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Tagged with user-expectation web-app
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Is it possible for a web application to be *too* fast?
Note, I've seen: How fast is too fast?, and What to do when loading is TOO fast? so I want to clarify the non-duplicity: I'm not asking about the animations, but more or less about the application in ...
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Should web app users be allowed to edit/delete their own content?
I'm developing a site that will be nearly completely driven by user-generated content, similar to a recipe website. Obviously, the importance of the content goes beyond the scope of the authoring user....
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Can I combine login and signup with a single button?
I am building a login page and I spent over 5-6 hours reading a tonne of posts in this group. I saw the following discussions
Login and Register as separate pages
Login Modals
Login Register vs Sign ...
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Web Application best practice: ephemeral session or expiring sessions?
While working on an application using Node.js and Express, I was finding an interesting and perplexing issue in my UX testing. The application had session settings for "maxAge: 24 hours" and "...
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Web page refresh (F5) user expectations and behavior
There are several good researches on how an average user expects the browser's Back/Forward buttons to work. But there are quite few well-known good practices regarding the browser-level page refresh (...
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what is a actual user experience for web apps functionality "add to your home screen"? [closed]
Good day all.
I'm researching this topic for a while and I'm a bit confused, the question is:
is there a "standard" user experience for a web app that has to e saved into the user phone?
what I mean:
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Limited capabilities in mobile apps: why such choices?
As probably many of you, I use to experience limited capabilities in mobile apps. Until we talk about small websites and services, I got that probably they have to set some kind of cap where the most ...
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Top-down hamburger menu / is it a cool experience regarding my application?
I own an application managing some meetings (conceptual example).
Of course, my website is responsive so that it's fully usable on mobile devices.
Before showing some screenshots of my navigation ...
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Do we still need a Remember Me button on websites? Or can we rely on modern browsers to handle this?
I recently had a discussion at work about whether to include a "Remember Me" option on our website. Altough I was initially in favour of the idea, I later realised that most browsers already provide ...
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Legends in table data
We have a table of data that is not interactive but is too wide and growing so we need to consolidate the columns. Currently the headings are taking up the most space so I am trying to provide a ...
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Accessing Home screen from Logo placed on the Webpage - Why this is a common practice followed in most of the sites?
We are working on a designing a web application that has a Dashboard. The discussion is on whether to have the Dashboard as separate item on the Navigation or make it accessible by clicking the ...
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Notifications on iOS vs Android
In a progressive HTML5 Webapp, is it OK for the Android Version to have notifications and the iOS version not?
Seems a bit off, but iOS does not allow notifications for webapps.
Should I use an ...
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Are there any recommendations or statregy for showing reviews on content at product launch?
We have a bunch of content that want people to read and have added reviews to the content to help others understand what is more valuable than other content. We are about to launch this feature and ...
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Should I adopt infinite scrolling or classical pagination?
I own a Single page application (web) displaying a list of items.
Each item represents an announcement, imagine for example some bids.
A user can list the current bids, and click on one of them ...
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A good way to manage notifications read/unread in my social network
I'm building a social network that triggers some notifications to the user regarding friends' comments, similar to Facebook notifications.
The notification simply serves as an alert, meaning that it'...
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confirmation for booking
I am building a booking web app-closing appointments.
My intent is that when the user closes an appointment an e-mail is sent to him with a link to verify the booking.
My thoughts are that this might ...
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Modular loading
I'm building a web app that have 1 main feature and 2 sub features. The data that is displayed in these modules are pulled from a server and takes 1-2 seconds to load. I've chosen to save a cache of ...
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Best practice for app integrations
We have an app that allows you to integrate with Zoom. So basically, from our app, when the user adds Zoom, it will ask them to login in to their Zoom account which would then install our app in Zoom.
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What text should be used - 'Save for Later' or 'Add to Wishlist' or 'Bookmark it' or 'Shortlist it'?
I'm creating eCommerce web products (website, mobile-site, mobile-app) and on the products' listing page, I want to give users a choice to save any product, that they don't want to buy right now, but ...
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Responsive Design / What is an appropriate web component to choose a distance regarding user's geolocation?
I own a responsive web application.
I want to let user filter results (supposing a page listing some data) based on his geolocation and a chosen limit.
For instance, Bob wants to see all meetings ...
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Approaches to indicate and handle new items from websocket on a live news feed
I have a live news feed that looks like this.
I have data coming in continuously from websockets as long as you are on the page
Currently I show a button when there are non zero new items and they get ...
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Make Cards more clickable
I'm creating a flat-ish responsive website, which let's you vote 4 certain topics.
I'm displaying songs (but it could be whatever) in a flexbox grid system with 4 different colours. Each song is ...
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Best way to show the user a div have more details, will be shown upon click - arrow/grid icon/'>>'/'more details'?
I have Four divs on my homepage. Every div is showing a number and a indicator. But I have further details for each of the div which will be shown upon user click. Now I want to know what is the best ...
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When entering data, should the user be authenticated on clicking "Create" or "Save"?
Having the two options:
Check if user authenticated upon "Save" button click (when the input dialog is shown and filled in with the data)
Check if user authenticated upon "Create" button click (...
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From a UX point of view, what is the preferred way to develop cross platform apps in 2015? [closed]
My organization is looking to develop a cross-platform application.
I see that there are a large number of frameworks available that translate javascript of HTML5 code into native apps for iOS, ...
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Filtering by distance based on an address as reference
Being aware that HTML geolocation API does not work on every browser without using Wi-Fi, I'm trying to use an alternative more accurate to present nearest items from the user location.
I'd ...
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Scheduled vs actual dates & times on a table
I'm designing a "Deliveries" page for a B2B web app. Users can see their deliveries on a table and filter, see the details of each delivery, and export.
The columns of the table are:
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Implementing Filters as Tabs in a Web Dashboard
We are trying to provide users with a strong filter mechanism on a Dashboard that collects visit data. It feels like we have arrived at a point where only a few pieces of the puzzle are missing and we ...
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How do I manage too many columns in a tabular data showcase for mobile UX
I am building a crypto portfolio manager and I have the following goals with respect to my UX
Messenger Themed colors as it will run as a webview inside Messenger
I want to display gains or loses, ...
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Web Application API action synchronicity
The title is vague, sorry.
The issue to which I am referring to I will illustrate with 2 examples.
1)You fill in a form to add a new resource and click save, the request commences to the server and ...
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Should expanding one row collapse other rows?
Non-collapsing: http://fiddle.jshell.net/whytheday/2Dj7Y/11/show/
Collapsing: http://fiddle.jshell.net/QLfMU/116/show/
The collapsing behavior saves the user a click or a scroll. It would prevent a ...
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How to optimize user onboarding for an app without a login
Designed an app to help users quickly create printable user personas. The app doesn't require a login, but rather a unique url is created which allows users to to view and edit their personas later.
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What do you expect to see when you click an order's item?
we are building a site in which you can purchase products, virtual products and virtual courses.
Now the 'My Purchases' page got some complications. We are displaying the orders in a table with the ...
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How to design schedule service interface
I am trying to create an understandable and clear UX design for a schedule designer web app.
Imagine we have categories of followers and marketing emails to send. Also we have a schedule: each day we ...
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What is the best way to show two questions in a single screen.
I'm working on a questionnaire, part of a web app. Until now the admin could form a questionnaire with different question types and rearrange them accordingly. Now it is needed to add the following ...
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Selecting from double value options
In a complex issue, I have a grid of items that user should select two values from a list of pair values.
In above example, you can see that user for Item 1 selects [ 65 - 36 ] pair value set and ...
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How annoying or useful are warning or alert messages for the users?
I'm developing a flow for a web app where the user creates some content to post on the Internet. If the user decides not to finish the process, should the app warn or alert the user, that the content ...
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How to make it look like search results have updated?
I have a site with a search bar. When a user enters a query in the input field and clicks the submit button, front-end JavaScript searches some JSON and returns results based on their search.
In this ...
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How can I communicate the user, that the refresh button must be clicked to refresh the content?
In an web app the user can restrict the timeinterval of an chart via a min, and a max date. When the two desired dates are set, the user has to click on the refresh button. Observated users hastiated. ...
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How should I handle search when data keeps updating via websockets?
I have a real time news feed that keeps updating via websockets
Lets say you went to the search bar and typed new york
I will fetch all 'new york' related articles from the database
But since I am ...
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What should happen if a social login user tries to reset their password?
On my webapp, I have normal users who signup with email/password combination
I also offer signup via Facebook, Google, Twitter...
Let's say you are a social login user who logged in via Facebook on my ...
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How to improve the UX of this filter area?
Let's suppose an application that manage meetings between employees of various companies.
A meetings list is shown to any logged employee, and this one may mark himself as a participant if he's ...
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Is it a good idea to have a back button go back if the link is the same as the previous history entry?
Let's say you have a website / app where there are user pages, and on the user page there are additional links for things like that user's awards or posts. Something like this:
The issue I'm having ...
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Hide premium features/content or show+lock them?
We are currently building a learning platform that has two membership tiers. Let’s call them basic and premium.
With premium you get quite a bit more features and access to additional content.
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Is offering 2 Apps at the same time a bad experience for the User?
So we have our Website as a PWA (Progressive Web App) which means it can also be installed as a App on the Device from the Browser.
I wondered how it would feel for the User to have Downloaded the ...
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Should painting apps use right click?
I'm just making a simple painting app for practice using canvas and I can't decide whether or not I want right click to do anything.
For example, in Microsoft Paint you can have two colors and use ...
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Responsive Design / Is it a good UX for a multi-step form?
I've got a responsive web app that displays a multi-step.
There are 4 steps: What?, Where?, When?, With?, that are indicated on each step to let user know the progress.
For instance, here's what it ...
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How to represent this notion of "favored" participant?
I'm introducing the concept :
Suppose a webapp aiming to suggest some meetings to targeted people so that they can participate to at least one of them.
So there's a page listing the items and a page ...
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How can we validate this idea for a restaurant/bar app?
I'm a software engineer from the Netherlands. A friend and I have an idea for creating a progressive web app for medium-to-large size restaurants and bars. How would we validate if people would use ...
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How should an app clarify that you can choose the outcome size only during the first 2 of the 4-step process?
I am working on an app that synthesizes long texts, articles, essays.
You paste in the text and the system starts synthesizing.
You can choose a size or length for the final format, say Short, Medium, ...
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