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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Is input element changing height on focus acceptable?
I have built a multi-select dropdown with a search field that becomes visible on focus. However, when an element is already selected in the multi-select input, the search field has to be render on a ...
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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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APCA (WCAG 3.0) does not allow for 14px font to be used as a regular base
According to APCA (WCAG 3.0), we are not able to use 14px font as a regular base, but when it comes to SaaS application design, 14px is commonly used as the base font size. Despite my attempt to use ...
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Should newly added card be displayed above default card on list?
This question is regarding payment during checkout.
Say user already has 2 cards (Card A, Card B) in his wallet, and Card A is the default card.
During checkout he decided he wants to use Card C ...
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Argumenst against adding an extra UI element (information icon)
I'm trying to find an argument against adding an extra UI element in one of our form.
We have a URL link and a small "(i)" icon next to it.
Both the URL and the icon can have tooltips.
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Should all my buttons be the same size if they are on different screens?
So I have a concept where you select a category, and underneath that category select another sub category, which will then show the history of that category. The screenshot just shows the subcategory ...
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SUS questionnaire in Korean
We're planning to use the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire with our Korean clients and I was wondering if anyone has it translated into Korean. As I am not a native Korean speaker, it is ...
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Should PDFs for on-screen reading be split into pages (with a "real" paper size)?
Downloadable PDFs are not a good format for on-screen reading and should be avoided, but sometimes there's nothing we can do about it. That's my case now: I have to design a PDF for on-screen reading (...
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Users are not figuring out that they can use breadcrumb to navigate to go to the previous page
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This is the screenshot of the breadcrumb navigation where users face issue,
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How to display a bar chart for users' test scores if you have more than 50 users
For an admin panel I have to present visually the employees' test scores and after lots of searching to decide which data visualization is the best I decided to choose the vertical bar chart but as ...
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How to properly let the user know that there are restrictions for a dropdown menu that are dependent on each other?
Kind of confusing title, but basically I am designing something that allows for the max of 20 total connections. There are two types of connections, main and guest. As you can see, I am using a simple ...
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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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Making the 4th item in a row of icons look clickable?
So im creating a dashboard for a device and I'm finding out that only 1 out of the 4 icons are clickable and will link to a new page. I thought about adding text underneath the icon that says "...
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Looking for participants for a lo-fi prototype unmoderated usability study [closed]
I'm currently learning and working on a portfolio project, i got a task to do an unmoderated usability study (low fidelity prototype). Would anyone be willing to help me by participating?
The project ...
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How can "exit" mean "continue"?
When you press Exit button on remote controller while using Kodi, this player won't stop playback. It will exit to one of the menu pages that you've been browsing before playback, but will continue ...
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How can "down arrow" mean "increase"?
I've been 30+ years in IT and for me down arrow always mean: decrease (volume, value), subtract, move backward etc. Pressing the down button on the left or right side of any mobile device means volume ...
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Why does the Apple Watch SOS feature require you to swipe instead of press?
I'm looking at the SOS features across smartwatches. I'm curious why does the Apple SOS feature require you to swipe instead of simply having buttons to press? It seems counter-intuitive to make it ...
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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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More good microcopy for "absolute change" "relative change"
(I'm not native English speaker, sorry for my broken sentence)
We design software for financial trading. The wording of the functions used by traders includes "absolute change" and "...
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Which of these is a better design approach for displaying this banner on a dashboard and why?
Which will be a better approach to display this banner on a dashboard?
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Are vertical facet scrollbars allowed with AAA compliance
We are designing a B2B e-commerce site and the client is requiring AAA compliance. I know, I know.. but here we are. I have searched and cannot find anything regarding scrollbars for AAA compliance. ...
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Does the improved usability of making account creation in checkout optional apply to subscription service e-commerce?
Making account creation a requirement for e-commerce checkout experiences has been shown to creation friction that unnecessarily slows users to completing a purchase.
Does this apply to purchasing ...
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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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How to hide and show browser extension UI embedded in a full screen player page?
I am working on a Chrome extension, which helps users watch TV shows together on a media-streaming service. Basically, its functionality is similar to Tele Party (formerly known as Netflix Party), and ...
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Why do some new POS machines shuffle their number placement in the numpad?
These new capacitive touchpad card swipe machines have input numbers all shuffled up.
People with vision-related disabilities use the tactile dot on the number key '5' to get a sense of number ...
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What's the best way to filter shoe sizes across multiple standards?
Say you have a shoe store and you sell shoes across many different brands. Each brand has its own country of origin, and thus its own sizing standard. We have shoe brands with US sizing, other brands ...
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Why do Google Photos use rounded checkboxes in their app? [closed]
I know people asked this question a decade ago. (Are round check boxes confusing or an accepted standard?)
So, after all these years, has this become a standard in terms of usability? Or is it purely ...
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What to do with important information that disrupts the flow of the design?
Quite recently, we redesigned our whole application. FYI, below you'll see the old and the new design:
Old:
New:
Very short summary of what you'll see:
The top toolbar shows all the actions that ...
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Minimum touch target area requirement for AA conformance
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/target-size.html
In the above link, it says you need at least 44x44 px to comply with the AAA level. In my understanding, the AA level is a bare minimum to ...
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UX for Expired Registration Invites
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A user gets invited to the platform by another user on their sub domain. We send an email to the user, but we have an expired date. The user tries to register after the expired date and it ...
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"store" vs. "save" when editing data?
From a user perspective: would you use store or save on a button after changing your profile data for example.
I mean both make sense but store seems a bit more technical (e.g. storing data to da ...
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How to display features that are "coming soon"
We have a product with multiple different features, and at this point in time we must postpone about 3/7 of the features on a page until further development. 2 of them are somewhat significant ...
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How do i let the user know the server is updating on the back end and their change is not active yet?
Imagine a long list of websites that you can either allow or block from your internet. The user can go down the list and block every single one relatively quickly, however on the backend each of these ...
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How to show advanced search in a mobile view? And also how to take a care of utilizing the space of a mobile screen?
I am trying to get a solution for the mobile version of a web layout for an advanced search which includes dropdowns, filters, checkbox and toggle buttons. I tried to get it in the responsive format ...
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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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Your thoughts on double scroll and double column form when needed
Hello, I have a problem with this wireframe display.
On this screen, the admin must answer a request (the form in the left) on the app. His response is also a form (the form in the right), where the ...
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What is the ideal font size to be used in dashboard?
I came across many websites that use 14px for the content in the dashboard and outside i.e Website's homepage tends to use a bigger font size.
So the question is
a) What is the ideal font size for the ...
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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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When to show focus outline
I'm working on the definition of focus for some of our components and I'm suggesting that the focus outline is only shown when the user uses an alternative input method that is not a mouse.
However, ...
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Complex QR validation UX. Validate 1 entry or group?
I've been trying to find a solution to speed up the validation of the QR for tickets.
The thing is that in the industry the people validating the tickets are used to sounds, like beep for "OK&...
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How to create a good user experience for a matrix of input fields?
Following matrix of prices up to a given weight per country is given:
The user is able to edit individual prices. Depending on the amount of countries and weights the matrix can get quite big, making ...
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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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How to design with toggle options under a form that enable a feature
So I am designing a form where the user enters in an ip address and can either use just the IP address, enter in a range, or a netmask. My initial thought was to grey out the second form on the "...
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Automated Machinery with On/Off states and Auto On/Off states
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There's been a few discussions around clearly showing to users on/off and auto states. However, I'd like to focus on automated controls in the context of machinery with moving ...
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Are extra close buttons still necessary for desktop applications?
Many desktop applications provide extra close buttons, usually in the bottom right corner of windows or panels. I understand showing extra cancel and stop buttons, but not close.
In many cases, there ...
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How do you define input length?
I'm working on an online banking website and its design system.
UI designers tend to want all form input elements to be the same size so that everything is perfectly aligned. I've explained that the ...
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How to show that an item in a form is dependent on the previous item
So I am designing a system where you can group different items together. A VNET is a group of edge devices, and in order to get the "TNI/Addr", you need to first select the VNET. I added ...
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Greying out disabled items that can be enabled vs items that cannot be enabled
so I am working on a device management system and to add a new device to a group you must input some info into a form. Some items, you must click a check box in order to enable the dropdown, while ...
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Heuristic Evaluation of an Electric Vehicle [duplicate]
I am looking for a methodology for Heuristic validation/testing of electric vehicle driver touch points. Not specific to digital features (cluster, touch radio display, etc.) but also physical ...
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Should fields labels also be clickable?
I know it's a good UX practice to make radios/checkboxes labels clickable (because radios/checkboxes are usually a bit small) but I have serious doubts over the practice of also making fields labels ...
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