Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Contextual Menus Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
Contextual Menus: Delivering Relevant Tools for Tasks
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Having the right tools available in any given situation makes all the difference, especially when it comes to correctly and efficiently getting things done. Without the relevant tools, we waste time and are left feeling frustrated, lost, and confused. Just as bad: when there are too many tools around, we waste time looking for the right one or end up satisficing with a suboptimal tool, instead.
The digital space is no different; in any given application, there’s an abundance of tools to use, tasks to complete, menu options to explore, and commands to execute. As such, an important user-interface element that narrows the set of available commands and associates them...
An example of a sprint in a unified backlog: items can be UX-related or development-related In this backlog example, the sprint is made up of 4 backlog items, each with its corresponding story-point estimate. The highlighted item, Prototype: Filtering Enhancements, is a UX-specific item that refers
When they call a regular cab, riders have no control — hence, all the anxieties listed above. With Uber, they suddenly get all the control they need: once they order an “uber”, they see how far away the car is and how much they have to wait, they know in advance how much the ride will cost
As his pillaging continued and Blackbeard grew in craftiness, he realized it would be prudent to extend the essence of his menacing nature from afar. He devised a tool to extend his message — an early version of the skull-and-crossbones pirate flag we all know well today. The flag served as
Sharing Economy 2.0: Technology is Removing the Need for Single Asset Ownership
We will see peer-to-peer lending, music and video streaming, auto sharing, house sharing, and online staffing. This gig economy can be significantly greater as we develop current and future technologies to increase accessibility. More and more accessibility to what we can share with one another
Cryptocurrency Fraud Is the Exception, Not the Rule
In the United States, most state and federal regulators deal with crypto projects on a case-by-case basis. Take the CFTC’s charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds against Patrick McDonnell. McDonnell allegedly promoted himself as an expert in cryptocurrency investment and promised
The Top Futurist Speakers to Have at Your Conference
Mike Walsh is the CEO of Tomorrow, a consultancy that helps businesses prepare for the 21st century. While other futurist speakers look 20, 30 or 50 years ahead, Mike Walsh describes how business, employment, Big Data, and the Internet of Things will develop over the next five years. He has spoken
Teenager’s UX: Designing for Teens
Teenagers use the internet on many devices in various environments. For our research, we focused on web and app usability for laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Although teens spend endless time texting and on social media, we didn’t focus on these activities because our goal was to derive
contextual menus: delivering relevant tools for tasks
Radio Buttons: Always Select One?
The message the site presented--Yes, switch my membership and save up to 83%--may have sold some people on postponing canceling, as did placing the promotion in the first position in the radio-button list. But, understanding that most people really do want to unsubscribe if they have reached this
Scrolling and Scrollbars
When pages feature both vertical and horizontal scrolling, users have to move their viewport in two dimensions, which makes it hard to cover the entire space. For people with poor spatial visualization skills, it's especially challenging to plan movements along two axes across an invisible plane
Why People Shop on the Web
The result of combining these three numbers is a conversion rate of about 1%, which is indeed a commonly observed number. The biggest long-term potential for increasing the conversion rate would come from motivating visitors to move from lookers to shoppers. However, the Web is notoriously bad at
User Need Statements
As their name suggests, user need statements articulate the end user’s problem we are going to solve, and why it is worth solving. They are a tool to help us stop thinking about users’ needs as nouns and start thinking about them as verbs. When done collaboratively and correctly, they can serve
Ecommerce UX Trends: User Research Update
Expanding the product description on Estee Lauder's site simply expanded the box containing the description, forcing users to scroll the description to see product details. For mobile users, it may be necessary to defer additional content to a secondary screen, but don't give desktop users even
WP Engine Celebrates Pride 2018 .
Austin’s Annual PRIDE celebration is one of the largest opportunities for local non-profit organizations, social groups, and causes to gain exposure in the LGBTQ community. This year marked 28 years of Pride events in Austin. This year’s parade emphasis was awareness, equality and
contextual menus: delivering relevant tools for tasks
WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Named as 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award Honoree
The results clearly showed companies that welcome ideas from all employees have better growth prospects than those with a less-inclusive approach to innovation. In fact, businesses that successfully create an “Innovation By All” culture see revenue growth that is 5.5x greater than others, as
WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Named as 2019 Great Place to Work For All Leadership Award Honoree
The award itself was inspired by recent research conducted by Great Place to Work, which surveyed about 500,000 U.S. employees at nearly 800 public and privately-owned companies—mostly based in the U.S. Employees were asked how often they were included in larger, strategic decisions, whether they
Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants
No one likes to be surprised by some rigid rule that prevents them from getting what they need (or forces them to accept something they don’t want). Explain the policy, but meet customer needs within reason. Mashed potatoes instead of fries? Hold the special sauce? Not a problem. Don’t be that
Design Thinking Builds Strong Teams
In the design-thinking process, ideas are also evaluated democratically. Team members read others’ proposals silently rather than being persuaded or impacted by what others may think. Next, participants place stickers near the ideas that resonate the most with them. Each team member casts the
UX Expert Reviews
Expert reviews can be done at any stage in the design cycle if the team has access to a UX expert. However, because the expert’s time can be quite precious, in many organizations expert reviews are used before a major redesign project, to identify significant strengths and weaknesses of the
How are the Top MNCs Using Big Data Analytics to their Advantage?
The extraordinary occasions and profoundly unsafe business condition calls for better chance administration forms. Fundamentally, a hazard of the executive’s plan is underlying speculation for any business paying little respect to this area. Having the option to observe, in advance, a potential
What Does Your Credit Card Company Know About You?
This one should be obvious. One of the first things a new credit card company will check on a new credit card applicant is their credit score. This score, calculated and kept by the three major credit bureaus, is a relative measure of a person’s financial history and trustworthiness. It’s the
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Melissa Hathaway came across our radar recently when President Obama tasked the former Bush administration aide with leading a 60-day review of Bush’s Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative; a largely classified, purported $30 billion, multi phase plan to address cybersecurity issues
Elements to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence
You took some time off work to get some extra chores done around your home. You need a break and decide that a 15-minute break is what you want to take. During your break you became lost in your thoughts and you’re in a quasi-hypnotic state. You glance over at the clock only to notice that it
contextual menus: delivering relevant tools for tasks
Argentina is Stepping-Up as a Country of Web Developers
Furthermore, businesses in the United States can also benefit from establishing their company in Argentina. The average developer in the US commands a salary of $76,141 according to Salary.com, demonstrating the enormous potential markup which could be applied. Given the strength of the dollar, the
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
Finally, Hathaway sees this as a unique opportunity for the United States to work with countries around the world, and with organizations on an extremely local level. “We cannot succeed if our government works in isolation,” she added. It requires “leading from the top” from
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Password Creation: 3 Ways To Make It Easier
Allow users to unmask the password. Seeing the password will support memory and will allow users to check their work. On desktop, hide the password by default, and next to it, place a checkbox labeled Show password. On mobile devices and tablets, show the password by default and let users toggle
Website Logo Placement for Maximum Brand Recall
In a word, no. There were no statistically significant differences (according to a two-sample t-test) in how people rated the hotels with traditional left-aligned logos, compared to the ‘unconventional’ right-aligned logos. In fact, in most cases, the left-aligned logos were rated slightly more
Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 2003
The search engine on my own site has the same problem: it relies on the operating system's file-modification date rather than the date the content was written. As a result, I've shut off the date feature in the search result listings. Such dates can be very useful, but they do more damage than good
