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How to best group interview subjects into “roles” for persona creation?
Interview / observe them, understand their behavior, then slowly uncover the commonalities. Use those to start uncovering their roles / groupings. Roles become apparent after the analysis of the data, ...
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Managing Users With Multiple Roles & Properties
For complex interactions (e.g. CRUD) on table rows, consider an expanding row
This provides the space for your interactions.
For simple interactions (e.g. read-only lists), consider a modal window.
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User permissions and roles - allow both or just roles?
Definitely better to set groups (aka roles) and assign both users & permissions to the groups. A group can have multiple permissions (often MANY) and a user can belong to multiple groups (and have ...
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How to best group interview subjects into “roles” for persona creation?
The Interview should be focused around deducting what roles the subjects fit into, rather than predefining it. However, if the is distinction in terms of the roles is important, you could screen the ...
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What's the best way to handle displaying a long list of user permissions in a UI?
Your best friends are going to be (un)check all buttons by both permission type and object type -- that is, giving a use the (in)ability to read every object type, or all/no permissions for a ...
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Creating personas with different roles
When creating personas, "why" is the crucial question. Rather than slicing the whole Users population, you should therefore find those who represent a prominent set of strategically important ...
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Creating personas with different roles
You can have as many personas as you want - although, the more you have the more difficult they are to manage.
The point of a persona is to represent a key user type - If you have several key user ...
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Product Developer vs Product Designer. What's the difference?
From dictionary.com:
Design: To prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of.
Develop: To cause to grow or expand.
Designers ...
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How to best group interview subjects into “roles” for persona creation?
A method that works very well for me is looking at the extremes of the personas attributes and form groups where the needs and outcomes seem to divert the most.
So for example, in this case, you ...
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Showing multi list and drop down hierachy on page
I think Assigned Users's list should come first. Before adding anyone new to the list, a user is supposed to scan the list of those who are currently assigned. The two sections should also be ...
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Evolution of authentication-based navigation
There are two different aspects:
Do we want to lure normal users to get more features enabled for them? For example, switching to PRO version in some apps.
Separating users based on their roles (in ...
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Showing multiple role linkages in a single form
I have already encountered this use case, and we chose to focus instead on a page that brings together the forms. The assumption was that administrators don't go to the user list to assign roles; they ...
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Permissions and roles screen
If the set of permissions is a big list (10+), you can definitely go with table view.
A table view has the following benefits:
The entities are one below the other and easier to compare
It's also ...
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Permissions and roles screen
As is often the case in UX, it depends on the specific scenario.
Some permissions could be really important (hence they need more control), while other may be trivial and you can use a lighter control....
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UX Design for user role attribute pickers
There are a number of solutions, and your app may implement more than one to provide greatest convenience to your users.
Role Groups. If there are a relatively small number of common combinations of ...
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Showing multi list and drop down hierachy on page
the right to left flow seems well done, this pattern is quite common so users should be familiar with it. not sure why the menu on the far left needs to be so wide. it could possible interfere with ...
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Showing multi list and drop down hierachy on page
The current flow appears clear.
Would recommend following consistent naming - instead of "Add User", label the button as "Assign User"
Similarly, rename "Available Users" to "Unassigned Users". ...
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Is Customer Service Agent and the Customer two different personas or different roles?
John, Bruce and Bob are both personas and represent 3 different roles.
Personas are fictional characters you create to assume a particular role that you want to represent during research for ...
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How to best group interview subjects into “roles” for persona creation?
"Roles" in this case should be taken in the larger sense of group. As Nicolas Hung pointed out, these groups become apparent only after conducting the research, through the analysis. Commonalities are ...
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Application navigation when there are multiple main navigation possibilities?
The Google Chrome Developers site is one great example of this. This site is for developers who want to create apps or extensions for devices using Google Chrome. It has a top navigation with all the ...
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Using @ to denote responsibility
Even with the limited context of your application, I would expect the @John.Smith tag to work as you'd want it to.
The @ "tag" is used to call attention to the user in question; replies are ...
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Differentiating between role based actions
You can split it, display the 2 more important actions (the ones the administrator will use the most) and hide the secondary options (the one he less likely will use) behind the menu.
You could also ...
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Has anyone out there found examples of solid UX career path definitions with roles?
For the record, while we have not come close to fully fleshing out a solution yet, we have made some progress and are angling towards a solution. We did an audit of our existing titles and roles and ...
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Has anyone out there found examples of solid UX career path definitions with roles?
I will attempt an answer.
My Background: 7+ years working as UX team of one, lead UX or team lead/manager type role for all sizes of companies.
I know at some large tech companies with established ...
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Attention to specific items based on user role and permissions
It's difficult to visualise what you are thinking about, but here is some general advice.
Onboarding
The first issue you seem to describe is about 'onboarding' - getting users familiar with the ...
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