Graphical User Interface design (GUI-design for short) refers to the visual aspect of designing computers, appliances, machines, mobile communication devices, software applications, and websites with the focus on the user's experience and interaction. Generally refers to digital rather than physical ...
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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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When is Skeuomorphism appropriate in an iOS app?
I know there are no hard and fast rules regarding the use of Skeuomorphism, but I'd like to more fully understand when the use of Skeuomorphic elements is appropriate in iOS apps.
To my limited ...
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Using a table within a mega drop down
I've a quick question about combining a mega drop down with a tabular list view. Ideally I'd prefer jut to have the list to pick from but the list also requires sorting. I'm not really sure that this ...
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What is the best practice approach in android for form input that is related to the current view
I am currently going through the process of designing the experience of my first android app for a company I am involved with. Forgive me if some of the terminology is incorrect; coming from a web ...
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Categorizing user interface elements [duplicate]
I have seen lots of different ways to define and categorize user interface elements/components. In the process of writing a style guide, I am interested in whether the following categories cover the ...
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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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How can I highlight errors when bright red is the main color of the brand?
I'm working on a mobile website for a client whose main brand color is red. The website header and headings are all red. CTA buttons are red too. How can I effectively separate errors (mostly in form ...
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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 to prototype a new concept for UI design for mobile devices? [closed]
I am currently developing a new kind of UI for android device and I wanted to know how do I make prototype of it ? since none of the existing UI design tool has support for it. I wanted to include ...
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Convincing importance of a great UI [duplicate]
We have a good set of algorithms which are the core of our business. Our product itself works mostly as a plugin inside other workflows. There is web based UI which is used by some of our customers ...
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What should the Double-Click behaviour be in a treeview which is in a selection dialog
Normally when using treeview I would expect that when the user double-clicking on a node that has children the tree will expand/collapse. However, Say we have a tree in a selection dialog. We ...
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Skeuomorph or OS-consistency?
Skeuomorphic UIs should give the user something that looks like a familiar object, presumably making it easier for them to understand what it should do and how it should be used. Even if the UI isn't ...
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What is the best alternate layout for horizontal and vertical tabs on one page?
The original design uses horizontal tabs for categories that are not related, and vertical tabs for pages that are sequentially related. In terms of usability and navigation I think it is not as ...
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How shall i convince user to select multiple email-id?
I am inviting people to participate in my activity. I entered the email id. It got added into the list. Now shall i select multiple? (Is the question faced by many users)
What shall i do:
-Provide a ...
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Components of a site that would cause imitation concerns [closed]
I'm new to the web design and web comic fields.
I'm a huge fan of The Oatmeal, and thought his tile layout was a good way to share the most amount of comics for given real estate.
So, following the ...
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What UI Should I Use?
Here's the feature:
The user is a construction sub-contractor. Each user specializes in something like welding or plumbing or windows, etc... Now, these things they specialize in are formally defined ...
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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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Minimalistic User interfaces discussion [duplicate]
I'm wondering whether or not a minimalistic user interfaces is the best choice.
For example you might have an application that has only one button per page, so a user can't get confused. Or multiple ...
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Choices for users who don't read
I'm building a touch UI for a timesheet program.
Requirements:
1) Record the start and end time of a break.
2) Determine if the user is leaving the work place for their break (for safety reasons ...
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how to create a modular design for ecommerce site? [closed]
I am looking for a modular approach to design a e-commerce site where I can add/remove elements that we like from the best e-commerce site examples.
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GUI Design advice on Add/Remove/Edit form
I am building a GUI that needs to allow the user to:
Add entries
Remove entries
Modify Existing entries
Each of these "entries" hold very simple information:
Outlet Number (Non editable, ...
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The art of building great GUI [closed]
I am not sure whether its appropriate to ask this question here. If its not, please let me know.
Being a novice in graphic and web designing, I am always pondered by this question.
What are the ...
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How can I display lots of controls that are contained within expanders?
I'm currently building and Dashboard system for a factory and there is a control panel to control all the displays in the factory and to decide which detail(KPI type) to be displayed. Following is the ...
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Good UX for a page
I am working on a UI design. I have good CSS/HTML knowledge. But not good in UX.
Attached image is the UI I created for one page.
I tried alter it nearly 10 ways, still my customer says it looks ...
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Use up or down arrow to represent “sort ascending” at table header
To represent "sort ascending" (a -> b -> c -> ...) , my first sense told me that, I should use ↓ to represent it. This is because if I lay my data
a
b
c
It seems like thing is moving naturally ...
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Handling bad network connections in a mobile app [closed]
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis about loading data in mobile applications (native/web based).
I already searched for UX studies how to handle disconnects and slow loading of data but ...
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I need simple , easy and cheap UI prototying and mock up tool for my company . Can any one suggest any good tool [closed]
I have tried
Invison
Concept.ly
but still not sure which one to use for my company ?
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Group of controls depending on value of combo box
In a UI, I get the user to make a selection from a combo box. This selection influences what other controls will need to be shown. There are also other controls that need to be shown, independently of ...
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How can I improve this wizard interface? [closed]
I am working to improve a wizard like interface available to our users. I have attached mockups of the first two screens in the series.
I would like to get advice on the design. Currently these ...
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Legacy Text Interface (e.g. Telnet) to GUI [closed]
I work in a very large, established company with a consistent philosophy of, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." The (large) division of the company that is responsible for maintaining customer ...
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How to design a futuristic-looking application
I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced UX developers. I have been presented with a unique challenge by my customer, and I feel like I am failing.
Specifically, they want a UI that ...
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What is the best way to show Log Information of user actions
I am trying to find an intuitive way to show the Log/History information of the users actions on the application. The actions may include the following:
Type | Date & Time | ...
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Eclipse RCP Tabbed Property Sheet Page [closed]
I have Eclipse Tabbed Property Sheet Page on which different GUI elements are shown depending on current selection. Is there a way to describe GUI elements structure with offsets, layouts and etc? ...
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Borders editing control usability
I need a simple and intuitive control for editing rectangle borders.
At the moment I have the following:
At the left - preview box and current border selector at the same time. User can click on ...
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Should registration email for a website greet with “Congratulation”? [closed]
I have created a new account.At the start up. I received a Congratulation email saying. You are now part of this site. Doesn't it look strange?
Mail Format:
Congratulations!Thanks for registering ...
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Which is better option Create/Save for Activity and Circle? [closed]
I want to create an Activity as well as Circle for networking. Which button will be suitable 'Create' or 'Save'.
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Is there a Web UX standard as to when to use, or not use a tool-tip?
Current web application is being updated with twitter bootstrap and the UX people are hover / tool-tip happy which is leading to a very busy page.
My understanding is that tool tips should be used ...
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What is the technical term or common name for this widget?
What would you call the UI element that allows a user to add and remove elements from a collection as the favourite / ignored tags widget on the homepage of any stack exchange site does?
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Should i have two links on my Home Page?
I have an important link called 'tlm'. The link has been placed twice on the home page but in different locations. According to Usability Guidelines, two links having sharing similar site navigation ...
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Which is better option 'School', 'College' or any other?
I have used the school field name for both school and college on my website, but I think 'School' and 'College' have different meanings. Can anyone suggest a more appropriate option?
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How to present lessons? [closed]
I'm trying to figure out a good way to present todays lessons for students in an app. I'm not bound to anything (except maybe Microsoft Design Language) and I want to be innovative and modern.
The ...
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Another phrasing for the term “Directions” in this case?
Below is a short browser based linux simulator for training purposes. It basically starts off with a blank screen, and gives directions for the user to enter a linux command to do a given task. If the ...
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How to make right-click in nautilus more intuitive?
This issue was discussed here -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/990965
The problem is when a user right-clicks in the list view with mouse pointer in the row of the file, she ...
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Which is the better option Share or Post button? [closed]
On my website I am using the 'Share' button to post a comment, document, or to have a poll.
I'm confused either to use 'Share' or 'Post'.
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Ternary Switch - How to implement?
My website gives users a report for their search term, this report contains many different datasets.
Each dataset can be configured via options on their profile page, to either;
Load when the ...
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How to present filters graphically?
I'm creating a UI which allows users to specify filters, such as Age > 18. Until now, this has been quite straightforward as all it required was a simple layout as shown below:
However, besides ...
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Should a registration page have large number of fields? [duplicate]
People have to invest time and effort to register.The fields consists of Username, First Name, Last Name, email, Address, Contact, Date Of Birth, Gender, City, State, Country, Password, Position, ...
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Best way to display plus/minus or pros/cons short sentences
I have information in short sentences (bullet list) and each bullet could be pros/cons or plus/minus toward a product. What is the best way to display it nicely?
For example:
+ Price is cheap
+ ...
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single webpage, render in all devices [duplicate]
i am developing a website, it should support all the devices like mobile, tablet. Is there any way to use single webpage will render on all the devices. with out maintaining separate page for separate ...
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Look and Feel Consistency for existing app with new features
I have an existing app, which is almost two year old and I am planning to build new UI screens using bootstrap framework. I start to realize that new UI screens are NOT having the same look and feel. ...
