What is the reason for having more than one login link for Facebook?
If you do a Google search for facebook you’ll see something that I think is rather curious, basically there are two different links, one to log into your account and the other to login to your account.
The Log in to Facebook link has th…
Is it beneficial for users to be able to change the display location of user and system notifications?
Some back story. I’m working on a data science platform, and sometimes when working with Jupyter, RStudio, H20, etc, displaying notifications works for one type of notebook but not the other.
Because each of these products has it’s own se…
Form that contains select / multiselect field with possibility to add new element with its details to those fields
I have a problem with finding the best approach for forms that contain deeper relationships.
For example I have a form for creating an invoice. While the user is filling particular fields he may have to chose a client that is going to ge…
How can a user recover a mistyped email account?
I have a website where users login with their email address and password.
They also can update their account details like first and last name, location and email address. If they make a typo while updating their email, what’s the best way …
The rationale of progress indicators for online articles
The display of a non-interactive progress bar that reflects the amount of content that the user has read/scrolled through seems to be reflecting the trend that users want distinct visual indicators as a specific feedback to the information…
Validation in Slide Outs (desktop)
I have slide out with a bunch of filters.(sorry, because of private info I can’t publish them) I can apply 1, 2 or 5 filters by clicking “Apply Filters”.
By clicking on filter I can get to its settings (another slide out). To apply chan…
How to consolidate two web platforms with slightly different IA?
I need to consolidate two web products that have some similarities and many differences in labels and groupings. For round 1 testing, I plan to do open card sorting with content from both sites. I would test product 1 users, product 2 use…
Informative mobile scrolling by tag or category
A designer came to one of our iOS engineers to show us some inspirations she saw with some iOS apps where they allow users to scroll by tag or category Some examples include Snapchat where if you go to your Stories list and to the right yo…
What is the benefit of 2 drive thru lanes at a fast food restaurant?
The following photo shows the drive thru lane at a fast food restaurant. The lane splits in two to allow 2 drivers to place their order at the same time.
The following photo shows an overhead view of the restaurant:
As you can see, …
Why don’t <button> HTML elements have a CSS cursor pointer by default?
A friend was asking me why <button> HTML elements don’t have a CSS cursor pointer by default?
It is the default behavior for links, and can be achieved on a button with
button { cursor:pointer; }
Still, why this difference? Sou…