User interaction is generally what happens when a user interacts with an artifact. How the users thinks and experience the interaction is what is placed on this tag.
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User Interface Thread - Android [closed]
I am studying for an exam in OOP and one of the questions is based on the UI thread in Android. It says:
"Explain the role of the user interface(UI) thread. In Android
programming, explain why ...
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Two-level menus: Why? and When?
Two level menus: should they be used? Why are they important?
I never found any resource explaining this.
Should I avoid them and only use them when you really have too much stuff to present?
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Is Successful Validation useful for step forms
We've been designing a registration form with 5 steps.
The form has many input fields, some required and some not.
The validation is client side and is represented with red text for errors.
I was ...
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Why use the append text to copy-paste (“Read more at …”) pattern?
I was copy-pasting some text from a website and besides the text I copied, the following text was appended "Read more at: http://www.YYYY.com Copyright © YYYY".
I've seen this pattern in many ...
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Should I verify that the output directory exists or just create it?
In my job, I create apps where I'm converting data and frequently need, among other things, an input and an output directory. Obviously, the input directory needs to exist, but for the output ...
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Will it be better for making call-for-action buttons in warm colors?
Are there any A/B test/ statistics results revealing whether using warm color buttons is generally better than cold color buttons in UI? (despite the concern for the theme color of the brand)
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Best way to show user image is being process by the server
I have an App that takes images from the users for a beauty competition.
I use Amazon EC2 to process the images and SQS to queue images being processed.
Right after the user upload when they go to ...
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What is the difference between user journey and task flow
I was wondering if you could explain me what is the difference between a user journey and a task flow? I tried to read and look for example images in Google...and I can't find the difference between ...
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Time Scheduler UI
Working on a doctor availability schedule page. In this page I need to setup the available time for each day in a week for a doctor.
This is one time activity. Samething is repeated for every week. I ...
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Is shaking a device to refresh an accepted behavior?
I have an app that displays downloaded information that is cached. I could use valuable space to include a button that is used to re-download the information, or I could simply add a "shake the device ...
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What's a good alternative to cascading checkboxes?
We have a web interface for running a report. The report can be pretty complex. There are various topics that can be included in the report, and each topic has sub-topics.
Right now, the interface ...
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How do I improve the visual appearance of these widgets? [closed]
How do I improve the visual appearance of these widgets? What tools are available to help me?
(I am brand new to User Experience and I don't have 10 reputation points to be allowed to post my ...
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Filters on top or on side of the table
I have 2 options to show filters for a table. One option places filters on the top and the other on the side of the table. For both options we'll give users the ability to hide the filters (by ...
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How can I make these links more obvious to click on?
I'm working on a website redesign for a dental laboratory.
While testing the home page with a user, they never clicked on the links in the subnavigation. They clicked on the larger buttons in the ...
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Use old or new name for an update confirmation message when name itself has been updated?
I want to provide a user of a web application some confirmation message like:
The task "foobar" has been successfully updated.
Now, in term of usability, if the update consists in changing ...
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Combining the concepts of “Archive” and “History”
I have two apps (each with iOS and Mac versions) where people add items that appear in a list. Currently when an item is deleted from the list, it is permanently and immediately removed. I'm working ...
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Better ways to arrange the reports
I have large number of reports all separated by the category they belong to. But now I want the user to find most frequently used ones up and easily.
Hence I thought of providing user to create his ...
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Showing preview rows of content types vs picking a default type and showing it in full?
I'm trying to figure out what would be a better experience.
We have 3 "types" of content usually, in this case let's say they are photos on user profiles.
Is it better to show a row of each type with ...
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Should I send the private message body in the notifying email?
My website is a bit similar to StackExchange sites in regards of user interaction, but additionally it has a private messaging system. A message has a subject and a body.
Every time a new message or ...
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Quick Booking UX/UI design [closed]
I am using Twitter Bootstrap UI for developing screens for my application.
I created the booking / appointment page.
This page will be used by hospital staffs. They want to quickly fill the data, ...
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How would you improve this search results interface? [closed]
I've been doing some research in successful UIs for search results and as a personal project I am trying to build one that is simple, yet elegant.
That has great interactions and a great experience.
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Is an accordion worse than a grid?
I am building an author site for myself, and would like to display, for each book, the cover image, the title and an enticing blurb, and links to (say) four other books that might be of interest.
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when is too much playfullness in interface / experience too much?
I think most of us know when an experience is too playful, but I'm talking about subtle interactions to delight the user.
I think it is too much when it prevents or postpones the user from reaching ...
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Four different types of actions need to be applied to elements in a list on a mobile phone. How do I organize these actions?
I have a bunch of user created items in a list on a mobile phone. I've broken the possible actions applied to each into four types, listed below in order of most often used:
reply to internal ...
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Tile UX: Is there too much information in these tiles?
I'm working on a flashcard application - I really like the UX of skydrive.com and want to apply the tile paradigm to this app. In the app, Cards belong to Sets belong to Folders. A Folder is ...
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How should horizontal scrolling be handled?
In this example, horizontal scrolling is handled with vertical scrolling.
My question is: is this a good practice for handling horizontal scrolling in desktops? Is there a better way or horizontal ...
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How to make other tabs more noticeable?
We have a dialog that allows the user to choose the "type" of a shape: text, pop up and link. Changing the type also changes the modal's body. Our current design uses an underline to indicate the ...
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DropDownLists becoming TextBoxes - Should the user be able to go back?
So I have a menu on web application I am developing. In this menu, there is an option for how many Project vacancies one wishes to create. The user can choose as many as they need (large numbers will ...
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Display comments order - best practice
I wonder what is the best comments order on the website. I assume there are two major methods to display comments:
from newest to oldest,
from oldest to newest.
Facebook uses method one and ...
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Why did older Windows installs delay before automatic restart?
Every time I need to install an older copy of Windows (today it's Server 2003 Enterprise), I run into the screen where the initial install phase completes and my machine needs to reboot.
The ...
