Questions tagged [user-centered-design]
User centered design (short UCD, sometimes called Human centered design) emphazises focus on end users of a product and aims to test and develop products in close interaction with users.
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Prototype tools for Virtual Reality
I appreciate it if anyone can share your real experience about this topic.
I already made paper prototypes and video concepts for this kind of project, but maybe someone already knows a particular ...
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Usability testing dashboard
I want to usability test the current dashboard before I start any designs to understand how current users are using it and what are their pain points. In the past when I have done such testing I have ...
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What is the difference with People-centered design (PCD), User-centered design (UCD) and Human-centered design (HCD)?
So I've noticed many people mention these 3 approaches:
People-centered design (PCD)
User-centered design (UCD)
Human-centered design (HCD)
I have been researching and I only found a good article in ...
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Using genders in physiologically oriented UCD
I've this problem: as a policy, we usually strive to leave out gender considerations if possible. If not possible, we use a wide range of genders . Not as extreme as Facebook, but something more ...
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How to present locked sections that are clickable?
Currently, I design sections that are locked for the user but also "clickable". When you click on them the user gets an opportunity to contact with sales and CTA button. I wonder how to ...
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For a classifieds website, should we ask the user for location before or after searching?
Location in this context means the current city the user is residing in.
I am designing a classifieds homepage and would like to know what which would be a better UX flow:
Ask for location on the ...
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Do some technical documentation websites purposely have very plain design?
I notice some widely read/important websites, all technical documentation pages in my examples, have some really old, dull and seemingly poor design.
Is this on purpose? Is it based on UX ...
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Best way to ask for "This Or That Or Both" on a Form
I have a page where the user can search for customer details based on multiple criteria, as shown in the screenshot below.
Here First Name and Last Name are mandatory.
But the user is expected to ...
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How can the StackExchange websites have a better user experience (cookie banner and new user information banner)? [closed]
Long ago, I remember reading either Joel Spolsky's or Jeff Atwood's blog post (can't find it now) about how StackOverflow was founded as a way for people to find answers to questions easily. This was ...
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Design Process and Techniques
I have come across this scenario and I am interested to learn from the UX professionals here about the proper technique and process:
You are hired by a University to investigate issues with their ...
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How to make checkbox selection less of an eyesore?
I'm working on a component (see image) that shows the results of a keyword search.
Each result displays:
the title/link to an article,
a snippet from the article,
a checkbox reading "This ...
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Placement of warning within a trade flow
We need to warn customers who are about to trade a stock that it is currently suspended (https://www.nasdaq.com/glossary/s/suspended-trading). What's the best place and way to notify the customers ...
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What encouraged the designers of GNOME Web 3.11.90 to show both (a) the page title and (b) the address/location/URL in the header bar?
Points of reference, please, for documents and/or discussions that supported the design rationale.
I'll add one answer, I don't know whether it's ideal.
Background
A brief, two-screenshot introduction ...
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How to display summary of user permissions from a data table into a row [closed]
I have a summary card for a web-based application which expands into an interactive table that consists of different users and permissions from Custom to Read, Write, Deploy, etc. There will be ...
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Best way to illustrate comments hyperlink on dropdown dashboard component?
I'm designing a dashboard with dropdown components. Every component is a "driver" group. The dropdown consists of questions within the survey that belongs to this driver. Every driver ...
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Which User research techniques can be used for new concepts?
I am trying to implement a solid UX strategy for a new web application. Most of the research methods I’ve read about so far involve existing users of an existing product. Alas, I have neither.
Can UX /...
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What's the best way to test out an app idea
I've got a client who wants to design and develop an app where you can build personal profiles as an artist in the entertainment industry. As they are from this industry they have a lot of background ...
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User research strategy [closed]
I am a rookie. As the only UX designer on my team I have been assigned to create the research strategy. The product is an existing Learning Management System (LMS) and the vision is to revamp and add ...
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How to adapt text and/or elements size while designing to smaller screens?
I have a layout I made some time ago on Adobe XD (that was just a personal project) and now I wanna put it on Behance. To do so, I need to duplicate/adapt that layout (designed for desktop) to smaller ...
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Multiple web templates for a website?
Is it OK to use multiple (probably 2) dashboard templates for a website?
My web app has two components: a general discussion forum with profiles and a one-to-one chat section, and a section that ...
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How to create appropriate user flow for multiple choice pop up modal windows belonging to side filter bar?
currently, I'm redesigning a data-driven platform with a side filter bar. Every filter opens a pop-up window with filtering choices. To apply filter user has to click the "apply filter" ...
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How to test which CTAs prompt users to take specific actions
I'm experimenting with different messages/Calls-to-Action in our product to see which specific CTAs are most successful at prompting our users to take specific actions we want them to take.
Besides ...
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Small UX problem for an App as a portfolio use case
I am working on my UI/UX Designer portfolio and I have 4-5 projects to choose from what to include. I will need to write about the process that I had during these projects etc. But recently, when I ...
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Pro's and Con's of having Register/login vs. only login
What do you guys think is better for the user experience:
Having single sign in:
New User/Returning User --> Sign in Modal --> social button --> Authentication --> User Home
New User/...
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Best practices for long data entry forms
I'd like to know if there is some kind of best practices for this kind of form.
There is a redesign project for a long data-entry form, not only for aesthetics and UX, but there are also some fields ...
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Best way to display page full of links?
I have a page that looks like below.
I shrunk it in dimensions to give a broad idea of the page. So it has categories and under them there are links. What would be some of the options in terms of ...
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How can I conduct user research on a product that already exists?
I am working on a school project as my team's UX researcher. Our product has already been designed, prototyped, and launched, without having conducted any research.
The team wants me to create ...
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I’m a fashion designer looking to move into UX, should I do a masters or a short course? [closed]
I’m currently a fashion designer looking to move into UX design. I am adept at adobe suite and have a great interest in psychology and sociology.
I’ve found myself bored recently with the ongoing ...
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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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Number keyboard UX
Hello Folks.
I just wanted to understand what research results show why the number keyboard consists of letters which are not used. Why is this needed?
The number keyboard should have only numbers, ...
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What's the best approach to display a month/year filter?
I'm working on an application that allows you to filter your files by month and year. This is what I have so far.
As you can see, the "Apply" button is disabled if fields are empty:
But ...
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How to balance user-led vs. user-centered design when it comes to navigation labels?
We just completed some research with card sorting and tree testing. Two of the categories were consistently labeled the same by a large percentage of participants.
It seems to make sense to name the ...
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Which is faster to fill-out: Paper or digital forms? [closed]
We are wondering which of the two are faster to fill out for walk-in customers who wants to sign-up for a class.
PAPER:
Pros:
Forms can be distributed to many customers and they can fill this out ...
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How to make sure the user does not inadvertently dismiss a modal?
I'm working on a page editor where you have the ability to insert images from an external/third-party source. The library of images will be displayed in a modal that sits on top of the page editor. ...
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Intuitive Boolean operations in filter for non tech users
Note, Don't suggest old post: There are number of questions I found which are the pretty decade old and the solution too. I have gone through all of them and never found any of the solutions that are ...
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Should users have to press enter when using a search filter?
I'm working on a photo app that lets a user search through their photos. It currently has these filter types - category, date range, and favorites. A user can pick one or all of these filter types.
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What is system-centered design?
I can't understand the idea or concept of system-centered design. I have researched the topic but it mostly directs me to user-centered design.
What is system-centered design?
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Interviews aimed for a website redesign
When conducting user interviews for a existing website redesign, do you ask them questions regarding their pain points of using the current site or do ask questions regarding the sector itself? So for ...
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How to show multiple chips in an input field?
I have an input field where the user can select multiple items. Currently, I am using chips to capture user input.
Design:
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How to show N no of chips e.g 10 number of chips in this example? ...
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Vertical tabs to horizontal tabs [closed]
Is there any comment or best practice to use the below case
I have a vertical tab of material design used in desktop version of a website portal. It is a Resposive web and when the viewport size is ...
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How to display "Select all" in multi select auto complete pattern?
Existing Design:
Scenarios:
In the default state, we don't show the entire list to the user. Once user starts typing, we show the predictive matches
We don't use a checkbox pattern for the ...
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At which stage of the design process do we use 'How Might We' and 'As a user' statements
This might seem pretty obvious to some. i'm a self learned designer i'm always trying to figure out and fill my knowledge gaps.
At which stage of the design process do we use.
'How Might We' ...
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How many types of typeface should I use to make the better user experience?
I am designing a style guide for my project and read few articles that suggest it's a good practice to combine more than one style of typefaces to enhance user experience. May I ask how to decide the ...
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What are the best ways to redirect user from page 01 to page 02 and then redirecting them to screen 01? [closed]
I am working on a feature where I have some constraints. To perform an operation on screen 01 I can't use a modal and have to redirect users to screen 02 for performing operations (As it involves ...
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What should an error state for a number value be?
Let's say that there are different numbers presented to the user - money values ($1.50), percentage values (+25.53%), development values (+$3.50), etc. In case there is an error in retrieving one of ...
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Is address title field important in shipping address?
I am working on address book feature on ecommerece site. This feature lets user select shipping address from his previously saved addresses from a address book page. Is it important to have a seperate ...
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What are the best ways on a sub-500 budget to test for mobile accessibility?
I am familiar with website accessibility at least in terms of WCAG 2.0, Section 508, etc. But I am currently designing a mobile app (cross-platform using React Native tools) and there does not seem to ...
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Is this column view for answers viable in a Survey type format?
I have a query about a question type that I'm working on for a survey design. What I wanted to figure out was whether this type of question (see image below) was valid or not in terms of UX. How hard ...
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Best UX when you have several bots?
My question is about the UX for chatbots when there are multiple bots within a website or digital ecosystem. This must be an increasing problem these days in very large companies for example, when you ...
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Should I tell the user how much time a process took?
My project has some database queries and it may take a time.
Should I display the time taken of a query to the user after the query ends?
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This project is an industry software.
Users may or may ...
