User Experience Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, February 26, 2015

Top new questions this week: Colleagues drip-feeding me feedback from random users. What should I do? I'm in the middle of a UX project, including on-site user tests. Colleagues are drip-feeding me ideas / suggestions / feedback etc from random users that I haven't tested. In some ways it's fair ... feedback user-testing   asked by Tom H 14 votes answered by jazZRo 14 votes What should the default value be for a credit card expiration date? What is the optimal default value for a credit card expiration date? The only value I've ever noticed in practice is either the current month or the earliest possible month (January 1900 or similar). ... credit-cards   asked by Bobwise 13 votes answered by tohster 44 votes Ask users to input or just show the field I have a website that keeps track of oranges OR apples. Is it better that I ask or just show the input. Is the green text needed? It's a 50/50 that they'll have oranges or apples, so I would need ... input language   asked by alanj 11 votes answered by Okavango 12 votes What to use for "other" or "unknown" gender? We're showing a pie graph that would show something like 53% male, 41% female and 7% unknown. The "unknown" category includes many reasons we can't tell: we don't know, we can't know for legal ... text gender   asked by djechlin 11 votes answered by user568458 11 votes Effects of vote weighting for proven users in mature, gamified sites like Stack Exchange Given the following two users in a Stack Exchange like system, both of whom we can reasonably deduce will exist in a successful, mature system: User A, who just signed up to the site and has as yet ... voting game-mechanics   asked by Toni Leigh 7 votes answered by Izhaki 5 votes How to highlight best elements corresponding to a search without changing their order In a web application used to search content inside documents, we have a view displaying the main parts of a documents: Chapters Diagrams Tables of data Users can search for specific words inside ... gui-design search   asked by ghusse 5 votes answered by Michael Zuschlag 2 votes Tables with a lot of rows - where should the delete option be? Question regarding how to handle large tables with many rows: Where should the delete option be? I see many examples placing the delete icon or text on the far-right of the row. Is this best ... design-patterns tables   asked by Kimchi4Me 4 votes answered by matejceh 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead? This Twitter post sparked me to ask the question: totally! RT @damienguard: Dear UI designers everywhere. Stop using floppy disk icons for save. Too many people have no idea what it is now. ... usability icons conventions   asked by rick schott 170 votes answered by Patrick McElhaney 315 votes Should you concede to user demands that seem clearly inferior? Currently working on a ground-up (not just the UI) reimplementation of a whole, existing system. Because it's internal we've been able to work with its existing users during the process, and get their ... user-behavior tree user-expectation user-centered-design   asked by Matt Thrower 71 votes answered by Joshua Barron 66 votes Can you answer these? What practical steps can I take to reduce bias in usability testing? I'm acutely sensitive to bias in usability testing. For example, I'm aware that task-selection bias is an issue, so I try to keep the tests more open/loose and let participants explore. I know that ... usability usability-testing bias   asked by Michael Heraghty 1 vote How to obscure data in a screen captured image? Many people I work with need to share a report with sensitive data. This is usually a multistep process where the user takes a screenshot of a chart or graph with numbers and then manually removes, ... usability info-visualisation data   asked by DaveAlger 1 vote Show Education/Government/Non-Profit pricing with normal prices? We offer discounts to education, government, and non-profit organizations (different discount for each) as well as volume discounts on top of that. On the pricing web page for a product should all of ... website-design information pricing   asked by conan 1 vote

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