Methods or Tools to Determine a Menu’s Item (Command) Sorting
If user input is not available. Any tools or techniques to use to determine menu item order?
Most used commands towards the top, but is there a way to determine this without end-user input?
How to properly test hierarchy and order of the toolbar?
We are improving our toolbar in our web app. We are planning a tree test or similar to test the tools out.
A bit stuck on how to properly test the hierarchy and order of it. Any available methods or strategies?
Any best practices from Adob…
What is a good way to display a list and editable list item on a detail page?
I have detail pages that are kind of like the attached image. An "entity" might have 1-15 children. Each child can be edited. You can also create a new child.
I can think of two ways of presenting this, one is the way in the atta…
How do you explain information architecture to non designers?
I am working on a large financial application and would like to know few ways to present an IA or sitemap to other stakeholders (business development teams)
Do you start by explaining the goal or the problems with the current IA? or Should…
Displaying information without causing inconvenience
I’ve noticed that social media websites with lots of images/videos being shared try to display information(such as title, description etc) in a compact way and try to bring the comment section up higher.
I think this makes sense, since use…
How to solve the layout problem for the online assessment questions in PDF and answer sheet?
Overview
We have a platform where students can take an online assessment anytime and anywhere. We offer this online assessment mainly for English, Science, and Math subjects.
The students need to activate the laptop security checks like we…
How should sub-items behave with multi-select controls?
The scenario: A user can add individual items to an order, or use a template to get started, which preselects several items. If a template is used, the user can de-select items that they don’t want to include in the order, and adjust the q…
Linking a sub-menu item to another main menu item
I saw this in a wireframe from a team that was designing the menu of a website and saw a weird behaviour where one of the item in the drop down menu linked to the next main element in the menu.
I have not come across this behaviour before …
"Back to category" button for product belonging to multiple categories
I’m working on an e-commerce website and I’m faced with this issue:
I need to place a "Back to category" button on my product pages but some of these products are linked to 2 or 3 different categories.
I don’t know if I just have…
Improving the UX of your Design System
As part of his work at Zeroheight, contributing UX Booth writer Luke Murphy has been talking to teams across the world about what makes good documentation sites, from small 2-3 designer companies through to large enterprises corporations. The common thread across the successful design systems is that the team managing the design system are treating their system as if it’s a product, complete with KPIs and ways to measure, a full product design process and enough resource to achieve their goals. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean that anyone can provide a standard template for how to build an effective Design System, as the problems, needs and measures of success for any single design system will be different. However, there are some standard processes and common wins that can help.