Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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What can be done to improve the UX of stack exchange?
Does anyone have improvements they would suggest to the UX of this site or Stack Exchange sites in general? I would like to see some of the hierarchy of tags for example so that some tags are nested ...
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Can we get rid of old posts with no answers?
The community bot consistently brings up questions without any answers or activity, which becomes tiresome, renders the site irrelevant, and conceals new questions. Shouldn't we automatically close ...
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Maybe need a HTML5 mockup tool now [duplicate]
Flash is dead on Chrome, cannot create a mockup on site now.
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Process for dealing with bounties that don't have an answer associated with it
One of the reasons for starting bounties is to get the community to provide answers (to questions that don't have enough attention or can be answered if given some incentive), but at times even after ...
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Proposal for the convention or structure for one type of question on UXSE and feedback
Just wondering if this is a convention or feature of interest to develop in UXSE.
I have come across a recent question where the OP adopted a convention/method of structuring a question that seems to ...
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Updating UXSE badges to be more accessible
I noticed that this question has been asked quite some time ago, and should be considered a feature request: What can we do to make UX Stack Exchange badges accessible?
There were some good options ...
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Are there any plans to create a UX Designer survey like the StackOverflow Developer survey?
I have been looking at the StackOverflow Developer survey results for years and hoping that something like that is in the pipeworks for UXSE as well. With such a large community and active users, it ...
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Propose "close as off-topic" option that suggests to post a question on a different Stack Exchange website
After reading this question I was wondering if it isn't a better idea to make a suggestion to the poster to post the question on a different Stack Exchange site instead of vote for migration. ...
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Is there a case for time-weighted reputation score?
Given the large number of very new or relatively inactive users that seem to be in many of the forums, it is sometimes very hard to get a true indication of the influence that someone has on UXSE over ...
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Annoying 'Body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 24.' for image answers
I propose we reduce or get rid of the 30 character requirement because some answers that are primarily images require little to no text. example
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Enable Stack Snippets on UX
Stack Snippets are an awesome tool for demonstrating HTML/CSS/JS problems and solutions, and are easier than outsourcing to JS Fiddle. They're widely used on Stack Overflow. However, this site does ...
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Request SE admins to allow YouTube embedding
I've just realized that we don't support YouTube embedding. As a site that has a lot to do with interaction, I think we can benefit a lot from allowing video embedding. Especially since the web ...
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How to encourage users to accept an answer to a question?
There is an answer to a previous question that forms a possible answer to this question, but I want to come back to the root cause of the problem of users not choosing or accepting an answer to ...
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Would providing a review type question be a useful add to UX SE
A few years ago (about 10 in fact) I joined a page called Concept feedback which allowed users to post their webpages/app pages and get the visual design reviewed. It was actually a really very good ...
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Should comments have reputation?
I understand that currently comments do not provide reputation.
That is covered in this question: Do comments have reputations or not?
My question is: Should they?
I have found many comments made ...
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This site belongs to.... fix request
When we mark posts as off topic, one of the reasons is this site belongs to... and the only possibility is Meta. However, we all know that 99 out of 100 times it won’t be Meta. Most likely it will be ...
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Changes to old questions’ approach?
With thousandsand thousands of questions and answers, UX.SE became a huge site with lots of useful content. However, due to the nature of our discipline, many answers are really outdated, when not ...
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Feature Request: Add on perks apart from badges?
Should there be more attractive perks apart from badges?
Awarding something like "Cups" for the best answer of the week or month.
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Visualization Plug-ins
As far an UI and UX are concerned, most posts in ux.stackexchange will require users to draw an image or diagram to support their answer. I do not know how practical this suggestion will be, also I ...
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Resizing attached images [duplicate]
I can understand the trouble with this as SE refers to images as external links and shows a preview here.
But how about having some standard sizes (S,M,L) especially for portrait mode screenshots? ...
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Placement of the "Post your answer" field
I know the immediate answer to this question would be, "... because the user should go through the posted answers to see if anything new needs to be added"
But, here's my point. UX (and most computer ...
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Confusing position for the buttons
Is it a reason to have the same style for the buttons on a page? Also, it is the best position of the buttons in the section where you can add comments and answers?
Maybe is just me, but I always ...
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Is having view all option in pagination good in terms of User experience?
I have a table which consists of huge data. Users can export these data's to excel. In order to export these data's a user must click on all options and export more than 10 times if currently showing ...
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Synonomize [google-materials-design] and [material-design]
google-materials-design and material-design are basically the same thing. They currently are not synonyms. Should they be merged, synonomized, or the less-active one deleted?
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Is it possible to ban or flag an user rather than his posts?
There's some guy who is a paid writer. He does write very articulated answers, sometimes a bit off topic, but nice nevertheless. However, he uses those answers to spam certain site. He had a first ...
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Is there a UX SE research portal like the one in Stack Overflow?
Do we have anything like the research portal on Stack Overflow for UXSE where they do annual surveys and release the results? I would love to see this done because it helps all of us to understand the ...
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Earning points for suggested edits: Is it broken or does the Help page require editing?
I've been meaning to ask this for a while as I haven't come across an explanation anywhere. According to this help page, when a suggested edit is accepted the user making the edit earns 2 reputation ...
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Whatever happened to adding a 'shopping request' close reason?
Came here to ask why there's no close reason to deal with tool and service requests.
Found it'd already been asked.
Do we need to add an additional close reason for Shopping Request questions?
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Is there a mechanism for dealing with or discouraging malicious down voting?
I've just seen a page where it would appear that someone has down voted every answer in one go.
Firstly: is this possible or is what I have just seen merely the coincidental occurrence of several ...
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Earning the 'Comment Everywhere' privilege
I've read up on the 'Comment Everywhere' privilege and understand how the privilege itself works and that you require 50 reputation points to earn it.
What I don't understand is why?
I've only been ...
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Equivalent of 'bug bounties' for information security in UX: 'dark pattern bounties'?
I asked a question regarding preventing RSI for mobile phone applications and the fact that game designers (many of them no doubt also UX designers) not doing anything to alleviate the amount of ...
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Have rules changed at ux.stackexchange?
I'm wondering if something has changed and I'm not aware of. Not necessarily rules, but maybe mods have instructions by owners to make the site more friendlier an attract more visitors or whatever. ...
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Slightly different answers
Am I'm the only one who noticed that some questions get multiple answers, however, some of the answers are the same, a subset of or have a slightly different nuance than another, older answer.
I was ...
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Should badge classes be described by shape as well as colour?
I've just been visiting math.stackexchange.com where they use a range of shapes to signify badge class as well as colour.
This makes the differences much easier to see and is generally more ...
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Make the UX.SE question interface suck less
The UX StackExchange question interface has a number of problems which results in poorly asked and poorly researched questions:
The following types of questions are asked far too often, resulting in ...
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Can We Provide Help and Direction for Questions that are "Too Broad"?
It seems that a reoccurring theme on ux stack exchange (and other stack exchange sites) are occasional questions that ask for examples of specific practices or requests for some of the best tools for ...
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Should it be mandatory for people to explain upvote and downvotes on answers and comments?
I guess people tend to have different ways of communicating with each other, and I would like to think that as a professional kind of community that we can offer each other the respect and courtesy to ...
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Tag synonym suggestion: internationalisation <- internationalization
tag internationalization
tag internationalisation
I don't have high enough reputation in these tags to propose the synonym, but this seems like a no-brainer for anyone who can get it proposed/...
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Should bumped questions be accentuated?
I recently noticed a lot of old unanswered questions getting bumped to the top of the question stack, usually by some new answers.
Often however, these questions are too old, might not even be ...
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Why isn't there a UX.SE Careers page?
UI/UX Designer and Developer positions are becoming more and more popular and companies are trying to recruit people left and right. I think it would be great to make a page similar to the Stack ...
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Since we can't migrate off-topic questions older than 60 days, what should we do with them?
The reason I have come to asking this question is due to the plethora of questions that are of the effect of "this word" vs "that word".
Are these types of questions always on-topic for UX.SE ?
Are ...
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Incentivise Profile Completion with Reputation Points?
I find the number of incomplete profiles on the site to be a weakness. When considering an answer from, or a reply to another user, the profile can provide important information that enables a more ...
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Is it possible to see basic usage data for this site?
Specifically about the geographic locations users visit from and perhaps peak times.
I'd be really interested to see the most active countries and times.
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Indication of deleted comments
In the comment section of quesions or answers when a previous comment is deleted there should be an indication of the deleted comment where the comment used to be. Now it's hard to follow an exchange ...
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Possible to modify OP's Balsamiq Mockup directly within a response?
If a question has a Balsamiq Mockup within it, rather than having to download the bmml source then edit then re-upload, wouldn't it be better to be able to modify the original poster's Balsamiq Mockup ...
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Feature Request: Request for a more up-to-date answer
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I came across a question today that I had been pondering for a while, and after reading and thinking about the answers I noticed it had been asked and answered 3-4 years ago. UX, ...
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Confusing Pagination Buttons
Isn't this a bit confusing?
I mean button "next" look like label and it's button while "Per page" looks like button and it's label. What do you think?
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Open Balsamiq in new tab
When using the Balsamiq tool for sketching an answer, we often need to look at the question to see more details and to get the mockup right. Since Balsamiq opens in the same tab as the question, it ...
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Should tag/edit summary text boxes be immediately under body text box?
The text box for tags (when posting a question) and for the edit summary (when editing a post) seem like they should be immediately below the text box for the body of the post rather than after the ...
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Why is UX Stack Exchange so unfriendly to dyslexic users?
This site is designed for UX professionals to discuss UX issues but there's a huge one with the site!
The text is quite hard to read, especially the bold text which seems to warp the letters (this ...
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