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It's usually because users are coming to edit particular pieces of data, rather than their whole record. When I want to update my password or change my shipping address, I look for those discrete task …

Depending on your context and how the user models the problem, you might be able to do something as simple as this: download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups

Broadly speaking, I agree with others that it's hard to produce a good design without knowing what the real content would be. Some designs only work well when all content is of equal length, for examp …

I can think of no compelling UX reason for this. It is especially annoying when a username is taken, and a simple numeric variation is rejected. Great, now I have to remember another set of credential …

Pull-down buttons are workable when the user can either perform one action or several variants. The typical example is 'Save', with 'Save as...', 'Export...' and 'Synchronize' as alternate options. T …

I don't actually think you've a big problem here. You have a list of items that goes beyond the viewport. An action towards the end of the list pushes it above. But so what? You don't need to move do …

Well, the ideal way to discover usability issues with with in-person user testing, so if you think you could arrange a session with, say, five or six participants, that would be best. … You can get much, much richer data that way - some usability issues are very difficult to capture by Q&A. …

Users pay little attention to the interface because humans are satisficing creatures. That is, they spend the minimal mental effort they expect to get away with, because that frees effort for other, m …

You can hide UI controls from a higher level of abstraction when the user can guess from the exposed controls what hidden controls are attached the user would only need to handle the hidden controls …

Like all UX matters, it depends. It depends on how you expect users to be reading and viewing your content, where they land within your site and what you believe they'll be looking for. Do you think …

What were your reservations about your proposed approach? It was the solution I immediately thought of - putting a yellow-and black 'caution' triangle on the bottom-right corner of offending fields (m …

There isn't really a universal standard on this. In many ways, it depends what sorts of behaviours are particularly important to your organization, and the kinds of interaction you anticipate. When o …

I'm tempted to say the new item should appear as close to the 'duplicate' control as possible, so users see the results of their change as they click the button without relying on peripheral vision. T …

I don't think this is worth doing for the most part. Typically speaking, users are abstracted away from URLs. They go to yoursite.com, log in, then just follow links. Other than that, users never han …

Base your ordinals on an index of zero, and use the word "index" consistently. In the cases you outline, that means "Item at index 0 of 71" / "Item at index 71 of 71". Even if the user does not grasp …