Overlay Vs dedicated page or separate section within the page?
Context
We have this situation where we need to display additional information about products that users has selected.
The page in question is the page that houses the products, each product is displayed in a tile with some basic inform…
Where should the icon to the mobile menu be placed?
I had a client bring up a good point recently about a mobile menu, specifically where should the “hamburger” icon be placed?
In looking at sites you see it in three common places, top right, top left or wherever the menu appeared on the …
Pattern or strategy for showing hierarchical response content?
I’m expanding my app’s capabilities from this:
…to displaying all the rules that were applied, results for each rule, rule description, and link to more info.
I’d really appreciate pointers to apps which solve this kind of detail/de…
Visualize realtime timeline chart
We have a system that collects events.
An event typically occurs every 10th second or so, but its pretty random.
The system collects the events during a project’s lifetime which usually runs for about a month.
We are currently presentin…
How to show negative values in a pie chart?
I have a list of accounts and want to show the balances in a pie chart. That’s pretty straightforward as long as all of the accounts have a positive balance.
When some of the accounts have negative balances (such as a loan or an overdraft …
Are there any documented best practices for in-app SaaS upgrade prompts?
I have a SaaS web app with 3 different plans. Each plan increases access to certain features or a large quantity of a particular feature. We’ll call them A, B and C with C being the highest level, most expensive plan.
Currently if you a…
Why are the keys on a keyboard square?
Some of the keys on a keyboard are rectangular in shape, and the Enter key is often a strange shape, but the majority of keys are square. But there could be other possible shapes for those keys.
For example hexagonal keys could fit well w…
How can the usage of browser alerts be restricted in a way that doesn’t limit the usage of this feature for positive UX?
Many of us have probably been trapped by a clever use of the browser alert feature by a spam website that we had the misfortune of being sent to. You try to exit and get another alert, which stops you from leaving the page. This is an impo…
Color picker for temperature/intensity adjustable light
I’m designing a color picker for intensity and color temperature on a lamp, where the user can adjust the intensity on the vertical axis and the color temperature on the horizontal axis.
Is this a good design pattern? What would be the bet…
What are the barriers to developing a UX culture? [closed]
In a recent question about measuring the embeddedness of UX practices in a company, I suggested the Feijo Maturity Model. How to assess how embedded UX is in an organization or team?
If we assume that this model makes sense, what are some…