Questions tagged [web]
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Accordion in a webapp - Should I allow more than one open?
I have several long forms in my web application.
I thought about using an accordion design to save unused space in the form (The form is already split into several sections)
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Which one has more career opportunities: web usability or web accessibility?
I'm wondering which one will be more valuable and have more career opportunities. Web usability or web accessibility. Please show statistics or any valid information if possible.
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examples of user feedback for evaluation of other users' answers
As an academic project, I'm developing a simple facebook application. I intend it to be some kind of a mind game exploring creativity.
Its current design is simple: the user just writes a short ...
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Order of items in admin panel?
When editing a product, its variants are shown as accordion headings using twitter bootstrap; clicking on one reveals the form to edit the variant.
My question relates to the ordering of the items, ...
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Refresh button on a website
Is it useful/sensible to display a 'Refresh' button on a website's page (simple page, not dialog!), like the picture below?
First I thought it's a good idea, but know I start to think it's not so ...
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What are some best practices for displaying an "unsupported browser"-warning in a web app?
We're building a web app, and the technology we're using will only allow users with relatively modern browsers (IE8 and up, plus most versions of other browsers) to even log in. We want to show an "...
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Hover alternatve for touch devices [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some alternatives to “hover” on touch-based devices?
I'm building a standard infographic where you mouse over a region and the image changes as you move. For ...
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Opening popup and pages in a new browser window is this a good usability practice for a web application
The website I am reviewing needs couple of external plugins (flash and java) to be installed. Also the site uses a strategy where every popups and most of the pages opens on a different browser window....
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Is it a good practice to have a session expiry popup with timer for user assistance
I am working on a banking site, is it a good practice to have session expiry popup alert for users assistance.
I feel it helps from the pain of re-login the site every now and then.
Please correct ...
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How can I incorporate IAB advertising banner standards in a 960 grid layout?
When I try to prototype a website thinking in the IAB display advertising guidelines using a grid system (960gs - 10-60-10) the only banner that fits in a 3 column space it's the half banner (300x250) ...
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How do I choose between disabled input fields and plain text for a read only view?
For displaying a readonly details views of a certain item on a website, is there a general rule to choose between disabled input fields or labels/plain text?
In this situation, first an overview of ...
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What is a space-efficient way to display two numbers next to each other while minimising confusion?
I'm working on a site that needs to show two balances next to each other, preferably in the header next to a user's name. The issue I'm having is differentiating the balances enough that they don't ...
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Best Practices: Location of close button in a modal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the important aspect to consider when deciding where windows interaction buttons should be placed?
I've been seeing a lot of modal windows lately, some which have the ...
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web application redesign suggestion [closed]
We had built a application using Ext JS web desktop. Something similar to:
http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.0/examples/desktop/desktop.html
The application is basically a web based ...
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Buttons for showing None, Some or All of list
I have a set of list headings eg.
List One (24)
List Two (34)
etc. and I want to start with them collapsed, but allow the user to view the first 10, or expand to view all. So, I have setup so the ...
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Is it better to use a high quality monitor to design web graphics? [closed]
I am doing web graphics for about a year on quite good PVA LCD display. 95% of people who see my websites/banners are watching them on low quality TN displays suited for gaming or laptops. Colors on ...
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Web surfing: people "wandering" from page to page vs people following their goals
When browsing Wikipedia, I often see me drifting from my initial goal to other pages infinitely through hyperlinks. I end up reading pages about things that are far away from the information I was ...
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Matrix question type in mobile
I am working on a tool for conducting surveys through the web. One of the most common question types is represented with a table, where the column and row headers form the question, and the rest of ...
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Convention for showing that one of two web form inputs are required? [duplicate]
It's a common convention in web form design to mark required fields with an asterisk. Is there any way to denote that one of a pair of fields is required? In other words, a form like this:
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What's the best way to open links from widgets?
I have a portal consists of set of widgets, each widget contains a block of data and a link to an application . it appears like this .My question is : what 's the best user experience to open the ...
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Where best to put comment box [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should you place the “add a comment” form above or below the list of comments?
Where would you regard as the best place to put a comment box? Immediately after the ...
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Do people use `jump to top of page` links?
I'm talking about links or buttons at the bottom of the page or screen simply linking to the top of the website.
Is there any data on that?
Are they used more frequently on long pages?
What about ...
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A Web Enabled Desktop App
So you know how the whole web 2.0 moment is about moving native desktop software to the cloud in the form of web applications, with UI being rendered through a web browser, data being pushed through ...
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How to display misspelled words on search results?
Since 1996 Jakob Nielsen annually publishes a list of "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design". The top mistake in the latest list is Bad Search. It has not always been that way. In 2005 Bad Search was listed ...
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Dashed underline on required fields
I am working on a massive user registration form for a web application for my company. We have been discussing different ways of alerting the user that a field is required for registration. As of ...
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Scroll Down Menu
Lets say I have a scroll down menu with ten options. That menu comes down when a user hovers over a link. Problem is...When the menu comes down, it covers a bit of the text beneath it on the page......
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Recommend UI modifications [closed]
I am looking to modify the "faceted filter" on our schedule page and would like some input on what kind of UI elements I could use to enhance the experience. The current one is woefully bad and the ...
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When is double-clicking appropriate for the web?
I recently saw a website that required the user to double-click an item in a scrolling list to 'open' it for editing. It surprised me, as I don't usually think double-click is appropriate for websites,...
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Linking into an infinite scrollable stream
I have a web app that contains a stream of entries with a "more..." button at the bottom that loads in older entries. If one of the entries is selected then the right panel displays details on that ...
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Selecting all contents of an input field of text type when focusing
I am working on a registration form for a web application which requires you to enter your first name, last name, date of birth, address and so forth. If the user fills out all of the fields we are ...
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Differentiating content with URL
I am developing a site that is going to be used as somewhat of a cloud service, we have a number of customers with a loose connection to each other via a parent organization. The site will look and ...
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Engaging end-users to access the site once an off-line task has been completed?
My scenario goes like this:
User comes online to find a lawyer to assign for a certain project
System displays all lawyers with their contacts
User researches as he wishes, and contacts lawyers ...
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account confirmation pattern: link or link + page with edit field
Imagine the registration process where you send an activation email to the user. In many activation email I receive, I will get an activation hyperlink and an activation code by itself as well.
My ...
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Is it acceptable to contact a potential customer who has accessed your site, using their IP?
We run ad campaigns to attract potential customers to our website. Sometimes customers click, but don't make contact. Is it acceptable to reach out to these customers, based on the public info ...
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Should a web browser indicate "year" near the lock icon to encourage more safe/secure website?
There are many important technologies coming to web browsers in the next few years. Not to mention that where we are today is a culmination of lessons learned and several security pitfalls.
However, ...
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Is there any research on when we should provide search for website (Desktop and Mobile) and when not?
Is there any research on when we should provide search for website and when not?
As I know. If pages are few then search don't require, but I'm not sure how many pages should consider as few. and ...
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How to display a distinction between actions which affect the 'real world' vs. actions that affect only the information in the application?
I have the following challenge:
I'm designing a web application that is supposed to manage IT components. Meaning - when the user creates an IT component in the application or updates an existing one,...
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Hover state on mobile: Does this sync interaction design on the web and mobile?
I read this news article a while back about apple patenting a touch screen technology that would allow for a hover state. Ever since I have been thinking a lot about how that might effect the mobile ...
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Examples for good Frequent Flyer / Loyalty Program pages [closed]
I'm looking for good Frequent Flyer / Loyalty / Rewards program pages.
I'm talking about the "My Account" pages displaying current status and how long till we reach the next "level". (You know, ...
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Re-skinning web apps: Yes or no?
During Phase 1 of our current web project—a site with thousands of pages and 38 legacy web applications for several groups of users—we're focusing on content strategy and implementing a CMS. The web ...
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Just made a web template, what changes should I make? [closed]
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/668/unled3yu.jpg
Thanks for the help!
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