Is there an accepted or commonly applied UX practitioner’s code of conduct/ethics guide?
Often in our line of work we are asked to do things that do not serve the user’s benefit and are not in line with UX design best practices, but is there a specific line that we should not cross as UX professionals, or something that we can…
When a button contains text and an icon, which should come first?
Assuming I’m optimizing for making it as fast and easy as possible for most users to find the button they need, what’s the optimal ordering?
what do you think about that comment delete screen UX/UI?
we have an android app that lets you share thoughts with friends without revealing who you are. It’s in developing processes now!
I designed comments delete screen, but I’m not sure it’s good for UX.
What do you think about?
What’s the point of closing windows by double-clicking their top-left?
In Windows, you can double-click the top-left of a window to close it.
But why?
It’s not intuitive. At all.
What sort of advantage is there by using this kind of behaviour for closing windows? I even happened to accidentally close windo…
Differences between Personas and Archetypes?
I am new to UX and just started using personas for validating the UX of an existing project, then I was pointed out the fact that since my ‘personas’ were created from observing existing users instead of interviewing users, they are ‘arche…
Should I use the name "Enter" or "Return" key?
I’m trying to list the what various keys do inside the documentation for my CLI program, but I’m not sure what to refer to this key as. It is commonly referred to as either Enter or Return, but which is considered better UX? I was going to…
Icon for unmasking passwords (open or closed to begin with)? [duplicate]
What is the convention for showing toggle icons to a user? This question is specific to password unmasking, but it can easily be used in "on / off" icons et al.
In our situation, we have an unmask button at the end of a password …
Why does backspace go back a page? This behavior is so frustrating!
When using a browser, like Firefox, I appreciate that I can easily navigate my tab history with Alt+← (for back) and Alt+→ (for forward.) That makes perfectly good sense to me, and I’ve used that keyboard shortcut for the longest time.
I …
Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
Is this a legacy thing or does a tilted cursor serves a purpose? I can tell that, the angle provides a totally vertical left edge which helps when highlighting text but what else apart from that?
EDIT: When cursor is swapped by the little…
CAPTCHA on mobile: what are the alternatives?
From a UX perspective, CAPTCHA’s are bad, bad, bad.
But let’s say we have this as a requirement. And it’s for a hybrid app (compiled app, but built upon an HTML5 platform).
I’m trying to find out:
is bot traffic from an iPhone (or And…