Most Read Articles | Related Articles | Recommended Articles: These kinds of things that you see on news websites, what are they called? Is there an all encompassing UX term for this? How do content managers decide what is placed where? Do users even click on these links or are they just used to make sure search crawlers get to deeper content?
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posted by chillmost
on Oct 7, 2012 -
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Can my smartphone simultaneously (i) accept input from my mouse and (ii) send output to my monitor?
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posted by foursentences
on Aug 11, 2012 -
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I hate the new GMail and have finally been forced to upgrade. How can I force the new interface to be less hate-worthy?
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posted by bookdragoness
on Apr 18, 2012 -
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My background is in Web Development, but I just took a "User Interface" Developer position. What are some good resources to help me move from the world of code to the world UI?
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posted by brenton
on Mar 27, 2012 -
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What are some well-designed web apps that dynamically add/remove content (notifications) to pages
without using lightboxes/overlays?
posted by phrontist
on Feb 22, 2012 -
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Please share some great user interface examples involving password setup and password reset.
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posted by odinsdream
on Jan 11, 2012 -
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I'm a solo UI designer for an ad agency & I'm looking for good website or blogs that'll inspire me to make cool & effective user interfaces. Individual websites are cool & all ,but what I'm really looking for are sites like
TheFWA or
SmashingMagazine that curate cool designs.
Bonus points for sites that look at e-commerce websites.
Fellow web designers: Where do you get inspiration?
posted by cuando
on Jul 20, 2011 -
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The "caret" or "insertion point" is the blinking " | " symbol that indicates where typed text will appear. Does anyone know how to modify it?
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posted by foursentences
on Jun 16, 2011 -
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Calling all UI designers: What are your favorite books/resources? What is "required reading"? Where should I start?
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posted by eleyna
on Feb 22, 2011 -
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In iTunes 10 (running on Windows XP), is there a way to get the album details displayed underneath the album artwork rather than to the right of it?
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posted by knapah
on Jan 8, 2011 -
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Help me to understand a prevalent console-based video game UI design decision : Why do so few developers allow the player to freely remap buttons on their controller?
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posted by radiosilents
on Dec 22, 2010 -
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What are some examples of tiny user interface changes that had a huge effect on usability?
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posted by dmd
on Apr 9, 2010 -
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Is there evidence that the average computer user is familiar with context menus?
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posted by emilyw
on Feb 16, 2010 -
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What user interface 'technique' is available (or may come to be available) on touch screen based devices that replicates the 'mouseover' function of a traditional computer?
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posted by woodblock100
on Feb 1, 2010 -
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I'm looking for user interface shops or departments within companies that do a particular kind of work, and that hire a particular kind of role (even if they have no jobs open right now). Do you know if they exist, and whether they're common or rare? Or, do you know how I can find out?
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posted by Other
on Aug 17, 2009 -
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I just watched the Angels & Demons movie starring Tom Hanks. The first part takes place at the CERN collider, and shows many very cool and stylish computer graphics on the screens of the operators. Where can I find more about these GUIs? Are they real, or just movie glitz?
posted by Emera Gratia
on May 16, 2009 -
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I'd like to be a beta tester for devices, specifically cell phones and smartphones. Is it possible to do this? I don't care about getting paid or actually getting to keep said device. I just really like playing around with them and would like to aid in their development as a real user.
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posted by sio42
on Mar 27, 2009 -
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I'd like to buy a nice MP3 player that doesn't involve
capacitive sensing. So: controls that only have moving mechanical parts like buttons or wheels, and aren't dependent on me having to generate a bioelectrical field conducted through my fingers. I'd also like it to have a large memory, and video playback if possible. Essentially, a wholly-mechanically-controlled version of the 160 GB iPod would be ideal. Does such an MP3 player exist for those of us who have trouble with our conductive capabilities?
posted by Greg Nog
on Oct 8, 2008 -
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Apple Mail.app question: I'm setting up a friend with Apple's Mail (mail.app 3.5 on Leopard 10.5.5). Everything is great -- it works like a charm. Except for something that is different than his old client (AOL for Mac -- ack!):
When a message is selected, and you delete it, the selection moves "UP" the list, selecting the *prior* message, not "DOWN" to the *next* message. This is exactly the opposite of AOL and Outlook and other mail clients. Anybody know of a terminal hack on
defaults write or another way to swap this behavior?
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posted by zpousman
on Oct 7, 2008 -
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I'm interested in doing paper prototyping for interface design. Learn me on the best tools for the job.
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posted by SamuelF
on Oct 5, 2008 -
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How to create iPhone demonstration videos (and what software works best)?
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posted by genial
on Jun 20, 2008 -
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I don't like the WordPress 2.5 look and feel. I am not interested in switching CMSes. What are my options for basic postings to my blog with minimal interaction with the WordPress interface?
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posted by jessamyn
on Jun 18, 2008 -
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I have a few pdfs of tabular data that I would like to use in a spreadsheet and/or database. Acrobat Reader is not cooperating; it converts obvious tabs into spaces. Is there some way to get this data, properly formatted?
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posted by johnofjack
on Apr 10, 2008 -
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What was the site that mirrored allmusic.com's content but didn't suck?
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posted by Tuwa
on Dec 20, 2007 -
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What are some examples of newspaper, magazine, or content archive sites that you think have really good search interfaces?
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posted by pessoa
on Aug 27, 2006 -
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User interface question: When I'm simply watching TV, pushing up on the remote's channel changer button moves me to a higher-numbered station. Yet when I'm viewing the channel guide, pushing up brings me to a lower-numbered station. Why the discrepancy?
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posted by schoolgirl report
on Mar 27, 2006 -
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Redesigning an art museum website (content / design / strategy / the whole shebang). What would you expect to see? What would you like to see that they're not doing? What would totally blow your mind? What do you know they'll include that you just don't care about?
And, on a slight tangent, best web examples for art museums? Not the content that resonates for you, but rather kind of information and how it was executed.
Thanks!
posted by warhol
on Dec 31, 2005 -
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Posting this for a friend whose MeFi account is not active yet.
I have a UI issue I'm trying to solve. How to create a casual but efficient interface to a series of audio and video clips of an author, talking about themselves and their book. It's a "conversation with the author" feature for a book site, and I'd like to avoid making the feature just look like a "clip browser". It should have a conversational feel to it.
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posted by camworld
on Dec 5, 2005 -
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Is there any app or modification I can make to safari to have the form elements render in the way the page designer intended rather than with aqua UI elements? I tried to look around but couldn't find a hack for it.
posted by rhyax
on May 4, 2005 -
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JavaScript: is it possible to detect a Windows XP user's chrome settings? For some perverse reason, chromed-out Windows XP scrollbars are a pixel wider than their "Classic" counterparts and it's breaking an interface.
posted by yerfatma
on Nov 4, 2004 -
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Has anyone ever read any books, etc. about human-computer interaction or user interface design that were particularly worthwhile?
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posted by jeb
on Jul 29, 2004 -
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A friend of mine has a philosophy PhD paper that takes the form of 100s of short aphorisms. There are several different narrative "paths" through these. He wants to put them on the web and allow people to choose their paths through. What's the best way to do it? each aphorism as an xml record, each with a "tag" for "next aphorism in path A", "next for path B.." etc? Bonus Guinness for suggestions on how web users can set up and save their own "paths" thru for others to follow.
posted by Pericles
on Jul 23, 2004 -
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