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…
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…
How to best represent a ToggleButton (representing on/off) with the ability to be locked
I’m designing a ToggleButton control that has the ability to be in a locked state in which user interaction will not be able to further toggle the control. In general I would like the button to appear somewhat natural in the …
How to best represent a ToggleButton (representing on/off) with the ability to be locked
I’m designing a ToggleButton control that has the ability to be in a locked state in which user interaction will not be able to further toggle the control. In general I would like the button to appear somewhat natural in the …
Making it clear which items in a long list are selected
I’m trying to design a portion of a web interface that allows users to tag items and view all items with a tag or set of tags on them – think gmail, if gmail allowed you to easily select multiple tags to view all messages with all of those…