What are the little arrows called that hide additional details?
In UI design, sometimes settings are hidden behind a little arrow or “+” symbol. When the user clicks on it, the item expands to show additional details.
Does this UI pattern have a name? Other than “little arrow”?
For ex…
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…
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…