Questions tagged [tools]
PLEASE THINK CAREFULLY IF YOU WANT TO USE THIS TAG! REQUESTS FOR TOOL RECOMMENDATIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC FOR STACK EXCHANGE SITES. Hardware or Software tools used by UX professionals to do their work. Also more generally software used by users to shape or modify something they are creating.
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How should software tools interpret relative paths in settings files?
I write a lot of software tools to simplify tasks. Some of these follow a workflow like this:
In the terminal I type the command to invoke the tool
The tool reads some configuration file from disk ...
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What is the accessibility of design tools? Any research or analysis of whether they meet accessibility guidelines?
There is a lot of focus on accessibility and inclusive design in websites and mobile phone apps, but the topic of accessibility shouldn't just be limited to the users.
However, I am sure that there ...
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What is the easiest way to automatically collect user data in a prototype app?
I would like to test the design for an app. Therefore, I would like to let my test subjects use an app prototype on their smartphones for a few days in a row. I would like the test persons to use the ...
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Automated opt-in accessibility, is this viable?
A client I am working with wants to make use of an automated accessibility solution in order to meet compliance standards. Particularly, they've mentioned AccessiBe.
I've got no experience with such a ...
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Why people use AdobeXD if it cannot generate (reasonably well structured) HTML and CSS? [closed]
As a person who had seldom to do with web design issues, I see all the enthusiasm around AdobeXD and I don't understand it. It would be justified in my opinion, if I could design my site and then ...
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Using circular shaped brush over rectangular for painting
There is a brush tool inside a semantic segmentation AI tool that I am working on. The brush that is used currently in a rectangular shape. Now while doing UX testing of that tool I realized that ...
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Forgot name of tool for theoretical measure of form interactions
A few years ago I used a tool that could theoretically measure the time to complete a form. The way it works is that you click on e.g. a screenshot, and mark what is a label, what is an input field, ...
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Best tool to validate UI mockups by overlaying them [closed]
I'm looking for a solution/tool that will allow me to validate that my frontend project is pixel-perfectly aligned with the Photoshop mockups.
Best would be to make the browser window transparent - ...
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Slowing down internet connection to better understand UX on slower connections? [closed]
I would like to better understand the UX on slower connections.
Is there a set of tools or instructions on how to achieve this on Mac/Windows?
FYI, my software isn't a website or app, it's desktop ...
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Suggestions on Collaborative Work Environments
I'm designing a learning environment where a student and tutor can have a learning session together.
I'm looking for inspirational/aspirational examples of really good collaborative workspaces that ...
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collecting data for UX on a web application
I'm in the process of developing an application and I would like to integrate a user experience data collection tool into the application it self, so that I could evaluate the user behavior. I googled ...
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What processes, workflows or software currently exist to manage, schedule, and compensate UX research participants? [closed]
The question:
What operational systems, methods, softwares, workflows, or personal processes exist for ux researchers to manage, schedule, and compensate their research participants?
Why I ask:
I ...
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Survey tool to ask questions on individual pages - what are they called?
Is there an off-the-shelf survey tool that can ask simple questions on specific pages? Along the lines of the "Was this information helpful?" on Microsoft's support pages (example). The user gets ...
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Which methodology ensures good user exprience? [closed]
There's discovery, design, implement and refine where designers have their own set of tools to achieve the expected output and make clients happy.I came across this blog today, there are a few good ...
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Most used UX tools [closed]
Which is the best tool out there for creating prototypes and wireframes ? I am going to purchase a new computer and was wondering whether i should choose the Windows OS or iOS - given the fact that ...
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What tools,methods, etc. Can I use for advanced prototyping? [closed]
So, I am working on this product and I have been asked to do an advanced prototype where the user can select a particular choice from a drop down menu, add text, hovers, etc. I downloaded Axure and I ...
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Would an inline page search field (ctrl + F) be useful or not to users?
In our world of information overflow users turn to a popular search engine to find the specific piece of data/information/knowledge they look for. And it works most of the time, but users often need ...
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Tool/ workaround for testing locally stored Webpage on iPhone
I need to test a webpage on iPhone. Due to some security/IT regulations, I'm not allowed to use cloud services (especially US-based 8-) , because I'm working for a big company in Europe). So I'm ...
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Curating and sharing a project's visual assets
I’ve got a question about public visual asset storage for the group.
I work at a small boutique-style consultancy that includes 9 back-end devs, 1 UX designer (me), and a business development person.
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Why use a video editing tool for web based motion design?
I see a lot of interaction designers are using tools like quartz composer, origami, adobe after effects to design interactions. What benefits does it bring to web app and native app design?
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Tool to create 3D layered image [closed]
I see more and more wireframes looking like this :
I need to explain an imbricated and layered structure to someone, so I want to use images like that.
Is there a tool that already does that, or do ...
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Prototyping for data visualisation
In many prototyping cases, I have to generate charts, graphs and all sorts of data visualizations. I'm looking for tools to easily and rapidly generate those.
Currently MS Excel does the job for me, ...
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Wire-framing tools to use your own custom assets and styleguide [closed]
I'm looking for a way or a wireframing tool that has a way to create high fidelity mockups using custom UI assets that have been already created and custom defined grid to match your own design style ...
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Can I use Omnigraffle instead of Axure and achieve the same results? [closed]
I have been looking to start a new job the new year and lots of UX position mention requires Axure in the specs. I have heard of it but I have never used it I have used Omnigraffle and Balsmicq.
are ...
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Prototyping tool which allows me to dynamically interact with changing numbers? [closed]
I'm trying to prototype a sports related app which has a dependency on the game clock.
1 second will be equal to 1 minute of game time, and I want to prototype to scroll through from 1 to 90. However ...
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Can anyone recommend any good Domain Modelling/Taxonomy tools? [closed]
I work as part of an agile team with distinct disciplines - at the moment we use Confluence as our wiki space for projects - and therefore it's the most sensible place for our living, breathing domain ...
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Is there a way to force pages to load slowly? [closed]
I'm developing a website and want to test the user experience when some of the images load slowly. Obviously I'm doing everything I can to make assets small and load quickly, but there are slow ...
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Pros of cons of storyboarding tools and approaches for bringing user scenarios alive
What are the pros and cons related to storyboarding, as compared to other approaches for gaining an understanding of the problem space?
I'm particularly interested in storyboarding scenarios without ...
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What tools and / or processes can help geographically separated teams in the design / prototyping phase? [closed]
We are applying a rapid prototyping process quite successfully in our team. With our new project we have designers and developers separated by a large body of water. Hence our normal approach of ...
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Is there an analysis tool for Interaction Design? [closed]
What interaction designers do is to create user interface elements and map UI elements to functionalities under the hood, at the same time paying attention to appropriate metaphor and constraints like ...
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Axure's worth in responsive design
I'm just wondering on the wider audience views on how worthy using prototype tool Axure is when designing a responsive site.
I have project where the deliverable is a responsive site. However, I'm ...
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Question for UI/UX designers re: prototyping UI animation
I am a motion graphics designer (previously: motion graphics for TV, games, etc), but more recently, I worked on prototyping UI motion for an app - which I really enjoyed!
I have mainly used After ...
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Do professional web designers use Adobe software (such as Reflow) [closed]
This may seem like a trivial question, but I'm dying to know the answer from some professional web designers.
I have built a number of websites myself over the past 8 years, some of which have gone ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to silence JAWS? [closed]
I'm testing a web application's accessibility with JAWS 15. I don't want JAWS to keep reading when I'm not actively testing something so I have to keep shutting the application down and starting it ...
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Is there any software or web service that helps with the creation of Personas? [closed]
Totally new to this Persona thing, and I'm going to attempt creating one for the next project, still at the point of interviewing people to get the information needed to create a persona.
The ...
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What tools do you use for user testing at the early stages of production? [closed]
I am new to UX, and have been put in charge of organizing my (small) company's attempt at user testing. I have managed to learn a ton over the course of the last month, but I still have some questions....
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Placing Adobe pdf into Axure [closed]
Is there a way to place Adobe assets into Axure? I am hoping to place an InDesign-generated pdf into Axure, but placing an indesign or illustrator file directly would be great too.. However, I cannot ...
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Pattern Library Software
I've been looking at a recent A List Apart article on creating pattern libraries. They point to a few example pattern libraries:
A List Apart
Code for America
MailChimp
Now working in a UX Team ...
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How can we design the communication flows? Is there any tool for that?
I am writing this question to user experience since I believe that service design is highly related with user experience field.
I searched for finding a tool for designing the communications of a ...
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Testing tools for interactive prototypes [closed]
I did a search but didn't find anything that quite meets my needs. We are looking to test two variations of website navigation. One is basically a tree structure, while the other has only top-level ...
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What is the tool to make a demo mobile user interface? [closed]
How do make a demo picture of a phone app, mainly for use on this site?
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How to prototype a parallax-heavy interface [closed]
I'd like to prototype a web site with a massive use of parallax effect, like this:
http://spider.mclarenautomotive.com/
For prototyping, I'd like to test how using this effect could influence the ...
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How to review usability of a developer tool?
I'm about to try to test the usability of our developer tools, how can this be done?
Articles I've read so far on UX testing seem to target website testing. I'm interested in reviewing the user ...
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What UX designers tools do you use? [closed]
What tools are you using when creating a great user experience for mobile apps or websites?
I don't mean Mac/PC software like Axure or Balsamiq. I mean paper/pen tools. Do you use papers with mobile ...
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Sql Server, How do I make a front end? [closed]
extremely nooby question. I've worked with access for a while but now I'm trying to dive into SQL. I've looked around and I can't seem to figure out how you make a front end for the damn thing. I need ...
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Can I use Corel PaintShop Pro for creating mocks?
I used Adobe Photoshop previously for creating mocks. The current project sponsor suggests Corel PaintShop Pro instead. I couldn't find any info for creating mocks from the scratch using this tool. ...
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Best mockup software for presenting the UX of a mobile app [closed]
I'm looking for a mockup software that can very effectively communicate the overall design and UX of a mobile app.
Ideally it has these attributes:
drag and drop elements (text boxes, check boxes, ...
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UX Experiment: How does an existing website look without text?
I was just thinking about a way to hide all text from a website to put focus on the elements that are there when no content is present.
Does anyone know of a tool, CSS hack or bookmarklet that can ...
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Paperprototyping a swipe function
I am making my first paper prototypes for a touchscreen interface. In a list view, a single bar in the list has three possible interactions, swipe left swipe right, or tap.
Swiping left will reveal a ...
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Wireframing tool with customizable UI components and real time collaboration [closed]
I work for a very large fortune 500 company. In order to improve the development process, I would like to allow employees to wireframe using components that already have the companies' brand and look ...
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