Is there an optimal position for user polls on a website?
I am in the process of designing a sports website. Users will visit to check the scores and fixtures of their team for various sports.
On the home page I am thinking of putting a user poll, just to engage with the community….
Displaying a couple of independent tables with different loading times
I have a webapp dashboard with a couple of tables (around 6 tables with a fixed order that usually does not fit on page without scrolling down the page).
Tables are filled out with data provided from a backend – data for eac…
How to allow two actions per list item?
I’m developing a mobile application which function is basically to let the user fill in forms. What forms and how many different forms varies per user.
Obviously, the primary function of the app is to let the user create a new registrati…
What is the difference between user’s perspective vs perception?
In concept of usability ,What is the difference between user’s perspective vs perception?
Where to put logout in an Android app?
I have an app that relies on a particular web service. It can’t be used without login in, so the first screen users see is the login screen. Until recently I didn’t thought that users would ever want to log out, but indeed that can happen …
Shaded line graphs: Good or bad?
I’ve been staring at this design for way too long and I need an outside view.
These are not stacked line graphs (a no-no in data vis) but two graphs occupying the same space. Does the shaded area count as non-data pixels? Ha…
Localizing coordinates
When localizing a display of x/y or lat/lng coordinates, what should I use for a separator? Is it always a comma even in locales that use the comma for the decimal separator?
Getting Started With Wearables: How To Plan, Build And Design
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If a user of your product is buying a smartwatch tomorrow and your app is not compatible with it or your notifications can’t be triggered from there, you might frustrate them. If you have a website or an app today, it’s time to start planning support for wearable devices. In this article, we’ll review the platforms available today, what we can do on each of them, how to plan the architecture, and how to develop apps or companion services for these new devices.
Do you remember the shoe phone from Get Smart? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you are probably too young (or I’m too old). (You can Google it now. Just go; I’ll wait here in this tab.) The shoe phone we saw on TV was followed by many other wearable devices on TV, such as the ones on Knight Rider, The Flintstones, James Bond and Dick Tracy. Many years later, we can say that wearable devices are here and ready to use. We, as designers and developers, need to be ready to develop successful experiences for them.
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Gathering Users Feedback
I am looking for innovative ways to gather feedback from customers of a platform and a service in a global scale. Although I am willing to talk with users, I am more interested to know if you have any advice in how I can do i…
Using genders in physiologically oriented UCD
I’ve this problem: as a policy, we usually strive to leave out gender considerations if possible. If not possible, we use a wide range of genders . Not as extreme as Facebook, but something more rational around physiological genres (Male, …