Does the user want a notification when an action is performed successfully?
Is it good practice or not to give the user a notification of a successfully performed action? Like saving or deleting an item. Is it annoying and excessive or is it useful?
I am mostly referring to a toast notification, i…
Terminology for different kinds of ‘center’?
Mathematically there are various ways to calculate a spacial center point. (2d or 3d).
Barycenter (sum of all positions divided by the total number of points)
Bounding box center (typically the middle of the bounds on each …
Compact checkbox inputs
How is this in terms of usability?
It’s maybe not obvious you can switch those elements, is it still an intuitive way to represent a checkbox input?
Checking dependant checkboxes
In the admin UI of our system we have two check boxes that represent permissions:
View Foo
Edit Food
Checking a check box means granting a permission. There is an important dependency that we are struggling to enforce at …
What is the best way to align a paragraph beside an image?
The webpage has small paragraphs (5-6 lines) with images on the right of each paragraph. The text in paragraph is left aligned. The paragraph is not always as big as the height of the image that is on its right. What is the b…
Getting a dev team to understand the importance of small details
As we know, in UX design it is important to care about pixel level details in addition to the big picture. Meaning that all UI elements are perfectly aligned, correct colour, etc.
However, from time to time I get comments l…
UX software development kit
At the moment I use Visio to design the user experience.
What are the various design tools are available and what are the benefits and draw backs of each?
Why do editors (such as MS Office apps) have so much redundancy?
I’m thinking of making an editor and how it should differ against other editors. One of those points are promoting the work area over GUI buttons and information fields. Tool bars, menu bars, scroll bars; I want it all to go …
How valuable is a UX Design Lead role?
I have a UX career planning question and would value other people’s opinions.
Currently, I am in a Senior UX position at a very large company but was offered a UX Design Lead role at a smaller firm. My career goal for myself…
HTML User Interface for multiple tags
If you want to allow the user to select tags and their combinations to filter certain content (with the tags created by the content-creators), what would be a good way to select
single tags, and
groups of tags
in HTML?
E…