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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Viewing files and folders in Google Drive
Google drive has a grid view option with which the files are listed as tiles/cards and the folders are represented in a small rectangular box at the top. Why is that approach and is there any other ...
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Should product owners force their design ideas into the final UI? [closed]
I dont know if its a valuable argument or not, but its something that I think about it sometimes.
As a UI designer I always face a situaution when other people give their opinions about the UI, I ...
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Designing wireframes to be implemented as designed [closed]
I know what to show and what not to show to the user, but the implementation deviates from the intended design. Can anyone suggest to me the solution to this issue?
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UI/UX in an Agile Development Environment
I'm working with a company on a medium-large scale web application. The application is to replace existing applications, manual, and electronic processes. This project is on a tight deadline, and is ...
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User research sources [closed]
I want to do some user research for personas, and am looking for existing research already done by others on my intended audience (if such a thing exists). Do you know where can I find existing ...
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How long does the User remember?
I'm wondering for how long the User holds the knowledge about a site? Assuming that you (as User) came to a new website, browse it for a while, accomplish your goals and then leave.
You have learned ...
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How to create a web application with good user experience or usability?
I am a front end developer, new to "user experience" world.
I got a web application which has usability issues, which I have to recreate as per usability point of view.
I referred many articles ...
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Best way to ask user to select either image or color
What is the best way to ask user to select either image or color. I made one is it the correct UX
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Users can select multiple images or a single color
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Actually from this interface I am ...
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Should I allow custom/tailored content for my website?
The Problem
I do work on a corporate Website which displays information to users as a Marketing tool.
The issue is that we are an educational institution and sometimes need to display certain ...
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What do I want to be? [closed]
So, I graduated with a bachelor's in web development. I LOVE coding...but I also LOVE being the deciding factor. Its one thing to be handed something already designed and just code it...but its a ...
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How do users react to Bootstrap's uneditable-input class?
Bootstrap supplies a class .uneditable-input, which can be applied to a span/label/text/etc to mimic the appearance of a disabled text input.
Bootstrap describes it as:
"Uneditable inputs: Present ...
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ECommerce - Suggested Products
I'm working on a quoting system for a catering company.
It's really just going to be a 3 course menu, where the items in each course will be suggested based on the event type selected.
For each ...
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Alternative website's UI/workflow design to avoid ShowModalDialog()
As per chrome update, google is going to remove ShowModalDialog() from its browser feature list.
My doubt here is to know some alternative workflow/UI design in website to avoid the Modal dialog ...
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User involvement in UCD analysis
I'm currently designing a prototype for a dashboard UI, where the data come from the available tracking activity logs that are currently displayed in tabular form.
Due to time constraints, I have ...
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What are some resources for activities / games to teach User-Centered Design? [closed]
I am building a workshop to teach User-Centered Design. The target audience is people who want to integrate UCD into their software development process.
What I am looking for is activities and games ...
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How far do we go to protect users?
Based on this question.
While I loved reading the sassy replies about caves and leopards, the larger debate seems to be whether or not we assume the user is irresponsible and I wonder, as a user ...
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How to inform users in a documentation if the topic is advanced, and if it's even necessary?
In the documentation page for my team's product, there are some articles under the same header that are fairly friendly but some that are definitely not for beginners. My employer wants something that ...
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Icon for Appending a file after existing file
I am designing an editor. On my UI, there is an icon for importing a file. When user opens the editor and clicks on “Import” icon, that file is opened in editor. Now I want that if user clicks “Import”...
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How should I approach adding custom themes to a sales management application?
I work in a company that develops some of the best sales management tools in the states.
Recently I proposed the idea to add custom themes support which would include:
-different color schemes
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How to structure a form within a tab?
I'm developing a online clothing store where the user could save their measures of the body in the cloud, so we'd calculate the size of the garment automatically.
Then I have a form to do this which ...
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Can we build UX into old, large legacy systems?
For huge corporate, legacy applications we dont tend to have the luxury of re-vamping the UI after assessing the UX of the process that those apps support. However, just because there has been a lack ...
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Native apps | Mixing compiled UI-UX with unknown dynamic controls and interactions
The problem
I am planning a mobile / tablet app that aims to combine ‘knowns’ - a largely static, pre-defined UI-UX as is the nature of compiled binaries - together with a potentially quite wide ...
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Should forms always appears within a box?
The main form of my webapp looks like this:
With the next colors:
Background color...: #F4F9FD
Tittle color.......: #3C325C
Button color.......: #DE373D
Why do forms usually appears within a box? ...
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Mobile application: Let the user first to choose camera or gallery or open camera first?
We have to develop a new application which main function is to take photos/videos or browse existing photos from gallery and share them with FB friends.
In order to share photos/videos users shall ...
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Should I never ever use only placeholders in forms?
I have a form that the users will use a lot of times becouse is the main funcionality of my webapp.
It has select boxes with large options, so they are quite wide. Looks something like this:
May be ...
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What is the best way to input cm of body measures?
In my web application the user have to save their measures of the following parts of the body:
Head
Neck
Chest
Hip
Feet
The value stored in the database could store two decimals too.
So I thought in ...
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How to source the initial requirements for an app?
I have an app idea but do not know how to do an initial requirements documentation. Do I do a survey based on what features I think would be good? Do I do a competitive analysis?
I have no budget to ...
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UI for system model vs. user model, for developers
Background: Product I'm working with caters to developers, and I'm redoing the UI to improve usability. Currently, the UI behaves like the system model, which is fairly complicated because its a ...
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4 weeks to research and prototype a business banking app - what is the UCD process?
I've x4 weeks scheduled to spend on UX & research on a business banking app.
How should i schedule the time?
So far i have:
Week 1 - Strategy & research
Kickoff workshop, strategy &...
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Can Information Architects and UX Designers work as separate profiles?
I'm just very recently working as a UX Designer and loving my job but learning still a lot about it. My main focus lies with design while a large part of it is usability, which I like as well.
I was ...
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Search Results Of Relationships
I'm working on an application that has many many-to-many relationships.
In this applications there is a search feature.
With this search you are able to search for a person.
A person can belong to ...
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Papers about UX of POS (Points of sale) and Cash management system [closed]
For my graduate thesis I have to study the UX of POS and typical cash management system used by restaurants. Do you know if are there any resources available online (or not) about these topics?I don't ...
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Appropriate UI Design for Crossing Matrix
i'm programming in php, javascript. This isn't a programming question but rather User Interface/Experience one. suppose i want to create a crossing matrix for dog breeds. I initially created a table ...
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UI options arrangement, various ways
I have the following interface for image modification where there is a preview and the user can set options from a tabbed interface.
The problems with current interface are:
There are different ...
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What is the difference between UD and UCD?
Is Universal Design the same as User-Centered Design or are they different principles?
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Designing a country/government [closed]
Is anybody knows any examples of using UCD methods to design better country/government? Is this even possbile to designing things like departments activity to be more citizen-friendly?
I'm just ...
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Adjusting a microsite layout using variables in url
I work on a modular onepager microsite in which I have several modules:
a rotator module (full width, rotating big visuals, each of them containing some CTA and action button)
several half width ...
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How to recommend improving usability of something that doesn't exist yet?
If a website is in an early requirements gathering phase, to what extent can the usability of this site be advised at this stage?
I understand that achieving better usability comes from further ...
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Applying bad UX for shaping user journey towards conversion point
If you take a look at this site: http://www.kooaba.com/ - there are some external links ("As seen on" section) for which there are no rollovers. These links, however, do not lead user down in the ...
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How to enforce persona usage in company's design process?
Any idea how to force interaction designers to truly use personas and not just design based on assumptions or "hidden personas"? My company runs into this problem quite often. We conduct user research ...
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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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Persona has to be a person? Difference between Brand ambassador, mascot and persona? Validating persona
Actually, these are three inter related sub questions.
Q1. Does Persona have to be a person because ultimately whatever we will create (product/service) that will be used by human being only, and ...
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Is task-based the same as user-centric?
Well, I think that the question is self-explanatory.
In order to explain something to someone in the office I used task-based instead of user-centric and I was surprised. I'm usually complaining ...
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Is Empathic Design a part of User Centered Design?
I stumbled across the Kano Model this morning, and didn’t know what it was. Searching for it I came across another term unknown to me; Empathic Design. Reading the characteristics of Empathic Design ...
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Differentiate user centered design and user experience design [duplicate]
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Is user experience design (UXD) equal to user centered design (UCD)?
I am struggling to understand the UX roles with UCD. Can someone explain?
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When to use data driven personas and when to make them up?
I'm studying HCI and the focus for persona creation on my course is resolutely that personas should be derived from user research data. I also attended adaptive path's uxintensive last year and the ...
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Is creating personas against the principles of User Centered Design? [closed]
I'm just running through an agency proposal and the misuse of personas has reared its ugly head again. I'm finding this is now a frequently reoccurring theme and so I thought I'd raise it as a ...
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Case studies to help sell UCD
I'm looking for some nice simple stats and references to help convince potential clients of the value of UCD. Real-life case studies you can explain in one line I suppose.
One of my favourites is of ...
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