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How to overcome feature blindness
I honestly do not think that this is a UI issue but it has rather evolved into a trust issue. All things considered, you clearly have a good UI because new people are actively checking their ...
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Which Feature request to implement?
UX isn't just about doing what the user wants, or even what the user needs. Good UX requires taking many elements into consideration.
For example:
Business Requirements - Does this requirement help ...
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Best text/icon/title alignement for feature box pattern?
Because the image and text are differently in each case I would do the following.
1st grouping
I would only use that in an aligned left scenario
2nd grouping
I would have to use this in a centered ...
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"Can you make it more prominent?" stakeholder phenomenon
tl;dr: Focus your audience on the Product's purpose
In the absence of a clear product strategy, use the User Journey Map and documented workflows to remove executive opinion and self-interest from the ...
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Is it essential to let users change their email in an app?
Is any data connected to the login account? Then yes. People want to keep their stuff when they change email just like when they move houses.
Is there no data connected to the login account? Then why ...
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How to overcome feature blindness
As other's have said already it's a very good idea to change the colours and even add a more friendly color than the danger one that is red. However maybe you should give notifications a new use. Add ...
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Best text/icon/title alignement for feature box pattern?
I haven’t heard of any study about your question. But I can only base my opinions on readability issues, for this specific case.
(See image)
For the big paragraph text, is easier to read when ...
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How does e-commerce product quick view affect conversion rates?
Here's a great article from Baymard on Quick Views
Baymard writes in their article that quick views often lead to small increases in conversion. However...
Though quick views may slightly increase ...
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"Can you make it more prominent?" stakeholder phenomenon
The stakeholder owes you more information. If something is asked to be made MORE prominent, something else has to be made LESS prominent. This is like the full glass syndrome. Nothing new can be added ...
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How to overcome feature blindness
First, a couple of points about your new users and the new design
Can you be sure that new users are clicking to view notifications because the design has been improved, and not because they're still ...
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Fake call-to-action buttons for research
It's quite a broad question and requires a lot of elaborate discussions to arrive at a conclusive "answer" but here are some of my observations and experiences
User Expectation - Users don't like to ...
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One app with more features vs. separate apps focused on one thing
The term you're looking for is debundling. Debundling is definitely not just a UX decision. It's a collective decision between business technology and design. There are many reasons why not to ...
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One app with more features vs. separate apps focused on one thing
As with most questions on UXSE, context is the key when it comes to making decision about your users.
You used the example of Facebook which initially had a lot of different 'products and services' ...
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is there a limit of list items displayed on mega menus?
I don't think there is a maximum number, other than the difficulty of use.
There are several solutions:
Left side bar menu with main categories
Scrolling window
Horizontal slider
Personally I would ...
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Two People screen sharing in MS Teams
I'm going to quote Roux Martin's comment...
If I share my screen with you then my screen appears on your screen. If you then share your screen with me then I can see my screen and your screen showing ...
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Good UX for handling partial application failure?
I think what you are looking for is Graceful Degradation of User Interfaces.
Gmail does a very good job of letting users know very gracefully that something is not working. Everything else seems to ...
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Is it better to hide upcoming core features or display coming soon text?
There's a big difference depending on how you do this.
Frustration
As you mention (just a link, and when they click the user finds out the feature doesn't exist yet) will probably create a lot of ...
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Is it essential to let users change their email in an app?
The e-mail address is a way for you to notify/warn/inform users outside their account. If users prefer to use a different address for that kind of communication, let them change it.
So from UX ...
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"Can you make it more prominent?" stakeholder phenomenon
"Prominent" is relative to other things that compete for attention. It isn't something you declare, it's measured.
Let's say you give some element a nice fat stroke and drop shadow and color it day-...
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How to overcome feature blindness
One solution I can think of is can be a reminder of alerts on the screen as a pop up information box (near the edge of the screen where alerts displayed would be most suitable "I suppose". I don't ...
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New Features and minimum amount of users
Prioritizing work and features is difficult and complex. It's definitively important skill for ux-professionals to be able to distinguish between good ideas, nice-to-have and killer additions. In my ...
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Fake call-to-action buttons for research
First of all your design should do what it says, if you try to trick your user it might give negative vibes to the users.
Probable Solution
The solution you have proposed seems a bit risky, as your ...
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User research drives design or vice a versa for existing product?
For an existing product, you have two primary modes of working on new features:
1. Optimization
When optimizing an existing product to the needs of it's user base, or to extend into adjacent markets, ...
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Is status relevant in enterprise chat applications?
I would argue that they are indeed very relevant and I personally find them extremely useful in an enterprise environment.
If there is no concept of state, what happens when you send a message and ...
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Understanding uplift in A/B testing
Optimization tools usually give more statistics than the uplift %. Some will even tell you how many days/weeks the test should run given your current traffic, current conversion rate, and expected ...
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feature prioritization
I think your next step here should be focusing on the improvement of the current features. If you have already discovered that "most calls point to issues that could be solved by improving current ...
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What are the benefits to product teams when designs are done in user flows
Over the past year we have adopted a similar method to producing specifications for a new app.
Gone are lengthy specifications and use cases and in are wireframes, often backed by workflows or ...
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Can you test an idea, as opposed to testing an instantiation of an idea?
I guess the way to test the idea and not the form you take to represent that idea is to test several forms of that idea, and then take conclusions from it.
Creating several solutions and then making ...
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Is it better to hide upcoming core features or display coming soon text?
The answer is rather subjective and depends on what those features are.
For example, if your app is in the MVP or Alpha stage and lacks important functionality such as Checking Sent Items in a Mail ...
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Should we disable an action in our system because we don't have a use case for it?
I would recommend a single button with a dual-purpose word like "Remove" or "Hide". The tooltip or help text can explain:
This record will be archived with its full history and can be unarchived in ...
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