Questions tagged [website-design]
Website design involves the structure of websites, information architecture, the layout and pages, and the conceptual design.
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Tri-state icon convention?
I have to design a report with validated information about the data entered. In some fields I have a typical triple state.
Imagine a file. That file belongs to a report model file. When uploading it, ...
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Hierarchical list for selecting an element
The user is trying to select an element which will be used in a form. So it could be like selecting interests in an app where you can pick the more general case (e.g. sports) or the more specific (e.g....
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What is the best way to design a 'debt' screen
So I've been searching for this, but I think Google thinks I want to know about 'UX debt'.
The thing is, I've been assigned to design a new screen for when our customer hasn't paid for the service. ...
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The best ux alternative in designing variant of a product on dashboard
I was wondering what would be the best way to display variant when a user clicks on "Add Variant". I already designed two alternatives: display it in ascending order or descending order. I have tested ...
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How to do information architecture of a UGC based website/app?
What's the best possible way to make a user-generated website classify its content into categories or topics or tags to make the content searchable and discoverable?
How does one start redesigning ...
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Term for a title automatically changing at an interval? [on hold]
I'm looking for a search term and ultimately examples of website which have something along the line of:
This is Beatiful
Where the word Beautiful would change after a few seconds to Amazing or ...
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Is there a best practice for sidebar width on mobile?
What is the best practice when it comes to sidebars and user experience on mobile? Is it better to have one that is full-width or one that is 85% width with 15% backdrop? What are the benefits or ...
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Redesign a page for mobile, while keeping a “similar” layout to the desktop view, desktop uses a table
Well I have a page that looks decent on desktop, and most of the site is working responsive as well. The website has as goal to provide people to sign up for (sport) tournaments, and allows users to ...
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Too much content. Too little space
Images and text to be placed in a limited space are too many and unrelated. I can't tell what to do.
What can I try as a UX designer when I can't determine the size of the space and what needs to be ...
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Pros and cons of putting a tooltip on a button?
I want to display a tooltip on a follow button to explain how notifications will be distributed.
I don’t know if it’s a clean design or if I should find another way to explain the action. What are ...
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How can I make the article headlines more clean in my homepage?
I have a simple webpage where I take notes on various things. I have a few "folders" (topics) and several "files" (articles) under them. My current homepage is like this:
For example java has class-...
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Material Design vs Trust
I am at the cross roads whether to use material design or not for startup website. I want to give the visitors feeling of that
It protect your privacy (ie: does not sell ads based on user data),
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Placement for image credits/ acknowledgements for homepage banners
What is the best place to add in the image credits? Is it appropriate to have text on the banner itself. We have a carousel on the homepage with 4 stock images.
Any examples would be helpful.
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What is the best layout for a survey screen in a website?
I'm designing an onboarding survey for a sale education portal where the learner after signing up takes up a small survey based on which a program is recommended to the learner. This survey is ...
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What is the point of hiding a webpage until load? [closed]
I have noticed that whenever I go to namecheap.com, the page loads abnormally. Instead of the gradual loading like most websites, namecheap stays completely blank for a few seconds, and then suddenly ...
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Should I guide the user in their account set up? Designing for web
So, I know that when designing for mobile dividing processes into steps makes the user feel not so overwhelmed by the amount of options/fields that are required. Does this hold for web development?
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If we have to explain how to do something to a user, we have failed?
I was having this conversation the other day, well, a meeting where I heard
If we have to explain how to do something to a user, we have failed.
Now, in some circumstances, without a doubt, ...
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Background for black and white chart
I have a plot where I stack the color white and black as values by month.
I would use white as background color but the data is black and white as the color is. I'm using blue which I don't like.
Any ...
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what is the best way to design a comparison block
I am very new to UX designing and I am trying to build a comparison block using CSS between two companies.
I have already built a very basic layout about how it should look but its not looking that ...
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What design pattern should I use to migrate windows lists with buttons to web?
I have a Windows application that I need to migrate to web. This application has many forms that follow the same pattern: (1) a grid on the left with columns and rows than can be selected, and (2) ...
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Is a table a good idea for navigation?
We're discussing in my office about having a table where every row is clickable and used for navigation. Is that a good idea?
The context is:
"Users" are involved in "projects", a "project" contains ...
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How to structure dashboard with schedule
So, in my current design I have something like this:
I have a dashboard that has a menu with a couple different options. In the 'home' option the user can see a schedule with their appointments if ...
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Is it even possible to prototype chrome extension products in Invision?
Without giving away too much IP I am starting work on prototyping a product that augments google chrome with notifications and menus through an extension.
From what I can tell, there seems to be no ...
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Does the 980px screen width rule still stand?
I work with a graphic designer, she was asked to create a full width slider images, she asked me about the screen width, I said I don't know it varies, she wanted a number to use when designing I ...
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using bar-code scanner within website
I'm a backend developer who wants to put together some decent fullstack service for the community (entirely non-commercial): a shared library. User is supposed to scan a barcode on a book to save the ...
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Which is the best approach for Laying down the text on first scroll of the website?
The wireframes are for a product website, which is a suite of online products that can be used together or as individual modules.
Option1 has a traditional HEADING-BODY COPY approach. The most common ...
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What color to choose as “danger” if the main color of my app is red
I'm having this question wrapped around my head for quite some time. The thing is that my main application has a red color theme. And for just cancel buttons I used to use just gray colors but now ...
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WCAG 2.0 Redundant Links
I've tried searching but can't seem to find a straight answer regarding redundant links and WCAG compliance.
I have a product collection/category page with a list of products. Each product has a ...
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Too large space for input fields
I'm struggling with a form (in Bootstrap 4) which takes the whole (fixed) container width, there is nothing else displayed on the screen. It looks okay-ish on smaller screens, but on large ones it's ...
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Making pages without images interesting [closed]
I am currently designing a web application which, long story short, takes extracts data from an existing system and transforms it into posts which are sent out to employees. Basically, the existing ...
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Is having a “Contact us” form in the footer of every page on a website considered good ux?
Inside a footer which appears to be constant everywhere on the website, is it best practice to give this option on every single page or should it be ignored on some?
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What are the correct steps to build a SaaS B2B company UX experience?
I'm currently working for a SaaS B2B project in a specific niche, and this is my first experience of a kind.
On of my first toughts is to have a consistente user experience throughout the customer ...
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UX best practices for a help desk/ticketing system? Views and steps
I am building a "help desk/ticketing system" app from the ground up. I am quickly finding out that I am reinventing the wheel in terms of workflow for the admin and users.
Where can I find best ...
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Should the user be given an option to scan or read an article?
I am working on my portfolio website and I wanted to allow the user (colleague/recruiter) to either scan or read the case studies. How to I validate this feature?
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How to identify design system or design language used by app or website [closed]
Have few doubts.
I'm new to UX, how to identify which design system is used by app / website, can we judge by looking into its UI.
Can i design my own design system for my app and website - for this ...
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What is the best way to start designing this website? [closed]
I am new UI(ReactJS) Developer, I want to develop this webpage from scratch, however, I am not that experienced, hence, confused how to actually start. Should i start with logo or header or sidebar or ...
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Does a video lightbox need a close button?
I am building someone a portfolio website for their videos. When you click a thumbnail in a gallery of videos, a light-box no bigger than 65% of the viewport opens to show the video. You click the ...
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Users cannot find the way to key in information during registration
Many users cannot find the way to key in information during registration.
With a tracking script, we can see that users just click other places of page rather than the labels or fields of the form to ...
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On some screen sizes the CTA goes below the fold
I'm designing a web site and i have two buttons one below the other on the landing page. One is a primary button and the other is a secondary button.
The structure of the page includes an image which ...
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Is it common practice to use separate identical images of different resolutions for different screen sizes? [closed]
From a design perspective is it more common to use different size images for say desktop and mobile or is it more common to use the same image for each and display them in different size using css or ...
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Navigation from a filtered list to default view?
Suppose I am designing a web site to display a list of items. I'd like to add a category filter to display only the items of a given category.
Now I'm wondering how user should move back from the ...
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Where should the illustration go on this wireframe UX wise?
I'm making a wireframe of a responsive website and the landing page will have text field and a cta beside an illustration. Like in the image.
Where should the illustration go ux wise in mobile ...
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Show categories both on homepage and on categories page?
I'm creating a "directory" website that has many pages, each belongs to a category and a sub-category.
I have category pages that will list all the pages that belong to the categories.
Example:
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How to avoid bad bounce rate and boost good bounce rate?
I'm working on a comparing website. We got lots of traffic from the blog article, yet the bounce rate is so high. We perform well on acquisition but bad on keeping the user in the site then generate ...
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Using a select for navigation instead of tabs?
Is a select box appropriate to control navigation on a page? For user profiles, I'm considering putting a select box in the header to change views, so a user can select from 'About', 'Calendar', '...
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Is it more common, or best practice, to design several web pages to fill out user profile data or one page divided into sections? [closed]
I notice that a site like LinkedIn feels overwhelming and clumsy to me when I'm trying to update my profile. I would guess that LinkedIn would hire some of the best developers in the world, yet it ...
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Best way to show an inner submenu on mobile website?
On my mobile website I have a menu for the main website navigation. When you are in your account area, this is a further submenu, which is accessed by clicking the second burger menu button.
The ...
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How to deal with untranslated pages?
I have an e-commerce website available in French and English. All the pages are translated (homepage, about, shop, terms, etc.) excepted for the Blog which is only available in French for the moment.
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Is It Acceptable To Use Custom Focus Indications As Art Direction?
As part of a redesign of my personal site, I have a hero image with an animated flying blimp. When hovered, the blimp toggles to a different animation. I would like a keyboard user to be able to ...
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Using a lightbox as a new page
Hope i'm posting this on the right forum.
I'm designing myself a new portfolio website and had the idea of using a lightbox to display about me content. So, when the user clicks on about me, a ...
