I´m working with a purchase process. The process consists of 4 steps. The first two steps is where we take in all customer data. The 3rd step sends the data to our servers with AJAX and then shows a payment form. After payment the customer is thanked in step 4. My question is about Step 1 and Step 2. Right now all these steps are on the...
I'm doing some work on a site that let's users create their own mini-sites. My client wants users to be able to upload music and have it continuously play as visitors navigate the site. The only good way I can think of doing this is an Iframe, but obviously that will than get rid of unique URLs. I also don't want to use Ajax or a cook...
Since more details about the planned Micorsoft Courier device came out last week, I've been thinking about development for such a device. Specifically I've been thinking about the implications of working with multiple screens. Admittedly most of the details of this device are still unknown but what is clear is that it will have 2 scree...
Surely you are familiar with UML class diagrams and object diagrams and their relationships. Object diagrams are used to model objects and their relations in a system, which for class based object oriented programming languages means modeling concrete objects of different classes. When working on a project I had to create use cases (dia...
It looks like in most browsers, an <input type="submit"> treats both [spacebar] and [enter] as a click, but an <a> link only treats [enter] as a click. My app uses a number of links formatted to simulate buttons, so a user that is accustomed to tabbing to a button and pressing [spacebar] will be frustrated. This bit of jQuery solves ...
Say I have a report that can be restricted by specifying some value in a dropdown. This dropdown list references a table with > 30,000 records. I don't think this would be feasible to populate a dropdown with! So, what is the best way to provide the user the ability to select a value given this situation? These values do not really have ...
I am developing an application that allows for a user to manage some individual data points. One of the things that my users will want to do is "delete" but what should that mean? For a web application is it better to present a user with the option to have serious delete or to use a "trash" system? Under "serious delete" (would love to...
I wanted to open up the topic to discuss ways to encourage or incentivize users to fill in information in a user profile on a website, such as skills, location, organization, etc. More information in a user profile can give a website an improved capability for its users to search, network, and collaborate. Without bugging users to fill...
This is the standard scenario: User registers on the site User receives an account activation email, clicks link to activate Web site notifies the user that account is activated Now there are at least two pathways: User is taken to the login screen and asked to enter login details User is automatically logged in and taken to a welc...
I am looking for a drag and drop components implementation for a website similar to http://www.netvibes.com. So the positions of the components should be saved in database. If any one can help me with any javascript or rails tutorial implementation or guidance for this, that will help a lot. ...
In WPF, I get a tooltip to appear immediately like this: TextBlock tb = new TextBlock(); tb.Text = name; ToolTip tt = new ToolTip(); tt.Content = "This is some info on " + name + "."; tb.ToolTip = tt; tt.Cursor = Cursors.Help; ToolTipService.SetInitialShowDelay(tb, 0); This makes the user experience better since if the user wants to l...
Is there a place I can go and look at some UX templates for user dashboards? Show a customer's orders history, address, stuff like that? ...
I am currently working on a project where a lot of user interaction is going to take place. There is also a commercial side as people can buy certain items and services. In my opinion a good blend of user interface, speed and security is essential for these types of websites. It is fairly easy to use ajax and JavaScript nowadays to do a...
I've been working on a website, and we've managed to reduce the total content for a page load from 13.7MiB's to 2.4, but the page still takes forever to load. It's a joomla site (ick), and it has a lot of redundant DOM elements (2000+ for the home page), and make 60+ HttpRequest's per page load, counting all the css, js, and image requ...
I'm searching for sources and further information on a particular concept in user experience design. It's not a particularly complicated concept, just that when designing user interfaces, you should both make it intuitive and simple for new users, but also provide way for users to become more efficient as they become more familiar with t...
Since I've read Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines (there's a PDF download avaliable) I've found it to be admirably self-deprecating, humbly pointing out their own horrible UI practices long scolded by Joel Spolsky. I'd like to know, however, what they had in mind while they made those mistakes. Is this (terrific) UX Guid...
I recently got a shiny new development workstation. The only disadvantage of this is that the desktop apps I'm developing now run very, very fast, and so I fear that parts of the code that would be annoyingly slow on end users' machines will go unnoticed during my testing. Is there a good way to slow down an application for testing? I...
[Based on the strong comment below (dated April 7 and 8, 2010) from when I originally posted this question, I took a hard look at what I wrote and asked myself "Huh? What am I really after here?" I decided drastic action was called for: discard the original text, make the question simpler and cleaner, and focus on what I really want to g...
If I had to create a content inventory for a website that doesn't have a sitemap, and I do not have access to modify the website, but the site is very large. How can I build a sitemap out of that website without having to browse it entirely ? I tried with Visio's sitemap builder, but it fails great time. Let's say for example: I Want to ...
In general, how do you guys handle user update/data freshness interaction with the user (UI issue) in web-apps? For example: Multi-users web-app (like project management) Login to a "virtual" space People can update project names, etc How to handle a situation such that: user-A and user-B load a project with title "Project StackOve...