How to make selecting a timezone more user-friendly?
The list of time zones is rather long, lots of duplication, and not very friendly to programmers let alone end-users.
Is there a way to shorten the list to something friendlier and sufficient for 80%+ of users? But then how shall one decide which are the popular Tz?
The list in Windows seems pretty good, but I’m not sure if that’s a good list to model after. It is interesting because DST is optional, is that why the list can be that short? Someone worked out the tz equivalents here.
I’m in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). JS’s getTimezoneOffset() returns 420 ==> offset -7. If I use the time zones list above, how would one tell its US/Pacific (-8)?
Furthermore, what are the popular names for time zones? US/Pacific or Canada/Pacific sure sounds friendlier then America/Los_Angeles or America/Vancouver.
Lastly, how are the 2 timezones above different? Can they be safely grouped together and just use America/Los_Angeles in the app? How shall one group time zones together?
Should I manually hyperlink phone numbers using "tel:" on my websites?
In code, you have the ability to make a phone number on a website into a link by prepending the phone number in the href with a “tel:”
So, for example, you can create a link to 800-867-5309 with the following:
<a href=”t…
Should I manually hyperlink phone numbers using "tel:" on my websites?
In code, you have the ability to make a phone number on a website into a link by prepending the phone number in the href with a “tel:”
So, for example, you can create a link to 800-867-5309 with the following:
<a href=”t…
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…
How to find examples of "mobile (usecases, user-stories, flowcharts, etc)"
My experience has been that paper prototypes are the fastest way to get mobile apps built.
That said, I’m interested in getting more exposure to the thought process other UX professionals went through at a high-level to defi…
How to deal with graphic designers who thinks UX is boring
Working as a interaction designer together with graphic designers (or marketing people in general) I sometimes get the strong feeling that we sound too boring when we try to implement usability best practices.
Like: – Great…
How to deal with graphic designers who thinks UX is boring
Working as a interaction designer together with graphic designers (or marketing people in general) I sometimes get the strong feeling that we sound too boring when we try to implement usability best practices.
Like: – Great…
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…