Scenario: You need to expose the same app on different screens - let's say a standard 15''-17'' a portable 10'' and a mobile 4'', possibly working on different resolutions. Question: Do you attempt to go for a liquid layout that gets rearranged depending on the real estate available or do you roll N (one for each range) separate UI laye...
I have a database that contains a table for storing URL Images (since storing the images as byte arrays could potentially slow the DB down massively). There are two fields in the image table, one that stores a URL to a low resolution image and one that stores a URL to a high Resolution image. So far this is just a concept and has not bee...
In a project I'm working on, we have a nav menu where items are colored when the relevant section has information beneath it, or faded when there's nothing available to the user. In the case of an admin, these items may have no useful information but may still be clickable (since things like "Add news item" or "Add file" are implemented ...
It seems like buttons and links are interchangeable these days. From a user-experience perspective, are there guidelines for choosing between the two? Does it even matter? As a rule of thumb, I'd say that pure navigation should always be expressed with a link and an action should be expressed with a button. But there are so many example...
Hello! I am interviewing candidates for a role that centres around user experience. The issue is that I am unsure of the best way in which I can test someones ability in this field (i'm used to grilling them with OOP questions for dev roles). I had thought of giving the candidate a PSD file and seeing if they can translate it into compl...
I've noticed that there is a very dramatic difference in the user experience for sign on with different relying parties. I've implemented a few relying parties myself, so I already have a few ideas, but I'm curious to hear from other people about what worked, what didn't. Empirical evidence (OpenID login stats before/after) would be id...
Has anyone done any research on user acceptance of the following voting systems for different target audiences? Or I'm not interested which is more accurate or how the votes will be used for ranking. What I'm interested is from a user perspective, which is more intuitive - based on the demographic of that user. Obviously, as deve...
I currently work as a backed developer but over the years have developed an interest in usability and user experience. What would you recommend as steps of: Improving my knowledge and skills Getting a job in usability/ux ...
Hi everyone, I have a question regarding title tags. I have been using them on every link on my site in the hope that it will be good for SEO. Because I have so many title tags in use it looks very crazy to actually visit. No matter where you point there's another title popup. Is there any way to prevent these hovers (the ones that show...
I have a custom filtered grid where first row for each column is used by end users to search for a particular value in a column. (each row has a text box where user's can enter the value they need to search for) Initially - when the grid is loaded on the page, text box in row 1 for each column is empty and data is displayed in the gri...
I've seen a few Windows 7 applications popping up around the web that take advantage of the new task bar functionality. However, some of these applications are treating the task bar like the notification area. There is no foreground window. All interaction is done through the task bar button (with overlays, progress bars, jump lists, etc...
I have received requirements that ask to normalize text box content when the user changes the focus to another control on the same data input form. Example normalizations: whitespace at the start and end of the input is trimmed If the text box was made empty and this is not valid, replace the content of the text box with the default va...
What is difference between Interaction design, Visual Design, Web design, UX design, UI design, UI development? BTB, link found below answered for UI Vs UX. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1334496/difference-between-ui-and-ux ...
Hi Ive been planning on doing a social network project and im wondering if there are readings on UX Design that I can read to base my site design on. Thanks. ...
I've always communicated required form fields on web applications to users by hanging an asterisk off the end of the control or the label and having a little sentence along the lines of "required fields are flagged with an asterisk(*)" or similar message at the head of the form so that they know what's what before they start filling it i...
The user of the ASP.NET web app I'm building can select colors for use on some of the elements (e.g. buttons/titles) to facilitate some degree of personalisation. The problem is that by default the text on those layers is black...what I'm trying to do is to evaluate the HEX value chosen by the user through a picker, and switch between ...
I'm a recent graduate who is looking to get a job doing user experience. Next week, I have a technical interview in which I will be given a website and will have to talk about its usability issues as well as come up with ways of improving the user experience. I feel I have the natural skills to do this and have been doing a fair amount o...
I found following memory profiler: http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/mapmalloc.hc It should be light and fast. Can someone share any experience with it? ...
When displaying progress bars do you display generic messages, such as: "Working" "Loading" "In Progress" Or is the additional coding effort worth the user experience improvements resulting from more granular messages, such as "Loading Case 2 of 5" "Loading Teams" "Saving POL10283" ALso, If you code granular messages, do you c...
In the spirit of not reinventing the wheel, can anyone point me to free C# code that does the following kinds of conversions? "sun" --> 2009-12-06 00:00:00 "tom" --> 2009-12-06 00:00:00 "tomorrow" --> 2009-12-06 00:00:00 "mon 8pm" --> 2009-12-07 20:00:00 "jan 5 at 10" --> 2010-01-05 10:00:00 and durations that return two datetimes l...