Most voted "usability" questions
Specifically in Human-Computer Interaction (IHC), Usability refers to pragmatic attributes (such as effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction, among others) which aim to facilitate for computer system users to achieve the specified targets in the best possible way. However, it also covers criteria such as ease of use and learning ability that serve any product or service with which a human being interacts.
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viewsWhat is the impact of changing the default behavior of an HTML element?
Recently there was a question here on Stack Overflow about changing the default behavior of checkbox to act on the page as a radio, that is, when selecting an item, the others should be unchecked,…
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viewsWhat is the best way to represent an Address?
When modeling addresses in an application, naively followed the standard form when representing in the BD (i.e. separate tables for country, state, city, neighborhood etc. - joins everywhere), and…
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viewsToo many screens or a screen with too much information?
I see an increasing trend, although this has existed before, to create multiple screens, several steps to perform a single action. Of course, the advent of smaller screens encourages this. But I’m…
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viewsHow to cancel a cancellation?
I believe that most software standardizes the use of the word "cancel" for a button whose action is to cancel the operation that is ongoing. Of course, the operation under way is the closest to…
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viewsWhat are Usability Principles?
In Interface and Interaction Design, what are (and what are) the principles of Usability?
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viewsWhat are the differences between Wireframe, Prototype and Mockup?
In the contexts of Interaction Design, Usability and User Experience, there are differences between the artifacts called Wireframe, Prototype and Mockup? If yes, what are?…
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viewsBest practices when presenting Android loading screen
The best known and widespread approach to show the user that a request to the network is happening and make it wait until the end of this, has been through the use of the component ProgressDialog.…
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viewsWhat is Task-Driven User Interface?
What is Task-Driven User Interface? Is it the same as Task-Based User Interface? What are the advantages over CRUD?
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viewsTime format: 12 vs. 24
Which time format is most readable for users of software and websites? 13:00 1:00 PM
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viewsHow to present the untreated exceptions?
Every application fails, it’s a fact. In a Windows desktop application, when an untreated exception bursts, the following explodes on the user’s screen by closing the program: Is not a blue screen,…
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viewsWhat is the best type of column to record amount of time?
We usually use Datetime to record a specific moment. But what if I want to record that an event lasted half an hour (00:30) or an hour and fifteen (01:15)? I thought to convert to decimal, so the…
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viewsLogin screen equal to Gmail
I’ve been watching the login screen of Gmail has the imput field and a text that stands as a placeholder, but when the mouse stroke is called from the field, this text goes up and stands as a label,…
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viewsDoes the CSS Box-Shadow property affect page performance and element rendering?
I know the property box-shadow is relatively old, and widely used. But when using it in excess, I say when applying box-shadow in 100 elements on the same page I have lost performance? I did this…
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viewsUsability of grid actions
When we talk about usability, we have N parameters. When we have records and the same may be numerous actions. What is the best way to treat these actions? Place actions on the grid line? with…
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viewsEmployee research, multiformulary or single form?
I am developing an app that should be made available to employees of a particular company, so that co-workers themselves make the evaluation of one (two, three, etc.) working friends by answering…
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viewsWhat’s the difference between using type Ubmit in buttom and input?
I’ve always made forms with <input type="submit" value="Enviar">, but observing the bootstrap documentation I realized that they use Submit, so I decided to adopt this method because I always…
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viewsImprove visual information on Chart.js
I am developing a system and I use Chart.js to generate my graphics. However, at the level of usability, it is bad, because it does not show all the information of the columns. Looking at the above…
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viewsLong forms
I already understand that the best practice is to use one field per line, unless it has a direct relationship, such as: Address and number. Reference. However work in a system that in many fields,…