What is User Experience (UX)?
I’ve looked at this site for the first time today. I’ve checked About, the FAQ and the FAQ and searched, and I don’t seem to be able to find an answer on this site.
These are the closest I can find:
https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/7174/difference-between-ui-and-ux
What’s the difference between UX and layout design?
Reading the first few responses, I’m perceiving quite a difference in scope between ‘user experience’ as a concept and what I see discussed as ‘User Experience’ on this site and elsewhere, and I’m definitely interested in opinions addressing this.
Also, while I appreciate the field is broad, maybe there are some human interactions that definitely aren’t UX – between two of them face-to-face, for example?
What is the ideal height of a button in regular desktop applications?
On most GUI creator (I just checked Qt Creator and Flex Builder), it seems the default button height is about 22 pixels. This is what I use for most desktop applications I create except those I make for myself. In this case, I use bigger b…
Selection of multiple items and then selected one as default
I’m trying to design a web interface in which users pick particular “items” and set one of them as default. The textbox for searching uses autocomplete to find the matching item. I’ve come up with the following design to allow the user to …
What is the difference between wireframing and prototyping?
What is the difference between wireframing and prototyping?
Am I right to think that prototypes should be interactive and wireframes should be static?
How many designers work at Twitter?
Right now, there are around 20 people on the design team, including our creative director, several product designers, a few interaction designers, two interns, and two design researchers. We’re growing fast, too, and looking to add another 10 or so folks in the coming months.
The @design team is a distributed team within the company, meaning nearly every designer sits with his or her team. For instance, our designers on the Clients teams sit with those engineers and PMs.
If you’d like a bit more details, feel free to email me and I’d be happy to share a bit more.
International Currency Formatting Guidelines — Currency Codes
While developing a web application that presents monetary data for a variety of locales, I am inquiring about the differences of currency formats. In particular, I’d like to know when it is appropriate to use currency codes, either in addi…
Progressively Filtering Options
I am modelling a selection from a product matrix. The customer envisions this as a series of dropdowns, which progressively filters what is available in a subsequent dropdown.
So for example, the first dropdown could be of "Vehicle Ty…
Why doesn’t the iPod Devices have a stop (■) button?
Because it is redundant. There is nothing you can accomplish with a stop button that can’t already be done using the pause, menu, next track, and/or previous track buttons.
This is not the case with media players that are physically interacting with their storage, such as VCR’s or DVD players. According to ecoustics.com [1]:
On a VHS machine, pausing the tape kept the same segment of tape rubbing against the playback drum, which if done for a long enough time could wear that spot in the tape. This could cause any number of picture and sound hiccups, or worse, cause the tape to break.
With a DVD, there’s little mechanical difference between pause and stop unless you keep it paused for more than a few minutes, after which a stopped DVD motor will spin down but a paused one will continue to run [1].
How do you map the flow of a mobile application? Can you provide examples?
I’m currently working on the IA/UX for a mobile application and as I’m mapping it out it doesn’t seem like a traditional site map makes sense nor does a flowchart. Can anyone point me to a good set of symbols that make sense …
Showing how many users voted that a comment was helpful
I’m building a site with items that can be reviewed, and users can vote whether or not reviews are helpful to bubble the best to the top Amazon-style.
Amazon, Yelp, and almost everything else I could find shows the number of people who fou…