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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How to apply the Pareto principle in UX design [closed]
Pareto's principle (80/20 rule) makes sense, but I can't think of a real scenario for it's application to UX design.
How can we use this rule in the UX design process?
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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 to inform people that there's bigger fish to fry while still encourage them to talk about UX?
As a UXer, it's our job to spread the "doctrine" that UX should be something that should be on everyone's mind as oppose to it being something that dealt with solely by the UXer.
As a product ...
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developing a quality search - what is the best style? sidebar vs filter bar vs...?
I am working on a job board site at the moment. We have a sidebar filter system for our users to filter their results. We have only just implemented testing to track what our users are searching (...
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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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Best way to verify a user for a dating app? [duplicate]
What is the most user friendly way to verify a user’s identity for a dating app?
We currently use Facebook login but we receive a lot of complaints that we don’t have another login method. So I’m ...
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What are some good examples of using participatory design in user research?
My product team and I attempted to conduct a participatory design exercise with some users.
We printed out some blank mobile screen templates on an 11" x 17" piece of paper and asked them to draw ...
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Breadcrumbs and Page Titles
Keep in mind that there is a GLOBAL navigation that sits above the top of this page. The screenshot you see is the top left of the page. Below it is where the page's content sits.
The question is— ...
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Research behind current design patterns? [closed]
Recently I have found that so many websites are starting to look the same (logo left, menu right, nav floats, big large cover image (blurred e.g.), flat light design.
Outside of these just being ...
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Do you know any e-commerce platform that successfully helps consumers compare different products with infographics
When it comes to decide what camera to buy, or any other complex product, within hundreds of other choices, users could use comparison tools to make their decisions.
Infographics seem a great way to ...
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Do you use infographics in UX?
I am studying the role of visualisation in UX and how it helps users understand content in a easy and quicker way. Does someone know of any studies that support visualisations at a cognitive level?
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One-step versus two-step user feedback experiences
I am working on a user feedback mechanism, and have seen conflicting content out there on the best way to remove user-friction from submitting useful feedback.
There is the simple and streamlined ...
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Call to Actions on Navigation Links
The header on a website I've been working on has a few links that have sub-links underneath them. So for example, when you hover over Link 1, a sub navigation menu will appear that shows you Link1-1 ...
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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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Is OTP (one time password) the best way to authenticate a user?
Are one time passwords the best way to authenticate a user when he/she logs-in the first time in a mobile application?
Or are there better ways to authenticate a user in terms of user experience?
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How Should I phrase a request? [closed]
I am creating a HTML form and I was wondering how I should phrase the request in order to help create a comfortable, credible environment for the user.
So far I have
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What is Golden Ratio and how do we implement it in designs? [duplicate]
What is Golden Ratio? how do we use it during interface designing?
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User Journey Map
I am designing a mobile app. For that I interviewed many users and I created 4 Personas. Each Persona reflects unique characteristics, motivations and goals. Now I am onto creating User Journey Map. ...
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Is the number of clicks the only user interface perspective?
We are developing an application which is divided in different modules (logical groups). When I proposed any UI for specific functionality, I try to make a logical grouping of the elements. Because of ...
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Creative Real Estate Website Experiencing Usability issues [closed]
A recently launched real estate website that differs substantially from the norm is experiencing usability issues. Because of the uniquness of the look and feel of the site, users are unclear that the ...
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Should usability experts be included when testing the first initial prototypes?
My project consists of three iterations:
Low-fidelity usability tests
Redefined prototype usability tests
Final prototype usability tests.
I am unsure whether to include the HCI expert review ...
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A concrete approach to user evaluation
I am conducting a research in which I plan to rely on user-centered design methodology. If my understanding of this methodology is correct, it is important to have many iterations in the end of which ...
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What are the drawbacks of a sign up form with fewer button clicks?
I have a UX dilemma regarding a sign up process I'm trying to create.
In essence the idea behind the sign up form is to have fewer button clicks as the UX of the sign up is split over entering your ...
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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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Where to put a single menu item on a Windows form
This is more of a design question than a technical one. I am developing a Windows application with a menu bar and toolbar. I have menu items for the File, Tools, and Help menus, but I have a few other ...
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Interactive illustrated map experiencing UX issues
An illustrated interactive map has been designed for a real estate brokerage company trying to emphasize the focus on a particular subset of a neighborhood. The users are having difficulty figuring ...
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Where is UX in an organizational structure?
My context/problem:
I've worked in few organizations as a freelance UX consultant (researcher, analyst, coach, designer)... and I had always huge problems to make others in the company feel empathy ...
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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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Female Lifestyle website
A SITUATION - I am making women's lifestyle website & there are several categories. For example, Beauty, Style, Health etc. Users can browse content related to that topic. Content will be of 3 ...
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What are the best ways to show the statistics of Hours? [closed]
I found one of the good option which Google is using "Popular Times" in Google Maps for the store searched. Below is a GIF showing a quick demo:
Any other idea or option can you suggest which has a ...
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How to do Remote User -research?
Our product users are not local users instead they are going to be from other part of the world. How do i understand the user behavior towards product, personas, how do i draw user journey for those ...
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User centered design and user research in startup
I've worked with a startup recently and I've noticed that they didn't do any user research upfront. They wanted to go straight to design without knowing users needs and problems.
So, I've started ...
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