Questions tagged [user-attention]
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How to handle users typing without input focus
An issue I repeatedly observe with novice web users is that they will occasionally begin typing without first properly selecting (focusing) an input field. A typical pattern I see is this: the user ...
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Why is it an industry-standard to have a window automatically grab focus and how do we change it? (in Windows at least)
Why is it an industry-standard to have a windows automatically grab focus?
From a usability point of view, why is it considered "good practice" for a desktop application to grab (more like hijack) ...
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How can I encourage my users not to multitask?
Context: I'm creating a website aimed at middle-schoolers and high-schoolers to help them collaboratively create stories. The site is gamified so that each user will want other users to vote for the ...
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Web App - How to grab the user's attention no matter what! (notifications)
I'm working on a web application that, among other things, receives orders for a business. There's a page where the orders are listed, and it is refreshed at fixed intervals so that the list shown on-...
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Hovering over an element to raise opacity
I'm working on a site where we display testimonials on the side of the page. We don't want these to be the main point of interest, so we dimmed the opacity, and on hover it goes to full opacity. We ...
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How do I prevent recommendations from being perceived as ads?
I have an app for learning Chinese that keeps track of the vocabulary the user knows.
Based on this vocabulary, it recommends videos to watch that will be comprehensible to the user. In each entry ...
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Driving users attention through opacity masks (reading rhythm)
I was reading this handy answer about Light on dark vs. dark on light: which is better for attention span? in the Graphic Design SE site and while reading the most voted answer I discovered that my ...
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What is the best way to tell users to scroll down in browsers?
what is the best way to tell users to scroll down in browsers?
Tests showed, that users do not scroll to the original message (which they need to answer questions):
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Using delayed appearance of some UI elements to grab user attention suggest actions
I'm looking for some examples and opinion of delaying the appearance of some elements in mainly static UI. I'm not talking about banners, which are affected with "banner blindness", but rather ...
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What is a useful way of doing "all ok" notifications?
Who watches the watchers
A monitoring system (e.g. nagios) usually has a good way of producing warnings and change-notifications. But the worst thing that can happen is to miss an event because the ...
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Is it useful keeping "foveal vision" in mind when arranging content?
I came across this video explaining how you can reduce the congnitive load by arranging your content in small chunks fitting into your "foveal area":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Drawing attention to rows below the fold on a list
I'm designing a feature that highlights certain users on a list. For this i'm considering using an (!) icon.
However, the list is long and requires scrolling. there will be users below the fold that ...
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Preferable way of calling user attention on a desktop application
I have a desktop application, where users write orders (among other things). It's a MDI-like application (tabbed interface really), and each order is written in its own tab/window.
There are several ...
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Grab attention on buttons
how would you improve the buttons on the top of the screen? To grab attention of the user I tried to change a bit their color (they are dark blue instead of black), but I think that they are not ...
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Need Help Regarding Product Display
I need help regarding product display on the product page. There are many websites offering different price for same product (just like Amazon, Flipkart, Shopclues etc.)
How can I show multiple ...
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External evaluation vs. internal evaluation: how to highlight differences
A friend of mine is working as a bus driver in public transportation. They have an application for their passengers and they are now starting a project for evaluating drivers. Passengers can evaluate ...
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