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Design is a plan for making an object. Anything that will ever be built usually has a design up front before production of the object. A design can be a wire frame, a prototype, a schema, an image or a drawing.

Design is a plan for making an object. Anything that will ever be built usually has a design up front before production of the object. A design can be a wire frame, a prototype, a schema, an image or a drawing. In the usability field the term “interaction design” is widely used, which refers to the design of user interactions with a system or machine.

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Rationale behind off-center trackpads?

Many laptops come with an off-center trackpad as seen below: What's the rationale behind this design? Has any research been done into what end-users prefer? As my personal and very subjective opinion, it's the number one thing I don't want in a…
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What is the difference between a Hi-Fidelity Prototype and a visual design?

Many powerful prototyping tools, like Axure, allow us to create hi-fidelity prototypes that have design elements, such as proportions, margins, compatibility with screen resolution, font consistency, proper sample content and image, logos, icons,…
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How to not make my website have a "1990's" look

I recently launched a comics website, www.hittingtreeswithsticks.com, which I created from scratch. I created my own design because I wanted to keep it unique, and used no templates. Unfortunately, people who've looked at it says it appears…
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Documenting Design Decisions?

I manage a team of 10 UX Designers across 10 Sprint Teams (A designer to assigned to each team) I'm looking for ideas into how designers can document design decisions. Take this scenario: As designers, we of course go through many iterations with…
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Where exactly should I put a search box in this form?

I need to add a search box to this form and may be in future I need to show user's email address as well, which place would be best for that ?
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How can toilet trash bins be designed such that users don't throw toilet paper into those bin?

There's an office building with regular water flush toilets. There's a trash bin next to each toilet seat so that if users have any garbage they would not flush it into the toilet because the toilet and sewer pipes it's connected to might get…
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Developer Flexibility with UX Components

We often see that requirements talk about fine nitty-gritty details that takes away the flexibility from developers from doing things the right way [keeping User Experience / Usability]. Like for example, placement of buttons, white-space in tables…
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Best way to indicate more items in the list

I have a list of "labels" of certain categories. Currently, only top 3 labels are displayed in the category (see picture attached). Each of the purple circles is a category that it displayed in its own row, so you can think of each row as being a…
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using short line (hr) as divider/seperator in ux

Lately ive been curious about how hr(short line) is used from user experience perspective. Many website used this as separator or divider in title. What is good and bad things about this?
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UX Qualifications?

My boss recently came to me and said that he was happy that we as a company had the experience to handle software projects we bid for, but that perhaps it was hard to prove. He mentioned that our project managers could look into being PRINCE2 and…
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Upload forms, should they open on a new page or in a pop-up box?

My website will have a feature that allows users to submit/upload pictures and blogs for a competition. This is done on my competition page. In terms of good UX design, is it better to have the upload form open in a new page or in a pop-up box? I…
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How to assign values to buckets

I have 10 items in a list. These 10 items must be assigned to two buckets. I need to make sure that the 2 buckets can be toggled at any time. However, I need to make it explicit to the user that I'm assigning items to the individual buckets. …
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What does visual center mean?

I keep seeing "set the visual center," but all I can do is assume they mean set the style of a project, but I hate to assume. Any thoughts? Edit: It was in a role description. Google turns up little-to-nothing. In context, it was to set the visual…
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Is there an optimal position for user polls on a website?

I am in the process of designing a sports website. Users will visit to check the scores and fixtures of their team for various sports. On the home page I am thinking of putting a user poll, just to engage with the community. At the moment I have a…
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How do you handle a conflict between user goals and business goals when designing enterprise software?

If business and user goals are out of alignment in an enterprise app, the business usually is the tie breaker. They are funding the project (albeit through technology) and view the business needs with greater consideration than individual needs and…
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