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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Giving user a preference to pick either TouchID or Pin login on iOS platform
As of iPhone5s we have technology like TouchID which is much secure way of authenticating user instead writing long complicated passwords. Although, we also have a pin login which does require minimal ...
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Game with multiple stages that can be locked/unlocked/finished
I am working on a learning platform, that offers users a number of games. Users take games one by one, and for each game they can see their current status in overview.
A game has multiple stages ...
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How to perform user interviews for a new product when there are IP restrictions
On my current workplace, we are starting a new project but since the company has strict Intelectual Property policies, we have restrictions about how to approach the market so we don't provide hints ...
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How to handle huge amount of user data?
We have a project where we have huge amount (>100k) of users in the system. With that amount of users it's pointless to start listing them all from UX and performance point of view. Typical use cases ...
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How to mark dependent fields while updating rest of the fields?
I'm working on a B2B application where huge numbers of fields (up to 100) are divided into ten categories.
Please note, fields are grouped into different categories but impact each other.
like:
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Hierarchy VS Usability in Mobile Design
Taking into consideration the ease of access areas on a mobile device:
I am not sure how to determine/prioritize where to organize the main actions:
Hierarchy: Most important actions at the top
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Is there a difference between "user-centered" and "user-centric" design?
I was told that they are not the same but without any explanation. What is the difference between the two, if any?
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How can we make a data table with 12 columns more usable?
I have the following data with me:
In this, apart from the 10 columns - Shelter to permanent.., Target, Identified, Linked, Leased, Moved, Units to target, Moves to target, Vet population and status ...
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Naming convention for Tabs
I am working on a tab UI and my goal is to show the remaining number of a particular entity left. The first image is what I got in the first iteration. I tried a different variation in the second ...
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Why my chats are shown in right side? [duplicate]
Here you can see my today chat history:
Yeah, the blue colored are mine.
Why these are right aligned?
Is it because of most people are right handed or earlier chat app implemented this way?
I'm ...
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Arranging menu or buttons in Mobile apps
if we can figure out by which hand user is using his phone so that we could arrange the menu items or buttons to the convenient side.
I think if a user is using his phone by right hand then the ...
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Person-centric Assessment - Category list design
I'm developing an interface for an Assessment that needs to be person-centric. The assessment includes several questions grouped into categories. The goal is to keep the Assessors from just going down ...
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How to improve layout and design when having different fill-out components?
There are different types of information requirements: drop down menus, text input, picture upload and radio buttons. Is there a standards or research supporting the idea to put certain requirements ...
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Definition of human centred quality in ISO 9241-220 separates usability and user experience, why?
ISO 9241 defines user experience as:
a person's perceptions and responses that result from the use and/or
anticipated use of a product, system or service.
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Is color consistency and limited colors important for better UX?
I'm working on a web app which has more than 80 colours if I check the CSS file of it. Not all colours are very different colours, there are darker and lighter variations too.
Should I try removing ...
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How can I showcase my user research in an UX portfolio?
I'm a beginning in a UX field and currently building up my portfolio. In portfolio projects how do I include the research element of the UX process when I have no money to spend on formal UX research?
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Human Centered Design vs. User Centered Design
While rereading Don Normans "The Design of Everyday Things" I stumbled upon the term "Human Centered Design". I was aware of "User Centered Design" but this was new to me.
Is it just another title ...
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Is it good to have multiple views of same data on different views?
I have a huge data(around 2000) of startup companies in my platform. we are showing them in different views like compact view, board view, business modal view e.t.c Is it good practice to have data in ...
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Terminology: Screen with both filter and sort actions
What would be a proper way of calling a screen that provides both filter and sort actions? Focus is on Android apps.
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In e-commerce mobile app, Should I put price before product name or after?
Which is better from IA perspective and UCD, to put the product name before the product price or after ?
I noticed that some of apps like instacart, honeybee put the price before and others like ...
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What is the difference between user centered design (UCD) and Design Thinking?
I'm confused. I have been searching a lot and can't find the difference in between them.
Even the processes are quite similar. 1. Empathy/Analysis/Research 2.Define 2.Ideate 3. Prototype 4. Test
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How do you get user insights in an industry where privacy is critical?
Hey guys I need some of your thoughts here. How do you get user insights in an industry where privacy is critical? I work in an online casino and most of the times user access is very hard due to ...
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Asking for relationship status
Forms made by and for the government that concern an individual or family/household often – usually in one of the first questions – ask for the family/relationship status of the applicant. The ...
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Which qualitative method is best used with Empathy approach?
I have recently been doing a research that involved focus-group, interview, observation and lastly a survey as data gathering and analysis of user behavioral, emotions, experience. I have read and ...
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Does stereotype thinking affect the application design?
I am wondering how does stereotype thinking affect the way we design for users. Will user experience designer/researcher be able to empathize with user if he/she suffers from unconscious bias.
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How to represent this kind of data (Daily food menu)
I need to represent a food menu from the admin side. It is most likely to be updated/created weekly.
Here are what I have tried:
Calendar View
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Looks natural since it's based on date
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Is phone call with number entry better UX than a web site or app?
I recently switched pharmacies, and realized that sometimes software is not the best solution. The previous pharmacy had a system where I could order refills by calling a phone number and typing in ...
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Table view in mobile for comparision of data
I have a table(in dashboard) where i compare data between two columns. I am trying to show the same data in mobile. I have 8 columns in total. I need to show at least 6 columns(Important) in mobile. ...
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UX Semantic Naming In Other Applications
I am a UI/UX designer.
I am also an avid mountain biker.
I am part of a trail building committee with a local group from my city.
Having a technical background, I have been tasked in mapping out our ...
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Representing a vehicles speed and velocity as a map icon
I am writing a web application that displays vehicles on a map.
Currently it's displayed like so, but I'm looking to see if anyone has any better ideas on how to improve it, it currently feels a ...
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How to convey True, False, No Change to a user editing multiple items at once?
I am designing a tool that allows users to edit/update the fields of multiple tickets at once in a ticketing system. There are other categories users can update besides those listed below. This data ...
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How important is the status bar to a user of my application ?
I have been developing a couple of applications now and I have also come across the following issue multiple times:
Can I omit/hide the status bar in my application throughout the whole application ? ...
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Is user experience designed to make humans lazy? [closed]
Let's say for example, in a railway station a sign board displays the arrival of train. Let's take two scenarios.
Scenario 1
The sign board displays "train 1 arriving at 9:35"
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The sign ...
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Are multiple filter options good for mobile?
We are designing a responsive web app which contains dynamic data. We have a huge variety of filters(Nested) like Location(all countries), founded year, Sectors(Practice area, Feeds, Business models), ...
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What is the easiest method to study a system as a UX person?
I am assigned to a huge project as a ux design intern, currently this project doesn't have any documentation. And apparently anyone in the project doesn't know 100% of logic and domain of the system ...
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Whom shall we design for either "Manager" OR "Sales Representative" OR "User"?
There are lots of frictions when we a thought process in terms of design. As during a design process, such many things happen in our real world like "I do not like your color combination or designs ...
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How to Verify Parent/Adult identity
This is a long reading, but it is a challenging concept so I have to explain the process.
My company builds apps and sites specialised for kids under 13. According the COPPA legislation every kid ...
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Country flag, for "entire world" [closed]
I was wondering if there was a "country flag", for the entire world.
(Even if you couldn't user it, for "space wars").
Thanks..
NOTE: I was thinking, of a flag, with a single color: all black.
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Display multiple time series
I am trying to display the behaviour of an asset as compared to a benchmark across multiple volatility phases. The user should be able to look at these images and tell that the asset generally ...
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Do you use "scenarios" and "use cases" as one or separate?
There are a lot of discussions and information on the difference between scenarios and use cases, but I want to know how do they - or don't they - work together?
At a high level, the main difference ...
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What is the best way to prioritize information, with your team colleagues?
I intend to do a group activity here in my company to list the avaliable information in an e-commerce product page. Example: buy button, product image, product description, other users comments etc.
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Determining which product features provide UX
Does anyone know of any papers/articles where the effort is focused on determining UX features (for any type of product) using scenarios/narratives. The key is that the article needs to be focused on ...
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Is there any convention about iOS forms
I've been searching for a while now and didn't find the right answer for my question about iOS forms, that is:
Studying some iOS forms, I discovered 02 main styles for forms's title and placeholders. ...
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How do you handle not knowing what it's like to be the person using the softwares you need to design
I have a general question so I'll provide an example:
Let's say you were assigned to build a software which will be used on a daily basis as a professional tool, let's say a statistician's.
Now, you ...
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What is the difference between Shallow Information Architecture and deep Information Architecture?
I am new to User Centric Design process, wish to learn Information architecture in detail. Please help me understand difference between Shallow Information Architecture and deep Information ...
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Tooltips, where to place?
We have an internal, json editor web application. It is extremely form heavy, basically pages worth of one dimensional tree structured nested forms.
Think something like this, but bigger and some ...
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How to create a task flow after scenario?
I am trying to create a user experience design for ATM users. These users are semi-literate. I have created a Design strategy, Persona and Scenario. My next step is to create a Task flow and then ...
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What's the most appropriate Metaphor for submitting a selected Item in android App?
I have designed and implemented an android application for patients aged >30. While conducting a usability Test, I found the following Issues :
CheckBox: When the user searches for particular item ...
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Do Users Take Product Tours?
Product tours have become very popular in recent times. It's also used here on StackExchange. I personally mostly skip the 'Take a 2 min Tour' notifications or link.
So I'm wondering; based on ...
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What is the difference between user's perspective vs perception?
In concept of usability ,What is the difference between user's perspective vs perception?
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