What is the standard in crypto markets, "Open Orders" or "Pending Orders"?
I am wondering what is the best way to name a section where only pending/open transaction are gonna be shown. As a crypto “broker”, what will be more understandable, open or pending orders?
Using Select All with button checkboxes
I like the usability enhancement that button checkboxes provide — nice big click targets, plus we can add a little sliver of color that’s used elsewhere in our application to impart a status indicator.
What’s tricky is that we want to p…
[Don’t] listen to your customers
Today’s product and design leaders often rely heavily on the word of their customers when building their product road maps; whether it’s a customer survey or a phone interview, loads of qualitative data through these methods is being collected and used to dictate how to design and develop products. Seems like a foolproof plan, right? Actually, no—a sole reliance on customer input and feedback is built on an antiquated model of human decision making that assumes humans are rational.
[Don’t] listen to your customers
Today’s product and design leaders often rely heavily on the word of their customers when building their product road maps; whether it’s a customer survey or a phone interview, loads of qualitative data through these methods is being collected and used to dictate how to design and develop products. Seems like a foolproof plan, right? Actually, no—a sole reliance on customer input and feedback is built on an antiquated model of human decision making that assumes humans are rational.
What’s the optimal number of digits for a verification text message?
This is regarding a validation process in an app. User has downloaded the app, within it they get asked to validate their account through a text message. So they have to check their messages, then enter a code in the app.
When you get a t…
What’s the best way to conduct moderated remote user testing for mobile apps
Given the recent covid-19 situation, my team has been limited to hosting our future user testing sessions completely remotely.
As the features we test are predominantly mobile based
this comes with considerable overhead and challenges
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Ideas for how to show autocomplete suggestions and validation messages in a clean way
I’m currently working on an assignment for a company that I’m applying to. I need to have a text input with a submit button that shows suggestions as the user types but it also needs to shows validation messages based on what the user type…
Guidelines for creating connections between different areas of a UI
Previous discussion What’s an intuitive interface for making connections between UI elements?
We have a web application called a genome browser, and we want to draw connections between different areas of the genome. Since this is sort of application specific context, let’s imagine a more general idea. Let’s say you have two different graphs, and you want to connect points between them
So we can mock this up like this
Now, what if, instead of just one bar graph on top and bottom, we have two on top and two on the bottom, where the two on top are related by their genomic region and the two on the bottom are related by their genomic region. So now, if we want to draw connections between them, there are lots of cross cutting elements
Now at this point, the user interface seems pretty chaotic. Also there are other concerns like
- the connecting lines need to be drawn in an overlay, and this really limits how we can interact with it because in HTML, overlays really mess up your event handling: you have to put pointer-events:none on the overlay to click through to the underlay, and can possibly turn it off to interact with the overlay, but this requires a manual toggle
- what if we just render the connecting lines independently of the graphs on the top and bottom, because maybe we just care about the connections and the pattern they make more than the actual bargraphs. in that case we can just render to a middle area rather than an overlay, but it becomes a little confusing what “status” this now holds in the app, how do you turn it on and off if it is separate from the rows on the top and bottom?
Those are just a couple concerns. The overlay often results in at least some visual chaos and conceptual confusion, even though it can kind of help in some cases too. Are there any guidelines or similar user interfaces in other apps that have these types of concerns?
Need help with toolbar layout
I have a toolbar that needs 4 controls and a company icon on it. I cannot figure out the best placement of the controls and I cannot figure out the best look for the search controls and need advice.
This toolbar has to have a
1. Menu bu…
Is it ok to run usability tests with non-customers?
I’m a designer for a health tech startup that makes applications for orthopedic providers, and a recurring issue I have is extremely limited access to users for research and testing. Due in part to incredibly busy work schedules, protectiv…