Questions tagged [stackexchange]
For questions about the user experience of the Stack Exchange network or UX.SE in particular.
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Redundant to have "add" and "save" button when adding choices from a list?
On StackExchange, when you want to add a community to your account, you go into the upper left corner, click on the pull down, and click "edit" next to the "Your Communities" text.
Then you start ...
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Should this text say "click here"?
Do you think this should say "Click here to ..." ?
What if I view this email on my phone? I don't click on a phone.
Do users need to be told "click here to" or should it just be a button? Which ...
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Where should the logout button go?
Right now, SE has the logout button next to the "Current Community":
However, the login has just changed so that if you logout of one site, you log out of all of them.
Where should the logout button ...
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Quantifying discoverability on where or how information is found, presented
How do you objectively quantify a discoverability problem if the designer insists it is your fault that you can't find something?
I am an user of this network of sites, which has a subsite for every ...
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Should UTC timestamps, such as those in Stack Exchange hover-texts, include day of the week?
There is a proposal on Meta Stack Exchange to add the day of the week to the hover-texts for timestamps on Stack Exchange, which currently show a raw UTC timestamp, of the form YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SSZ, ...
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Why are vote buttons on Stack Exchange shown when they can't be used?
I've often wondered why Stack Exchange has opted to keep the upvote/downvote buttons available for clicking on question/answers posted by the user. For instance:
Even though these buttons have no use ...
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Wrapping Stack Exchange footer site list?
Browsing through the StackExchange Android website I came across this, and was curious whether wrapping of site names is correct. Will a users eye automatically read "User" and wrap their eyes to the ...
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When should a year be added to a timestamp?
Stack Exchange uses relative timestamps to indicate when an action occurred; a question was asked, edit was made etc. This is done as far back as "2 days ago"; anything prior to exactly 48 hours ago ...
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Is it OK to nest clickable items?
I've noticed this on the SE network, and realised that when a clickable link is nested in a clickable item, users (me at any rate) tend to forget that the item is clickable. It took me a while to ...
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How many notifications are there on StackExchange?
StackExchange has the top notification bar that informs of a number of things like badges gained, for instance. The red bullet shows inbox notifications. The yellow or red boxes show validation ...
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Are 'normal' forums (phpBB, vBulletin) outdated? [closed]
Im currently thinking about how communication and information exchange can be improved over the internet. You can cut it down to two sides: 'Life' chat (e.g. irc) and 'delayed' chat.
With 'delayed' ...
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Should a Tweet button yield a suggested Tweet over 140 characters?
I found the Stack Exchange Tweet Buttons can do exactly this and posted a Meta question about it.
The Tweet Button is for instant, easy sharing, but sometimes an article title can be too long to fit ...
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Order of items in a list, like the Stack Exchange "all sites" list
I've asked this question at Meta Programmers regarding the order that sites are listed in the StackExchange -> All sites menu on all the SE sites, and the answer confused me...
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How should the Global Network Auto-Login on SE work?
If you are a registered user logged onto the SE network, say to UX.SE, you have a user account with reputation and badges, etc. When you go to check out another SE site (cooking.SE for instance), at ...
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UX of Quora vs Stack Exchange [closed]
Quora has been gaining momentum. They actually have decent traffic for user experience topics. The UI is eerily similar to Stack Exchange's, but not exactly the same. No reputation points that I can ...
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