Professional Website Design?
We’ve been working on our website for so long we can’t tell if it looks professional or not. It’s come to the point where we’ve just become used to how it looks and perhaps have lost touch with what’s modern, chic and profes…
Does ellipsis button work on left or right of table row?
The problem here is that the ellipsis button in this table is placed to the left. I inherited this pattern, but I am not sure if it’s correct, practical, or normal. From other things I’ve seen, the convention of putting an el…
Is a navigation drawer preferred over a menu when menu items are not the main function?
I’m doubting whether a navigation drawer or a simple Android menu would be more user-friendly in the following case.
I have the following menu items (which are obviously not the main functions of the app):
News (opens a Tw…
What impact does demographics have upon the UX and design of a movie database site?
I’m fairly new to UX and I’m planning to design my own movie database website. However, within the planning I’m struggling to find a strong connection between the site’s demographics and it’s UX and design.
Show message on invalid authorization
What message should I show to users when there is a problem with his authentication?
I’m developing an application where there are authentications even when user is already logged (on each request/post to server), so for exa…
How to sort the ANSI encodings in conversion tool
I am making a programming text editor (IDE) that will support only UTF-8 files.
But want to provide some way to convert the old ANSI encoded files. So, I have conversion tool that gives the user a list with code pages and p…
What is the reason for showing extra controls that clearly don’t have a purpose? [on hold]
What is the reason for showing extra controls that clearly don’t have a purpose?
For example, the Spelling and Grammar options window in Microsoft Word for Mac:
See all those extra disabled drop-down menus? What is the re…
What to do about small ratios in graphs
I have a circular graph that plots energy usage as a ratio of the maximum. At 100% the graph forms a full circle.
The problem with this is that most of the time, a user’s energy is approximately 10% of the graph- and the …
Should you have a site container?
Gone are the days of making a site approximately 1000px in width. Now we have all sorts of screens to cater for. As this is the case, and current web design shows well designed sites that fit in nicely at 100% width, taking u…
Displaying the contents of a file of indeterminiate length
I am working on the UX for an application that takes in an excel file and displays results of its processing to the user.
In this application, to begin file processing, it needs to know where the header row is located. So t…