User Experience Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, August 28, 2014

Top new questions this week: Does the Oxford Comma increase readability? There are many puns online where not having the Oxford comma (Serial comma) can be interpreted as something other than intended, such as the infamous Sky News notification: It's hilarious, I know, … readability grammar   asked by Benny Skogberg 52 votes answered by John Chrysostom 19 votes Should I empty the wrongly filled fields or leave as user has filled after validation message? In our mobile applications (intended for Android and iOS platforms), we have fields that should be filled by users. If the user fills the field not in required format what should I show the … mobile-application validation user-expectation   asked by saakian 31 votes answered by Vitaly Mijiritsky 67 votes Using funny error messages in Finance Currently I'm working on a branch banking application which is going to be used for all banking transactions such as Money deposit, EFT but also Campaign Management etc. (Some user roles are directly … error-message messages financial   asked by Hakan Isik 20 votes answered by Benny Skogberg 86 votes Does the padlock icon make users perceive your site as safer? I was recently in a discussion with one of our developers about the usage of padlock icons (not on the https link) in user interfaces. I remember encountering the icon in lots of different … user-behavior security trust   asked by Mumas 14 votes answered by Franchesca 29 votes How do I make every user's data "the most important"? I'm working on an internal website for our employees. [Apologies if this background is too vague, but this isn't a public-facing website.] This site tracks a huge amount of data made up of many … information-architecture data-collection organization intranet   asked by Nathan Rabe 8 votes answered by Mervin Johnsingh 1 vote Does dark colour affect user's trust? I have used a black header on an online shop because it is a common colour for the subject but I didn't realise that it may affect user's trust. Is it recommended to use bright colour ? Have you … color-perception colours   asked by Renaud 7 votes answered by Roger Attrill 5 votes Alternative to tabs with long names For a Windows Forms application I'm looking for a solution to organize forms in a tab group. Problem is that those tabs would be dynamic and have cryptic, short to long labels. Data is land registry … tabs   asked by J_rgen 6 votes answered by Vitaly Mijiritsky 8 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Should "Yes, delete it" be red, or green? Designing an interface for a CMS (Content Management System), I stumbled upon a paradox and I'm a bit confused about what to do and why to do. Context Before deleting an album, the user is asked to … buttons design user delete   asked by Diéssica 581 votes answered by jnmnrd 1009 votes Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight? Is this a legacy thing or does a tilted cursor serves a purpose? I can tell that, the angle provides a totally vertical left edge which helps when highlighting text but what else apart from that? … interaction-design mouse cursor   asked by Thanos 437 votes answered by Bart Gijssens 560 votes Can you answer these? Require input if there are any My client is registering customer data and wants to make sure that they register their customers e-mail addresses when ever a customer has one. So the input textbox should be required to have valid … forms input-fields   asked by Carlsson 1 vote Interactive camera focusing tool We are trying to define what would be the best user experience for a tool assisting the manual focusing of a camera. The user needs to focus a camera that has a calibration panel in front of it, with … interaction-design ux-design   asked by slazaro 1 vote Persistent Buttons on Mobile Apps I work on a mobile app (ecommerce) which during the purchase path has persistent buttons that are always to the bottom of the screen, regardless of where the view is scrolled, in order to move the … mobile navigation   asked by bobfet1 1 vote

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