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...
Because Makr’s tips are text-based rather than visual, if users tap through them quickly they will likely not absorb any of the information presented, and will reach the workspace without an idea of how best to proceed with their task. At least the tooltips do have arrows pointing to tools in the
If the same error occurs repeatedly (usually 3 times or more in a single form-filling attempt), it is often an indication of a serious problem in the user interface. Quite possibly, your error messages are insufficiently helpful, but there could also be another mismatch between the design and
Personalization and customization should enhance an already good experience, rather than try to fix a poor one. They should be used thoughtfully, with a clear purpose. Consider that both customization and personalization require work and maintenance over time. Personalization requires regular
RW Q&A: Monisha Perkash, founder of Lumo Bodytech
Perkash came up with the idea for Lumo seeing her co-founder and CTO, Andrew Chang, suffering from debilitating back pain. Perkash is married to a spine and sports physician, so she could understand how important posture really was. Perkash advised Andrew to attend a posture class and as a result
A 60-Second Trailer of the 60-Day Report on Cybersecurity
She explained that the original design of the Internet was driven more by considerations of interoperability rather than security, and as a result we are now faced with almost insurmountable issues. Some examples include online criminals who steal our information, mass bandits who have the ability
Emerging Technologies are Banding Together to Accelerate Big Data’s Growth
Thanks to the growth of the internet, the rate at which new information is being released is growing exponentially. Accelerating big data between machines. We are in an age when communication is not just between human beings. Machines are now the go-to for connections between the people to people
Beyond Usability: 3 User Experiences Reshaping Their Industries
Unless you have an unlimited clothes budget, it’s unrealistic (and wasteful) to wear a new outfit for every single occasion, yet social media pressures us into it. Rent a Runway solves this tension elegantly by recycling (expensive) clothes across a large set of women. It’s an example of the
contextual menus: delivering relevant tools for tasks
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
Treemaps: Data Visualization of Complex Hierarchies
FinViz Map of the Market uses a treemap corresponding to the tree structure of the S&P 500 dataset depicted above. The items colored in yellow and marked (A), (B), (C), (D) correspond to the items labeled with those letters in the tree diagram above. (A) represents the entire S&P 500 and is
4 Noteworthy Intranet Design Trends in 2019
Ever presence of tools is another theme this year. For example, a toolbar with custom favorites and tools appeared on every page of the 3M intranet. Similarly, every page on the Norwegian Government Security and Service Organization’s intranet offered a waffle menu that led to essential
Split Buttons: Definition
The target size of the arrow component of the split button is a major limiting factor on its usability. If the size of the arrow button is very small (as it often happens), that button will be harder to acquire (according to Fitts’s Law). As a result, we do not recommend split buttons for
The Slow Tail: Time Lag Between Visiting and Buying
Dr. Alan Rimm-Kaufman from the Rimm-Kaufman Group recently tracked one million clicks on search ads on Google and Yahoo. These advertising clicks eventually translated into 41,377 conversions on the target websites. Although the clients in question must remain anonymous, they presumably have
WP Engine Supports the Domain Connect Project .
Domain Name Servers (DNS) are the equivalent of The Yellow Pages for the Internet. They store and maintain a directory of domain names and translate them to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Humans access information online via domain names like wpengine.com and web browsers communicate via IP
contextual menus: delivering relevant tools for tasks
Mobile's New Power Couple: PWA and AMP
AMP was effectively loading up landing pages faster and more efficiently than previous technology, but what about the rest of the website? Consumers desired a top-notch mobile ecommerce experience; they wanted to search for products, add to their cart, manage their points, use coupons, etc. AMP
Recapping the State of the Word 2018
Navigation menus help add organization to your website. Transitioning menus to have Gutenberg functionality will allow users to edit menus inline. Mullenweg said that experimentation would be required to master this but an idea would be a restricted number of blocks that could be arranged into
Service Blueprints: Definition
Similar to how a user’s emotion is represented throughout a customer-journey map, employees’ emotions can be represented in the blueprint. (Emotion is shown through the green and red faces in the example below.) Where are employees frustrated? Where are employees happy and motivated? If you
Decision Frames: How Cognitive Biases Affect UX Practitioners
Framing is a well-known phenomenon in psychology. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky explored the effect of decision frames and found that the exact same information can lead to opposite conclusions, depending on the frame used to present the decision. For example, a price which is
Accordions for Complex Website Content on Desktops
Another situation in which accordions are helpful is when the information is restricted to very small spaces, such as on mobile devices. On small screens people often stop scrolling before reaching the end of an extremely long page. If the page has several loosely related pieces of information
The Key IoT Security Questions You Need To Ask
For starters, the actual devices must be secure. In the next few years, a new wave of innovation will drive down costs and inundate the market with internet-connected devices in every price range, from electronic toys to manufacturing sensors. In anticipation of this, my Microsoft colleagues have
Resisting and Reducing Enterprise Storage Downtime
Main operations come back online a lot quicker, the rest of the workloads recover in time. Recovering in time is the primary purpose of disaster recovery solutions. Features like Instant VM recovery, Full VM recovery, One-click recovery, are ideal for this use-case. The ability to spin up directly
The Positive Evolution of Your Business Depends on the Tech Revolution
Today, Millennials are the main driving force of businesses, the economy, and the world. It won’t be long before they represent more than half of the American workforce and reach their peak affluence – and influence. The changing consumer base means that the Millennials will have the most
Why the Gig Economy is Coming for Architects, Engineers
It’s official: The gig economy is coming to construction. While other industries have been quick to adapt to freelance employment, architects and engineers within the construction sector have lagged behind — and that is beginning to change. Here’s why the gig economy is coming for architects
contextual menus: delivering relevant tools for tasks
The 6 Biggest Risks Today’s Internet Entrepreneurs Must Battle
While you don’t face the risk of being eaten alive by a hungry tiger every time you walk outside your front door, you do face daily risks in your entrepreneurial pursuits. And even though you’re genetically trained to avoid risk, you find yourself in situations where you’re forced to confront
Despite What You Hear, You Don’t Need VC Funding
When your partners start to pitch your product to their customers, your company has reached a turning point. In this case, you’re using your partners’ sales and marketing resources to sell your product, yet still, everyone benefits. You get additional sales without dipping into your resources
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UX Mapping Methods Compared: A Cheat Sheet
All UX mappings have two-fold benefits. First, the process of creating a map forces conversation and an aligned mental model. Second, the shared artifact resulting from the mapping can be used amongst your team, organization, or partners to communicate an understanding of your user or service. This
Official Olympic Website: UI Silver - but UX DQ
Another example is even more grotesque: The site's homepage features a promotion to buy the official souvenir program for £10. So if you click this link, what would you expect? A page about the souvenir program, with a button to add it to your cart. After all, the web's one fundamental rule is
100 Million Websites
Even though there will be many more sites to come in absolute numbers, what matters to the user experience is the rate of change , which has stabilized. From tech explosion to commodity in only 15 years: that's in itself an indication of the fast-moving nature of the modern world. It probably took
