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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Next vs. Continue
Is there any situation in which either Next vs. Continue would be more appropriate to use?
I'm working on an application that has many, many different forms (data entry), and have been using the word ...
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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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Toast message or dialog message for displaying internet connection error message on application
We are designing a new android application.
The app is in its initial stage of architectural design and UI definition.
One of the main question is how to display internet connection error message, On ...
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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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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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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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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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Are there any letters/numbers that should be avoided in an ID?
For example, an image upload site that gives you a 5 digit ID for your file (domain.com/aCd5y)
Should any letters/digits not be used in the final ID, to make it easier for people to read and share ...
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Is it a good idea to add new rows on top of existing ones?
Consider my fiddle implementation of a table.
At the beginning, my table was more conventional, featuring the + button below the table and adding new rows below old ones.
Now, I've decided to make the ...
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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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Should Income and Expense in money management app be red or green?
I'm designing a money management app, and I'm curious what does people react to the color red and green.
Incomes should be displayed green or red? And expenses?
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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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Should there always be a header and footer on a website?
Strange question perhaps but I've been pondering over the idea of not using any header and footer at all for a website application (non-responsive).
I thought of the idea for only having a sidebar on ...
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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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Will I confuse users by making my whole site HTTPS?
I'd like to make every page on my site load through HTTPS by default (less hassle at my end, personally I prefer HTTPS if given a choice as a user).
However, I'm concerned that seeing the HTTPS icon /...
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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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Browsing a collection of items via tag name
Take a collection of items.
You split this collection up into 3 groups and then within your UI (in this example we'll assume we're designing an iOS app) you place a segment control with 3 segments so ...
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Zebra striping in dynamic table
Here's a hypothetical question partially inspired by a real scenario.
Assume that you have a table with many rows of data. This table isn't static; rows can be dynamically altered, added and removed ...
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Thoughts on 2 CTAs in a hero/header section
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I'm working on a landing page for a software company. Currently, the company offers one enterprise product. Soon, a second "lite" product will roll out, and I'm wondering about the hero/CTA.
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How to show "updated" posts within a chronological stream/feed?
What's the best way to show updated (edited or commented on) posts within a chronological feed of posts? This is essentially a categorized Twitter-like feed. So, naturally, users can comment on them.
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Is the Kano model adaptable for measuring user experience?
I have been looking to develop some metrics for a UX project (which was also a question I posted previoiusly), and have been reading about the Kano model and how it maps to different user behaviour/...
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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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Best approach for maintaining/persisting search criteria/filters when user returns to a search page?
Say I have a basic "search" page on my site that allows user to enter filters and keywords. Then a list of results appears, and the user can click on a result to go to a "details" page about that one ...
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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 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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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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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:
Scenario 1
41 users, 10 users per page - There will be 5 pages and the 5th page will ...
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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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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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Use up or down arrow to represent "sort ascending" at table header
To represent "sort ascending" (a -> b -> c -> ...) , my first sense told me that, I should use ↓ to represent it. This is because if I lay my data
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It seems like thing is moving naturally ...
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Use of Mouse-Over Paragraph Marker in Headlines for Permalink
I haven't really noticed this before, but it seems there's some fad where a headline on a web page would include a mouse over paragraph marker (¶) that links to a named anchor for the headline. If ...
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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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How to handle "forgot password" when user has not confirmed email?
If you follow the pattern of allowing users access to your application without having confirmed an email (generally considered good UX), how do handle the case where they forgot their password? Very ...
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Save/Cancel/Close button behavior question
The attached image shows a dialog with a save/cancel button bank and a "x" icon to close the dialog. The question I have is this. Should the cancel button even be on the modal if it does not clear/...
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Multi language support for developer tools?
Does a project management tool which is built for software developers need multi language support?
Supporting multiple languages can break the user interface, because most languages need more space ...
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How long should a page take to load?
Back in 1997 Jacob Nielsen was suggesting:
Currently, the minimum goal for response times should therefore be to get pages to users in no more than ten seconds
Obviously expectations have sped up ...
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