Website design involves the structure of the website including the information architecture, layout, content, and the conceptual design with branding.

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Design principles and guidelines regarding Google's “Natures engineers” site [closed]

Looking at Google.com/green - Engineers I can't help but beeing incredibly fascinated by their way of design. Does anybody know where I can find more information on similar design(s)? I'd love to ...
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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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Adding “Select…” as first option (placeholder) of dropdown list

Would it be considered a good practice to add the word "Select..." as the first option of a dropdown list? I think it's redundant and not at all necessary and what is in the dropdown list should be ...
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What is the difference between the home page and landing page [duplicate]

Iam stuck and am not able to distinguish between the home page and a landing page; Iam very new and just don't know anything about websites; Thanks
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Difference between Screen Resolution, Retina Display, DPI, PPI, Device Pixel Ratio(device-pixel-ratio) [closed]

During deigning a web site using media quires for desktop and mobile. I am finding different confusing jargons, Screen Resolution, Retina Display, DPI, PPI, Device Pixel Ratio(device-pixel-ratio). Can ...
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Should I use 'Load More' or Automatic Loading? [duplicate]

I am creating a website that I want to have an infinite loading system on the home page. This page contains a tiled list that will fill up the page from left to right, and also most likely from top to ...
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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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What steps should I follow designing a web site? [closed]

I'm a web developer with basic skills in Web Design. I'm following a lot of websites containing tips and tutorials how to design. Can you tell me what steps I should follow from the beginning to the ...
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Are modals usable on smartphones, or is there a better alternative?

I want to make a simple popover (or modal) that allows a user to subscribe to a newsletter (of course only when a user clicks on "subscribe to newsletter", I don't want to be obnoxious). It'll be a ...
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How to best deal with many thumbnails in a product image gallery

We have an image gallery with thumbnails that can be clicked to reveal a larger version of them in a viewport. Here are some conditions that the layout needs to meet: The Gallery has to cater to ...
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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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Web app keyboard shorcuts

Is it a good practice to give keyboard shortcuts to web apps that allows a user to do tasks that are repeated often. In my personal experience, I've rarely used keyboard shortcuts offered by GMail to ...
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What are the most important business goals of a homepage? [closed]

For a website / app homepage what are the most important business goals? Being aware of the minimal amount of time to hold the users attention, its really important that the page is designed in such a ...
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Force a PDF download vs allowing the user to view in browser first

Every once in a while, I come across a business requirement asking me to force a PDF document to be downloaded from a website instead of opened in the user's browser. While I question this every time ...
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How to show progress towards goal?

On our intranet we display some numbers for our employees so they can keep track of their performance goals. Currently it's just a table. We'd like something more visual, and this was the first ...
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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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Single or Multi page web application

Is it better UX wise, to build a web application with traditional multi-page transitions or to have a single page application where the other components of the page use AJAX and jQuery to load content ...
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How to design a website that users like? [closed]

i would like to design my website and want to know what kind of of website design people like. i would like to website for web development company. Thanks
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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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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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Improving communication with UX Designers [duplicate]

What is a good book (or series of articles) to read that would teach me the basics of breaking down the design of a page. You see, whenever I see a webpage that looks great, I don't know how to ...
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Colours to use in a fashion website [closed]

I am working on a fashion website for my own portfolio. However it allows users to have their own account where they can save fashion related items. A sort of Pinterest for fashion items. Now, I know ...
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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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Hybrid between Pinterest list image style and itunes/google detail image style [closed]

I've seen two trends in the Web design today which are: 1. Pinterest like masonry layout which is great for image intensive website 2. iTunes/Google image search layout when you click to view detail ...
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Forms: Is it right to show empty fields in an info page?

In an application i am designing, there is a form, where the user completes the fields and some of them might remain empty (not filled by the user). Then we have the info page showing all these fields ...
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Alerting visitors to a website of a current event (e.g. breaking news)

Backstory: We have a website for a conference. As part of the process of the conference, we invite people to submit sessions, but only for a limited period of time. We want to alert visitors to the ...
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How to test usability on competing mock ups cost-effectively?

I have a client that is very opinionated about what she "likes" and dislikes about design and moves things around to where "they look right" for her. I want to test my original mock-ups vs her revised ...
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Help menu - “?” or “Help”?

It is a very simple question, but it has been bothering me for quite some time: when creating an application, should the help menu (in the menu bar) be called "?" or "Help"? I can see a few ...
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Is it better to display featured products as a slideshow or as a list of products

I have here two wireframes for the homepage of an e-commerce website. The site has only 5 products so far but will have more so the design needs to allow for scaling. I'm wondering which of these two ...
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Does a e-commerce website site really need an 'introduction' on the homepage? [closed]

It's common on websites to have text on the homepage to introduce the company. I'm wondering if, for most websites, especially e-commerce websites that isn't actually necessary, especially when the UI ...

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