What is the first step in the UX process?

I’ve been doing so much reading on UX and feeling somewhat overwhelmed as to where to start when you already have an existing product. So in the context of a site that already has a lot of traffic and users, how do you go abo…
What is this Google Apps popout menu called?

What is this menu called in UX/UI parlance?
I want to implement this type of menu in my UI (ASP.NET MVC 5). My default styling is done with Bootstrap 3+.
What is the best way to indicated a column’s data is affected by the date range selected?

Our dashboard has data that is static such as names and full budgets and also has columns which are affected by the date range which is selected.
The user’s attention always jumps to the same columns which contain the larges…
How do I know if my site is not using material design? [closed]
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I checked on google’s design site, but couldn’t find a comprehensive spec on this. There are only goals, principals and guidelines. In fact, in most websites I had searched there are only do’s of material design, there are no…
Material Design: using cards for homogeneous content instead of list

The material design guidelines suggest to use lists for homogeneous content and cards for mostly heterogeneous content. It also suggests that if the content is more than 3 lines long then use cards instead of lists.
Does it …
When notification needed that does not launch app

I have an (Android) app that has a background service. This service is persistent and even runs in a different process to the man UI app. It serves a specific propose for the user. However, if it runs when not needed, it may …
How to notify of scroll in iframe

For the sake of screen readers such as JAWS, etc.
Given a list of navigation options which are a collection of documents and locations within them, when one is selected the iframe will load and/or ‘scroll’ to the selected do…
Dealing with characters not supported by a font

I have a website which is used by people all around the world. I use a certain font which only just came to my attention does not support characters which my users have mentioned such as ğ
, ş
and ı
.
As the font I use across my website does not have correct styling for these characters they look a bit odd. While this is not an issue for most users, there are a minority who this may be an issue for.
What could I do to make foreign characters appear more streamlined? Thanks.
How do you deal with long labels using material design text fields?

I need to convert a form to material design guidelines but I don’t think MD has considered how to deal with long labels on narrow forms. As you can see in my example I have 3 pairs of dropdowns that are well presented in th…
How do you deal with long labels using material design text fields?

I need to convert a form to material design guidelines but I don’t think MD has considered how to deal with long labels on narrow forms. As you can see in my example I have 3 pairs of dropdowns that are well presented in th…