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Styling visited links - useful for visitors to know where they have been?

Yes indeed, you should style visited links. Just as you thought it would be useful for you, the same happens to your users. Of course this has been the object of many studies and research, so I won't …
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How can I make it more obvious that these are links?

simply style them as buttons, this way there won't be any doubt at all and you'll eliminate any friction on the perceived affordance of these elements. It's as simple as that. Otherwise, underline th …
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Opinions on stretched-links and alternatives?

In fact, this is probably the best way to build cards that have only one link. What you mention as a disadvantage is true, but in many cases it is an advantage. Most sites won't want their pages to be …
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When is it recommended to give a Continue Anyway link

Keyword: Intentionality Always let the users express their intentions. In any case, as an UX designer, it's your work to define the possible avenues the user may take. In this case, you can allow thi …
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What are pros/cons of using buttons instead of plain links to download a document?

Buttons denotes important actions, therefore they are scarce and noticeable. Links are common, and you may have a lot of them, since they are supposed to take you to an anchor, whether it's on the sam …
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Is there a reason for drawing Material Design flat buttons like plain text?

They're very bad UX, and the main reason of opposition to Material Design as a whole. To answer your specific question and why they do it: Raised buttons behave like a piece of material resting on …
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Homepage Changes Based on Who is Accessing It

The information you're providing isn't very descriptive of the complete scenario, but based on it, it sounds like you're describing a situation where you have users and a superuser or admin. If this i …
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Do redundant links help with hidden navigation on mobile?

It all depends If this is for a main page, then you can (and probably should) have this redundancy. Not because of discovery or hidden links issues or whatever, but because this is a homepage where s …
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What is considered best practice for using color in website text?

While the final color combination will depend on the UI design, branding specs and other considerations, the keyword is CONTRAST. and as such, you're on the right path, black on white is the maximum c …
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Space in-between font and icon on links

You're right, there are accessibility issues, and you're right again, it conflicts with the law of proximity of Gestalt. These problems are important from a cognitive point of view, but they don't aff …
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What is the practical consideration and impact on user experience when the designer makes th...

Warning: This is an opinion and have no way to demonstrate the validity of the answer other than the Duck Test or Occam's Razor. It's not that they don't know what they're doing. They did have easy …
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Should html links with images have both title and alt attributes?

Both of them However, the alt description in the image should be for the link description, not for the image itself From Accessibility and Usability at Penn State: Image ALT Tag Tips for HTML term "A …
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Where should we place a "New Item" link

I'd use the second variant, just with a button rather than a text link. The text link is almost invisible (I only noticed it on the second image, then I looked for it again on the first image). The re …
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