Questions tagged [user-experience]
Use this for questions about the interaction design, behavior, and organization of the site, in terms of user experience.
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Vote reminder banner violates accessibility standards
The close text on Stack Overflow's vote reminder banner fails every color contrast accessibility standard and is illegible. See failures: Contrast Checker
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Sharable Multiple Color Highlights anywhere on a Page, saved in Bookmarks with Personal Post-it Style Notes saved to Profile
If we had the ability to highlight items on someone else's question page so that when we log back in, we see all of our bookmarked pages with our highlighted areas in the colors we chose, and possibly ...
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The prevalence of inline "enter image description here" links indicates a UX problem
"enter image description here" is such a common sight, I think it's obvious there's a UX problem here.
Some thoughts:
Should SO block submission if the string exists?
Why are these links to ...
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Staging Ground review allows choosing both "upvote when posted on main site" and "vote as off-topic" at the same time
Please refer to the below screenshot:
While reviewing a question in Staging Ground, the user interface allows the reviewer to 'upvote when posted on main site' even though the reviewer is voting as ...
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Stroboscopic Jobs page
Visiting https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/gft and attempting to scroll creates some fireworks on my Chrome on MacOS Sonoma (browser in incognito mode, no extensions).
I seem to be unable to ...
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Please improve the UX for ignoring tags
Since the "ignore" choice on tag pop-ups is no longer available, the only way I can find to ignore tags is:
navigate to the questions page (if not already there)
select "edit" ...
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Private nicknames to help with user31415926536
I tend to get all these user(number) accounts mixed up all the time. The generated gravatars don't help (much) and sometimes people change theirs.
What if I could specify that I want user12345678 ...
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How do I keep people from editing my posts?
This is quite straightforward, but I cannot seem to find anyone else asking this: How do I keep people from making edits to the body of my posts?
While I somewhat see what Stack Overflow is going for ...
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Staging Ground editor loses cursor (on mobile?)
Multiple times in the recent past, I have tried to edit Staging Ground posts, but had to give up because the editor basically lost my text cursor.
Sometimes, I am able to continue in the blind, and ...
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Edit dialog: "Save without review" is unclear, add a standard "save edits" button
A staging ground question has an outstanding major issue, but it also has a minor formatting issue that I can fix. I click edit, fix the formatting, and try to click the submit button, which is not in ...
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We need Staging Ground reviewer onboarding before showing it in the question list
Questions shown in the staging ground appear in the top questions and similar pages. I don't necessarily disagree with that as it could be a good way to fix the scaling issue in principle.
However, I ...
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Staging Ground comment UX causes users to forget to leave a review
I've seen several instances where reviewers have left a comment with feedback but forgot to leave a review. For example, in this question two users left a comment but forgot to submit a review. I ...
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How to get rid of the Google Login Popover
Each time I want to log into Stack Overflow, I have to get past the "Log in with your Goggle Account" (or whatever the English wording is):
But I never want that.
There cannot be a cookie ...
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Remove the listener on clicking the preview or make it focus in the same position
When composing or editing a post, if you click the preview, the text area becomes focused.
Here are two main problems:
I scrolled the preview to the end, accidentally clicked it and... ARGH! The page ...
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Bright, red, aggressive color ads in Stack Overflow
This is related to the question Make the 'Check out these companies' sidebar have less aggressive colors in dark mode
Stack Overflow seems to have been recently inundated by advertisements ...
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