Questions tagged [sharing]
Sharing is the activity where users share content with others.
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Browser navigation in SPA: Which changes to UI state should be preserved in URL for the purpose of URL state synchronization?
URL state synchronization allows users to navigate to specific SPA page and see specific state. This is important when you share SPA page and you want the recipient to see exactly what you saw when ...
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Should users be able to invite and set different types of permission for each invitee?
I noticed that in Google Drive, if you were to invite more than one person, you're only able to set one type of permission (Viewer, Commenter, or Editor) for everyone.
So if you had different sets of ...
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Files ownership within shared folders
I am working on an enterprise design software. Colleagues can collaborate on the same file.
A person can create a folder in which to save similar files. This person can invite colleagues to ...
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Are there existing patterns for forwarding an image to email from in app?
I am working on an app where one of the final steps in the signup process requires that users provide information displayed on screen to their employer; they can either go to their email and forward ...
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Showing socially shared content to users who are not logged in
Almost all the content on my webapp/site is visible only after the viewer has logged in. But, when a user shares a piece of content with someone (who may or may not be a user of the app), that someone ...
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What are good terms for distinguishing non-shared from shared files?
Our users can store files that they don't want to share with others, and files that they do want to share with others. For the former, we're exploring using the labels "Private" or "Personal." Both ...
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Is there a tool for interactions versioning?
I'm looking for a tool to make it possible to share different versions of interactions between several screens. Is there anything like that on the market that can help? I tried several tools like ...
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Is it a good UX practice to have social sharing buttons on a mobile website?
I am recently working on the mobile version of a website and came across this link - https://www.zdnet.com/article/study-claims-99-percent-of-users-ignore-sharing-buttons-on-mobile/
I am still ...
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social sharing ui/ux on mobile. actionable text + icons or icons only [duplicate]
We trying to implement decent social sharing module for our app and have 2 question, which are pretty much related:
Is it important to have visible text which directly say to user what to do, like
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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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Which solution is better for sharing video : Pop up or tab?
I am talking Youtube style's Tab versus Vimeo style's pop up.
What are the pro / con for each options.
Also, for pop-up, is it a bad idea to pause a video during pop up ?
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How to deal with files in use?
There is a file manager in my application, where teachers can share files with other teachers. Files such as documents and images can be inserted into the learning course for students.
Once your ...
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Showing Android "direct share" targets for a logged-out app
With Android's direct share feature, is it ok to show share targets for an app that is in a logged-out state?
Pro: It helps users discover your app and when they tap on the target, it will simply ...
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How can I remote test a user using dual monitors to perform a task? [closed]
I need to do a remote usability study where users are using two monitors to do a task. I was curious if others have had to do something similar and if so how did you execute on such a study. ...
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What is the relevant way to show share count of article?
The share count on the left bottom of image is the total share count of story and I placed there because that was near to sharing button so that this will make more sense, but I have a confusion, that ...
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How to inspire users to share the app?
There could be some app platforms where multiple user participation is essential. For instance, a multiplayer game, in which user could pick another user to play the game from the list of his phone ...
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Visualising sharing settings, roles and rights
A little about our platform;
We have events that are part of calendars (1 or more). Calendars can then be added to a user dashboard. That user dashboard can have many members part of it. (Owner, ...
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What are best practices for in-app Facebook share?
What are best practices for implementing a share on Facebook feature in my app? I would like to enable users to share portions of my app (selected views) on Facebook.
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Is important for users to show how many shares/likes a post have?
We all know that shares and likes metrics matter, at least for the developing and marketing teams. but is this important for users?
Would it be better to have a simpler and clearer design for a blog ...
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How to illustrate an "UX approved" stamp?
I'm looking for a ways to convey the idea of good vs. bad* UX design and features. In order to offer a UX stamp(s) to my girlfriend as she is a Human Factor Engineer.
The idea is neither to ...
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Bluetooth vs. QR code for exchange of user-generated writing pieces
I'm building an app that allows users to exchange pieces of writing (i.e. short stories) that they have written with each other. The idea is for the app to be very quick, so you find another user and ...
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What number of social share buttons has highest share rate?
Does having only one sharing button lead to content being shared more?
Many buttons makes harder choice for user and make some distraction.
With one social button, the user might not be prefer this ...
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Data on sharing / suggesting / inviting behaviours on mobile
I am researching patterns of sharing / inviting / suggesting behaviours of users on mobile apps.
I can imagine they differ by
channel (facebook, whatsapp, instagram, email, sms etc),
content (...
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When to prompt the reader to share a blog post?
I'm trying to encourage people to share posts from my blog on social networks. To that end, i recently (past couple days) added a share prompt to each post. When the user has scrolled to the end of ...
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Sharing a link in iOS: where to place an action button if not in a bar?
I'm going to explain what I've been told to meet: I need to add a kind of "tell a friend" option within a settings menu the app already has (which is a table view). The purpose of such "tell a friend" ...
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Efficient way to enter link on phone
I am currently working on a web app that requires users to type the given link on their phone's browser to access the info. I am thinking of putting in a QR code.
Is there any better way to do it?
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Which share icon is most appropriate for web?
Now days there are multiple viable share icons available, but they are mostly mobile OS specific (iOS, WP, Android...). I wonder which icon should I use for the web that most of the users would ...
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What is the difference between Facebook's Share dialog and Feed dialog? [closed]
I am trying to figure out which method is better to implement Facebook sharing, but there are surprisingly few resources comparing these two methods directly.
On the Facebook developers' website, ...
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What is the standard design pattern for file sharing?
I want to know if there is any design pattern for file sharing between devices or users. How can I chop down some steps without compromising the user experience for the file sharing.
Actually, the ...
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Offline mode and resolving sync issues [closed]
Let's say there's a web app where you can edit documents, similar to Google Docs but more lightweight. A document can be shared and multiple people can edit it. Every change is immediately synced to ...
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Ways for a company to organize common/shared Icons Images and Graphics
Are there any common tools that are used to store Icons Images and graphics for a company wide audience?
As a programmer I would store everything in git so people could update it and track the ...
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How do you share app specific content?
I'm looking to find out how best to share app specific content.
I'm creating a news app which includes polls at the bottom of the article. I'd like the ability to share the poll but I'm wondering ...
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Best place to put social sharing buttons
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I'm designign the UX for the new website of a company that rents luxury venues for weddings.
Primary target users are engaged women in Europe ad US, 30/40 years old, with higher education and ...
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What is it called in UX terms when you share a unique link to privately share/collaborate?
I'm looking for the name of a specific name of a UX convention.
Many games, to allow for multiplayer games without logging in, let you share a unique URL that when another person visits, will create ...
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Enable and Disable Representation Icon [closed]
I am designing an application. It shows a list of folder which can be enabled or disabled to share. How can we make the user to understand it is Enabled/Disabled in Iconic representation. When the ...
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Is putting social sharing buttons on of each picture good UX?
I'm working on a redesign for a daily news portal. And there is a huge doubt about using social sharing buttons on every picture of an article, is it good UX or is it too much, because every article ...
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Sharing User Flow - Use Separate or Combined Interaction?
I'm working on a sharing flow for an iOS Mobile App where the user will be gifting something to up to 10 different people. Those people could be contacts stored in Contacts, Facebook friends, Twitter, ...
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What links should social share copy contain?
When users share my content on public share platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc., what is the best experience for users on mobile devices?
Click shared link --> mobile website that ...
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Letting the user wait for shorten a link?
I have an application where I show a list of news. These news can be shared by the user (simple share-intent you can see in almost every android-application). However, I don't want the user to send ...
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Is it clear to non-tech users that “share page” on this mockup means share the page user was on when menu was clicked
Looking for insight about a non-tech user's experience and whether or not they'll understand that "share page" refers to the page from which the menu was called.
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Simple Ways To Share On Multiple Social Networks
We are building a kiosk and we need the ability to share an image (or a url to an image) across different social networks.
I dislike the idea of asking for login credentials for each network. The ...
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Sharing on Android
There are two ways of sharing on Android OS.
One is using a box that contains the the sharing options.
Another way is to use a dropdown list for the available sharing options.
Both of them are ...
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How to send information or link to a user's phone
Say you have a web site showing recipes which include a list of ingredients. We want to get that list of ingredients from the user's desktop browser to the user's mobile phone so when they go shopping ...
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YouTube automatically switches to "Share" tab when the video is finished playing
On every YouTube video page there are two tabs below the video:
"About" contains an author-generated description, the category and license information.
"Share" offers sharing functionality for ...
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Are users more likely to share embedded videos or videos watched from a dedicated viewing experience (YouTube app/site, etc)?
I'm trying to form a best practice recommendation for either embedding videos (embedded youTube player) or launching videos into a dedicated viewing experience (leveraging YouTube app on smartphones ...
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Should we still provide social sharing options in a responsive design?
Since the majority of the browsers on small devices (and Safari on desktop as well) already provide a function where the user can share the content on — for example — Twitter, should we ...
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Show 6 share buttons vs one button that opens tooltip with 6 share buttons
I have a web application that hosts some user content, say tutorials.
I'd want to give users opportunity to share this content using social network buttons like Facebook Like/Share, Twitter, Reddit, ...
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How many social buttons?
There are millions of social networks out there. Of the top popular ones, like Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc.,
Q: How many, in numbers, should be put up at all?
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Which share icon is the right one? Or should it adapt? [closed]
this is not a question regarding a particular problem, it's rather asking for your opinion. Let's say we have a website. It is not visited significantly more often by users of any of the fractions, so ...
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Should I build camera functionality into a photo sharing app or let the user use the device camera app they would already be familiar with?
I have been working on the idea I have for sort of another photo sharing app. Last few days, as I have been working on the part of it for taking photos in square format (like instagram) I started to ...
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