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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'Load more' data option

In a list with loads of records, I have implemented a 'Load more' control for user to load the next batch of records to join the previous visible ones. Can't use the pagination as the records need to ...
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Should you concede to user demands that seem clearly inferior?

Currently working on a ground-up (not just the UI) reimplementation of a whole, existing system. Because it's internal we've been able to work with its existing users during the process, and get their ...
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How do you work with stakeholders to prioritize ongoing enhancements? [closed]

I have several clients with sites and platforms that have fallen into disrepair over the months and years due to a lack of ongoing enhancements, improvements, and iteration generally. I'm looking for ...
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User Centred Approach or Technical approach?

I've just started a HCI module, and i've chosen to discuss 'The Importance of Used Needs and Establishing User Requirements' for my presentation and short paper. I strongly believe that a user ...
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Multiple role playing under single login

I can start with simple example, User 'A' have to play multiple roles such as Manager, Team leader, and developer under the single sign in. By default, I am a manager when I am logging in, but I ...
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Displaying limit for selectable options

Case In our software, we have a list of modules/options that the user can enable or disable. Each enabled module has a severe performance impact on the CPU, so to avoid crashes, we decided to hard-...
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Two distinct value propositions for two distinct types of users

I have two distinct types of users. I would classify them as "beginners" and "advanced" users. I want to describe the value proposition to beginners in one way and to advanced users a different way. ...
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Internationally friendly decimal quantities

I was recently in a discussion about decimal / comma ambiguity (it came about as a result of a vendor product not working for me due to regional settings, but that's neither here nor there), but we ...
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Car safety assist dropping speed automatically

Would this be considered good UX if the car in safety assist mode would drop the speed automatically to adjust with the car in front instead of informing the driver of getting too close? This is ...
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Is this navigation user friendly [closed]

I am new to the community so sorry if you guys feel i am being naive. I am assigned a task to redesign an existing website that sells shopify plugins. The entire idea of the website revamp is to ...
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How to approach online surveys when you have no clear hypothesis to test?

Let's say you want to redesign a website that is being used by thousands of people for the last few years. To do so, you need to collect data about how people use this particular website and you ...
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UX designers, what does your design handoff to dev process look like?

I'm a product designer, UX/UI (whatever else you wanna call it). I work closely with devs during the pre-deployment phases. Because of the speed at which we operate, and the complexity of the ...
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Page Load vs Fancy Design

The more complex/fancy looking a website is the greater the page load - we know this. My question is, does a slow website have more of a detrimental effect to the experience of a user then a hard to ...
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Is Address input box along with pick your location in a same filed in mobile will be User friendly?

I am designing a food delivery app. I want to make it as minimal and user friendly as possible. In the image below we have two options to input the address: 1- In the left side image, there is a ...
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How to find a balance between well structured UX versus visually more appealing UI design?

Currently I am having two versions of a Sales Overview page. One (V1) is more structured, researched with some card sorting on users and the other (V2) one is more visually appealing but not that well-...
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Document Library UI Help Required

We have a hundreds of documents that I'm struggling to decide how to present to users. I think a searchable/filterable library allowing users to drill down to what it is they require would be the ...
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How to show the long list of cards in the best possible manner in web UI

I'm using a card layout in web for showing some info. Currently there are 4 to 5 cards in each row and the container can show upto 20 cards in one view. If there are total of 150 to 200 cards, ...
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Are dashboards important or should users be directed to an information page?

I'm designing a platform where users manage multiple marketing campaigns. So there is a main page with the list of campaigns with minimal details (campaign name, active dates, etc). When you select a ...
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collecting data for UX on a web application

I'm in the process of developing an application and I would like to integrate a user experience data collection tool into the application it self, so that I could evaluate the user behavior. I googled ...
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How to handle too much element in a card (for a online food delivery site)

I am designing a food delivery site. and when its about to the design of card design . its have too much element(information), I was about to omit some things, but my boss is not ready to omit the ...
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What to answer when Product Owner/Manager says "this feature [requested by users] needs a lot of time to develop, so we'll never do it"?

More precisely: I work in a company that doesn't have any design culture. Some people tend to think a little more in a user-centered way but not the important ones. The Product Manager only cares ...
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More option interaction for both table row and tile view

I am designing a web application which has table row and tile view in dashboard screen. In terms of aesthetic and functionality achievement, I decided to put more (three dots as material design style) ...
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spacing between global search and menu

I'm in the process of creating an application store. The following is the wireframe for it. Now I want to make the search bar globally available regardless of the page the user is. So I made the ...
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Which message to show after user clicks "Report spam"?

The context: It's a collaboration app, where different people gather to work on the same project. The principle is like the GitHub. So, imagine if GitHub had an inbuilt messenger and you could message ...
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How does one approach leading a team in UX with no goals or roadmaps?

I've joined a company at the start of April. I am appointed as the Lead UX designer and I've been given a lot of information regarding the company's goals and future plans, just before I started. ...
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Where can I find some of the best practices and ux guides for webapp? [closed]

I am working on improving a web app UX. Please provide sources for getting the best design practices and research on user-centered design?
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Recommendations to signed in users should be SAME across devices or NOT?

Today morning I opened Youtube.com in macbook and I couldn't find any good recommendations. After about an hour, I opened youtube app in iPhone, I saw dozens of great suggestions. Yeah, I know ...
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Material design: drawing attention to a floating action button

I've a design which I need to create a first time user experiance on creating an application. The Floating Action Button needs to get highlighted on the very first time a user gets logged into the ...
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Is it a good idea to showing balance in transfer, confirmation and success screen

I just want to understand the experience of showing the balance in any transfer, confirmation and success screen would make sense. If yes / no, what could be the down fall of it and reasons. Please ...
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Alternate chart to performance v/s time for a portal

I am stuck at the point where I have to show the performance of Events (Call, SMS, Internet, and Reg.) v/s Time(ms). Values can be good bad or medium. Here is the older graph which I have to revamp:...
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Preferable format for list of holidays

Is the format shown below preferable for showing a list of holidays to a user? I was wondering if the name of the Holiday should be displayed first rather the date
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Shouldn't billing address and payment be combined?

Currently designing an e-commerce website and doing a lot of competitor analysis. One question that bothers me is why most websites combine shipping and billing information? Most importantly, even if ...
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Scroll Up & Down to show Past & Future

Would you ever ask, or expect your users to understand that they can and should scroll up from their entry point? The idea is showing articles in reverse-chronological order. They can also scroll ...
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Writing Technical Book for Computer Literate People - How much are they expected to know

Hope this is the right forum I'm self-publishing a technical book (using MS Excel for creating Data Visualizations) that includes step-by-step instructions with screenshot. Book is targeted towards ...
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Why do we keep asking if our users would use/recommend our product/service again?

I read about users not being able to predict their own future behavior because they simply can't comprehend what influences their choices(UX Myths). If this is the case, why do websites, apps and ...
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UX/UI implications of user working under stress/time pressure

In UCD, it is often mentioned that the context of usage of the app is very important for designer to keep in mind. I am designing a decision support system application for field healthcare workers ...
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In a Verify OTP Modal Box, "verify OTP" button will be first or resend OTP link will be the first [image attached]

In the OTP(One Time Password) Verification Modal card, which will get more preference to be placed first Check the Image bellow Option 1 : Validate OTP, Button will be on Top and resend otp will be ...
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Contextual Observation & Best UX methods to adopt - Practical approach

Contextual observation is done at the user environment and i am aware of it. But in the banking sector, the users profile would be general public. what is the screening methods and who is this been ...
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Recommended IA and Navigation Architecture for a single long page scroll?

Website with several pages functioning as a long page scroll determining the optimal navigation architecture. Are there any general usability suggestions for content rich websites with pages designed ...
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Best UI for adding comment, reporting issue, or adding comment & reporting issue

I've been going back and forth on this one all day. Requirements for a comments section. User can add a comment User can report an issue without any comment attached User can report an issue AND ...
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Is there an intuitive way to display weeks as text?

I am working on an application where a set of data is displayed, based on a specific week. The user selects this week from a drop down box, and one of my objectives is to format the way these week ...
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What is the practical application of sketch-noting?

This is a sincere question. I see a lot made of UX artifacts' value, most often from the perspective of UX professionals. I'm interested in how theory translates to practice to derive value from some ...
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Is accordion for huge list recommended or not?

I am working on an interview dashboard (admin side) and I need to know your feedback on accordions with a long list. The list of candidates can reach up to 100 items. Do you suggest that I use an ...
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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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Evaluate web application mockups

I'm currently working on the reconception of a web application. I already sent a survey to users to get some feedback on the current application. I used this feedback to create low fidelity mockups (...
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Hanging panel after user Click

I'm working on a small language learning app, in which the user can: save text and audio to read and listen later click on a word to add notes and example sentences get some stats per language + ...
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How to design a form with more than 30 mandatory field inputs

I need to solve a situation where I have to design forms with 30-40 input fields (most of them are required) in order to complete the task and generate a final output. With th design principle "...
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UXpin overseas user testing and Usability Testing Software

I work for a company and we build all of our applications in house. We are world wide and so I have been trying to push our user testing over seas. All of my prototypes are developed in UXpin. I ...
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Best way to organize items by use frequency

My site contains a page with boxes, of varying sizes, that can be rendered in any order on a grid. Overflow goes to the next row. I have been instructed to design a system wherein the order the boxes ...
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Are checkbox options with hyperlink a good practice?

Is it a good practice to create checkbox options where the text beside each checkbox is a hyperlink? What should be done if hyperlinks are necessary?

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