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UX.SE Facebook group
I love this site. I used to be heavily addicted to it and apparently reached the point of overexposure, so that my current activity level is much too low for my own liking, but I still think that this ...
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Are we asking too many 'what' and not enough 'why' or 'how' questions?
This might just be a gut feeling because of the frequency and timing of when I view the questions on UXSE, but for some reason I keep seeing questions about 'what is the best way to ' which I guess is ...
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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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Is there interest in sharing book reviews here?
I recently bought two books on UX with similar titles and have been considering blogging my review of them on my own blog and/or LinkedIn.
It occurs to me this site might be a better place for it.
Is ...
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Usability 101 Type Questions
Many questions boil down to some fundamental usability concepts which are commonly defined around the web, but not necessarily here. For example, "What is affordance?"
Simple enough, but Google isn't ...
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Can the 'standard' set of bullets for SE sites be added to the help/on-topic page of this site?
I recently asked a question, and wasn't completely sure whether it was on-topic.
The reason for this is because the on-topic page for this site doesn't have those bullet points at the top saying what ...
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Tags: agile <- agile-development
I think agile and agile-development should be synonyms, but before I propose one, I thought I'd check:
agile has 9 questions, whereas agile-development has 24.
The tag pages are here: agile and ...
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Is language design on topic here?
I would have expected this question to have been long closed and gone by now (9 hours and even on the HNQ list)... am I wrong to assume that this is badly offtopic?
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Make the experience tag intrinsic
I was retagging "signup-signon" questions, so paying more attention to tags than usual. And so I noticed the tag experience.
I don't see a use for it other than indicate that the question is about ...
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Tags about registration and login
Today, I manually removed the misspelled tag registraton from two separate questions. While this was an easy thing with only two questions having the tag, either making the misspelling a synonym or ...
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How is the user experience of the new profile page being measured?
I don't mind the new look and feel of the new user profile page, and there were a lot of discussions about how it should be designed plus the rationale behind design decisions.
I wonder how then, ...
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Why does my reputation keep going down?
My reputation drops 1 or 2 points for, what appears to be, no reason and I don't get any notifications or warning as to why it drops.
For example, my reputation went from 1,077 yesterday to 1,075 ...
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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, ...
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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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Review close reason
This question (not mine) was voted closed today based on a duplicate :
Should "Deletion successful" confirmation be red, or green?
this question I think is quite different from the ...
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Are these quasi-UX 'why is this thing the way it is' questions appropriate for the site?
(QUICK NOTE/UPDATE: As Rumi pointed out below, that these questions happen to be about 'real world' objects is a red herring. That's not the issue at all. The issue is that they simply aren't UX ...
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Precheck: What are the drawbacks of Material Design?
I'd like to ask this question in a community wiki format, because:
Material design is a major current UX philosophy/framework.
It is not that easy to find articles/blogs containing the drawbacks.
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Appropriateness of "Designing a (blank)"
The following question popped up at the top of my mobile StackExchange app the other day: Designing a Coffee Machine
Without catching where it was posted before clicking on it, my thought was "what ...
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Primarily opinion based questions?
So, in general terms I am not sure when something is primarily opinion based here on UX.SE as UX is not an exact science, so every question is at some level opinion based. The skill lies in ...
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Can we (un)learn from SO culture?
One of the huge positives I've seen at UX is the attitude of helpfulness in the community here. I'd like to think it's because professional empathy and exploring problems is part of the DNA of the UX ...
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Is a question too broad if its title is?
People closed my question as too broad titled How are “focus groups” done? but in the question I go on to ask 2 very simple, specific questions about focus groups:
Who are these people, how are they ...
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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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Updates to the site
My name is Kurtis and I'm a designer with Stack Exchange. You may have noticed some updates to the design of your site. The updates are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework. ...
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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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Are security questions also UX questions?
I've been thinking. If someone asks about security (not implementation), is that considered a UX question? Because good security could potentially be good UX.
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Discussion of *real-life* systems design/usability
Are questions about the design and usability of systems/processes/interfaces which are not computer-related appropriate and on-topic for the UX StackExchange?
Does there exist an online community, ...
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"Merge" Design Thinking site on Area 51 to UX.SE?
There's currently a site on Area 51 devoted to Design Thinking. (Disclosure: I initiated this site.) It's not growing, but there is some interest in Design Thinking—and a lot of related and potential ...
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Where do we draw the line on what is UX?
This has been bugging me for a while, but I'm not sure where the line should be drawn. A question recently got me thinking about this. While I'm not suggesting that this is a good question, I do ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
User Experience—Stack Exchange's 2nd moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank ...
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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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Reviewing new posts
I wonder if I understand how to review new posts. Several items that I "skipped" because I wasn't sure have been cleared. Is that the way it's supposed to work? My interpretation of the label was that ...
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Why not have 100 moderators?
Anyone who has put in the effort to reach 10,000 reputation in the community should be a moderator as long as the following is true:
They want to and are willing to invest the time
They are positive ...
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Either missing "edit mockup" link or confusing text
I wanted to edit my question, to do a minor update to a mockup that I included. There's a hint in the question's markdown that I should use the "edit" link below the mockup image to preserve ...
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How different would the results be if moderator elections simply asked who wants to be a mod and picked top reputation?
Tone is really hard to convey when posting text online so please know that I'm not trying to whine or complain or anything.
How many members of this community (or any stack exchange for that matter) ...
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Why doesn't UX.SE have much drawing on the header?
I notice that the header of this site (you can see it for yourself) only has plain blue. Why doesn't it contain some drawing?
Some other headers of other Stack Exchange sites:
Disclaimer: I have ...
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What are the characteristics of unanswered questions?
There are actually quite a lot of unanswered questions on UX StackExchange, and I was wondering whether trying to get a feel of why the questions are not answered can provide a way to improve the site ...
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During a moderator election, do primary phase votes continue over to election phase or do they reset?
I was curious if the votes stay with candidates from the primary phase or if they get reset during the election phase, the final phase, and everyone starts fresh?
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Is it OK to ask input on implementation of a question?
This question touches on this one, but I'd like to ask a follow-up question.
A question I asked earlier got some helpful answers, and (parts of) it where actually used. I have some specific usabily ...
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Talkative and Outspoken Badges
On our main site, UX.SE, to get the Talkative and Outspoken badges, Badges just points to http://chat.stackexchange.com/.
Does that mean you can earn the badges by posting to any chat room on the ...
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Moderator time commitment?
I'm considering nominating myself to be a moderator, but I want to understand the commitment better before I apply.
Jon, Ben, and Rahul, what is the time commitment required to moderate this site?
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Is there a difference between [user] and [users]?
The user and users are seems to be the same thing. Even their tag info is kinda identical. Shouldn't they merged and one be a synonym for the other?
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How does one edit the title of a question?
I tried changing the title of this question: "How does iPhone icons are of same grid across all model" but was unable to. Is this a matter of accrued points or is there a conscious decision to ...
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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 this site limited only to Web applications?
We can see User Experience in our daily routine of life in many products. but I am seeing the questions here are only related to Web applications. Is this site limited only to Web applications?
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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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