Why are visitor counters for websites not used any more?
I remember in the early days of the Internet one of the most prominent things on a website was the visitor counter. These days with so much analytics and obsession about how many people visit or follow websites, I wonder how …
Responsive Upscaling: Large-Screen E-Commerce Design
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The responsive design revolution is truly upon us (if it hasn’t already happened!), and even though e-commerce websites haven’t picked up responsive design quite as aggressively as in other industries, it’s becoming increasingly popular.
So far, most of the responsive design thinking has revolved around covering the range of experiences from mobile to desktop. Yet little attention has been paid to the opportunities for expanding that range beyond the standard desktop screen, to create an experience optimized for modern large-scale displays.
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Why do USB flash drives never provide for labels?
Floppy disks had stick-on labels. Optical discs can be written on with a Sharpie, or printed with special ink-jet printers, or round stick-on labels applied.
USB sticks have zero affordances for labeling. They are often bu…
Why do USB flash drives never provide for labels?
Floppy disks had stick-on labels. Optical discs can be written on with a Sharpie, or printed with special ink-jet printers, or round stick-on labels applied.
USB sticks have zero affordances for labeling. They are often bu…
Google Design Website- What are these Card like components?
On https://design.google.com/ it looks like they are using titles instead of cards, because the edges are square. But they function as cards. Can anyone tell me what they are? Are they whitespaces? Speaking strictly on the gu…
Is "user-select: none" bad UX?
I was having a discussion today with a colleague. I showed her “user-select: none” – a CSS property that stops a user from selecting text.
To me, this property allowed a more app-like experience to be created on a page – ens…
Why is Windows registry so unfriendly?
Why does the Windows registry seem so opaque? I thought a good practice in CS was to give explicit names to variables and constants, but the registry has mysterious names and values.
For example, I tried to change the way w…
What’s the best way to display hierarchical tabular data (parent/child relationship) while allowing both pagination and search?
I’ve run into a brick wall while trying to come up with a suitable tabular user interface for showing hierarchical data in a table while at the same time including a search interface and pagination.
The basic structure of th…
In Google Maps, why did Google use back arrow icon instead of "X" close for search results list when its clearly a layer on top of the main interface?
I’ve been getting into Material design lately, and I really liked one of the material concepts, and thats to think of the UI in X,Y,Z axis. But noticed a discrepancy with what might be extremely trivial but its confusing me r…
Do Users Take Product Tours?
Product tours have become very popular in recent times. It’s also used here on StackExchange. I personally mostly skip the ‘Take a 2 min Tour’ notifications or link.
So I’m wondering; based on research/ statistics anyone kno…