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No one is clicking my slide box popup - Can it be improved?
Pop-up windows are a pestilence on the web. Users are fed up with them.
People visited your web site because they wanted to view information about some product. But as soon as they started scrolling ...
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Why are animations out often neglected, even from Google?
Animation is used to draw focus to objects. It makes less sense to draw focus to an object the user is no longer pointing to (and thus, is no longer interested in focusing on), than to draw focus to ...
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Are you sure you want to answer this question?
Yes. There is a very simple, effective heuristic that adjusts to the preference of each user.
Place a check box in the warning message dialog that says:
Don't show this message again
Which can ...
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Is the message "Data cannot be recovered." when reformatting misleading to users?
"Recovered" is a poor choice of words here. All that app is trying to do is warn people that the action is not reversible and they can't simply hit cancel or undo and all their files will be returned. ...
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How to show a "Yes" for a negative occurrence and "No" for a positive occurrence
Your objective is to draw your client's attention towards not doing business with PEP, therefore you could highlight just that and avoid the opposite sounding PEP: Yes/No combination. Leaving the non-...
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When is a website too humanized/personal?
Humanization is no different from any other design technique
Like many other design approaches, humanizing an interface has advantages and disadvantages and as such, is correspondingly prone to ...
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Fibonacci pagination
What problem are you solving with this?
This seems like a developer's solution to a problem they think exists. Let's actually look at how users use pages.
They want to go to:
a specific page
the ...
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Is there a more effective way to convince users to sign up with their social media accounts?
We ran a quick user test and found that more people were signing up with their emails
If you trust your test, then you should trust your users and design a solution that meets their desires.
We ...
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Why do showers have "hot" and "cold" knobs rather than "temperature" and "quantity" knobs?
You are totally right
As with many other devices (eg the QWERTY keyboard) the hot/cold tap persists not because it's the most usable design, but because of:
Cost since proper temperature control ...
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Toilet flush buttons
I think icons are the best possible way to convey the information about different flushing amounts. I see too much uncertainty by relying only on button relative sizes and ease of use.
It can be a ...
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Is there any reason to send "no-reply" emails?
It is primarily benefical for the company
I start with companies that have a large community, for example amazon. They have 244 million users and therefore many e-mails to send and to reply to. Most ...
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How to avoid the "local elevator" problem?
Replace the panel A with buttons “to rooftop” and “to garage” instead of “up” and “down”. Now elevator 1 is reserved for special floors and most people use elevators 2-4.
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When is a website too humanized/personal?
I would say it's too humanized if it hinders the users in finding the information they visited the site for in the first place.
I once visited the website of the local supermarket to find out their ...
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Button changing its text & action. Good or terrible?
You can change the button to reflect the only available action, but separate the display of state.
You've replaced the button label with the only available action: reverting (unregistering).
Where it ...
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Why is Google using a (new) 2 step Gmail sign in process?
As per the official Google announcement, the reasoning behind this change is to try out methods which would complement new password authentication methods. To quote the post
Today, you sign in to ...
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Facial recognition - Given the context, should the user be made aware of the process?
Based on Nielsen's 10 heuristics of interface design:
Visibility: Show system status, tell what's happening.
Following these guidelines you should show the status of interface and visualize that ...
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How to avoid the "local elevator" problem?
On further thought, another solution could be to implement a singular, digital wall panel where users can indicate to which specific floor they are intending to go, much like the ones found in many ...
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What is a button supposed to look like?
Your question revolves around signifiers for a button's design (i.e. hints that communicate what an element can do/how to interact with it).
I assume your primary concern with buttons is that many of ...
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Make people understand they can click on a button in a flat design
The problem with your buttons is that they are not raised above the background, so they don't seem clickable.
I highly recommend the Material Design for details on how to choose between flat buttons ...
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Toilet flush buttons
OK, how about this?
Should be understandable by everyone, irrespective of culture.
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Layout for on-screen hexadecimal keyboard
Why don't simply improve the standard numerical keyboard by adding the missing characters ?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
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Are you sure you want to answer this question?
These are Confirmation messages - Windows have a fairly detailed page on their guidelines. The whole of that page is pretty useful but here's some excerpts (emphasis mine):
Confirmations are most ...
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How can I make monochrome icons work?
Selected – Create an inverted selection state which would make this feature more prominent. Many ways to accomplish but as an example; Make the button background black with a white or light grey ...
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Is it good practice to allow users to navigate simply by hovering on a menu item without clicking?
This seems full of usability issues, as well as possibly performance issues loading interim unnecessary pages (e.g., user moves mouse across tabs to access one several over). To start, if there's user ...
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What is better: to have a modal open instantly and then load its contents, or to load its contents and then open it?
The first option... but with more feedback.
You should have the modal appear immediately. This is important so that the user knows that their action has been successful (i.e. you don't want them to ...
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Toilet flush buttons
Because litres are a unit used everywhere across the world, a non-language dependent text solution is to label the amount of water used. Typically the symbol "L" is recognised as litres in almost any ...
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What's the point of a "Read full story" button?
There are a few reasons:
(and sites may implement for one, some or all of these)
Robot defense. Content sites (e.g. news sites) sometimes use these buttons to provide a rudimentary defense against ...
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Customers using the New Order option when they should use Reorder
Speak like your customers
It's helpful to be more conversational — especially with older customers who tend to miss implied meaning in an interface. They aren't typically put off by a little ...
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Multiple options vs single option UI
You don't need to make different appearances for these components.
Your case is similar to well-known toggles in a toolbar of text processors like Word.
These font settings toggles act like ...
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