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Is swapping out the entire Left-Local-Side-Nav a bad idea?
We have a large Website with hundreds of pages. We have a horizontal global navigation, and a left-local-side Nav to navigate through a group of related pages.
As I was browsing clicking down from ...
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Why do most dashboards use capital words?
Most car manufacturers seem to use ALL CAPS for the interiors's buttons and switches, at least when they are not using symbols. Example:
They even use capitals for things that are not even controls, ...
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When is it right to use "Not <user>?"
Sometimes a site shows a message reading: "You are logged in as [user1]. Not [user1]? Please log out."
When is it right to use such a thing? Where are we assuming someone is mistakenly logged in as ...
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How can I display a schedule with overlapping events?
I'll do the best to explain this, but please ask clarifying questions as needed:
I basically have a schedule attempting to map out seven stages of an event, which occurs over a period of roughly a ...
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How Do I Teach People Rules When They Don't Read?
I'm the product guy for a fantasy sports gaming website. We often find that we need to give people basic rules to get started playing the games, but people always skip reading and try to dive right in,...
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How to deal with records that require no action?
On a transaction administration page, users can view what they are buying and what they are selling. The main tabs shows both records, each one with a distinguish tag that seperate buying/selling as ...
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CLI and Recall Memory [closed]
Is there any evidence that using a command line interface will improve a user's recall memory?
or...
Do users with better predispositions to recall abilities do better with command line interfaces?
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After how many years does a Web Interface Design Book become outdated?
I am new to a UX team, and I am reading many web interface design books. Since the web is fast moving and evolving, some past best practices are now obsolete.
For example, clear button in forms. ...
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In a blog article, how to subtly hint that some of the images link to bigger versions?
I published an article on the Cooking.stackexchange blog yesterday. I shot all photographs in a standard 3:2 side ratio, but when I inserted them whole, I didn't like the appearance. I asked for help ...
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Give users the ability to resize jQuery popup
So there I was, setting all popups to contain a minimal width and height to keep users from resizing the popup and thus scrambling the whole layout. Most of our popups contain forms which are reached ...
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How to Find the Best Icon to Represent a Concept?
I am developing a visual programming language, and after reading this paper it looks as if icons are a very good solution to improve the language and increase understanding. But since I am a ...
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Formation of groups in a webpage
I have to make a webpage to associate users (around 30) together into groups. I have thought about a vertical list of users with radio-buttons (number of users) in the line. Example:
groups 1 2 ...
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Multiple call-to-action popups while flash app loading
We are developing a new component for our flash application which displays HTML news popups before the application loads. These popups are typical modal window style popups which may contains random ...
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Unclosable last tab in firefox. Is this a real decision?
Is there any convincing reason behind the decision to make to last open tab un-closable in Firefox? This change has been introduced several versions ago, and I still can not understand why I'm not ...
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Under what circumstances will vertical or horizontal navigation work better?
I have just started taking UX classes and am designing my first e-commerce webpage. I was wondering what type of navigation works better for users? Do users prefer eBay's vertical navigation http://...
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Separating actions on items from general actions in a toolbar
Rearranging an existing toolbar of ours, I would like to separate between types of action buttons.
General actions that applies to the system, e.g. Settings,
List actions that applies to the entire ...
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What should I do about my save button inconsistency across tabs?
The user profile in the app I'm building is across a few tabs, however, I've had a situation where I feel the expected save functionality will be inconsistent across tabs.
Most of my tabs look ...
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What is the best model for editing and viewing data that is summarized in a table?
I am designing a web application that has several tables displaying many rows of user entered objects. My users are fairly technically savvy. I’d like to bring the user to a place where they can view ...
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Should we be aware of bandwidth concerns given recent data-plan pricing changes?
Recently, it's been reported that mobile providers have decided to change the pricing models of their data plans (namely Verizon and AT&T, but perhaps even others; charge per GB of data used). ...
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Elegantly display dynamic text in a fixed width & height area
This may be an impossible question to answer but I'll put it out there anyway.
Basically whats an elegant way to handle dynamic text in a fixed width area.
See the example below... how would you ...
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What is better - window buttons on the left (OS X) or on the right (Windows)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
close button on the left or right side?
Windows has window buttons (minimize, maximize, close) on the right, OS X on the left. Is one of these objectively better or is it only ...
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What should my button read, when user is done reading a text / message
I have a pop up which has a text / message / announcement to read by user.
When user is done reading, I would want user to close pop up window by clicking button below this message or text.
Can you ...
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Announcement text length should be restricted or not?
My product has Announcements.
Where we will ask user to input their Announcement text. And site will show this announcement as a flashing content over user's home page.
I am confused on "what ...
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"Delete all" entries across several pages of results
I have a web-page I am working on which simply returns a list of entries from a database. Over time, say, if ignored for a month, this list can grow to roughly 100 pages long. The user has the option ...
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Handling inactive notifications icons
With our app, there's currently a list of notification icons in the left side of the page. This are to alert you to events or things to do (e.g. you haven't contacted customer x for 30 days, you have ...
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Canonical way to layout collections that have the same behaviour
I have what is essentially a dictionary of 24 things. My initial instinct is to arrange them in a grid:
The user I get to interact with has said that they want to use the scroll wheel to change the ...
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Not showing product name but only product images
I am working on an auction website that will always have only 5 auctions at a time.
On the product list a business guy doesn't want to show the product name, only images. His reasoning is that it is ...
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"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
We are a company offering free demo of client's website, before going for a deal.
Although, the ...
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How to show multiple calendar events simultaneously?
The calendar layout has taken on a sort of TV schedule layout with the list of event locations along the y axis. The x axis displays times and the user would be able to click through time linearly ...
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Organizing hidden commands in a customizable tool bar
We got a classic Windows tool bar with command buttons with icons. If you right click the toolbar you can choose Customize toolbar to open a dialog from where you can pick out the buttons to be shown ...
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Should the term Mac and PC be differentiated
This is a simple question which I believe affects UX.
In current times, is it correct to use PC as the collective term for Mac, PC, Laptops, etc? Will users be bothered by it? Or is it just an Apple ...
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Does having the same functionality with different flow result to bad UX?
Specific example to understand it better.
I have a meeting application, it has the ff menus:
Meeting Schedule - contains pre-created meetings
My Documents - contains documents uploaded to the ...
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iOS auto-correct
In iOS when you type a word which the device feels fit for auto-correction you get a visual hint as below:
In notes app (more padding surrounds suggested word)
And in other apps:
The functionality ...
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Why doesn't the Mac OSX finder have a Cut option? [closed]
I observed that MacOSX finder does not have a Cut option (or shortcut Command+X) to move the contents. Is there a reason for removing this option? Does it improve usability in any way?
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Walking through a long flow during a short user test
I work at an company that sells an API, and we are trying to user test the process of signing up for an account and making your first API request. However, accounting for mistakes and missteps in the ...
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Placement of Buttons in Touch Screen Scenario
I am working on a Mobile Application primarily for Android Platform. The Application will have a lot of screens which will take user input and we need to have a save and cancel button for them.
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Is using a comma as a number separator a cultural thing?
In the US, it's very common to add a comma for numbers of more than 3 digits (ex: 1,000 for one thousand ; 1,000,000 for one million ; etc.).
In France though, we don't use this at all and commas are ...
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Should I include all toolbar items inside menus?
An application I'm working on has a toolbar that doesn't have all of the buttons as commands inside the menus in the application. For me this feels quite awkward.
The Java Look and Feel Design ...
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Managing a list of tasks for students
I'm working on a project that involves assignment management for students. The basic functionality is that once the student completes an assignment, they check it off of the list. I'm wondering how to ...
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How to intuitively display steps in a dynamic context
I am creating a new wizard, and depending on the choice on the first wizard step maximum 2 more steps are needed. The reason for this is that the user can select an existing object in the first step ...
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Default choice for a "leave without saving changes"-dialog
I have an existing design (web application) where users can edit small parts in a webpage. A small editor will open up with the editable fields and three buttons: [Cancel & Close] [Clear] and [...
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How can I distinguish sub-categories with the same name?
My portal has the following categories structure:
=> Name of Magazine
=> Year
=> Month
=> Name of section (Study, Law, Opinion, etc.)
Trouble is the 'Name of section' is identical for many ...
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Autocomplete no results behaviour
First, a bit of background:
I am using autocomplete to provide suggestions (in my case a list of users) to provide tokenized input to a text field:
download bmml source – Wireframes created ...
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Retroactive UX research
When doing UX research, this usually means laying the foundations for future building. Usability testing is a way of finding errors in prototype or fully working products. But what are the questions I ...
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What is the exact difference between fluid and responsive design?
What is the exact difference between fluid and responsive design?
I am bit confused about fluid and responsive design. Fluid is the one where we give width in percentages so that design will look ...
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Which fonts are safe for use on the web today? [closed]
The fonts that were allowed for use on the web are limited. But over the last few years, the fonts that could be safely used on a web page for styling elements have increased. In this day, which fonts ...
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When shortening time expressions in progress dialogs, should they be rounded up or down?
When a user executes any prolonged task, including downloading large files or copying many files, an interface such as the one below is typically displayed to keep the user informed of the progress.
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Is it necessary to tell users that Usability was improved?
I'm about to release a polished version of a multiple-window gui-application I wrote years ago. I improved usability a lot (it was BAD!), with which i mean stuff like:
fixing tiny errors in alignment
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How annoying is it to see your native language rendered with no accents?
I'm localizing my iOS app. All of the screen text, though, is rendered in a handwriting font made by our designer... that contains no special characters. (Yeah, roll your eyes. Go for it.)
As I'm now ...
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Why are search icons represented by a magnifying glass?
Why do so many applications and websites use a magnifying glass as a search icon ? A magnifying glass is a tool used to have a better view of small objects. It suits perfectly as an icon for a zoom. ...
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