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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Anything I could do to improve my sign up form?
So I think that I'm finally at a point where I can say that my sign up form for desktop users is pretty much done.
I've tried to make it user friendly at first sight by keeping it as short as ...
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How should hamburger menu open in mobile apps?
I have seen many mobile apps which currently use hamburger menu as sidebar menu as it is very convenient and user friendly. Now, we have started to use it in our mobile apps design and it is very ...
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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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Best practice for clearing user input from a kiosk app?
We're developing an app which will be run on a dedicated device on display in a promotional stand.
The app consists of a splash screen and several subsections, one of which allows users to select up ...
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How do i balance MI requirements with the user experience?
Im designing an online form, to start the form, the user has to select between x3 options:
(option 1) or (option 2) or (option 3)
If the option 3 is selected, a lightbox appears to tell users they ...
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Reordering content for mobile devices - distracting or helpful feature?
With CSS3 its really easy to reorder the content depending on the screen size, which leads me to the question: Only because its possible, should I?
A use case could be directions - one could assume ...
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What's the right experience for deleting a favorite conversation from a messaging inbox?
I have a messaging app that produces a lot of conversation volume each day. I am adding a favorites section to the messaging feature, and need to define the flow for when a message is deleted. Here is ...
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Using a color scheme to represent a combination
I have two classes (say, A and B) of objects represented by two different colors. Now certain objects could belong to both A and B. How should I choose a color scheme for these classes so that I can ...
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How to deal with extra space
I'm developing a web application that already use a responsive design(bootstrap) and play well within any small resolution. But that's common that nowadays desktop screens go up to 1920px wide, and ...
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Do users know that clicking the logo on a website will take them to home page? [duplicate]
I had a discussion with a colleague about using "Home" link in main (top) navigation. I know that I should give more options to users, so, my question is not about I should use "Home" link or logo ...
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Hide or disable an Advanced button?
Assuming I have a form with a drop-down list and an "Advanced" button. The last button should be enabled only if certain options are selected in the drop-down list.
Now I'm wondering whether to ...
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How to represent medium difficulty? (fitness)
We have several video fitness programs with difficulties related to the intensity of the workouts. When categorizing them by difficulty "Easy" and "Hard" are clearly communicated by these terms but ...
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Customer logged in - Show dashboard on homepage
This is something I have been struggling with and overthinking.
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I have a website where customers create accounts, log-in and work in a dashboard to create and post items.The homepage simple ...
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Should a 'Calculator' support '{' (curly braces) and '[' (box braces)
NOTE: I had originally asked this question on https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/, but I had been asked to move it here.
I am currently developing a Simplifier for a Calculator. This ...
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Should social media links open in a new tab or window?
Is it advisable that social media links (facebook, twitter, etc) will open in a new tab? Does it depends on the number of social media links?, What if there were only 3 social media links?, should I ...
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Issues with 2 Column Search Results [closed]
Is there anything wrong with having a 2 column search result set?
I have a list of Customers and Contacts.
Each result has a lot of information:
Name, ID, Status, Location, Last Modified, Display ...
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Tutorial Design (android carpool app)
We are developing a carpool app. I need to display a tutorial during the registration.
The tutorial needs to convey that we remove all awkward cash exchange by exchanging km's.
Now, these are my ...
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Update vs. Save
I'm working on an application that has a lot of CRUD functionality.
When creating an element, I have a button labeled with "Save".
My original thoughts were to bring this "Save" button across all ...
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What welcome text to use when user name not known?
What is generally recognised as the best way to handle a welcome message for a user whose username may not be known? In my menu I have a "Welcome " title, with the user's photo but thinking ...
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Open page in Parent, Tab or Pop-Up
I'm working on an application with a lot of user functionality and navigation which stems from the ability to create, edit,update,delete (C.R.U.D) the majority of objects/entities.
My question is, ...
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How can I improve this GUI interface?
I'm making a Mac GUI for my application Mac Linux USB Loader and I'm not sure how to design my application's document window to conform to good UX principles. Here's a screenshot of the window:
The ...
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Links vs Actions
This question may be a little vague, but thought I would ask anyways.
I'm working on application that has alot links and actions visible in my interface.
Most of my actions are accompanied by some ...
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Getting the customer to schedule one more ride (carpool)
We are developing a carpool application. Once the ride is complete, I am trying to get them to schedule one more ride immediately. I feel something is missing in the experience, I am not able to pin ...
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Simplify the gamification further (carpool)
I am building a carpool app for India. And the app needs to work on a point (km) system. Initially I thought that working on a system that is based on points will be good enough until I was advised to ...
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Progressive disclosure versus showing all information upfront. Whats the best practise?
I'm designing a 'confirm and pay page' for an insurance provider.
At the moment, I've split the page into x2 parts:
Confirm
User has to review 3 things and then explicitly 'agree to the quote'
Pay
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Should we fake succesful form submit, display result and then revert if some conditions are not met?
Like on Stack exchange, when you try to vote up your question, it appears like you successfully voted, count goes up and vote up button highlights, but then when form actually completes submitting ...
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What text should be used for an insertion button? "Create", "New" or "Add"?
Whenever I have been designing interfaces, I always wonder if I should name the button Create, New or Add. I have never decided and stuck with one and would like to get an explanation on what use ...
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For a streaming music service, should clicking play on an album, add to the start or end of queue? Or play immediately?
I want to know what the user's expectation is when he/she clicks on the play button of an album and it's position in the queue.
Rdio:
If you press the play button – plays immediately. However, they ...
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Should a check box field be disabled or removed from an interface if is it not going to be used? [duplicate]
I have a web page set up wizard that guides a user through several steps to create an object.
One of the steps in the wizard requires the users to pick via check boxes a property to their object. ...
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Correct way to tell file size to user
When a web application wants to tell its user the size of the file the user intends to download, should the app tell the user its logical file size or the size of the file on disk?
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Designing an app that will be used as an iframe within 30 different applications
The context:
A native app that went through a complete life-cycle.
The Problem:
Recently, on one of the calls with client, it was revealed that this native app will also be used as an iframe in 30 ...
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"more..." What happens then?
I've often seen links on the web - mostly beneath smaller text blocks - indicating that theres more to read when you click on it:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam
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Should tabbing focus on datagridview
Should pressing the tab button within a windows form take the focus through a datagridview? What is the typical expectation of windows forms users from other applications?
The purpose of the form is ...
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Do people expect to mistype their passwords?
I expect people have to type in passwords pretty regularly. Sometimes if you haven't typed it in for a while but end up faced with a login prompt, you think you remember the password, type it in, and ...
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Android pattern of left aligning in action bar
The design guideline for Android action bars is to left align the text or branding of the app, as opposed to center alignment in iOS.
Other than the fact that it increases familiarity with other ...
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How to present multiple options
I have a very simple application. It has three different options
to explore some data, then it displays those data on a different view, which is a level deeper in navigation.
It has some breadcrumb ...
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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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Asking for "User ID" when ID is always an email
I tend to have one username that I use for most of the sites that require it (and thankfully it is almost always available). There are a number of sites where the user ID is an email (this post was ...
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What works the best: User convenience or User habits?
I've noted that sometimes convenient features are too far from users' expectations or habits. For example, I've noted that http://small-improvements.com uses a form without a save button and they ...
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Is the back button in Windows 8 apps purely chronological?
The back button is ubiquitous in Windows 8 ("Metro") apps.
What exactly is its meaning? The Microsoft apps I have seen and the Visual Studio page templates use the button in a chronological manner (...
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Login without breaking the user flow
Let's say a user wants to perform an action that requires him to be logged in (e.g. sending a private message) so a link is provided to him to log in with a message similar to the following:
Only ...
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Is remembering and using user ID when logged out a bad thing?
I'm developing a website for a group of people who play a game online. (It's for a mmorpg guild). I'm creating it all myself rather than using an existing system mostly to learn website skills as I'm ...
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Battery - what percentage range to use for each color?
I need to display battery with 3 colors: green, orange (or yellow?) and red.
This device's battery (like iPad, iPhone etc..) with a battery life of up to two days.
What percentage range to use for ...
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Which page should we go to after results are deleted?
I have a list of users shown in a paginated fashion and need to determine how to handle these two scenarios:
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41 users, 10 users per page - There will be 5 pages and the 5th page will ...
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Highly rated content, how do users expect this to be sorted?
We are currently designing a community where users can upload content (User Genererated Content). This content is voted on by those who have used the uploaded content (usage is a criteria for voting) ...
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