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...
If you need to recruit people who are highly familiar with a certain topic, open-ended questions can elicit authentic details that tell you whether respondents have the relevant experience. If you ask people how often they play online games, it’s easy for someone who plays a few times a year to
Venmo for iOS, a cash app for sending and receiving money from friends, shows this screen to users after they’ve declined the permission to access their camera. The text communicates the existing state of access and provides a link to the exact place in the device’s settings where the user can
We’ve seen that, whether you include instructions at the top of the form or not, the result is likely to be the same — people will ignore or forget them. So, what happens when user fill out the form? How do they know whether a field is required? Well, the more-diligent users will look around
How Blockchain Can Solve Major Problems for Gig Economy Freelancers
In addition to better (and faster) payments, cryptocurrency is also much more secure. Identity verification is done through consensus and community trust, which makes identity theft technically impossible. All information is stored and encrypted in the blockchain in an unalterable format, which
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
Blockchain’s Mainstream Debut Awaits Dev Ecosystem Evolution
By storing the bulk of a data on completed blocks of transactions off-chain, the main Bitcoin blockchain will eventually be used as a reference layer upon which nodes can quickly validate transactions without needing to store the entire chain. Ethereum may use a similar proposed model called
Best Application Designs
Solving a big problem is more difficult than solving a small problem. However, if your app does only one thing, it had better to it really, really well. So, the criteria for polish are stricter for small applications than for enterprise applications. With thousands of screens in some applications
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Design Thinking 101
We live in an era of experiences, be they services or products, and we’ve come to have high expectations for these experiences. They are becoming more complex in nature as information and technology continues to evolve. With each evolution comes a new set of unmet needs. While design thinking is
Date-Input Form Fields: UX Design Guidelines
Formatting a date-entry field may seem like a minor detail; however, even small interactions can draw a process to a standstill if implemented improperly. Poorly designed date input leads to distressed or annoyed users — risking the abandonment of the form altogether. Even worse, if the user
Why Personas Fail
Personas are my jam. I teach a full-day training course on them: what they are, why they work, how to create them, and how to use them to do great work. I love teaching this course because personas are one of the most abstract components in the very analytical discipline that is UX. I love
Pricing information gives B2B sites a competitive advantage
Revealing price on your B2B website is one way to earn people’s trust. People view companies that show this key piece of information as being genuine and forthright. Transactions are more likely to occur when people feel educated about your offerings and trust your organization. Not showing
The Mobile Checkout Experience
Adidas.com: The order summary was too low on the page to be easily viewed. Users had to scroll to the very bottom of the Review & Pay page, right above the mobile footer, to see their final order summary information. The information was also collapsed in an accordion, which made it difficult to
WP Engine Sales and Customer Service Teams Recognized at The Stevie Awards
The Stevie Awards are a set of hundreds of business awards given annually by the American Business Awards organization. They were created in 2002 to recognize the accomplishments and contributions of companies and business people worldwide. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards are given to
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How to Recover Abandoned Shopping Carts for WooCommerce Stores
Many of those abandoned carts are probably lost for good because you don’t have any contact information from the shopper to try to win them back to checkout. But for a percentage of the carts, your shopper will have gotten far enough along in the process that you’ll have an email address (or
Hackathon 2019 Goes Boldly Where No Engineers Have Gone Before
Additionally, two unique awards are also handed out. For this hackathon, they were Customer Inspired, which recognized a project that has real potential to impact our customers in a positive way and was decided on by WP Engine’s Chief Customer Officer, Tina Dobie; and Warp Speed, a Star
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
Accordions may seem to be a good solution for shortening long content pages. However, in many situations when all the page content is relevant to users, it is more advantageous to show all the content at once, even if doing so results in longer pages. On the desktop it is easier to simply scroll
Consistency in the Omnichannel Experience
It’s true that different channels have different capabilities, and some tasks may be optimally supported on one channel. However, we cannot assume that, because a channel is not ideal for a particular task, it will not be selected for that task. Some people may not have access to the optimal
Expandable Menus: Pull-Down, Square, or Pie?
That being said, there is one exception: marking menus in the normal mode (like the one in the Pinterest app displayed above). Marking menus are well suited for touch interfaces, because they don’t require a precise reach of the target (which tends to be problematic with touchscreen interfaces
We get Smarter with the Internet of Things (IoT) and so do Cities
Using smart education applications helps engage people in active learning environment. All these allow learners to adapt to rapid changes in the environment and society. In addition, relying on big data that has been collected and processed in the field will help to generate required information
Understanding Today’s IT Hierarchy
This position also averages between one and nine years of experience. The IT Engineer usually requires a bachelor’s degree in IT or computer science. The average salary is between $68,000 and $85,000. There are variations in this department and depending on the type of IT engineer, number of
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
How to Manage Conflict at Work
The temptation to jump to conclusions regarding who is the one to blame will be quite strong but resist it. Being accusatory would be a huge mistake because it shows that you’re motivated by bad intentions rather than a desire to find a good, or adequate solution. Just like with a friend or
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The 6 Biggest Risks Today’s Internet Entrepreneurs Must Battle
There’s no switch you can flip or button you can press to guarantee yourself success as an entrepreneur. In fact, the numbers are against you in almost every regard. However, if there’s one thing you can do to lower your chances of succumbing to the same failures as many of your peers, it’s
Despite What You Hear, You Don’t Need VC Funding
According to the most recent edition of PitchBook’s Venture Monitor, the first half of 2018 saw 94 investment deals surpassing the $100 million mark, continuing a trend in which late-stage successful startups and larger companies receive the lion’s share of VC funding allocations. That’s
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The Characteristics of Minimalism in Web Design
The portfolio of art director Alexander Engzell uses bold typography on his tagline to create visual interest without adding extra graphic elements to the page. However, the text is an image file, which adds to page load time. Also, unlike the Buffet portfolio, this page doesn’t directly
Flat Design: Its Origins, Its Problems, and Why Flat 2.0 Is Better for Users
The release of Microsoft’s Metro design language and Windows 8 in 2011 was particularly influential in popularizing flat design. Microsoft’s design documentation referred to its new style as "authentically digital" — a phrase that neatly captures the appeal of flat design for many designers
Shopping Online for an iPhone Plan Is Painful
For example, on AT&T’s website it wasn’t even clear how to access the mobile plans. To many people, the label Wireless (under which the plans lived) implies wireless internet, or WiFi— especially on a site that also sells internet services. What saved this label was the use of a mobile
