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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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 you are designing for a web browser can you create a different design for mobile than for desktop? or does it have to be the same for both
Would this be considered a responsive design?
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How to show two different ways to update the same router? (manual and automatic)
so I am designing a webui for a router and I am struggling with organizing the two different ways to update the router. Here is my mockup:
I don't like the way it looks with two different update ...
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Can anyone recommend the best textbooks for students learning UX and UI design? [closed]
I've just started studying UX and UI design online, but could really benefit from having some good, comprehensive textbooks to refer to. Can anyone recommend the best books for students? Books that ...
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Changing emotions when a user going to unsubscribe newsletter? Is it good practice?
Is that a good idea to make a response regarding user actions like this one? When user about to unsubscribe changing the face to sad and when click cancel makes face happier. Is it good practice?
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How to choose a color combination for main header and sub-headers for better UI and UX?
I'm always confused about the BG (background) colors or a header and sub-header of a website or an app.
There can be at least 3 options to choose BG for them:
1. A dark color for main header and a ...
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Designing new interface for a legacy web application
Current situation:
We have a legacy web application. It is been in development for 5 years and already has many customers. It's a very critical and also expensive product and its customers are big ...
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Differences between Japanese and Western UX, specially button position
I'm doing a research on the best practices to create a friendly UX on Japanese/Western websites.
One thing I noticed (I'm not sure if is common and a Japanese pattern) is the button positions, ...
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Should a mobile application force login after terminating app?
Should a mobile application force login after terminating app?
I've been working on a mobile application which utilizes sessions. Recently I noticed our mobile application does not force the user to ...
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what exactly do UX Designer mean in the web design field?
What I mean by this question is how can a person be an UX designer just by making a STATIC high fidelity mockup on a piece of software like "Photoshop" or "Sketch" or whatever.
Does not the words "...
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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.
Thanks
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How to display filters with optional relationship(OR or AND)
We have a table of users and at the top I have 8 buttons, each one representing a filter (age, status, role...). When clicked it displays a dropdown with multiple checkboxes.
The relationship between ...
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How to identify patterns from users survey comments
I have conducted an online survey where 1500 users participated. They have their opinions and comments about particular problems. I am trying to consolidate all their opinions & pulling out ...
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Represent the time table UI in Android
I have to desgin an android layout from the web page shown below.
How can I represent the time table UI shown below for an Android layout.
Note that the periods & days are dynamically delivered ...
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Concrete example of a ripple effect in JJG's layers of user experience design?
In Jesse James Garrett's book The Elements of User Experience: User-centered Design for the Web and Beyond, there's a model consisting of 5 planes (Strategy, Scope, Structure, Skeleton, and Surface).
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UI/UX feature in calling app
I have some difficulty with one UI feature. In my calling app I would like to let user to choose whom he would like to call – someone from his contact or invite someone (i.e. send him a link to join a ...
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UX Flow after user sign in Single Page Application
I've built a single page application using angular(MEAN) and curious to know the how the user navigation needs to follow after he has logged in. A guest can see several sections in the single page (...
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Which interaction should be preferred for refreshing an individual card in a listview in android app?
I have a listview showing a set of results in android app. I need to refresh the state indicated on the right end of an individual result card in the list.
I thought of one possible interaction like ...
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How would you test which mobile menu pattern works better?
I have three mobile menu patterns I want to find out which one is easier/faster to use, ie, 1) top nav that pushes main content down, 2) top nav that takes over the whole screen, 3) side menu drawer. ...
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Positioning a close button for a tab
I've got a tab list where I have a menu and a tab close button. I've positioned the close button as shown in the image.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
Is this ...
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Dividing steps in Form Wizard
I have this category input in my form. If a category is not found on the list the user would need to create a new one obviously.
If they would need to create a new, there's 2 options: Category or ...
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Scenario when both pagination and the number of records to be shown in a page are combined
With both pagination and number of records to be shown in a page are implemented, if the user is in some 3rd page and changes the number of records to something higher, there could be situation where ...
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iOS 9 Dialog Box and form elements
I have a task at work to change a workflow of a cancellation form. I've been asked to change an iOS dialog box to include 2 select menus that users would use to select how many people they are ...
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references for table alternative
Do you have any references you can link me to, where I could display this data, but not in a table?
This will be used by 500 to 10000 people, and they want to have :
drag and drop for re-ordering,
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Design for phone. UX/Service Design
I'm working on a project for which a large part of the target is made up of people who do not use computers. The project involves the delivery. The catalog is available online, for those accustomed to ...
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Can we create Empathy Map without creating Persona?
I am new to this UX industry. I have a task with a brief to create an Audiobook app experience & to map out and simply describe what will be your end-to-end design process to tackle this problem.
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Best UX online courses and certificates for a software developer [closed]
What are some of the good online courses that I can take, to expand my knowledge with UX/UI design? I know this is a broad subject, but suggestions on a good course to get me started would be great.
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What are your thoughts on approaching UX from a coding background? [closed]
This is not a tech question but is more related to knowing prototyping apps and approaching UX from a coding background.
What are people's experience with having to be familiar with or understand an ...
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Tools Vs Advanced Settings Icon [closed]
I am designing a paint app in which I am not sure about the two Icons I am using. One is called Tools and the other is advanced settings. When you tap on the tools: Brush, Eraser and advanced Settings ...
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Can i use a dropdown selection on a Material Design card
So i made a Material Design Card, but as usual after feedback a problem hit my mind.
Can i use a dropdown selection on a Material Design card, let me explain a little more, in this app witch i cant ...
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If your UX Design team is to divide into 4 different levels from Beginner to Expert, what could be the acceptance criteria? [closed]
I want to divide my UX Design team into 4 different levels from beginner level to expert level.
What could be their acceptance criteria based on their skills related to (core skills, communication ...
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Color grade system A,B,C,D,F [closed]
Hhhh, in my new porject I have color grade system that looks like this, but my A(A-,A+) and B(..) is very similar(color) and they are very difficult to distinguish. Any ideas how to do it *nicely ?
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What does a psychology research graduate need to develop to become ready for a career in UX/HCI? [closed]
If I have a research psychology master and I would like to get a job in UX design or Human Interaction computer how can I do it? Or where I could start?
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How can I most effectively communicate design specs to my developer? [duplicate]
I am currently designing a complex app for a large energy corporation and I need to provide diagrams explaining the dimensions of my UI elements, layout constraints, typefaces, colours etc to my ...
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how to handle a designer when a design looks bad / getting the best landing page design from a new designer
I have done web / mobile dev and produce management for ~ 15 years so I'm familiar with design process etc...
I usually work with this one designer but he's full time now and out of the area. I saw ...
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How to display research findings in portfolio [duplicate]
I am a bit confused about how to display qualitative research findings in a UX research portfolio. I know that people spend like a minute on each project and I don't know how to quickly give them a ...
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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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Something like a UX 'checklist' for designing elements for beginners?
We (more experienced designers) have a few noobies at work and were wondering if there isn't something like a general checklist for them to go through, e.g. when they're designing an element for a ...
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Ux/ui design for different countries in the world
Cultures in the world have a different feel for ux/ui design, for example, europa look design as cold colors, latinAmerica look design as hot colors.
Should one design for different countries?
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Pixel Perfection in Development
I am new to this community and I apologize if I am asking an obvious question or one that has already been posed to the community. I am a UI/UX Designer working for a software and services company in ...
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Master studies in Human Interaction Design for design background
My background is from User Interface design and now I want to pursue further to study about how user interact with interface and also devices. Thus I'm looking for suitable master program in European ...
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Am I a UX designer? [closed]
Hey guys how are you doing?
I have a question.
I work in a small web design agency doing UI design, they work at a very fast pace, and sometimes some aspects aren't taken into consideration when ...
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Are outline icons problematic for visually impaired people?
A current trend is for many websites and mobile apps to use an outlined icon style.
Do visually impaired people find it hard to recognize these icons?
See for example this screenshot from iOS.
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Is there a difference between Experience Design(XD) and UX design
Going through various sources, I am getting that UX designing is a perspective limited to designing services and products as per audience and Experience design holds more artistic temperament for ...
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Which of this scenarios are better from Scrum Teams?
I manage a team who develop a Web-based CRM. We are trying to introduce a UX Designer to this project, but I don't know the best approach to do that. I have two proposals, and I'm leaning more towards ...
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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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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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Should UX researchers provide design recommendations?
I'm a fairly new UXR. Recently, I created a presentation deck with recommendations after testing a website. Before presenting I ran the deck by a friend who told me my recommendations might be too ...
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How does Design Thinking, Agile and Lean UX work together?
I have become confused on the different processes involved between Design Thinking, Agile and UX Lean.
I recently read an article that tried to explain how these processes work together as I wanted to ...
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