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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Because it is almost always annoying.
You probably recognize this situation: You’re surfing the web looking for inspiration, you click on some links, monitor your Twitter feed, and open pages in the ...
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Using flags vs. three-letter codes for countries
Abbreviations or Flags only = worst comprehension
Using abbreviations only could cause uncertainties because users might not know the abbreviation for the particular country and leave them guessing. ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
I think the other hand question is why sound is used on Skype login, and the answer is because the way we usually use Skype. Considering that Skype is one of the most common (if not the ONE MOST ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Many of the other answers touch on very good points, but I will add something that I did not see mentioned to the proper degree. Respect. For both the user, and others who might be near them.
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Is it a good decision to include monospace fonts in UI?
Monofaked fonts
There's a solution already planned in design for this type of situation, it's to use pseudo monospace fonts or proportionally spaced typefaces with a monospaced appearance.
Type ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
I like Benny Skogberg's answer, and I agree with his advice, but I wanted to elaborate on the specifics of what makes sound annoying.
The main problem with sound is that it is inherently very ...
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Using flags vs. three-letter codes for countries
Keep in mind that the full country names are language dependant, while the flags and ISO codes are not.
I’m not sure displaying all country names in english would be preferable to using language-...
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Should hourly email notification accumulate all the notification from past hours?
As the user requested hourly updates, they'd probably be confused if notifications from previous updates were included.
Of course, the text has to be modified: 1 new notification since last update.
A ...
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Is it possible for a web application to be *too* fast?
If the system responds so quickly to a user-initiated action that there's no indication that the application has completed a task, this can be detrimental to the user experience.
The usability ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Tradition is important. If you think in terms of web 1.0 there are far fewer events that might logically need sound. A couple of examples of when someone might put sound in, but it wouldn't add much ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Annoying is the key here. Just to add another common (to me) use case.
I open many browser tabs relatively quickly when I'm looking at news sites. I'll see a headline I'm interested in, right click ...
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Using flags vs. three-letter codes for countries
Depending on whether the information is relevant or merely informative, I would always display the flags (the graphical information has more impact) and, if relevant, the two letters of ISO 3166-1 ...
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Is it a good decision to include monospace fonts in UI?
Often people use monospaced fonts to create simple tables or ASCII art. If you don't allow a true monospaced font you are making a blanket decision for all of your users that those uses are ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Back in the day when Flash first became popular, we had an endless list of website using sound. It was really annoying and everyone hated it. Before that there was MIDI background music on GeoCities/...
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Specific messages for wrong password or wrong mail - which is the correct practice?
Giving separate error messages for a wrong password vs a wrong username (or email) allows users to easily find out whether or not a given username exists in your system. All they have to do is enter ...
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So I created personas. What's next?
Well, it all depends. Each project has its particularities, you'll have different resources, time, budget and so on. There's always the temptation to do more and to over analyse to play safe, which of ...
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Using flags vs. three-letter codes for countries
Yes, switching to three-letter abbreviations makes sense, because flags are not unique.
Technically, there's a minor hue difference between the Dutch and Luxembourg flag, but your average device isn'...
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Show user 'Access denied' page or redirect to landing page
There's a 3rd option for security concerns: denying a page exists
Working on enterprise software, I've come across feature request for customers who used our platform:
Customers who do not want to ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Because you have somewhat two to five seconds for convincing a typical web visitor that it makes sense to give attention to your website.
During such a short time, it is not possible to play or say ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
In addition to all the answers already given, I'd say that many users often have a lot of tabs open. I have 10 tabs open right now. Imagine if all those tabs started making sound.
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How to write correctly the term "User experience"?
English can be a challenge
Capitalisation
This is a stylistic choice. If you use Initial Capitalisation for all job titles, for example, on a résumé or cv, then it's User Experience. It's rare to ...
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Action Menu on table
So here showing this actions on all the rows all the time doesn't look good.
To solve this, you need an action bar. You could have it like how you currently have, which is shown in yellow. Another ...
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Is it a good decision to include monospace fonts in UI?
Typing and reading are two distinct things
If I were you, I would go for monospace or monofake for the one liners and maybe headings, and proportional sans-serif for whatever can grow to multiline. ...
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How to write correctly the term "User experience"?
General use
There's nothing special about the two words that requires capitalization. In general usage it would look like this:
We can pour user experience awesomesauce on your product because we ...
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Why is sound sparingly used on websites?
Sound has been rather challenging to support. In the olden days, web browsers did not support sound. Then sound was supported by plug-ins, which were often incompatible with each other. Then people ...
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Using flags vs. three-letter codes for countries
Country codes and names are often confusing. I'll give an example.
English: Switzerland
Switzerland has four official languages:
German: Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft
French: Confédération ...
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How to improve user experience in mobile/responsive screen when we deal with complex table structure?
The typical alternative on mobile would be to stack it in to one column and use cards for each area. Something like this:
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What's best UX practice for a OR/AND search box?
I think the learning curve comment you received was more because the switch along with either "All" or "Any" was confusing. When the user is viewing the switch with "All" there is no context as to ...
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Looking for a good analogy!
Death by meeting ☠️
The best analogy I've come up with for office-dwellers is meetings. Both the scheduled and unscheduled variety apply, but the latter is the best parallel.
There's nothing more ...
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