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Is it ethical in UX StackExchange to use brand or company as reference example?

It's perfectly ethical to comment on the public design and / or behaviour of a company. If company XYZ has poor UX, then they should be called out on it, and it should hurt their reputation. In the ...
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Who is the core audience of UX Stack Exchange?

This is the right place for your question, yes. The Meta site is for questions about the site itself. As for your actual question; As taken from the site tour: UX Stack Exchange is a question and ...
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Is it time to put an end to "Icon for X" questions?

At the time of the above "reasoning", Flat design trends were barely even a thing, and mobile interface design consideration was nowhere near as influential or dominant as it is now. Icons weren't ...
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Is it better if titles are phrased as questions?

Unfortunately this is one of these "it depends" answers which is leading into a discussion instead of a real answer. But on Meta, we're OK with that. For starters, if you are in any tech industry and ...
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posting a ui ux feedback challenge here

I don't think so. Something like this would really belong in the chat rooms but you're not able to even access those until you get 20 rep. In the tour of this site they say that "UX Stack Exchange is ...
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Delete [accesibility] tag

On inspection it turned out that only one question had that misspelled tag. I therefor submitted an edit so the tag was no longer used on any question. Once the edit was reviewed and approved there ...
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Is there interest in sharing book reviews here?

That's not really what this site is for. Stack Exchange sites are Question and Answer sites - a question is posed that is based on an actual problem that that person has, and any responses to that ...
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Is it ethical in UX StackExchange to use brand or company as reference example?

Here are a few cases where moderators would need to remove a post using company branding: 1. Advertising or promoting a brand without any specific UX question What do you think of my new company ...
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Fewer people Voting (or Accepting)

I've gone and had a look back over the analytics for the past few years to see if there are any patterns, and while we can't share the specifics here what I can say is that there hasn't really been a ...
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Should the "focus" tag be disambiguated?

One possible change could be to change focus to input-focus. This seems to make some sense, since it had originally been keyboard-focus in the first place. Input-focus provides greater scope than ...
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Stack Exchange Comments vs. Answer Question

Both problems are seen on StackExchange sites: Some answers are written as comments. Some things that should be comments are written as answers. The benefit of commenting vs using the answers ...
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Validating the "upvoting decline" hypothesis

Here you go, here's a list of all the top UX.SE users by average answer score (it's a rough and very slow query cobbled together from others already in the data explorer, but hopefully it serves its ...
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Validating the "upvoting decline" hypothesis

Before reading my rather negative reaction to this suggestion, please bear in mind: So, in short, I suggest to conduct an UXSE user research But I think that your concrete suggestion of a user ...
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Should there be a description of what UX *is* on the help homepage?

The tour page currently states: UX Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for User Experience Designers, Information Architects, and Human Computer Interaction researchers. It's built and run ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results

Welcome to the team! About time we had some fresh blood around the place.
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Delete "Desi" tag

It's gone now, but it'll take some time to disappear. Like a windows timer job... Edited 19 hours later Now it's permanently deleted :-)
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What to do when there is no answers on Bounty question

By design the bounty is taken from your rep as you create the bounty, one can't get it back no matter the results. You can choose not to award the bounty or the site will automatically award the ...
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Should questions about the user experience of the site itself be on meta or the main site?

Questions about the UX of the site are primarily opinion based questions, in the same way that questions about the UX amazon.com are. Hence it would not be allowed on the main site. It would however ...
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What's the story behind the star theme?

Well you're in luck. A blog post about the design of UX Stack Exchange was published by the designer Dmitry Fadeyev when it went live. Here's what he had to say about the star: One of the more ...
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Usability 101 Type Questions

I sometimes go back and forth on whether or not I think these questions are useful for the site. However, I fear that covering off such basics could lead the site to be thought of as quite simplistic -...
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Should it be mandatory for people to explain upvote and downvotes on answers and comments?

Voting on SE is anonymous. That means that we can't force users to add comments while they vote. Up votes is pretty straight forward: a user found the answer useful. But down votes are different. That'...
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What is difference between a comment and an Answer?

From the Comments privilege page: What are comments? Comments are temporary "Post-It" notes left on a question or answer. They can be up-voted (but not down-voted) and flagged, but do not ...
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On what forum do I ask UX tool-based questions, if not here on UX.se?

The problem with these questions, which are really just polls, is outlined perfectly on the StackOverflow blog in this famous article: Real Questions have Answers In summary though, the take away from ...
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Is this a poor quality answer?

The answerer was trying to be helpful and suggest an alternative to your proposal, rather than commenting on the actual request. So in a sense it is poor quality, but it isn't the sort of answer that ...
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Why is this recent highly upvoted icon suggestion question not closed?

IMO, this question is not asking just for an icon. There are multiple ways to possibly indicate to a user that the cable is different than others (reading the answers, we find suggestions of all ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Participation in this communities Meta site is rather low. Do you feel this is a problem, and if so - how would you go about increasing participation and use of this aspect of the site? The same ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Participation in this communities Meta site is rather low. Do you feel this is a problem, and if so - how would you go about increasing participation and use of this aspect of the site? The same goes ...
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Why are there so many close voters on this sub SE page?

Having been on this community for a number of years and now in my second year as a moderator, this is my take on the question. Firstly, I think that this community does have a slightly more strict ...
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Have rules changed at ux.stackexchange?

I don't see the trend that you're referring to. Some questions are borderline, and in those cases I weigh up whether I think it's possible to answer well, and whether or not the answers would be ...
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