the way user interacts with an artifact and the reaction and/or behavior to the environment
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3answers
696 views
A better condom user experience
The lack of use of condoms is one of the most critical issues in global health today. However the problems with condoms have little to do with how effective they are when used. Instead the problems ...
5
votes
3answers
187 views
Does Lack of Content Contribute to Higher Bounce Rate?
I've been doing some research in Analytics to hopefully discover why my bounce rate is higher post-redesign, and thus far, my results have been inconclusive.
How important is it that a site has ...
5
votes
4answers
160 views
How to unobtrusively confirm a user's choice in a survey?
I'm running a survey on students to collect their feedback of the courses of study they've undertaken in a college.
They have to answer the same question for every course they study. There are some ...
5
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3answers
115 views
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 ...
8
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6answers
276 views
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 ...
8
votes
4answers
194 views
Is it still effective and appropriate to use psychological pricing for IT people?
I need to build pricing plan for service that will be used mainly by developers and designers. I can't decide what price to use, e.g. $20 or $19.
I'm afraid that well-educated and smart people ...
3
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3answers
85 views
Would you hide prices for a B2B software on products' public site?
I'm working on a cloud based B2B software and top management is insisting we don't show the prices on our public site. I can't understand the reasoning behind this. How will this affect the customers ...
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18answers
6k views
Are age verification banners effective?
I'm curious as to whether or not these Age Verification banners that appear on some sites are really "effective". That is to say, do these really help to deter/prevent users that are underage from ...
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0answers
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Creating a group/collection of interlinked iOS apps [closed]
What I'm trying to do:
I'm designing a pretty complicated iPhone/Android game.
I'm thinking of splitting it into 4 apps because there are essentially 3 actual games and 1 HQ that will handle the ...
6
votes
4answers
172 views
Metrics for measuring user engagement for web applications
Unlike business and e-commerce sites, web applications don't necessarily have an end-goal or target for users to achieve. What are some metrics that can be used to measure how 'engaged' users are with ...
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votes
5answers
1k views
How should we prepare users for a site overhaul?
We've taken over a legacy web application that has been running without anything changed for the past 4 years.
We are currently re-writing the application because the original source code has severe ...
7
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3answers
199 views
When offering options, at which position in a sentence should be the desirable one?
When I ask the user a question with two options of which I want the user to choose a specific one, should I formulate the sentence so that the desired option it the latter or the other way around?
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6
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3answers
264 views
Should a username be truncated?
Is it ever OK to truncate a username? Is there any good solution / trade-off?
Site shows username as:
Username: Shrinivasuk View: Shrinivasu...
Username: Ritesh View: Rite
Username: Poonam ...
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votes
7answers
960 views
Should progress bars show percentage
In the application I am designing we are currently just displaying a circle that rotates clockwise from gray to green. Inside the circle is a number indicating where in the process it is (20, 50, 90). ...
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2answers
356 views
What's better for invitation emails: a temporary password or a one-time login url?
Our web app allows our customers to invite their collaborators into their account. They can submit the new user's email address, and our app sends the new user an email inviting them to login. Once ...
