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Are there any guidelines for using the auto focus (programmatic focus) on a webpage by WCAG 2.0?
Regarding ADA compliance and web accessibility guidelines like WCAG and WAI-ARIA, is there a specific requirement recommending the auto-focusing of input fields after service failure error (not a ...
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What's the right UI of a dropdown when it's disabled?
There are several settings that users need to go through, one of them is selecting a model. By default, a model is pre-selected in the dropdown field. However, if the user expands the advanced options ...
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Do you need an "All" filter for chips?
Im using a filter system that involves using chips to filter by category. You can only select one chip at a time. Does it make sense to have an "all" filter, or to allow the user to deselect ...
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What is this new insane trend to remove the "order by" feature from websites?
In the last couple of months, two major websites I use have removed the entire basic feature to order the list of items in any way other than by "relevance", if it even mentions what it ...
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Is a slight icon inconsistency ok if the icons are clear?
So I am designing something that will tell the user whether something is online or offline. The problem is, I cant decide on a final design for my icons. The various designs look better on different ...
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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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Should one button do 2 actions (GitHub Case Study)?
Case in point - GitHub's "Fork" button. This button used to show all the forks that exist for the current repository but now it doesn't do that anymore. GitHub suddenly changed it to act as ...
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Back button fatigue
Let's say I have two pages, a list of products "Product List" and the "Product Page" itself.
When I click on a product (e.g. a phone) I'd like to explore its variations (e.g. ...
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What are some good alternatives for using a lot of icons in software?
This is my first time posting here.
The company I work for uses A LOT of icons (100+) in every color to specify the meaning of a specific table row. See the image below for clarification:
I've been ...
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An alternative name for a Dashboard, with more functions?
We have an app that works in two separate pages. It involves sharing content and presenting information with other users. The secondary, optional (but highly recommended) page is called a dashboard. ...
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Textbased RPG: in a battle, how can I distinguish between your actions and the enemy?
In my game, the way my battles work is you attack and sometimes the enemy attacks in return. It's always one on one. Here's how this looks:
The first line is your action, the rest is the enemy's. ...
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eCommerce -> After a digital course has been purchased, should I still show this course in category page?
I am developing an online course website based on WordPress.
Website has 30 courses in total.
Courses are divided into 5 categories (A, B, C, D, E).
There are 6 courses per category.
Each course ...
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What is best practice for remembering last position in audio player for logged out users?
I am developing an online course website based on WordPress.
Each course has audio file only so I am using an audio player to play the courses (no video).
Assume website has 10 courses with names A, B,...
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What UX decisions to make to promote civility online?
Folks aren't as nice online as they are in person. Trying to find ways to mitigate this, a cursory search only turns up suggestions that each user can do to be more civil online. What UX decisions ...
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How to engage user if some API is taking time on website or app
What are the methods using which we can engage the user on website or mobile app page where some backend API take more time to provide the output.
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Where to put a Map on the Contact Us page?
I’m working on a Contact Us page and trying to keep it minimal with only 3 sections (in order):
Map
Contact Us Form
Footer
Does it matter if it is:
Contact Us Form
Map
Footer?
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I have removed ...
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Should all subsites look the same?
I am building a website where there is one main site and multiple subsites.
Each subsite targets a different audience trying to accomplish different tasks. Because of that, styling and structure on ...
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How to ask for user's birth date with OAuth?
I'm developing a site that requires a user's birthday (both to validate they are over 18 and for use by other users).
Asking for a birthday with an email registration form is trivial. Simply just add ...
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Overflowing content in textarea - default scrollbar or dynamically increase height?
When a textarea has overflowing content, should we keep its default behaviour, meaning it will have a scrollbar on the right, or should the height dynamically increase?
Which one do you think is a ...
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When can you have too many CTA's on your website?
I used to have a single CTA right below the page fold. I was advised to increase CTA section on my SaaS offering (https://divshow.bytebeacon.com). I thought that and a login button on a sticky ...
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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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Stack or use multiple notification toasts
I’ve seen it many times before where you’re on a website and you get a notification which comes in the form of a toast, if you perform the same action another toast will appear and it will push the ...
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Tri-state icon convention?
I have to design a report with validated information about the data entered. In some fields I have a typical triple state.
Imagine a file. That file belongs to a report model file. When uploading it, ...
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If we have to explain how to do something to a user, we have failed?
I was having this conversation the other day, well, a meeting where I heard
If we have to explain how to do something to a user, we have failed.
Now, in some circumstances, without a doubt, ...
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Should the user be given an option to scan or read an article?
I am working on my portfolio website and I wanted to allow the user (colleague/recruiter) to either scan or read the case studies. How to I validate this feature?
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Is it more common, or best practice, to design several web pages to fill out user profile data or one page divided into sections? [closed]
I notice that a site like LinkedIn feels overwhelming and clumsy to me when I'm trying to update my profile. I would guess that LinkedIn would hire some of the best developers in the world, yet it ...
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Making up user audience?
I understand that, for someone who’s just starting to put together a portfolio without any “real” projects under his belt, made up projects and scenarios are acceptable pieces of work to include. ...
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The best icon for settings, wrench or gear? [closed]
While we were discussing UX at work, we stumbled across this question. Which icon is the best icon for settings, wrench or gear? We simply just need to figure out which icon is the best for settings ...
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How would you differeniate between a user login and another account on a website?
I am working on a project with a financial company. They require a user to create a financial account and then create an online account. Currently, they are both referenced as "Account". The issue I ...
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How to represent an initial unpopulated value?
What is considered a feasible representation of a value that has yet to be loaded? Would something such as the -- placeholder be sufficient or is there something else that is better suited / widely ...
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Where to put a search filter checkbox left or right side?
I have a search filters design for an eCommerce website, I wonder where should I put the checkbox of each filter? Any suggestion in terms of the usability and user experience?
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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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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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Display logo twice in Material design menu
Is it a bad design to have a logo twice in Material Design menu, One with collapsible mode and the one when the menu is expanded as below?
Since I make the logo two places here, our marketing team ...
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Should we anticipate when the user is asking for the menu when we hide the navigation on scroll?
A lot of websites nowadays, admittedly more so in desktop view, (which is now seen by fewer thanks to the world of mobile) hide the navigation bar when you scroll down. This is a good thing as it ...
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How to decide how accessible a product should be?
I'm currently working on several projects with multiple organisations. We are generally barely given any resources to implement tons of accessibility functionalities to help disabled users (I know how ...
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Is it alright to combine Profile and Settings?
What do you guys think? Is it alright to combine Profile and Settings in web application? This is quite common approach in mobile apps. Reason to combine these two is to keep the header simple. Not to ...
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Internationally friendly decimal quantities
I was recently in a discussion about decimal / comma ambiguity (it came about as a result of a vendor product not working for me due to regional settings, but that's neither here nor there), but we ...
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How do I ask my users if I can mine cryptocurrency on their browser?
As ridiculous as this question sounds, this is the only place out of all stackexchange websites that made sense. Let's say I have a website and I intend to use the user's browser to mine. I don't want ...
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When should an inherited design pattern be avoided?
I'm currently working on a fairly old product that has been partially reworked 2 or 3 times by different teams. This has left the interface somewhat fragmented with different design patterns used in ...
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Where should text content be placed on screen?
In which part of the empty screen on desktop should text content be placed for most effective readability for user? Suppose that short info is all content (like on the picture below). People read (...
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Thumbnail gallery wizard navigation on selection
I have doubt on my design related to thumbnail gallery wizard. Wizard has few pages consist of thumbnail images (10 images per page), where each gallery page has a question, and the answer would be to ...
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Better word for contributing content
I'm working on website that heavily features user-contributed content.
I currently have a link titled "Contribute" that leads to a page explaining how a user can help, in the form of adding new ...
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Why do we keep asking if our users would use/recommend our product/service again?
I read about users not being able to predict their own future behavior because they simply can't comprehend what influences their choices(UX Myths).
If this is the case, why do websites, apps and ...
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Conditional checkbox [closed]
I have a checkbox with two possible things underneath it.
If the box is not checked, there will be a dropdown with different default options.
If the box is checked, the user will have to assign two ...
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Display information: Redirect to new page or show pop-up?
I have searched for similar questions but they couldn't really answer the problem in my case.
I have designed a profile page where users can display their earned titles trough a reputation system. ...
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Making something not look clickable
I haven't tested this theory, but I have a feeling users of my website may believe that the 'Concept' tag is clickable, when it isn't. How can I make it clear that this is not a button?
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Should I specify type of downloadable document?
On my personal website I have an "About" page. At the top of it there is a "Download CV" link.
Should I put the type of the document in the brackets like "Download CV (PDF)"? Does the lack of ...
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Displaying multiple Sections/Subsections in one page to avoid scrolling
I want to create a layout for web application where the user enters a large amount of information for review in the company.
Multiple users can access the same review of company.
The user can select ...
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Responsive wizard page numbers scroll on mobile device with the page or not
I have a question wizard (Image thumbnails), I have designed my layout as below for desktop and mobile. I am not sure what should be the best place to include page numbers on mobile screen, as I done ...
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