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Speaking of UserExperience

I occasionally browse this site, but it wasn't until today that I was encouraged to create an account--and only to post on the meta. As many of you know, when certain links are pasted into ...
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What are the plans to support wireframes after flash player is no longer available?

I am fairly new to using this site and have not used the wireframe tool before, although I do have the desktop version of Balsamiq. I thought I would give it a whirl but was told I need flash player ...
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UI Wireframe editor requires Flash, which is dead [duplicate]

There is already a discussion question about this: What are the plans to support wireframes after flash player is no longer available? but since Flash is end-of-life and no major browser supports ...
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Add "embed Balsamiq mockups" to the 10-rep permission description

Because embedding Balsamiq mockups isn't a feature shared with to the other SE sites, it doesn't seem to have made its way into the UX.SE descriptions of permissions granted at 10 rep. If possible, ...
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The "you don't have full edit privileges" message is very unnoticeable

Honestly, I hadn't even realized it was there. The only reason I noticed it was because I though "hey, I don't think I have edit privileges yet" and looked for it. It's just plain text up at the top, ...
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When does our SE ad update to reflect our full theme?

I don't know if this is intentional or not, but our SE "ad" (below) is still styled in the beta site "sketchy" theme, even though the site has it's full theme. Full released sites ...
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Unnecessary space between list items

Maybe this is by design, but I don't think there needs to be so much space between list items. Jin, would you consider removing the margin-bottom? .post-text ul li, .post-text ol li { margin-...
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UX StackExchange Bottom Notice poor link color contrast

It bugs me that the "bottom-notice" links on the UX pages have such poor contrast. The color contrast of #E8BF6C against a #FFFFFF background is 1.74:1. WCAG 2.0's luminosity contrast algorithm ...
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Social sharing buttons missing?

Am I missing something, or have the social buttons under the vote counter disappeared (network-wide)? I must say, I know that a lot of folks (especially on SO) found the visual noise obnoxious, but I ...
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Tag links in Meta have visited colors

Tags don't usually have visited colors (a:visited) on the SE network but on UX Meta they do (but not UX's main site). You can see this below; the visited specific-question tag has differently colored ...
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Migrated question still showing in unanswered list?

"Best Practices for labels and text in Android [#12947]" < This question was still appearing near the bottom of our Unanswered list*, despite the fact that it was migrated to Android Enthusiasts, ...
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It appears that the ability to include a UI wireframe on this site is broken

I started to ask a question on UX.stackexchange.com and I clicked to add a UI Wireframe and it doesn't seem to allow me to save. After setting up my wireframe which worked fine, I clicked "Save and ...
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Bugs with IE-specific gradient filters + rounded corners. Consider removing from UX.SE stylesheet

The UX.SE CSS for tags (.post-tag) and buttons(input[type="submit"], input[type="button"]) breaks in IE9+ and WP7+ browsers. The background gradient overflows the rounded corners. Like this (...
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UX Stack Exchange logo is extremely hard to see in the mobile version header

This is a similar issue to the one affecting the SE profile pages, but affects the mobile version of the website. This fails the WCAG contrast checking algorithm, which recommends that the contrast ...
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User info improperly styled on user profile

This is your user profile: This is your user profile on UX: Any questions? This started happening today/yesterday best I can tell, the profile page on UX has been fine for months but suddenly ...
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Text wraps unexpectedly in the mobile version

When a question title is very long, or there are many tags (enough to wrap over multiple lines), it becomes clear that the text wrapping is affected by the status block: This is caused by div.status ...
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Question score wraps unexpectedly when greater than 99 in related questions list

When a question has a score of over 99, it looks wrong in Safari v7.0.3 on OS X when presented in the related/linked questions list in the sidebar: . This issue can be relatively successfully solved ...
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Why does 'Per Page' look like a button on our StackExchange interface?

5 15 50 per page Looks like 4 buttons to me. I accidentally clicked 'per page' and nothing happened.
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Should links be underlined?

I know Google has shifted away from underlined links except on hover which is fine however when links are buried within a paragraph of text, it may be difficult to discern especially with Colour Blind ...
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UX icon in Stack Exchange All Sites is hard to read

Was looking for the UX bubble on Stack Exchange's All Sites page. Couldn't find the icon. Well, here's your problem: It's even more invisible in context.It's like UX StackExchange logo is hard to see ...
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"This site is not currently accepting any new posts" message when posting

I'm frustrated :-) I'm new on this website and I tried to construct a detailed answer to a subject, put it in the comment form and have "This site is not currently accepting any new posts." when I ...
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Update "sketchy" part of the FAQ

The question Why does this site look so “sketchy” should be removed from the FAQ now that ux.se has its own design.
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A mistake in the tour page under "Dont ask about"

I was reading the tour page for this website and stumbled across a minor mistake under the Don't ask about heading: In the third bullet point, you can see: Questions with too many possible ...
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The accept answer & favourite button are bugging my user experience

Edit: Bump As you may be able to see in the above image the accept answer button is too far to the right, the active accept answer button (the green one) is perfectly fine. The reason for this is ...
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Should this text say "click here"?

Should this link to activate: Be duplicated? Say click here, when I could be on mobile, and not clicking? Be a button instead, to imply interaction? This email mentions clicking the link three times....
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Bug: links on badges page in help center

Initially I thought this was just in the Participation badges section, but it looks like everywhere on the Badges page that has a link, the anchor html tag is visible.
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Sidebar all messed up

Under the couple browsers I happen to have, the sidebar with the Ad look severely horked up with text running into the ad and/or the chat thing. Happened after forced refreshes, and in any case in ...
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UI Bug when viewing my suggested edit

Because I'm mildly compulsive, I was looking at the review status of my recent edit. I expanded the information about the reviewers by clicking the (more) link and then clicked (less) to un-expand (...
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UX.SE logo is almost impossible to see in SE Data Explorer

This seems to have been addressed in different questions about the mobile version, profile pages, and chat, but the logo is white on white in the SE Data Explorer.
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All Privileges screen CSS bug

There seems to be a bug on the all privileges screen. Css float problem?
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Make font of user-typed text in the search boxes on the main and meta sites black

Currently, the text is very light gray which makes it hard to read. Think it should be black.
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Balsamiq Mockups Wireframes icon is missing

I tried to edit the mockup on an existing ux.stackexchange post, but when trying, only got a big empty white popup. For testing, I then started to create a new post, but the icon to lunch the mockup ...
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Unable to fix typos

I was reading a question today and noticed a small typo. I find typos annoying and unnecessary, and they are quick to fix. At least they should be. Cause I tried to. After having written a comment ...
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Apple developer (HIG) links not allowed?

The other day I suddenly get this error when I am linking a HIG link. Never had the problem earlier. Have there been some changes or something?
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Account is showing up twice in Network Profile

For some reason User Experience is showing up twice on my Network Profile, as if I had two accounts. This is significantly & detrimentally impacting my user experience. ;) I only signed up a ...
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Tag Typo? [style-gude]

There's a tag named style-gude. I'm fairly certain that's a typo of style-guide, which is also a tag that already exists. Interestingly, style-gude has a description while style-guide does not, ...
ArtOfWarfare's user avatar
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User Experience site unreadable

Firefox version 29.0 Ubuntu 14.04 : when I access the site I see this: Everything looks OK in Chrome. And since Firefox is my primary browser I would like to access the site from Firefox (because FF ...
Pavel Janicek's user avatar
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Profile answers list – large vote count CSS bug

There's a CSS rule for .answer-votes.large that is applied to answers whose vote total is somewhere above 34. That rule applies a padding-top and padding-bottom property that ruins the vertical ...
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Reopen an [on hold] question

The new feature of [on hold] instead of [close] is great, but maybe it's not fully implemented yet. As of now, we put questions on hold to encourage editing, but when the question should be nominated ...
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Review Late Answers are too late and sometimes on closed questions, why?

I keep getting "Late Answers" on my review tab on answers that are a year or older, and even on already closed questions. So I edit - and the closed question comes right back at the top again. That ...
Benny Skogberg's user avatar
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Why does hovering on some SE links in posts and comments not show a tooltip or at least a title?

I find that when I move my mouse over a link to a post within the SE network, a "reveal" of the link will show in the bottom left corner of Chrome. Sometimes it shows the actual Question / Title, and ...
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"Are you a Human" message misaligned

Look at our Captcha page Now look at Meta.stackoverflow.com: The widths of the Captcha/image container and the Are you a human being? message combined are just a bit wider than the containing box on ...
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Missing top padding on question pages

The top padding of the content area has vanished in Chrome 15, causing the text to be stuck up against the border separating it from the title.
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Reference to "User Interface" in off-topic close reason

Questions on User Interface are expected to generally relate to User Interface, within the scope defined in the faq. That needs to be changed to User Experience.
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Bug in the search engine — Why does the search engine fail to find the page?

There is a bug in your search engine. I was looking for the page ux.stackexchange.com/questions/33966/name-or-data-on-this-error-alert-phenomenon. With the words “name alert”, it was not found. ...
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Similar questions in sidebar overlay rest of page when scrolling [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: “Similar questions” scrolls down and covers other links I ran into this today when asking a question on UX.SE. What I was seeing was that the similar questions that appear in ...
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"Similar questions" scrolls down and covers other links

"Similar questions" should not move with the scrolling. I guess it is also true for other stackechange sites. I have asked a question. FF 11.0, win 7.
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Sharing options below question wrap to a new line since the addition of Google+

"Facebook" appears on a new line, which is a bit unattractive and takes up more space than it needs to. This could be fixed by rewriting the sentence: Know someone who can answer? Share this ...
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Inbox notification number-badge on top of "StackExchange" [closed]

It's also off-place here in meta. I'm on Chrome 10.0.648.205 and Mac OS X 10.6.7
Jari Keinänen's user avatar
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HTTPS broken for this StackExchange meta site

For every Stackexchange and Stackexchange meta site I have tested, HTTPS works as expected. The exception is this site. When attempting to access this site via HTTPS (https://ux.meta.stackexchange....
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