Questions tagged [ux-designer]
Concerns and thoughts about being a UX Designer. This is an abstract tag. It may not directly be linked to a specific problem. It caters to being a UX designer and the career aspects of it.
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What is the term for an actual UI specialist?
The currently omnipresent term for someone involved in designing, prototyping, testing and refining the usability of online and desktop interfaces is "UX/UI designer".
Alas, that term is ...
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How can you validate what you've learned as a UX designer and enhance your skills?
For the past four years, I have been practicing interaction design, but I have recently encountered a bottleneck in my ability to improve. Currently, when I encounter a problem, I instinctively ...
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Radio vs checkboxes
Can I get thoughts on which pattern is better (internal debate at work as to which we should be using)...
Developers favor radio buttons as there's no need for any error handling.
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Are there theoretical ways to create empathy between users of a product?
So I've had this question forever, but it doesn't seem like I've seen any answers to it as of yet.
We've all seen the trashfires of many social media websites, but my question still stands, is it ...
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How many error icons are enough in a nested configuration menu?
So I have been developing a way for users to track where they left mandatory fields blank, so that they can freely go back and forth between menus, the input field would just turn red. In the example ...
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When is the best moment to show an input error on a multi-tab configuration menu?
I have a configuration menu with multiple menu, tabs, and some required options. I have asked a similar question regarding this issue, but I have a more specific question. At what point should I show ...
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Online portfolio or Offline portfolios?
I am a working individual who wants to switch over to UX design.
I am trying to create a portfolio for my first project, but I am conflicted: I am not sure whether my portfolio should be a web page or ...
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Device for people with advanced tremors and speech difficulties to type using feet and hand
Some older people are often full of tremors, including in their voice, and in their hands, but can still use their feet.
They can often also spell.
I was wondering whether anyone has designed a double ...
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Can I call mysely UX-Designer in a project without real users? [closed]
My team and I are developing an map-based website for a client, which merges a lot of geographical information onto the map. The project itself is so innovative (not meant to sound snobbish here), ...
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How can I improve the UX of the following time picker. This should allow the users to set their weekly availability
Availability is Set
Availability is Not Set
I am looking to improve the UI and UX of the following page where users can set their weekly availability for a meeting. I have attached 2 screenshots, ...
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Do we call all types of progress indicators a loader?
Do we call all types of progress indicators a loader.
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Regarding buttons that takes user outside the app, how do I get them back to the original app?
I have an app where the user undergoes a sign-up flow. During that flow, the user needs to enable "family sharing" on iOS which involves going into the iOS device settings and completing a ...
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Where should "Unassigned" items go when considering a list filter?
I have a large data table and have some filter options. One of these options is the ability to filter by group, i.e. you can view group1, group2, group3, etc. The issue is, every item either has a ...
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Is it necessary to include the individuals interviewed during the empathy and ideation stages in your usability study?
Before you head right into the research study, you are required to gather information of your target audience through the use of interviews. The participants of your initial research during these ...
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How to build a case study and portfolio when you have no experience yet? [duplicate]
I am trying to make a good impression and wanted to show everything I've learned from my Google UX certification in a course I took from Coursera. How can I best show it? Is there some websites that I ...
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What are various factors to be considered for Font Selection Parameters for any applications?
I am sure there are multiple parameters and factors to be considered while selecting a font, for the application to be designed and developed. Few of the points that are straight away taken into ...
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UX pattern for category implementation [closed]
I have to create a UI interface to create a category hierarchy up to 7 levels, such as:
Shoes > Boots > Brand names > etc.
I also need to add functionality to edit the created category ...
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In one line of a dropdown menu, how can I show that an item is disabled with an icon?
So I have a list of groups, but these groups are dependent on the model you selected. In this image, Group 1 is disabled because I have selected model b (not shown) and Group 1 is only for model A.
I ...
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How to make sure user on on the right login page before they continue?
So we currently have two different types of devices, and each device has its own login page/URL. Our customers have been getting confused as to which url they need to access for which device they have....
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How do you keep up to date of the latest UX trends? [closed]
I am new in UI/UX and I have been seeing design systems suggested by many articles and design trends to know about. I was wondering where people are getting all these ideas or news from? Is there some ...
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Progress vertical bar chart labels
I have a vertical bar chart that represents the progress of the usage. I have limited width and height to work with, but I need to make sure that the current usage and maximum usage are both shown on ...
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Exchange or return the product with a different one
I work on a website that sells clothes on the Internet
Where the user requests a product (trousers - a T-shirt ... etc.) and upon receiving the product, he has a period of 15 days to replace the ...
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What are standard ways to indicate that an item is being deleted?
I have a PWA that stored rather large amount of data in IndexedDB, and when a user decides to delete parts of it, it takes a lot of time (10-30 sec, even a minute). Currently, when the user click ...
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Best user experience for settings menu with required fields?
I currently am designing a settings/configuration menu and some of these pages have required fields. When the user leaves a required field empty, what should be the expected behavior when moving to a ...
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Showing icon label on mouse hover only
I'm developing a data table and I'm having trouble fitting all the columns on one screen. My main goal is to reduce the width of the table, and one of my ideas were to remove the icon label and show ...
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should I have two buttons that do the same thing on the same page?
I currently have a header and on that header there is a plus button with three options, one of them being add expenses. On the expenses page of my app, I can't decide whether there should be a second &...
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"More" as a menu item
I'm dealing with a relatively large menu.
I'm thinking about displaying the more important items (6) and create a "More" item that displays the less important ones (5).
I've tried to make ...
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Should "search" in a large data table search item's values that aren't in the table?
So I currently have a data table where the headers are fully customizable (i.e. the user can decide which headers to keep in the table and which to remove). The issue is, the search bar currently only ...
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Can Toggles be used instead of Checkboxes?
I have seen multiple applications going for safe usage of checkboxes while there is a multi-select scenario of options shown in list or under one category.
What is the rationale of having checkboxes ...
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Two People screen sharing in MS Teams
Is there any references that anyone knows or has done research on why the applications like teams or webex do not allow two people to share the screen at the same time ?
Eg: I am sharing my screen to ...
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What is the UX guideline or ruleset for making accessible while we have conditional formatting colors applied to each rows?
While we have color palette to handle conditional formatting of table rows we want to create accessible color palette. How is this handled addressing accessibility for colour blind like greyscale?
Any ...
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How do you display users that new information is available?
Let's say we have a bunch of tabs like this or with svg icons, how would you show that new information that weren't viewed are now available to the users? Would you highlight the tabs in some way? How ...
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How do you attract the attention of a user if you want them to click a button, or look at an ui element like a checkbox?
Let's say you have a side panel that's a bit more complex than this, and you have a button called "Fill in with sample data", "Use recommended filters" or "Use AI-generated ...
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Toggle button description when each toggle does somtehing different?
So I have three toggle buttons, disabled, enabled, and emergency only. For the scope of this question, its not important what this toggle button does, but more the fact that each toggle has a slightly ...
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Checkout as a guest for an existing user
I am working on a checkout flow and wonder how to handle an existing customer who has faced a password issue and decided to check out as a guest. When entering an existing email in the guest fields, ...
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How to incorporate a rating scale and an alert setting onto the same scale?
I am currently trying to design an app and part of the app is being able to monitor data and set alerts when the data reaches a certain point. There are 6 different metrics that are being tracked and ...
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How to account for an unknown number of profiles in an icon legend?
So im currently developing a to-do list of sorts which can be filtered by category. Both category and profiles have an unknown number since users can add as many as they want. This means the ...
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In a large list, should the filter and search be combined or separated?
I am dealing with a large list of items which can be filtered as well as searched. For the user, I think it would be better for the user if search was a global search for every list item, but I am not ...
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When dealing with a large data list, is it considered bad UX to make the user manually refresh to update the list?
I am dealing with a large list of items right now. For the sake of this question, it will simply show whether a device is online or offline (there is a lot more data, but those items are more static ...
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Choose Vertical or Horizontal Menus with my application
Hi everyone, My application is having information architecture like image, I am deciding between horizontal navigation and vertical navigation. I feel using vertical navigation would be better in this ...
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How to show that multi-dependent optional forms are linked together without hiding?
So I am creating a form with 3 optional items that are dependent on one another. The first is date. If the user adds a date, they have the option to add an alert time. Once they select a time, they ...
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iOS Mobile Scrolling Best Practice
My designer came up with this design which I like but the top part, what is a best practice to scroll here. Should the table cells go behind the searchbox, should we have a divider of some sort? What ...
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Does the toggle button need to be near the item that it affects?
I am designing a dashboard/homepage where there is a toggle button that users will use somewhat frequently and affects the object detection feature of our app. I have two versions currently, one with ...
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Heuristic evaluation definition
I'm having an issue within my company.
We are building a UX playbook within the guild to keep consistency.
We are dealing right now with heuristic evaluation.
My leader wants do analyse only the 10 ...
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Accounting too much for user error?
So I am redesigning a configuration page and I feel that our current flow is overcompensating for user error too much. Basically, when you want to make a change on a device there are four steps:
Make ...
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How to design for a table which has two different header options depending on the model
So I have a large table with lots of different column headers, lets say there are 10. Currently, under this table, there are two different model types, model A and model B. Model A uses all 10 column ...
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How to show a custom range within a default range
I currently have a range of values where the center of the graph represents the ideal value, and the further you get away from the center the worse your value is. In this current wireframe, you can ...
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Users are not figuring out that they can use breadcrumb to navigate to go to the previous page
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This is the screenshot of the breadcrumb navigation where users face issue,
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How to properly let the user know that there are restrictions for a dropdown menu that are dependent on each other?
Kind of confusing title, but basically I am designing something that allows for the max of 20 total connections. There are two types of connections, main and guest. As you can see, I am using a simple ...
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Making the 4th item in a row of icons look clickable?
So im creating a dashboard for a device and I'm finding out that only 1 out of the 4 icons are clickable and will link to a new page. I thought about adding text underneath the icon that says "...
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