What is the difference between wireframing and prototyping?
What is the difference between wireframing and prototyping?
Am I right to think that prototypes should be interactive and wireframes should be static?
International Currency Formatting Guidelines — Currency Codes
While developing a web application that presents monetary data for a variety of locales, I am inquiring about the differences of currency formats. In particular, I’d like to know when it is appropriate to use currency codes, either in addi…
Progressively Filtering Options
I am modelling a selection from a product matrix. The customer envisions this as a series of dropdowns, which progressively filters what is available in a subsequent dropdown.
So for example, the first dropdown could be of "Vehicle Ty…
Should double click be avoided in web applications?
I find that double click is a great gesture that could be successfully used in graphical interfaces but for some reason has negative connotation on the web. Should it be avoided at all costs?
Should double click be avoided in web applications?
I find that double click is a great gesture that could be successfully used in graphical interfaces but for some reason has negative connotation on the web. Should it be avoided at all costs?
Showing how many users voted that a comment was helpful
I’m building a site with items that can be reviewed, and users can vote whether or not reviews are helpful to bubble the best to the top Amazon-style.
Amazon, Yelp, and almost everything else I could find shows the number of people who fou…
Best UI approach to align the column titles of reports
I would like to know what the best approach is to align header columns according to their data type.
I haven’t found any Human Design Interface articles explaining this.
Should the header column follow the same alignment that its data va…
Rate vs Like/Dislike
I’m writing a web page that will allow people to rate “objects”. I was thinking of giving users the classical 5 star rating… but then I remembered the like/dislike approach and how YouTube changed from the 5 stars to the like/dislike met…
Ideal column width for paragraphs online
There is nothing worse than coming across a website with paragraphs that span the width of your screen resolution. They are usually so hard to read, I don’t even bother.
A lot of web designers use generic grid and column systems, but I do…
What are innovative, new ways to design Master/Child relationships on a page? [on hold]
I’m currently working on a ASP.net application that has a variety of master, child relationships, portrayed on the page in a master gridview with tabs below. While this works for a somewhat small set of relationships, I was w…