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"1 other" or "one other"?
AP style says "spell out whole numbers below 10, and use figures for 10 and above".
Chicago Manual style says spells out numbers below 100, or as an alternative rule to use AP style instead.
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Why is Figma/Adobe XD needed?
Because not everyone is working alone.
Of course when you're the developer of your own design you don't need to sketch everything. I don't need to do it for my own app I'm developing either.
But in a ...
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How can I get people not to put trash in recycling bins?
Place empty cans and bottles on a table instead
There is only one way to stop all people from putting trash in a recycle bin and that is by not having a recycle bin. This might mean more recyclable ...
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Making a Streak Visualization More Intuitive
Your graphic seems to require far too much information to describe what it means. Github does this through a table of Longest Streak next to Current Streak. It is easier to understand with just text.
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What's a good single-word term that means "a user who's signed in to your website"?
Authenticated
For example: Windows user groups have defined names one of which is Authenticated.
The Authenticated Users identity Any user accessing the system through
a logon process has the ...
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When you don't understand your users
Recently I developed a software in the nuclear energy domain, which was completely new to me. I hope you'll find some advice helpful:
Learn the Basics. You need to know the basics. Visualize the ...
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What is the best way to save & cancel a new content on a CMS?
Firstly, from your description, it sounds as though when your users click the button, they are not saving, they are publishing (which has the side effect of saving) - so the button should be labelled '...
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Preferred format to display negative currency (US English)?
I would follow the lead from other consumer-facing financial systems such as Mint and Intuit Turbotax. They use the format -$1.23.
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"1 other" or "one other"?
Use numerals for digital purposes
The standard for 'traditional' copywriting is to fully write any number under 10, so one, two, three and so on. However, when it comes to digital interfaces, it's ...
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Making a Streak Visualization More Intuitive
**Here are two alternative ways to represent ratios **
Using a high watermark line.
This allows them to contrast their all time best with the current
streak while also affording them to see some ...
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Should I assume that my users are computer literate?
Short answer: no.
I don't know about your parents, but mine each have a smart phone and they have a Windows laptop at home. I wouldn't say they're computer literate, though. They know how to do the ...
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Classifying users into beginners, intermediate, experts
As Jonas said, the easiest way would be to just ask the users directly, especially since it is a survey. It may be in your interest to break your question down to specific areas of the website to be ...
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Is it a good idea to play jokes on your users on April 1st?
Put very simply: it depends.
If it harms productivity or alienates your users then, no, it's not a good idea.
It, on the other hand, it emphasises the personality of your product and/or fosters a ...
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What's an inclusive way of asking for a user's gender and sexual orientation?
The Williams Institute of the UCLA Law School published a paper titled Best Practices for Asking Questions to Identify Transgender and Other Gender Minority Respondents on Population-Based Surveys. It'...
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Why is Figma/Adobe XD needed?
It is true you can design your app in Illustrator but where XD or Figma really shine is user testing. It is not called user experience (UX) for nothing.
Sure you can print out your designs from ...
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Visual reference for user impersonation feature
For administrator or testing mode, the testers usually want to be able to see the website as closely as possible to the user's point of view.
One way to do this is to just highlight the top nave bar ...
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What is the best way to save & cancel a new content on a CMS?
This answer is inspired by Paul S above.
Here is WordPress's save / preview / publish widget
Most CMSs and blogs have something similar.
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What's a good single-word term that means "a user who's signed in to your website"?
Edit: Actually "Active" might be the best. You wouldn't really refer to "active" guests, but you do have "active" members. This is what Slack uses and Google also uses 'activity' to refer to log of ...
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Should a button say "Upgrade subscription" or "Change subscription"?
I have three main thoughts when it comes to your question.
1. Don't use the phrase "Upgrade Subscription"
To me, this phrase says: "increase cost of this service". While you may ...
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What is the optimal time for a user on Login Page?
The answer is: as fast as possible
Logging in is no user goal. It's simply a security gate that actually hinders the user in achieving his goal.
A login page should be as clear as possible. Don't ...
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Is it a good idea to expire passwords after a time relative to their complexity?
NO
This would be a security risk. You would be storing information about which passwords are less secure.
The fact you had implemented this system would be easily discovered. If hackers acquired your ...
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Visual reference for user impersonation feature
Type of impersonation
Interesting question! how exactly this might look will depend on the aim of impersonation and the relationship between the impersonator and impersonated.
Few questions might be ...
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Making a Streak Visualization More Intuitive
Take a page from video games and treat your personal best streak as a high score.
Classic games like Pac-Man show your high score at all times as a goal to reach, and when you achieve it you get to ...
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Is there a need to develop for IE8 and earlier?
Depends.
I face this decision almost every day. Sometimes is easier, sometimes is harder, but there are certain rules that can help.
Like Tohster says, demographics plays a big role, and as a matter ...
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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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"Your app is empty man!" / How to modify UI/UX to stop this kind of feedback?
This can be clearly solved with a small foot note: Note you are only seeing outs that you have been invited to.
As to where you could put it. You put it where you expect users would want to see it ...
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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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Can animals perceive screens?
From this answer at Biology StackExchange:
Cats and dogs can both view tv screens & monitors ... though their viewing experience is a little different to ours thanks to differences
in cone ...
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