Display year selection dropdown in a calendar
I have a calendar control which currently has “Previous Year” and “Next Year” button to switch years. I want to improve it, as most of the time a user has to go 3-4 years back.
Currently, I plan to remove both buttons, and …
What are the best practices for keeping and analyzing unstructured user feedback?
To get and analyze users’ feedback is vital for designing successful products as all of you perfectly know. It is more or less clear what to do with surveys’ results, but what is the best way to keep results of interviews and…
How to group common (to a list and other input groups) input fields
Here’s my scenario – I have the following three input fields:
Type
Remarks
Uploads (Popup which allows users to drop files)
Now, these three fields are associated to a person object. The user has the option to select an e…
Elevating user experience issues
Once you have identified and logged user experience issues, addressing them can be challenging due to other competing priorities, especially with enterprise software.
What strategies can we use to help elevate user experienc…
It is better to tell a user that is banned or it is better to disguise that he is banned?
I’m building an app and in order to prevent that the banned users roam controls it is better to tell a user that is banned or it is better to disguise that is banned?
For example, I could say that there was a problem to the s…
List of items with status
I’m working on the design of an app with a holiday request list.
Each request has a type (Holidays, Illness, etc) a pair of dates, and an Status.
The Status can be:
Pending:
Approved:
Denied:
I’m not sure about how to …
Elegant and simple nested tabs UI?
I have case in which user can choose location of service clicking on tabs.
In second, step if user choose to use option on right, he can choose managed type of VPS service or unmanaged VPS service. But, simply stacking (ne…
What is the practical consideration and impact on user experience when the designer makes the logout link/button difficult to access?
It seems like many websites go to great lengths to make the logout link/button very difficult to find or click on. For returning users hiding the logout link/button doesn’t make sense because they already know where it is, so…
Name of a card sorting technique that lets people sort only their favorite items?
I’m working on a software tool that one of my clients uses on their intranet. We are planning to run a card sort study.
Let’s say the top 2 levels of their existing IA look like this:
Menu item 1
– Submenu item 1
– Sub…
Why don’t air travel booking sites use the "shopping cart" UI concept?
I am working on an Airline site refactor, and I realized that the abandonment after searching and selecting a flight is very high.
I think for returning visitors it would be nice having a way to continue with the search/book…