Questions tagged [web]
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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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Guidelines/best practices for CSS hover animations in web UI
What, if any, are the accepted guidelines and/or best practices for using CSS animated transitions on hover in a web-based user interface? When does it start to simply become annoying and distracting?...
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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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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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Add question form - mark answer as correct
In a web-app quiz form used to add new questions (with answers) for the app, how should I indicate to the user to mark an answer as correct?
Currently you mark an answer as correct by clicking the ...
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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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Hierarchical structure design and usability
I created a website for learning languages with flashcard method. The website itself is http://www.vocableman.com
The problem I have run into is that users are complaining that they have problems ...
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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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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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Where best to put comment box [duplicate]
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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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Should I manually hyperlink phone numbers using "tel:" on my websites?
In code, you have the ability to make a phone number on a website into a link by prepending the phone number in the href with a "tel:"
So, for example, you can create a link to 800-867-5309 with 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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Total redesign for already established app?
Usability is not excellent, and stylesheets are inconsistent. What's the best way to deal with this ?
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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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How to improve search?
Jakob Nielsen have since 1996 published the article "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design", recently updated 2011. At the top of the list we find the mistake Bad Search. It has not always been that way. In ...
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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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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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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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White space vs. Information [duplicate]
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How can I defend and/or encourage white space as an effective design element?
At the company where I work, every day, there are discussions about "how to fill the screen" in ...
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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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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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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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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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How to drive conversion in a website?
I've built a website for a startup. The websites purpose is to convert the visitors (mostly iPhone developers) to register to the beta of the SDK that the website presents.
Out of about 100 visitors ...
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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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Does your average web user understand the concept of the clipboard?
I'm designing a web site where I would expect the intended audience to have limited computer skills.
An important part of my site's functionality will require the end user to copy an URL that my site ...
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Does a URL fragment identifier have a bad effect on user experience?
In this link from CSS-Tricks, it's claimed that using the hash sign in a URL for linkablity purposes is not a good idea, because browsers will scroll to the item which has its id mentioned in the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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tab menu + side panel - how to organize menu and "context menu"
I have a dashboard, with tab menu (tabs over the content) and a side panel with a vertical menu.
My question is: I would like to make one menu (tab or side panel) as first level menu and the other ...
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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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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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Is there evidence to suggest that designing tabs within tabs creates a bad user experience?
I'm designing a complex web application and my colleague believes that using a tab panel is a bad idea. I'm more ambivalent.
Can anyone point to any evidence (anecdotal or research-based) that could ...
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