Up arrow for increase, Down arrow for decrease, what for no change?
We have a web application that lists prices of a stocks and we have a requirement to indicate a movement. When there’s an increase in price we add an up arrow, where there’s a decrease in price we add a down arrow.
My thoughts are that w…
Is the Macintosh Menubar Preferred?
The Macintosh is one of the very few desktop operating systems that shares a central, common, menubar across all applications. Even NextStep and Be operating systems, which were founded by former Apple execs, avoided the MacOS style menub…
Hierarchical structure design and usability
I created a website for learning languages with flashcard method. The website itself is http://www.vocableman.com
The problem I have run into is that users are complaining that they have problems with understanding the functions and the …
How do we stop users overpaying in financial web forms?
Submitting my online council tax payment last week, I made a mistake. Instead of specifying £X.00 in a freetext payment field, I missed the dot and accidentally entered by £X000!
I’m currently waiting for my refund request, but in the mean…
Should Navigation menu have a fix position in application with greater width?
I am developing a web app with 1280px width. Planning to keep 1024 for content and remain as Menu with fixed position. On scrolling main content the menu will not scroll.
Will this be a good for user exp?
Making the user login again after registration
Is it a bad idea to automatically login a user after their registration was flawlessly completed? A majority of all the websites I visit does not use this behavior, which is the reason for my question:
Is there any reason why a user shou…
1 form or multiple forms for managing user accounts?
I am currently designing an interface for managing user accounts in a web application.
Essentially, in this interface, the user should be able to edit an account’s profile, disable/enable/close the account, change the password, manage the…
How can I demonstrate the importance of accessibility to a client?
How could I convince a client that visually impaired customers might want to use his e-commerce website? I want to demonstrate the importance of accessibility and convince him that we should try to make it accessible so that people of all …
How to indicate that an image is a link too?
I have a section in my website called “Techonology” that is not part of the main content where I put the logos of each technology used in the website (PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap, etc). But I’m searching for a way to point to user that images ar…
Do users really need to search through a tag page?
My video site offers full search functionality that searches based on title, description and tags.
I also have a category page that has 20+ categories to browse (each video is categorized as well as tagged).
I want to make a tag page th…