Questions tagged [usability]
The extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use.
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Measuring UX in a data visualization application
We design and maintain a web app for projects monitoring and data visualization. The product is used in an intranet with 500+ users. The main feature of the product is using a dashboard with metrics ...
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Multi Select Search Bar
I have boolean search bar and a user want to make search in a param, b param, c param but this is good for single category selection to sho
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How to Communicate a Delay in Drag-Start Interaction?
I want to visualize a drag start delay, it takes 1 second hold before drag starts, and I want the user to understand they should keep on holding the item. What is a good practice for a ui/ux ...
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How to handle filtering on table columns?
I am currently working on a pretty complex (and convoluted, I'll admit) table in terms of filtering. One of the options for filtering allows the user to filter on an item that is displayed as a column ...
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Best practice for a public page (not logged in page) prior to log in
Hoping to get some best practices on what should be shown on a landing page or a not logged in page prior to our users logging in. We have a landing page / public page before the login page.
And we ...
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Improving confusing product permission settings UI with explicit / implicit multi options
I have a product permission settings component that allows users to include/exclude companies' current and future products. Many users find the current UI confusing based on feedback.
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Is Balloon popup for mobile apps common?
Our mobile app has a screen with a button that updates a price when the user takes a picture.
In order to clarify any doubt that a user may have about the button, I want to add a description somewhere ...
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How to differ two different items on the same list (base of contents)
I've content bases that can be exported and imported into other environments. **A content base is a set of specific files.
When I import a content base from another environment, my source files are ...
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How to make selecting fields behavior obvious in a conditional fields configurator?
Application is a document editor with the ability to add text, images, blocks, and fields. Users can assign fields to recipients and send a document. I'm currently working on an interface where users ...
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Progressive disclosure on hover - Best approach?
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I'm the sole product designer for a company with a product built around selling "knowledge packages" for getting your company on a better spot financially, fiscally, or productively....
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Hiding layer of player controls automatically after audio playback ends
For our app (media guide app for museums), we are implementing an "inline audio player", which should look like this:
When the user clicks or touches the gray field, the control bar below ...
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Are numeric "steppers" or "spinners" on text fields simply bad UX?
Call them "steppers" or "spinners" or "spin boxes," but we've all seen and used these things:
Now, in a touchscreen environment this type of control might be useful, if ...
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Hiding or showing upcoming functionalities
We are developing a data-heavy site and I was wondering, how should we present (or hide) upcoming functionalities. Let's say in a form an option which will only be available later. Or a button that ...
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Choosing between two UI variations
Assumption: I assume no user testing could be done, and implementation decisions should be made based on the logic and available data.
Let's assume there are two possible implementations of how UI ...
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What is the term for an actual UI specialist?
The currently omnipresent term for someone involved in designing, prototyping, testing and refining the usability of online and desktop interfaces is "UX/UI designer".
Alas, that term is ...
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UX Benchmarking: How much detail should be collected from a user within an enterprise product?
There's a lot of value collecting benchmark data about a user's experience over time. The problem that we are running into is how much information should we ask from our user to help us make informed ...
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Overlay Vs dedicated page or separate section within the page?
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We have this situation where we need to display additional information about products that users has selected.
The page in question is the page that houses the products, each product is ...
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Is the usage of text embedded in an image a bad practice, for very controlled uses?
What are your thoughts on writing your text in images?
I'm not saying throughout the whole website... But in certain key locations like image carousels. And I'm not talking about the special cases ...
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What is the definition of usability/ux problem?
I am about to ask for help on how to categorise usability/ux problems but after some googling I have realised that there is no standard definition of usability/ux problem. (Defining the Usability ...
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What is best practice for UX surveys of a mobile application?
I developed an Android application and I want to make a survey/questionaire about the usability, user interface, user experience etc. of my application to get some feedback from users. But I don't ...
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Suggestions for UI for Delicate Question w/ Several Options?
I’m a longtime (20+ years) UI/UX designer and full stack developer, but I’m running into a wall with the UI for a specific field, concerning a delicate question that can be approached and handled in ...
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N/A - Not Applicable vs Not Available
For our app, we looked at creating a guideline on what to display when data is (temporarily) not available. The scenario: it's a technical application, a service engineer clicks a piece of equipment ...
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Academic journals for publishing usability research?
In most scientific disciplines, research is published in academic journals, undergoing scrutiny based on quality criteria such as peer review, standardized presentation structure, etc. However, when ...
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Ecommerce - Effectively display sale on a product swatch
Is there an effective way of displaying a sale on a product swatch which is universally recognizable?
I have read the following NN article, which suggests icon and color are the best way of ...
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Balancing Create/Delete Options
In my admin page for a course registration system, administrators can create courses with attributes like city, school, and course name. Admins also need to manage cities and schools by creating or ...
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Is "at the front" top, or bottom?
At our office we have a dual garbage bin behind a door. Let's put aside the fact that you have to open a door, and then pull out the bins.
What has puzzled me is that the labels were placed on each ...
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How to properly expand/collapse the top level of a side navbar while using the second level nav bar?
so I am designing a device manager with a two-level side navbar, where the second level is constantly showing while the top level is hidden. I am having trouble deciding on how to design the expand/...
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Seeking Help with a UI Pattern for Segment Selection in Analytical System
My team and I are currently working on developing an analytical system that employs a segment-based filtering mechanism. In essence, this system shares similarities with Google Analytics, where ...
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Complex, multi-step filter vs "dumbed" down filter
This is my first post here. I was going to ask in meta if it's appropriate, but I need 5 posts before doing that. So I'll just ask and hope it's on-topic enough.
I am designing a search form that has ...
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What type of design pattern to use to toggle list actions?
In the design draft pictured below, you can see a number of events in a list. Users reviewing this list want to be able to add events to other lists: a watchlist or send list -- or both. They also ...
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Floating action button with two similar functions on different pages
We are designing an app and want to use a floating action button (FAB) in order to add an item to our list. Now this list can be either a "task" or a "reward" depending on what ...
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Automatic Reordering items in the Cart. Read the case
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I have a feature in my eCommerce website where I run bundle-offers (example: Buy 1 get 1 free, Buy any 2 shirts of Brand X and get 20% off on paid price)
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User goes to the ...
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Width and adjustment of arbitrary data tables
We have a couple of similar pages in our web app where each shows merely a data grid for tabular data. They differ only in the type of data to be shown, i.e. with different number and kind of columns.
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Multiple CTA buttons (same link) in Email marketing?
Thoughts on having the same CTA appear twice in a short marketing email?
One is in the main image (the whole thing is essentially clickable) and the second is after some copy on the bottom.
They both ...
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How do you manage creation of a heavy and complex Information Architecture?
Please share your techniques If you have ever been working on a design or redesign of a bigger website or an app that has a complex Information Architecture. While drafting it all manually (and ...
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Ag-Grid filter across pages or current page
When using the Ag-Grid with multiple pages, is it a good practice to filter records across pages or should it be just the current page ?
Also for sorting, is it a good practice to retain the current ...
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Is it better to have an add/remove feature or a "manage list" function?
I have a data table and currently the only thing you can do is add/remove things from this list. So I have it setup where you click "add" and it shows you the master list of all items you ...
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How to show a summary on the checkout page for multiple orders?
I am working on the checkout flow(system) for tablet devices which has "three" steps:
A list with existing orders (which were previously saved from another flow). The User should be able to ...
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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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How to display numbers of an estimated amount
Which is the best way to display numbers of an estimated amount of items. for example, if my algorithm can only display the following answers:
at least 5 / above 5
for 'above' it can be something like ...
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"Show more" vs. "See more"
Which is considered more appropriate for a button, loading more items on a webpage? "Show more" ("Load more") sounds like a command to the system, but "See more" ("...
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When is the best moment to show an input error on a multi-tab configuration menu?
I have a configuration menu with multiple menu, tabs, and some required options. I have asked a similar question regarding this issue, but I have a more specific question. At what point should I show ...
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How to expand data table when only 2 columns have data that can be expanded on?
I have a data table where you can click to expand upon the row. Two out of my four columns have data that can be expanded upon if the column is set to enabled. If disabled, there is no additional data ...
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How to compare the scores/scales of SUS and SUMI
I have two products that have been evaluated with two different methods. Product A's usability was evaluated with SUMI and Product B's usability was evaluated with SUS. How do I now compare the ...
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Form filling: Should we hide non-essential fields, or should we display all fields to the user?
My current task involves enhancing the user experience (UI) in various sections of the SaaS product I'm working on. Within this system, some non-essential fields are currently concealed behind the '...
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What is a good aria-label for a button that opens a modal to pick a region and/or language for the webpage?
I have a <button> element that opens a modal to change the webpage region and/or language.
The <button> element needs an aria-label that gives the user information about what the modal ...
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How do I ask existing users for backup email for password recovery?
So after doing some research on account recovery/lost password best practices we decided to require a backup email account for password reset. That's easy enough for new users, but I'm unsure how to ...
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Split pane vs Action for multilple selection
I'm bulding a User interface that the user has a split pane with a list and the detail of the selected item in the right. I chose to use these approach because the user could see the important ...
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What are the high level requirements common to all business apps?
I know that every application will have its unique requirements, and I am looking for something REAL high level such as the following where I could assign all other specific requirements under a topic....
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Accepting multiple Terms and Conditions at once
I am working on a mobile and web form. There are a few products X, Y, Z under an umbrella product, let's call it XYZ.
Is there a way for accepting multiple Terms and Conditions by placing all of them ...
