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Do you need an "All" filter for chips?
Im using a filter system that involves using chips to filter by category. You can only select one chip at a time. Does it make sense to have an "all" filter, or to allow the user to deselect ...
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What is this new insane trend to remove the "order by" feature from websites?
In the last couple of months, two major websites I use have removed the entire basic feature to order the list of items in any way other than by "relevance", if it even mentions what it ...
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Hide premium features/content or show+lock them?
We are currently building a learning platform that has two membership tiers. Let’s call them basic and premium.
With premium you get quite a bit more features and access to additional content.
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Back button fatigue
Let's say I have two pages, a list of products "Product List" and the "Product Page" itself.
When I click on a product (e.g. a phone) I'd like to explore its variations (e.g. ...
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Textbased RPG: in a battle, how can I distinguish between your actions and the enemy?
In my game, the way my battles work is you attack and sometimes the enemy attacks in return. It's always one on one. Here's how this looks:
The first line is your action, the rest is the enemy's. ...
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eCommerce -> After a digital course has been purchased, should I still show this course in category page?
I am developing an online course website based on WordPress.
Website has 30 courses in total.
Courses are divided into 5 categories (A, B, C, D, E).
There are 6 courses per category.
Each course ...
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What is best practice for remembering last position in audio player for logged out users?
I am developing an online course website based on WordPress.
Each course has audio file only so I am using an audio player to play the courses (no video).
Assume website has 10 courses with names A, B,...
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How to ask for user's birth date with OAuth?
I'm developing a site that requires a user's birthday (both to validate they are over 18 and for use by other users).
Asking for a birthday with an email registration form is trivial. Simply just add ...
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Implementing Filters as Tabs in a Web Dashboard
We are trying to provide users with a strong filter mechanism on a Dashboard that collects visit data. It feels like we have arrived at a point where only a few pieces of the puzzle are missing and we ...
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If we have to explain how to do something to a user, we have failed?
I was having this conversation the other day, well, a meeting where I heard
If we have to explain how to do something to a user, we have failed.
Now, in some circumstances, without a doubt, ...
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How to represent an initial unpopulated value?
What is considered a feasible representation of a value that has yet to be loaded? Would something such as the -- placeholder be sufficient or is there something else that is better suited / widely ...
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Where to put a search filter checkbox left or right side?
I have a search filters design for an eCommerce website, I wonder where should I put the checkbox of each filter? Any suggestion in terms of the usability and user experience?
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Display logo twice in Material design menu
Is it a bad design to have a logo twice in Material Design menu, One with collapsible mode and the one when the menu is expanded as below?
Since I make the logo two places here, our marketing team ...
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Should we anticipate when the user is asking for the menu when we hide the navigation on scroll?
A lot of websites nowadays, admittedly more so in desktop view, (which is now seen by fewer thanks to the world of mobile) hide the navigation bar when you scroll down. This is a good thing as it ...
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Internationally friendly decimal quantities
I was recently in a discussion about decimal / comma ambiguity (it came about as a result of a vendor product not working for me due to regional settings, but that's neither here nor there), but we ...
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When should an inherited design pattern be avoided?
I'm currently working on a fairly old product that has been partially reworked 2 or 3 times by different teams. This has left the interface somewhat fragmented with different design patterns used in ...
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Where should text content be placed on screen?
In which part of the empty screen on desktop should text content be placed for most effective readability for user? Suppose that short info is all content (like on the picture below). People read (...
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Thumbnail gallery wizard navigation on selection
I have doubt on my design related to thumbnail gallery wizard. Wizard has few pages consist of thumbnail images (10 images per page), where each gallery page has a question, and the answer would be to ...
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Display information: Redirect to new page or show pop-up?
I have searched for similar questions but they couldn't really answer the problem in my case.
I have designed a profile page where users can display their earned titles trough a reputation system. ...
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Should I specify type of downloadable document?
On my personal website I have an "About" page. At the top of it there is a "Download CV" link.
Should I put the type of the document in the brackets like "Download CV (PDF)"? Does the lack of ...
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Responsive wizard page numbers scroll on mobile device with the page or not
I have a question wizard (Image thumbnails), I have designed my layout as below for desktop and mobile. I am not sure what should be the best place to include page numbers on mobile screen, as I done ...
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ux: best way to emphasize or convince user to fill website recommended price and convince user to show interest
We have recently started buying used vehicles from customers through our website. The form looks like:
As soon as user fills make, model, version, year, km information, we show him/her the price on ...
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Is it better to mix 'km' and 'm', or just stick to km and one way of displaying data
I have a list of distances in a dropdown, as in the examples below.
Is it better to stick to km across the board, eg:
0.1km
0.5km
1km
3km
5km
10km
50km
100km
200km
or to use m for the smaller ...
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mailto: link on "Contact" button - good UX?
When I see "Contact" button in the header along with other menu items that lead to some page I expect "Contact" button link to the contact page not to open this dialog:
I have to close this dialog ...
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Are websites that scroll up good UX?
I was surprised to see a website that scrolls up. AiMEN website has scrolling from the bottom to top.
When I first visited it I scrolled down and nothing happened, I didn't know it scrolls up and ...
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Another way to show a sub-row in a table?
I'm trying to determine a way that shows sub-rows for a table. Typically the indentation of the row means that it is a sub-row of the parent.
The table can have a single row of children from the ...
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Does too much movement affect the UX?
I'm currently trying to design and create a "Material design" based card list. The list features individual items that can be expanded to show more information, such as a description and dynamic items....
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Best way to represent a "go to" action?
I'm trying to determine how to represent the state of an action that navigates the user to another page.
Currently, the action is present by a hover event on the text field, which I find isn't too ...
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Display an overdue task on task list
I currently have a task list (displayed below) that I want to convey a way to represent that it is overdue. I don't want to add too many icons such as warnings etc, so I figured the best way may be to ...
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How to structure the contents of this view so that it is intuitive? [closed]
I have a circle tab implemented which looks like this.
By default, it lists the circles that I'm a member of. When I search, it lists all public/private circles matching the search pattern. Removing ...
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Are redirects bad UX?
I have a client that wants to redirect all direct traffic from their campaign site's homepage to a new interactive feature we've built for the campaign.
For social, I think this is less of a concern (...
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Table with Action Buttons Versus Turbotax Wizard-Like Experience
I am working with a team to develop a web application where people can come and request access to various intranet applications.
For the "Requestor" side of things, we have a Turbo-Tax wizard-like ...
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Should I indicate qualifying categories on the product top-level landing page?
I'm working with a store landing page that displays the main five product categories. All five category images are displayed inline, and are same height and width. Each has an appropriate label and ...
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When does horizontal scroll feel intuitive to a user?
Was reading a few answers on UX Exchange, which lead me to question the utility of horizontal scroll in web apps.
I had done a horizontal concept site recently (here and shown below) which was meant ...
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How to display this piece of information on a web app?
I'm in the middle of building some drafts for a future web platform for boardgame players. As I have a design question, I just discovered this web site, so this is the first time I post here.
I will ...
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Should painting apps use right click?
I'm just making a simple painting app for practice using canvas and I can't decide whether or not I want right click to do anything.
For example, in Microsoft Paint you can have two colors and use ...
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Position of Discounts & Promotions in a website
I have an Internet Booking engine where the layout is as following.
Now in this layout I'm trying to show the available promotions and discount when the user selects an arrival date. My Concept is to ...
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User available at times
I was looking trough some answers best practices on 'user availability' or whatever it's called.
Let's say I'm a user renting out or providing some kind of service. Let's assume this is my side job.
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Which page should I redirect to after item edit/creation?
Let's suppose a mobile app aiming to show "all" items, "my" items, and create some items.
The important thing is that an item I create should appear to both "All" and "My".
When I click on "...
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Filtering by distance based on an address as reference
Being aware that HTML geolocation API does not work on every browser without using Wi-Fi, I'm trying to use an alternative more accurate to present nearest items from the user location.
I'd ...
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How to better represent this multi selection?
Suppose a web application showing a form where user is expected to specify the friends he wants to share with (conceptual example):
User can select either:
No friends at all (no sharing)
within 0km-...
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How to represent this notion of "favored" participant?
I'm introducing the concept :
Suppose a webapp aiming to suggest some meetings to targeted people so that they can participate to at least one of them.
So there's a page listing the items and a page ...
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What text should be used for an insertion button? "Create", "New" or "Add"?
Whenever I have been designing interfaces, I always wonder if I should name the button Create, New or Add. I have never decided and stuck with one and would like to get an explanation on what use ...
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