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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How to help a development-oriented Product Manager understand that UX is important?
I work as a UX Designer in an IT company. The company is still very developer-oriented with a low level of UX Maturity. The team consists of two designers (me included) and 4 developers.
We have ...
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Best way to interact with a drop down, that has multiple selections
I have created a drop down, and on the drop down you are able to make more than one selection (similar to checkboxes).
However, it does look like an ordinary drop down. I was wondering what the best ...
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Is it possible to separate a subject from context?
This is a bit of a theoretical but I wonder if its meaningfully possible to separate the context from the subject when studying the context of a particular subject.
For example, would there be a ...
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Relationships between tables - PArent Child
Trying to find a better way to show relationships between one main table (parent) to two child tables. The main table has a list of items, selecting one will update the two tables. Right now the ...
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Can we use different form pattern based on the context in a single app?
I am using a right aligned label form for web app (considering the long nature of the form avoided top aligned label). However can I switch to top aligned label if my form is short e.g Signin/up page? ...
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User flow with on-demand service platform
Product: XYZ On-demand service provider (example cleaner)
Context: User has to select at least 4 service providers to increase his chances of getting a service provider he has selected on the ...
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What's the best empty basket page/message for e-commerce?
I'm looking for e-commerce experience and I really think that just show a message saying your cart is empty is so boring. I feel that we must show something more interactive for the users.
What's the ...
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How to design interface for backups that users can restore to
I am currently working on a system for our application where users can restore to backups done previously. The current setup is that the system backups everyday when automatic backups are on. Now our ...
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Making the user pay attention to what's on the screen instead of having him press next next next
I work on a fitness and recovery app which has an on-boarding process which requires the user to position 2 sensors on his body and pay attention to some small tasks on the screen (like put the ...
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Horizontal Scrolling Menu or Tab Bar?
I am developing a mobile application supporting iOS, Android and Windows platforms.
The app comprise of "sectional navigation". By sectional navigation I mean it has various sections such as:
1. Maps
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Users expected to "ignore" irrelevant parts of a form?
I have a web form that is split into several pages, it is an adaptation from a hard copy paper form, and the requirements are that the data captured should be the same.
For my webform I have asked ...
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User interaction for interdependent fields
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I'm working on a screen where a table will be rendered based on the user's choice of "Country" and "Organization". Both these fields are interdependent and the user needs to have the ...
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Multiple steps each with a tasks vs one step with multiple tasks (for the user)
I am sketching the user flow for a new feature of a fitness/medical recovery application that is using hardware sensors to monitor the way the user is performing certain fitness exercises.
In order ...
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Website with different coloured navigation per product page
I have a client asking me to change the navigation colour scheme on a website design im doing to match the individual products.
Personally I think its:
a bad idea
it wont work with their ...
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How might competitive analysis help enrich User Personas in UX research?
I can't find any reasons to support the use of Competitive Analysis in building an efficient persona. User Persona essentially talks about different profiles of user and their goal, frustrations, ...
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Instruction manual for each feature (page by page) on my web app? (instead of tooltip)
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I'm designing a web app that has features that people are not familiar with (learned this through user testing).
I need to guide users through, like hand-hold them, telling them what this ...
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Challenge in showing more column data table
I am designing a data table in which a lot of columns, probably around 20 to 25, will be placed. The question is, when the parent container has a very minimum width, I cannot show all the columns ...
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What is the best way to communicate to a user that a pricing package is no longer available?
We currently offer 4 pricing packages, but will no longer be offering one of them.
What is the best way to communicate this to users, particularly the ones who were on that (deprecated) plan and are ...
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Prepare a user to perform an action before proceeding to the next step
I am designing an application that allows the users to train at home.
I have a step (let's call it step 1) in which the user must be in a position in order to "sync" (step 2) with the app for the ...
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Is there a difference between "Goal directed design" (GDD) and "User-centered design" (UCD)?
Is there a difference between "Goal directed design" (GDD) and "User-centered design" (UCD)? I'm confused. I have been searching a lot and can't find the difference in between them.
Even the ...
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Why do laptops have so many stickers?
They're telling me who made the OS, who made the processor, who made the speakers, who made the graphics card and who put all of these together!
Such details are acceptable on the packaging, but once ...
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How to practice user centered design with no / limited access to users?
We have an interesting project which is a prototype for a hypothetical domain specific userbase which does not currently exist.
I'd like to use good design practices and wish to adapt our existing ...
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User experience and Agile Modeling
I have a question regarding architect modeling and how an UX designer can use them to deliver better documentation to the developers/software architects. Has anyone used a component diagram to ...
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Animations and complex graphics required?
Hey guys I need some suggestions, I am developing a domain website on health care where specialists surgeons doctors who treats specific health problem. Is having animations,sliders, gradients makes ...
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Any best practices or examples of mix and match functionality on a fashion e-commerce?
I'm trying to design this feature, but so far not much luck finding any decent implementations of this feature. one example is http://www.bonarium.com but even that is pretty basic.
what would the ...
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Is there a better and quick way of processing requests from a list of requests?
I am making an mobile app where there is a list of requests for points towards a client and the client assigns a desired number of points to each request.
The client sees all the requests in ...
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How to identify design system or design language used by app or website [closed]
Have few doubts.
I'm new to UX, how to identify which design system is used by app / website, can we judge by looking into its UI.
Can i design my own design system for my app and website - for this ...
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Is horizontal scroll usable in mobile view?
When building a responsive view of a page with a grid of content boxes, is it a good solution to use a horizontal scroll?
Imagine page layout with a header, main column of content (680px) and a ...
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How can I convince stakeholders and management that I need a user research focus group?
Background info on the company:
I'm the only User Experience Designer at a start-up-size company that has been around for 20 years. It's only been in the last few years that they've even created a ...
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Are there any established design patterns for complex product configuration?
Thanks for looking!
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I am a software engineer (not a UX designer) and am helping a very good manufacturing client redesign their online store.
This particular manufacturer sells products ...
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Is it a good idea to have your main actions as swipe gestures?
Would it be a good idea to have swipe gestures (such as swipe left to delete and swipe right to archive - mailbox app is a good example) responsible for your app's main tasks? A lot of not so techy ...
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Chat waiting time feedback
We have a Live Chat services but the problem is we don't have enough number of agents to answer all the inquiries of all customers. So customers really need to wait especially during peak hours.
Our ...
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What domain name would be best from ux point of view for my website? [closed]
I have a clothing brand by name of pendu streetwear.
I was thinking of getting the domain name pendustreetwear.com
But isn't it too long for the user to type in.
Or pendu.store, but that way it ...
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Is there a term for "the user can't use anything wrong" design?
I'm of the opinion that the user is always using software or hardware correctly and to imply otherwise is rude, condescending, and philosophically wrong. For example, I and everyone I know pulls USB ...
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Can we display Cost, Clicks and Impression all together in a 2-D graph? [closed]
I feel cost is a different metric than clicks and impressions. How do I show this for multiple channels say fb, instagram, youtube etc all together? Please help.
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Maximum number of options when selected via next and previous buttons?
I'm designing a product that has customizable features. The user can customize a light color by pushing a forward (>) or back (<) button. This action will toggle through a set color palette that ...
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Solving treeview long information form user experience [closed]
Hello everyone,
I am facing this issue while working on a long form consisting of large number of metadata fields within headers. Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks !
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Best way to display data on a B2C website?
Running a real estate, consumer facing website and trying to present real estate data on both macro and micro level. Currently, engagement is low.
Considering adding side by side bulletin points to ...
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When allowing users to mute notifications in an app, what time duration options are most useful? [closed]
How does screenshot posted below make a difference by allowing to mute chats for 8 hours, 1 week, and 1 year and leaving some of the obvious usability cases like 1 month?
What time-duration options ...
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Auto Formatting Date Entry that has formatted helper text
We are looking to improve our date pickers so that a user can type in single digits for the months and days as well as 2 digits for the year. Overall we are just going to be putting logic in so power ...
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Modal close button style
I am looking at a redesign proposal for a close button on a modal window for a responsive web/mobile application. I have my own thoughts on this but would like the UI/UX community to weigh-in.
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Ego struggles when creating an app? [closed]
I'm curious about what sort of ego issues you've encountered when creating an app. Obviously we're all proud of our idea, but sometimes it can cloud our judgment and make us lose sight of what the ...
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Interview methods for user needs phase
I'm designing a workforce training project and am in the process of collecting the initial user feedback. While I'm an experienced survey designer and data scientist, I'm new to user experience and ...
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Switch Dashboards along with menu
I am working on a mobile application which will have two different areas in same app.
Suppose:
Area 1 -> Learning Management System
Area 2 -> School Management System
Both areas will have its own ...
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Banking - What are the reasons for not giving Menu options in Transfer flow
In Banking -
Is it a good idea to give menu option during the transaction (Money transfer) flow? etc..
If yes - My concern is that user may feel that transaction data would be stored and may feel in-...
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Exact difference between User Centered Design and Consumer Centered Design?
Would like to know what differentiates consumer centered design from other design approaches eg. user centered design. What are the additional key elements that need to be addressed. Would be ...
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How to put instruction on how to take a selfie to ensure proper guidelines are met?
We are creating an app wherein a user needs to take a photo of their face and must be met with certain guidelines (e.g. must look in front, cannot tilt head to the side, etc.) The target audience is ...
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Having a preview next to text editor, should it be on the left or right side?
I'm trying to design an email text editor that has a preview window next to it. Should the preview be on the right or left side of the editor? My reasoning is that the preview should be on the left ...
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How detailed does a paper-mockup have to be?
The question looks silly but I'm currently working on a small project that involves creating a paper mockup.
The point is to learn and understand how paper mockups help to do user centered design (...
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Home page to communicate two different services of equal importance
I understand that this could be a duplicate question, but I feel that none so far have answered mine.
My client has two services, and he wants one website essentially split into two sections which ...
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