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Questions tagged [perception]

Perception is the way users attain understanding about what is happening by interpreting visual and other UX clues.

Perception is the experience of the user experience once the physical stimulation has been processed by the sense organs.

Perception is usually a combination of sensory sensations combined to reach the person awareness. Perception of grouping, contrast, constancy and various other effects combined with experience make up important guidelines to build a good user experience.

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LED flashing parameters to best let a human count flashes?

I need to indicate an error code with an LED. This is in case we have a really bad error in our embedded system where we can't reliably use higher-level GUIs to indicate a problem -- I have to fall back on flashing an LED. What's surprising to me,…
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Is it ever good to slow down your app?

Although it's an extreme example, TDWTF's latest post shows an interesting concept: purposefully pausing an app to show a progress bar, to convince users that it's doing something. This kind of thing came up before in an answer I gave - I suggested…
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How to facilitate the perception of the uniqueness?

Often my user fill two password fields in a form. The computation of the two fields generates a unique sha1 (ex: dba59b52c4d483e17cad109e7...). I use the generated sha1 to generate something (with some other information). I do not display the…
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What are user's views on services from third parties?

I wasn't entirely sure how to word this one. What I'm getting at though is when websites/apps and so on use features such as Google Translate for translation or facebook integration for signup forms. Would a user think less of a site/app for using…
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