Questions tagged [web]
Web often refers to content on the internet accessed by a web browser.
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How to drive users to allow pop ups on browsers
We're having issues with Popup blockers; preventing some paying clients from seeing the expected dialog.
To combat this issue we either want to add a small line of text near the checkout button that ...
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Help text for pressing buttons on the web
I am reviewing some help text on a web page that says...
Press Submit button to submit the form [blah blah] or press
Cancel to return to the previous screen.
Although they're using the <...
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Select elements in the sidebar, which is better?
So, my friend and I are building a web app and we were having a little argument. We need to have two select elements in the sidebar and one of them is not relevant to a few pages. Which of the ...
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What's the tradeoff for using an icon driven navigation?
It seems a common theme these days for the UI design of many web applications to use icon driven navigation (so fixed sidebar on the left consisting of only icons for navigation)
Wondering why this ...
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Get the user to accept Terms & Conditions when signing up with OAuth
The register form I'm working on allows the user to sign up using their Facebook account or to create a new account by typing their email and password. Here a mockup:
Currently, clicking on the ...
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Mobile – Does a close button need to be on the same x-axis as the hamburger icon?
I have a mobile menu using traditional mobile menu. Due to a long logo, we've placed menu items below. Is it inconsistent that the hamburger icon does not sit on the same level as the close button? ...
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'Yes to all' or 'No to any' with multiple individual questions - The best way to present to the user
I have list of approximately eight questions that need to be answered on a form (yes/no). If the answer to any of these questions is 'no' then the user is taken to page x, while if the answer to all ...
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Why do coupon/deal sites open the merchant's homepage after revealing a coupon code?
This is something which has always annoyed me a lot and also confused me from a UX standpoint. It stands out to me as an example of a very poor UX decision that I see constantly.
When I'm browsing an ...
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How Do I Encourage Users Best to Download An Application from a Landing Page? [closed]
I do consider about the best experience about the getting more conversion rate from a webpage of ours. Is putting phone number field to send the app is best or putting app store buttons? Which one do ...
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Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting purple banner?
I'm part of a MediaWiki site called D&D Wiki. Among others, one of our longstanding issues in the public eye was our failure to label clearly enough that certain pages are categorised 'Homebrew', ...
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Reasons for seemingly inefficient design of Evernote login process
Evernote's login form works like this:
When you go to their website, there is no login form. There only is a form for registering. If you enter your login credentials into that form, it won't log you ...
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Black & White Web Design (UI/UX Wise)
One of my client(He has a SEO agency)need to design a website with blog. He want 100% black and white design. That means text, images everything are 100% black and white.
Is there any UI/UX research ...
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Why do web browsers keep showing the old page when they load a new page [closed]
I was wondering why web browsers keep showing old content once a user has clicked a link. It's confusing if one doesn't look at the loader(which is generally at one corner and thus can easily be ...
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pushState before or after updating DOM from async response?
The browser History API exposes a couple of functions, pushState and replaceState, which allow single-page apps to update the URL bar as the user navigates through the SPA. Frequently, navigation in ...
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Override browser shortcuts
The company that I work for is suggesting that we override browser shortcut CTRL + S in our single page app to apply changes (save). It's a complex editor so autosave would not work for this ...
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How can I replace 3 cascading dropdown menus?
I have a big form where the user must select a category and a location, each have 3 levels, user must select the first option that enables the 2nd and then the 3rd one. Each dropdown have at least 5 ...
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Phone number click to call on desktop?
I'm designing a web flow in which one of the outcomes is to call our support team. On mobile, this is simple enough as pressing on a phone number triggers the alert below.
However, I'm not sure what ...
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Should we provide form navigation in 2 step forms?
It is said that multi-step forms should have form navigation in them. But is it also needed in 2-step forms?
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Best way to ask a question about how users got to the webpage?
This would be in the form on a short online survey where users will see it pop up some time after they land on the page.
I want to know the exact traffic source from which a user lands on a specific ...
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where to use secondary color in web design while applying 60-30-10 rule [closed]
I have searched a lot but not getting the idea of
using secondary color
as per 60-30-10 rule in web design...
Where to use secondary color in website???
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Multiple prices for multiple countries
I'm working on a multiple countries project. Until now, we only sold to one country, but we're working on letting users from its neighbour country (speaking the same language) buy our products.
For ...
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Are there any good web accessibility training courses/tutorials (online)?
I'm looking for recommendations for online courses on web accessibility. I know the actual guidelines are out there, but my aim is to find a survey of guidelines and best practices in an easy-to-parse ...
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How come there's no standard way to submit a web form with the keyboard?
I know that in general you can hit Enter while focused on a form field to submit a form. However certain elements like selects and textareas break this behavior. How come we don't have a web standard ...
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Should a button or link translate on hover?
Sometimes I see websites using a pattern, where a button or link translates (for example 5px to the top) when hovering it.
See an example in that SO answer
Is this a good or bad thing to do, UX-...
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Indicator for a context action menu on gantt bar
Current Situation:
In our SaaS solution for portfolio management we have several actions that are context dependent, e.g. delete a project. Those actions can be found on the element itself, e.g. the ...
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What is the best way to tell users to scroll down in browsers?
what is the best way to tell users to scroll down in browsers?
Tests showed, that users do not scroll to the original message (which they need to answer questions):
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Why is sites i18n often based on the users country and not the preferred language in the browser?
Often when I visit corporate websites they obviously have i18n. Often the chosen language they will display is based on the country I am in, NOT what I have set as preferred language in my browser.
I'...
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Search panel in condensed area or listed
I have a web form where I show filters and result pane.
For the moment (1st picture), all filters are grouped into an area, like in 2 vertical columns. I use chosen for select lists.
The suggestion (...
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Can we use “Continue with Email” instead of signup/login?
I was working on a product and while making the signup/login buttons I thought of providing the Continue with email/social instead of login and signup buttons separately.
Will it affect the cognitive ...
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buttons and tags treatment affect UX of product? [closed]
I have seen so many treatments of the buttons and the tags capsules using the soft radius, sharp corners and sometimes with a full radius like in this image.
so these treatments are brand dependent ...
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Why is there almost no website that use right and left arrows to navigate?
I was reading this article: SFW click-bait!
This is a classic click-bait article where the user where the reader has to go through multiple pages in hope to get some interesting information. This ...
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Multiple scrolling, dragging in modal/popup window. Good UX?
Had a discussion with the stakeholders regarding the things they require and they suggested to convert the product's modal window in the similar form the WRAP is doing(Open any image just after one ...
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Hiding header, navigation, footer when printing
When printing the informational content on a web page, I do not want to print the navigation, menu, header, or footer. I would want to include the URL of the page so that I can find it again (and ...
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User needs to paste clipboard data into website with CTRL+V, but the data they paste will not be shown to them. How can I make this intuitive?
I am changing a form where we have users paste some data from clipboard (copied from excel) and fill out a few metadata fields about the data.
Previously in the design we were able to have a button ...
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Is it ok to change column width upon paging?
I have an issue with a table with pagination that doesn't have fixed column widths. I've been discussing with a colleague whether we should put fixed widths or not. So the approaches are:
- Columns ...
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Grid: Generic filters Vs column level filters
I had a case where there is a view and on that user can apply any filter.
Once filter is applied > it affects all the tabs present in that view.
Is this approach right.
Check this image
Or should ...
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Improving the UX of my “Hire Me” card [closed]
I've created a "Hire Me" card to display on my website and am looking for some feedback.
Live Demo
What I want to know:
Is this a place where I can use a 'ghost button'?
Is the font readable ...
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Does it ever make sense to use curved shadows on flat objects?
What's the rationale behind styling flat/straight boxes to cast curved shadows on flat/straight surfaces?
Image credit: http://cjwainwright.co.uk/webdev/liftedcorners/
Sure it makes the object ...
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File Browser Download
We provide a service to synchronize devices with our server.
Every device has a file browser which is accessible through HTTP.
Possible actions are: Download, Delete and Rename.
Delete and Rename ...
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Nested Dropdown alternative for User Skills in web
I have a searchable dropdown from in which user can add their skills like below :
In the example, "Office Software" is main category and items below this are subcategories that user selects to as her ...
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How to enable users to insert an infinity number
I am designing a web page which give admin users the opportunity to manage the users below them. in one section of this admin page, the admin user is required to fill out how many queries he permits ...
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How should “Refresh Data in Dropdownlist” look and behave (not for mobile)?
I have a dropdown list with data in it, and I want to give to the user the option to refresh the data in the dropdown list after he adds or deletes data from the database.
How should "Refresh data in ...
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How can I make a mobile app responsive for desktop? [closed]
I am trying to make a desktop version of a mobile app. But not sure how to fill those full width cards to a desktop app.
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Menus under Menus
how do people feel about menus within other menus? I have the top menu which distinguishes between Individual Students and Groups, then the group name.
And THEN two sections which how the students in ...
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Allow a user to like a post without having to log in?
I got into an argument with two people who insisted that users do not have to log in to like a blog post. Is this okay? I'm sorry if it seems a silly question, but I was really concerned with the ...
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Design range (sensitivity) bar intuitively
I am building a website that includes a page that has a search input and a sensitivity bar near him that allows the users to control over the amount of results returned and their accuracy.
The site ...
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What is the right UI for showing total in graph
Any UI Alternatives for showing total in graph which is distributed in two different categories.
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A word which contains the concept of both Tags and Category?
I have a page which represents all posts based on filtering in category and tag(s).
As you know, each post has one category and multiple (or one) tag(s). Now I'm talking about a page which lists all ...
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How to show zoom capability?
I would like to consult with you about a zoom-in functionality we would like to add to a module we're adding to our data SaaS product - wire-frame depicted here: .
We have clickable bubbles, and we ...
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Why websites usually block the navigation interaction when under a full screen overlay?
I'm working on a research project of web navigation. During research, I found that when there is a full screen overlay, websites tend to block the interaction of the navigation bar. Like web Twitter, ...
