User expectations when measuring durations (relative time periods) around Daylight Savings Time (DST) transitions
My app will show a duration between two points in time. Durations can be short (e.g. 2 hours) or long (e.g. 3 weeks). I’d like to show the exact duration in friendly, human-readable terms, e.g. “3 days and 8 hours” or “2 hours and 10 minut…
How to Position UX Managers for Maximum Impact
UX manager recruitment is at an all-time high. What is the role of a UX manager? How do you write an effective job description to hire someone with the right kind of qualifications? Should UX managers contribute tactical value? Contributor Frank Spillers shares his insights from over 20 years in the UX industry into how to best position UX leaders for success within your organization.
How to Position UX Managers for Maximum Impact
UX manager recruitment is at an all-time high. What is the role of a UX manager? How do you write an effective job description to hire someone with the right kind of qualifications? Should UX managers contribute tactical value? Contributor Frank Spillers shares his insights from over 20 years in the UX industry into how to best position UX leaders for success within your organization.
Showing edit mode for messages
I’m working on a desktop UI that has a notes section which allows the user to submit notes and edit them afterwards. When I go into edit mode, the “save” button shows up, and I worry that it competes against the submit button (we’re not do…
Why can’t you reduce a selection from the beginning after selecting everything in a text input field?
I’ve noticed that when you select all (using ctrl+a, or some other method) you can only reduce the selection from the end. ie: by holding shift and pressing left you can reduce the selection from the end, but it does not work from the begi…
Since late 2019, why are we seeing a massive increase in pop-up notifications, and why do UI designers think this is a good idea?
This might be slightly broad, but I think most of the questions on this site are somewhat subjective and broad anyway.
Since about late 2019, the number of pop-up notifications and potentially similar types of notifications has suddenly i…
Any link to some usability study on dashboard menu?
I am working on designing dashboard screens for a directory of tiny house enthusiasts(the site will also have social features like making friends, following people etc.)
Here’s a screen that I designed – https://imgur.com/a/RzP9SgP
There…
Convey the meaning of "any" without using words
There is a design with several drop downs to select between multiple choices.
These choices work as filters on a large dataset. When you select one of them, only the records matching the selection will be displayed.
The first choice is a…
Automatically opening the dropdown for guiding users
We have a page that lets our users analyze their data. In order to analyze the data, they need to select the data-set via a dropdown first and without selecting the data-set, the page is almost useless. Here is how it looks like:
We’re …
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