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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How to show that multi-dependent optional forms are linked together without hiding?
So I am creating a form with 3 optional items that are dependent on one another. The first is date. If the user adds a date, they have the option to add an alert time. Once they select a time, they ...
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How to give name while creating Typography in Design Systems?
How to give name while creating Typography in Design Systems?
which of the following is most common when naming typography?
System default typography naming.
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Create your own set of naming.
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Font selection UI
Most application where you can choose a font will simply list all available font, alphabetically. Optionally, they may offer a preview by writing font font name in the font itself (like word does).
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What is a good format/syntax for a coupon code?
For our online shop, we are giving out coupon codes (also called "promo code" or "voucher code").
Currently, these codes look like an insane developer has designed the format:
FCF4A803-18F0-46BE-...
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How to create a web design and actually implement it via exporting to HTML code
I know it takes skill to research and create a mockup design as a UX designer, but if you want to take it to the next level - what do you do? What platform do you use to actually realize it and ...
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How to best respect safe area of 16px left/right: Inset design (16px to container) vs full width design (16px to content)
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There is a discussion in our design team about 'inset' vs 'full width'. But we all wants to respect the safe area of 16px left and right on a mobile device.
Some people believe in '...
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Beta has minimal functionality - how to direct users to fully functional version?
Working on replacing a legacy system one piece at a time. We created a minimal version for our main functions for our first release, but need to direct users to the previous version for all other ...
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How to inform users on Scan gun functionality
I am working on a project where there will be an input file with three types of users interacting to it.
Enter values manually.
User will have barcode scan gun and scans it .
Scan Barcode which opens ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
In our credit card wallet app, we're debating the value of page dots to indicate how many cards a user has. This is more or less the layout of the section with the cards in our app today.
If the user ...
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It is better to give a quick experience missing features or ask for details upfront to make the experience better?
I have a pretty complex financial app that allows users to add their accounts and then use various tools, calculations, reports and graphs with these accounts. The more accounts they add the better, ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
When building a rich web app, can it be acceptable to take over the CTRL + F shortcut to focus your app's search box, instead of the browser's searchbox? For example, an app's own search box can do a ...
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Indicating scrollable overflowing content - dark ui
As one can't indicate that an overflowing container is scrollable with a (dark) shadow gradient at the bottom of the element, what are desirable options to do so?
We are looking for options without ...
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Shimmer effect for Delete requests
We have implemented Shimmer effect on our data tables to show the "loading state". When the table is loading, the skeleton is loaded and the shimmer effect is rendered simultaneously. ...
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Why did macOS Catalina change keyboard navigation (tab & shift-tab) to only text boxes & lists?
In macOS Catalina (or perhaps earlier?), macOS changed the default Tab & Shift+Tab keyboarding behavior from "all controls" to "only text boxes and lists", with Ctrl+F7 for ...
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What would be the most accessible and attractive approach for selectors in forms?
I'm working on a project about forms in which we have a question about selectors.
We have seen that there is a boom of selectors that do not show whether it is a checkbox or a radio button.
From my ...
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Designing a table with a lot of numbers, how do I make it look clean?
I'm working for a client who is switching from an old UNIX system to a web-based application for their internal system. There are several columns of numbers in colored chips. The colors have meaning (...
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How can i indicate which row was edited in a "preview changes" page?
I currently have a data table that the user can make changes to. None of this data has a key indicator since they can all be the same. My actual product uses lots of various objects/values and can get ...
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Is scrolling inside a modal bad when it doesn't look like there is more information to view?
I am currently dealing with lots of modals that contains a lot of forms. One problem I am facing is how to organize the forms, and I have implemented a mostly single column form, unless the forms are ...
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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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Refresh click provided and windows & UX
I am sure you all must be using windows from really long time. If so there is one hobby that users have developed.
The 'Refresh'
Though windows has undergone many iterations of design language one ...
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Can we transfer insights about user expectations from physical world UIs to online UIs?
Are insights about user expectations (regarding visual consistency and visual hierarchy) in physical world UIs congruent with online UIs' user expectations?
Let me illustrate my question with an ...
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How to handle multiple statuses when tagging items
Currently working on the 'tagging' functionality for a page of results.
User needs the ability to tag and untag results
Page may have active filers that exclude results based on tags
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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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Tray Icon application with pops up alerts
I am coding a Tray Icon application in Java - it runs in the background & polls a server. On receiving a particular message from the server the application pops up an alert from the Tray Icon. The ...
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How to not skew results from usability research?
I wanted to take my class design project up a notch by getting my designs in front of some users through an unmoderated usability test. Because of the platform I used for the test, I could only make ...
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How to handle delivery time slots that expire before purchase is complete?
I have an e-commerce web app where you can choose among multiple time slots for your delivery. There are some rules that depend on when the purchase is completed.
For instance, if I purchase something ...
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Should Spin box component display 'increment by amount' if greater than 1?
I need to create a touch component that acts like a spin box (or stepper) except it increments the value in the box more than one at a time, specifically 50 at a time.
The range of values in the box ...
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UI for setting up availabilities
Background: allow vendors to setup their availability for booking, on a mobile app. Availability goes down to hourly basis (e.g. minimum 1 hour blocks).
Goal: allow different types of user (part-timer/...
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Is there a specific name for this type of navigation?
Currently, I'm working on a project that requires a lot of repeated navigational options.
For example:
System 1:
Transform;
Require;
Pipeline.
System 2:
Transform;
Require;
Pipeline.
System 3:
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Remembering Mouse clicks - Is there any theory behind it?
As everyone of you must be using computer systems from long time now, I want to get your insights on mouse click remembrance(I don't know the exact term).
Whenever I have used mac or windows, ...
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Study showing it's better to have images in their own row on a text/news article page, rather than in a column with text wrapping around it
I'm remembering a usability study I once saw that demonstrated it's better for scanning or readability on a website's news article or text-heavy page to have any photos as their own row by themselves, ...
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How to declutter a mobile app home screen with a floating “Create Video” component?
I am developing a mobile app focused on encouraging users to create videos. To keep the “create video” option always visible, I have implemented a floating “Create Video” component above the home ...
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Simplifying Matrix UI Approach
I have a current design which is in matrix form where columns and rows can be added and value is added. Is there any other solution for this other than using matrix. I dont want to use the matrix ...
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Automatically detect preference for kilometers vs miles, or explicitly ask?
On my website / app I am currently using miles only to designate distances, and some European users have asked for the ability to have it use kilometers instead, as they are not very familiar with ...
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Button Placement Confusions - Need perspectives?
I am currently involved in designing an application that has initial 3 steps to drive the rest of the application UI.
We have decided to follow a positions of the CTAs as left to right direction ...
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Are there common mousing patterns on desktop?
While there's research on eye gaze patterns over screens and paper (the F and Z patterns), I haven't discovered any research on mouse movement patterns on desktop (e.g., are there patterns on the ...
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Active tab state
I found myself confused today, when using the Adobe Reader Android application, navigating its tab interface. I wasn't sure which tab was active because the active tab state was recessed and dimmed, ...
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iOS App with two states and mostly different content categories
I’m working on a medical iOS app for university.
Our users are usually 55+ years.
I’m currently struggling with the navigation flow of the app.
We basically have two states, pre and post-surgery.
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Should all columns in a data table be provided the functionality of filtering?
In a data table with at least 20 columns and various data types, e.g. strings, numbers, categories, should we provide the functionality of every column being able to be filtered? Or only provide ...
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In an input field how to decide the input field and its label positions?
I have seen input fields that vary in terms of how they are designed.
Label on the top and text are at the bottom.
How is this decided? And can it vary in different places in the same application and ...
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Interpretation of different results for usability
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For a study, two independent groups evaluated a system using two different usability measures (SUS and PSSUQ).
The PSSUQ collects slightly better scores when translated into the range 0-100 ...
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Create and manage the same list from two spots
I have a feature that can be enabled for different locations.
When the feature is turned on, a part of the feature requires users to create a list.
The feature is turned on in a dialog box. The user ...
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How to configure the same value in all cells in row
I have a table in which I want to set a value for an entire row. In excel and such, after you enter a value in one cell you can copy it (expand but "pulling" the cell edge) to other cells.
Do you have ...
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Appropriate statistical test for unclear/non-normal raw data distribution of small sample size
Given data:
30 datapoints in the form of usability scores (e.g. SUS)
2 groups within data
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Investigate statistical significance of difference between usability scores of two groups
Problem:
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Alternative to scroll bar
I work on a desktop application which has a sidebar with different workplaces. Most of the time there are around 4 workplaces but there can be use-cases with more workplaces that don't fit on a screen ...
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Improvement of current & active suborg information dropdown
currently, I'm redesigning a component where big organizations that consist of smaller sub-organizations are able to switch between the organizations (by choosing organization as a current) to preview ...
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Creating an accessible, animated, and responsive navigation system
I've been struggling for the past couple weeks to design the perfect navigation (menu) system for my personal website which I am designing.
First, I need a system that is completely accessible as I am ...
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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 handle requests that will be picked up by a person and responded to within 5 minutes
I'm currently designing a voucher/discount journey.
Due to system constraints, this is the scenario
User needs to request a voucher.
The request then goes to a crm that is managed by individuals.
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How can I create an affordance for both seeking to a word, and also looking up up a word?
I'm building a language-learning application involving reading texts aligned to audio. The words currently being spoken in the audio are underlined.
There are two different actions that I want to ...
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