Questions tagged [user-expectation]
The attitude that the user develops as a result of previous experience with similar products/service or previous experience with the product/service in question that evolves over time. Tag must be used only when there's a change or shift in an otherwise common user expectation.
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What is the minimum waiting time after when should a page loader be displayed to the user?
I haven't been able to find answer to my question from the internet, so maybe someone knows how to help me.
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What to call a page that covers the Sign In / Sign Up aspect of user accounts?
I would like to make a page that covers creating a user account / signing into a user account.
I have researched this before and found out that sign in / out / up is generally a better term to use ...
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Why do 2019-era email clients [(+/-) a few years] often allow you to delete or enter new destination addresses, but not fully edit them?
Suppose that you are writing an email. You mistype someone's address in the "To" field. For example, maybe you write, "[email protected]." Before sending the email, you remember that that person ...
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Should an opened sub-menu collapse when the user opens other sub-menu?
Take for example Google Material design website, that has big sub-menus in the sidebar's menu.
The sub menus are closed on page load.
Material design
Motion
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Clicking on a menu ...
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Is it bad practice to disable (replace) the context menu?
I'm working on a web platform where users can select/highlight text and perform selection-specific actions on the highlighted text. The current implementation shows a custom context menu on selection (...
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What are conventions for keyboard shortcuts in Windows and OSX?
Keyboard shortcuts in Windows appear to follow some sort of convention based on the modifier key, but I can't figure out precisely what it is. Here is my current best guess:
Ctrl-* often does a ...
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Are there more elegant options to CAPTCHA? [duplicate]
Are there more elegant and user friendly options to captcha out there? Not only do I find that the format of captcha really muddles up a site design, but often users have to refresh for a new one ...
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Do users like icons on an input field?
Icons on input field
Input field without icons
Do icons really matter on an input field? Do they encourage users signing up?
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What is the rationale behind the way modern elevator dispatch systems are implemented?
There have been many elevator upgrade projects with the aim of saving energy and time for the managers and occupants of buildings. I suspect this has to do with the increase in height and volume of ...
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User experience of PDF menus on restaurant websites
Most of us would be familiar with ordering food online from takeaway or fastfood places where the menu is integrated into the ordering form or app. When I recently visited a few restaurant websites ...
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Do users like or star? [duplicate]
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Is there any science between liking or staring? Does the user click one faster? Does the user respect one more?
Do users like or star?
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How to make it easier to cancel bookings for a class?
Let's say I have a gym class and have scheduled slots for the classes.
Now Customer A booked on Friday at 8pm class. This is the last slot.
Now Customer B booked on Friday at 8pm class too. But this ...
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Are checkboxes with crosses (instead of ticks) safe to use?
Would you consider checkboxes using crosses instead of the standard ticks OK to be used in UIs?
There are several CONs (being easily confused with close or delete crosses and wrongly implying there ...
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Does math scare users? [closed]
On most food containers, they say:
Sugars less than 1g.
Why don't they just say:
< 1g
Do users not like math in any context? Even if the math helps summarize and shorten content?
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What should be the expected way to unselect a dropdown
I have a dropdown which shows select One before any of the options are selected.Once the user has selected one of the options .what is the accepted way to unselect that option and go back to the ...
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In terms of UX, what's the best way to introduce new design? Gradually or via beta version?
In terms of UX, what's the best way to introduce a completely new design for an application? It will have the same user base and functionalities plus new features (one of them being responsive design)....
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Should the internal storage of a phone/tablet be referred to as "SD card" in the UI?
I help novice users with their Android devices. When browsing through the file system, many of them get confused about the fact that the internal storage (or rather, the emulated part they have access ...
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How do I indicate that clicking a button will remove their search results?
This is about a complicated application that holds 50 years of archived data. Some things are illogical and we can't change it because it's stuck in 50 years of rusted customs. But slowly I'll try and ...
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Comparing/merging two records using Material Design
Problem: We are working on a medical scheduling application. A common problem are duplicated patient records, stemming from legacy data or from careless inputting under pressure, without consulting ...
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'More Info' button vs. Making the entire table row a link
I have a large table (14 columns) on my site. I want each row to link to a different page. What is the best way to let a user know that clicking a row will take them to a page related to that row?
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Having the register and login options on same page - Best practices
Sorry for the making this a lengthy question, but I needed to make all info available.
So I'm trying to design the home page of a web application.
The home page will have the following elements
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What URL's characteristics have a real impact on the UX?
I'm starting a blog soon so I've been thinking about what I should take into account when choosing an URL.
Some variables I've thought about: Length, meaning, suffix, memorability, SEO.
Related to ...
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Should tags be inside or outside the input field
So tagging inputs are pretty common but there are generally 2 different approaches I see for displaying the tags:
The tags are below the input outside of the type-able space:
The tags are inside the ...
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iOS Black keyboard
Is the black iOS keyboard used to indicate that the form is secure?
There seems to be suggestions that it is the case but I can not find a clear answer within any guidelines and have seen the black ...
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How to make text selectable in master/detail table view?
We are designing a datatable view for scientistic users. They get this table after they input a bunch of filters and press search.
The table is already quite big - 13 columns. However we know that ...
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How to force user to select a location and not simply type it?
Let's suppose this simple form:
So, the user is expected to enter the keywords of the meeting's full address.
While typing, suggestions are displayed (autocomplete feature).
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Should marking a chat message as spam automatically ignore the user?
Two typical features of chat rooms are, the ability to ignore another user (hide all of their messages) and to mark a particular message as spam.
Should marking a user's message as spam automatically ...
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Branding and Red color
I making a web service prototype and design, this service designed for internal use (something like CRM). Main branding color of our company is Red (like #d50000). But red is almost always used for ...
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Defined used for the icon: three vertical dots
Is there a defined use(s) for the icon
I have seen various uses for it, but I would like to know if there is a standard purpose for it - or if it can be used as a shortcut for any function needed ...
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"Your app is empty man!" / How to modify UI/UX to stop this kind of feedback?
I own an application aiming to make people meet each other around activities/outs.
There are two ways of suggesting an activity/out to other members:
Inviting anybody at once. All members would then ...
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Show username or full name
In my web app I have both the user's username, and their Full Name. Username does not allow spaces.
To identify a user, should I show a full name or should I show their usernames? The names would be ...
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does a pushed button with I and O on it mean it is on or off
I am trying to charge a childs electric car. It says to make sure it is in the off position while charging. However, it is a button that goes in or out. How do I know whether pushing the button in ...
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Terminology: Long press or Touch & hold?
I've seen both versions used in Android. What do you think is the best term to use? I've also heard people to use "Long click", "Long touch" & "Long tap" but I personally don't like any of those. ...
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Is having a light theme necessary?
let me just preface this by saying that this question stems from my lack of knowledge about others' opinions regarding this matter, so the only prior knowledge I have is my own preferences.
So, I use ...
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What is the logic behind delete other-end chat?
I am design a social network site. One of the most important feature of site is chatting.
But I have no idea that should I give feature to delete messages including other end too. (Eg: If A send a ...
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How to communicate visually the ability to change columns in a table
Often websites may include functionality that allows a user to select what columns appear in a table. When this occurs, what is the best way to visually communicate this action, so the user both ...
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Dropdown cart menu vs on click
Although not a designer I'm trying to make our site as user friendly as I can. In so doing I have heavily customized it.
Currently I have a "problem" with the cart and the user-menu.
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Order of arrangement controls for Back/Front Backward/Forward
Backstory
A discussion came up in my organization where we're looking at the conventions for ordering the Forward/Backward and Front/Back buttons for our desktop application, which runs on Mac, ...
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Can comments decrease content creation in fear of not receiving enough social feedback or acknowledgment?
It's been written that one of the reasons for Snapchat's success is the fact that they did not implement likes regarding photos. Some reasonably theories that likes inhibit the frequency of content ...
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Scroll Up & Down to show Past & Future
Would you ever ask, or expect your users to understand that they can and should scroll up from their entry point?
The idea is showing articles in reverse-chronological order.
They can also scroll ...
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Do users understand "Shake to say no" animations?
It seems to be more prevalent recently that a form or action that is deemed invalid will respond by shaking in horizontal "no" like animation. A simple example seen here:
or:
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Hiding a form element behind an icon
So Inbox, by Google, hides checkboxes for multi-select behind a message icon:
I am personally not a fan of this approach, since I find it a stretch for a user to try and discover if images or icons ...
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How to tell user if they are offline or online?
App is browser based and is using local storage to facilitate offline working (no internet dependency for limited functionality) and faster response (data is available locally so less network calls).
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Can it hurt our brand to use our logo as a (floating action) button?
We're exploring ways to familiarize our users with our brand and one idea is to use the logo as the icon in a floating action button in our mobile application views.
I have heard in the past from UX ...
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What does an folded corner (earmarked page) represent to a user?
I'm designing a user interface where the user will be editing letter templates. I'm wondering what a folder corner (earmarked page) represents in UX design. Thanks!
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Is it a "Natural language" form a good practice?
A good UX for a form is one that makes it easy and fast to use.
An experimental form like this, that uses natural language instead of the usual form display seems to be simple to use and creative, but ...
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What is a reason for using both autocomplete and suggestion features?
This pattern is best shown when searching on Google. When a user starts typing (in this case stack), four suggestions show up on a dropdown list below but also, at the same time, the one that is at ...
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Are fake loaders bad ux?
I have an app I created for my company that uses arrays and a lot of JS to load in the content. This obviously comes back with some huge load times (up to 8s), where the majority of it is when the ...
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'Sex' or 'gender' on apps?
I'm a little bit hesitant to use the word Sex in the design of my website, my other choice is to use Gender but based on this discussion it states that grammar-wise I need to use Sex for it refers ...
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What is the advantage of drop down list appearing in front of control instead of below it?
Originally, drop-down lists appeared at a static position below the control (or above it if space was restricted):
However, in recent user interfaces, these lists appear in front of (i.e. layered on ...
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