $19.
I'm afraid that well-educated and smart people (...
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When offering options, at which position in a sentence should be the desirable one?
When I ask the user a question with two options of which I want the user to choose a specific one, should I formulate the sentence so that the desired option it the latter or the other way around?
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Name or data on this error alert phenomenon?
This is just a curiosity on my part, but I'm wondering if there's a name or studies for what I'm going to describe.
I've noticed in many UX scenarios, not just computer related, that when there's an ...
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How do users use spatial memory?
I have some questions about how spatial memory works and the effects on user interfaces:
Do users seek items by spatial memory? What do they actually "link" to a position - a particular object ("View ...
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UX Research: Can I improve conversion rates with the use of lifestyle over still life product photography
I work for a large UK-based clothing retailer. After some initial customer testing with our product details page there has been some debate on the following question:
Do customers generally react ...
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What makes people vote?
What drives people to upvote or downvote content? I'm looking for the je-ne-sais-quoi quality on successful voting systems and I just can't put my finger on. Let's look at three examples:
http://...
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