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 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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Multiple dropdowns in the header section
I would like to have the ability to filter content based on countries. Countries have been divided into different groups based on geolocations as regions, cultural habitats, climatic situations.
I ...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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About building Q&A system, should we allow user to modify their Q & A, or user can only do "Add Only" when posting Q & A?
Let say we want to build QA system like Stackoverflow, and I wonder whether "we should allow user to modify their Q & A, or user can only "Add Only" when posting Q or A?"
-Option 1: User can ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Do savings and subtotal need to be displayed on a product page?
We are designing a product page and I think having money you saved and subtotal is redundant as it appears in cart and during checkout. My colleagues think "You saved a total of $XX.XX" is crucial. ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Original design choice of back and forward directions?
There are numerous of evidence around us where forward and backward directions are predetermined. As if they are a conscious choice we all know. At least this in true in left-to-right reading ...
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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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Is user experience design (UXD) equal to user centered design (UCD)?
Can user experience design (UXD) and user centered design (UCD) be considered the same?
If not, how do they relate to each other and how do they differ?
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Is coffee a good excuse for a slow application start-up time?
I was dragged into a meeting with a client to consult on any usability issues as we watched a user performing day-to-day operations with a software application.
The first thing that happened was that ...
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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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Is user centered design only about hygiene factors?
There is one thing that bothers me about UX-design. One of the shortcomings of a user centered design approach, is that it only focuses on existing needs and not on new revolutionary ideas. For ...
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Differentiate user centered design and user experience design [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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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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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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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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Can UCD become an agile process?
All the discussions about Agile UX relate to how we adjust UX Activities to an agile development process but I want to know how we can turn UCD in to an agile process that supports the development ...
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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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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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