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Questions tagged [user-experience]

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Should a developer do UI mockups if there are no designers in the project?

I'm working with a small team that creates a proprietary web application and UX isn't much of a priority since our own people will be the ones operating it, but we do try to make their jobs easier. Should I, as a developer, create a UI mockup…
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Should an e-commerce application reserve products before attempting payment?

I'm designing an e-commerce application and I'm concerned about users occasionally experiencing this: A user orders a product and is redirected to the payment processor. While the user is paying, another user orders the product and it's now out of…
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How much information about an error should be shown to the user?

Applications can always throw errors. If such an error occurs, the user should be notified, because what he asked the application to do has not succeeded. However, how much information should the user be given? I think most of us agree on not…
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Why would patient management systems not assert limits for certain biometric data?

I think many people with even a small experience in designing UI/UX to handle user data will be familiar with the perils of putting in input field/database limits for personal data, such as names. However, when it comes to storing biometric data,…
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is OpenID really that bad?

I have seen this question on Quora where lots of people seem to agree that OpenID is bad, even going as far as stating that: OpenID is the worst possible "solution" I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don't really…
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Does UX matter for enterprise software?

I've come to notice that a lot of software that companies use for managing things like time, expenses, setting up phone systems, etc is very non-intuitive from a user experience point of view. I know personally I waste a lot of time just trying to…
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JavaScript's prompt, confirm and alert considered "old-fashioned"

Lately I've been developing a web-based management system for a gym. Their previous app was developed in Visual Basic. For the new app, all the front-end scripting uses jQuery, the server is running PHP & MySQL... you know, the typical el-cheapo…
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What should be the scope of a health check for a system which deploys a webapp?

Today I had a task to "write a health check" for a long running service that is an orchestration system to deploy a web-app. I am trying to determine what the scope for such a health check would be, and came up with these questions related to the…
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Where can I find inspiration for a good user interface?

I've got a mental block as far as desigining the main screen interface for a desktop application that I'm currently upgrading. When I first developed this program the screen resolution was 640 X 480. Today there are multiple screen resolutions out…
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How can programmers improve their UX skills?

As programmers we can solve very complex problems, but then, when we have to design a user interface we tend to fail on making them easy to use. In small companies they can’t afford having designers and UX experts, programmers have to do almost…
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What's the best way to scale and split an agile team building a web app?

I've recently joined a company where I'm working as the scrum master on an agile development project building a web app. The team is just about to be the maximum size for an agile team (expecting 9 next week). We have talked about potentially…
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throwing runtime exception in Java application

I am working as a contractor designing enterprise Java application for my client in the role of a technical lead. The application will be used by end users and there will be a support team who will support the application when we leave. The other…
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Why do websites have to ask language and country when the browser can tell them that?

So, why do websites have to ask (spoken) language and country when the browser can tell them that? Edit: Specifically, I mean why not use the accept-language section in the http header, set by the language settings in the browser, not based on the…
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UX designers working one Sprint ahead

Our UX designers usually have a story in Sprint X that the developers will implement in Sprint X+1 (The UX designers and the devs/testers are on one team). I think this makes sense because if you don't have screen mockups and clear specifications…
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How long can it take for a screen to appear before it's considered a performance issue?

I am involved with the development of a Windows application that has various screens. One of them takes ten seconds to appear with no spinner or other indication that the screen is loading. I consider this a serious performance issue but I seem to…
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