Questions tagged [intuition]
used both for questions about designer's intuition (not always a reliable guide), and for questions about how readily users will understand how to use a UI.
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How to make a wall of unicode symbols useful?
I am having fun playing around making a dictionary app, one part of which is adding pages teaching about scripts. One script page is on Tibetan consonants. I am trying to keep every page extremely ...
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What's the best way to avoid users changing a significant, and rarely changed setting?
I realise that the word "best" in my title is very subjective, but I couldn't think of a better word. I guess a combination of user friendly, easy to use and robust (ie minimises the chances ...
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Categorising alert messages
I'm currently working on digitalizing a dispute form, and throughout filling out this form, the user is most likely going to run into alert messages of some sort. While designing, we realized some of ...
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How can I make my website more "self explanatory"
I built the following website MyChessNotebook some months ago. The purpose is simple: it is a text editor where a user can insert some pictures of chessboards easily. I use it and find it super easy ...
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Handling tags that can be automatic, public, or private?
I'm building a webapp where I want content to be taggable in a few different ways: Public system-added tags. Non-removable tags added automatically when content is created based on how it was created ...
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What image best defines an upcoming event?
I'm building an app for football players. After each match, there is a match stats card where the results will available 24h after the match. I'm not sure if I should go simple or more illustrative. ...
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Graphical indication of a 2-dimensional sensor reading inside a range
Showing a single dimensional value inside of a valid range is not unusual, whether using a bar or using a virtual gauge. My problem is slightly different - I have a two-dimensional value. Temperature ...
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Variable length list input
I'm writing a wasm statistical calculator, so I need to allow an arbitrarily long number input on my website's front end. My current design looks like this: A number is entered where the line is. ...
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Two buttons for actions of equal significance on same (mobile) screen
Consider a simple app for making wish lists and sharing the list with a friend (or shopping assistant). On the main screen, the user is shown the list of items they have added to their wishlist. There ...
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How do I tell users that they can ask questions in Audio format?
My site is a legal consultation platform. I am offering an option for users to ask questions in an audio format as well. I know that the way I'm doing it now is wrong because only 1% of the users tap ...
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Do you know any research regarding so-called "scroll arrow" used for vertical scrolling?
Currently, I started to be concerned about the "scroll arrow" within the interface. The scroll arrow indicates that the first visible section it's not all and it's more content to scroll. I ...
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Teasing Dashboard reports. Use dummy data or empty reports?
I’m currently designing a dashboard that relies on having a connection to Google Analytics. For the users that aren’t connected to GA, what would be best to show for them? We want to have a strong CTA ...
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Gray-out conundrum
As we're approaching the release date for v2.5.0 of Rubberduck (an open-source VBIDE add-in), we're facing a bit of a dilemma regarding a specific type of tree nodes in one of our toolwindows: The ...
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Does having to introduce alternative behavior always indicate poor UX design?
Take the classical top-left go-back button on mobile apps. The main two issues with it are: Having to press a lot of times when you want to go far back Not being able to go forward in case you missed ...
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Best way to insert a clear button in a datagrid cell
I have a datagrid (or, more general, a data structure) in which the user, with a proper button, can clear data by only one column. Since that requirements force me to implement different moments to ...
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