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Home button vs Logo link?
Is a "home" button on the navigation required if there is a link to the homepage using the company's logo?
Increasingly I have noticed more and more websites using the logo as a link to return to home instead of a clear Home button in the…
Oliver Gitsham
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Why is backslash called BACK slash when arguably it points forward?
This is a backslash \.
If you read the slash from left to right it starts at the top and goes down - hence it is a downslash.
If you read the slash from top to bottom it starts on the left - which in our culture represents back direction - and…
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Why do showers have "hot" and "cold" knobs rather than "temperature" and "quantity" knobs?
I do not understand the advantage of the popular "hot" and "cold" controls in showers, as opposed to "temperature" and "quantity" controls.
Is it simply because the latter option is harder to implement? Why isn't it more common? It would make much…
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Should form 'Continue' button be disabled if validation is incomplete?
In forms we often see the 'continue' button inactive until all the required fields are complete:
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Is this actually a help to the user, or a hindrance?
I imagine the Pro for this is that…
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When a button contains text and an icon, which should come first?
Assuming I'm optimizing for making it as fast and easy as possible for most users to find the button they need, what's the optimal ordering?
Mohamad Jamal Ramadan
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Use up or down arrow to represent "sort ascending" at table header
To represent "sort ascending" (a -> b -> c -> ...) , my first sense told me that, I should use ↓ to represent it. This is because if I lay my data
a
b
c
It seems like thing is moving naturally toward downwards.
However, for the table header under…
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What reason could Nintendo have had for putting the A and B buttons in a non-alphabetical order?
When Nintendo brought out its first game system, the NES, it had a controller with four buttons:
Select
Start
A
B
However, somewhere, a designer, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the A and B buttons should not be in alphabetical order. So…
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Should a button become lighter or darker on hover?
We're having a discussion in the office about whether a button should become lighter or darker when a user hovers over it.
Here are some examples from the field:
Apple "Buy Now" button (Second is hover, third is depressed) -…
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Get users to use the download button instead of right-click save
As part of our system, a web application, we have an image viewer. Previously we always displayed the full resolution image but scaled down with CSS to fit the page. For performance reasons we now display a properly scaled version of the image with…
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How to graphically represent a language
Websites often present language selection to users with flag icons, but I think this is simply wrong. Flags represent countries.
There are two reasons for a user to change the display language (or at least click on that flag):
Change the language…
Mart
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What is better: yes / no radio, or simple checkbox?
In a very big form on my company's website, there's this tendency to use Yes / No radio buttons combination.
I can think of one argument of not using it, but it is not UX related: we need to maintain three states instead of just two: null, true…
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'My Account' or 'Your Account'?
I want to put a link to an account page in a toolbar. What person should I use to refer to the user's settings? Should I call it 'My Account' or 'Your Account'? I've seen both is use, and I'm not sure which one is correct, or even better.
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Should passwords expire?
I have a dispute with my partner. He comes from a financial software background but I do not. He recommends that our web app should expire user's passwords after 6 months (and it has to be unique each time). However, our target audience will be in…
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Are Scroll Bars Dead?
I recently heard a designer say something to the effect that modern web designs don't use visual scrollbars - or at least they're only visible when scrolling. I'm a front-end developer and hadn't really heard this. Is there any truth to this?…
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