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Interaction Design is to design the bond between and interface and the user. It is to develop a story so interesting and enjoyable that the user is always engaged and happy with the interface.

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A Java GUI for a C++ application - Is this a good design?

Yes, I was a little surprised when an interviewer mentioned that they use a Java-swing GUI for a C/C++ application. I was curious and asked him how they actually integrate these together, his answer was "through messaging". Interesting! Well, I am…
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Human Computer Interaction vs Interaction Design

According to Wikipedia Human Computer Interaction involves the study, planning, and design of the interaction between people (users) and computers. Interaction Design is the practice of: understanding users’ needs and goals designing tools for…
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GUI patterns for CRUD web applications

This is a vague question about user experience and interaction design patterns (not programming) for CRUD web applications. Let there are few simple entities, e.g. Student, Course, and Lecturer with obvious relations. As I understand, a CRUD…
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What is a 'type of user' in a User story?

I work as a UX-designer and have some experience with user stories from agile development projects where they were used to document functional requirements on the form: As a [type of user] I want to [goal] so that [reason] After a discussion with…
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UI design pattern for multi level grid

currently I have a requirement to display related items in a multi level grid. that is great grandparent -> grandparent-> parent-> child For example: Country-> state->City->Street is the order of display. The proposed solution is to display all…
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What's the name of this UI pattern?

Sometimes when some feature requires many different settings, they are written in a cloze-like text, where the gaps (=variables) are displayed as comboboxes or hyperlinks which open some kind of lookup list. Example: If the available space is less…
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Wizard pattern and other GUI patterns for infrequent, complicated task

We are thinking of using a Wizard pattern to help a user complete a task. The Wizard pattern seems to solve our problem. We are also interested in what human factors research might have to say about the basic problem of a non-expert user needing to…
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Create clickable PDF mockup

I am designing a new user interface and have the created images for each new screen. Now I want to combine these images in a clickable PDF so that by clicking on buttons within the images you can navigate from one screen to another. What is the…
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Does anybody know of a mockup tool that can export into code?

I want a tool that allows me to design the screens pixel-by-pixel (almost like i took a screencap of the webpage) and gives me the option to export the entire screen into XHTML/CSS. Does anybody know of such a tool? As a note, I am NOT looking for…
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Graphical, user friendly representation for 'All', 'Some', 'None'

I'm building a reporting tool where the user can filter results by selecting one or more options from various checkbox lists. To save space I'd like to shrink each list once the selections are made but have a symbol next to each to remind the user…
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what are evaluation techniques for HCI projects (without involving users, or psychologist)?

I'm going to choose a topic for my thesis and it will be a HCI project. (human computer interaction). It will be a research project, and I need to think some kind of evaluation for it. I would prefer to not use human users or having to collaborate…
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Open source projects requiring interaction designers, usabilitity?

I am looking for any open source projects to get myself involved in where I can contribute my skills as an interaction designer - focusing on usability and obviously good user interaction. I looked at a couple at sourceforge, but looks like they…
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Captcha algorithm

I've notised that Stack Overflow only presents me with a captcha occasionally. Does anyone know if it has a good algorithm for sensing if I might be a robot or, instead if it's just random. Reducing reliance on captchas is obviously a good thing.
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Indicating error by making UI element blink

I have a view where the user needs to make a selection before a button will work. To make this more obvious, I want to have the element that represents the selection that needs to be done blink if the (greyed-out) button is pressed first. I.e. I…
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What is the best way to model a richly interactive GUI (using use-cases or other approaches)?

My company develops a rich GUI from a detailed specification document, written as 100+ Use-cases (UC's). These detailed UC's drive the development. They are written as tables with actor and description columns. We (me and others) have mangled real…
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