An accordion is a stacked list of item references (e.g. labels or thumbnails), where each item can be "expanded" or "stretched" to reveal more content associated with that item. Typically only one item can be expanded at a time, and expanding a second item causes the last opened item to be closed.
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accordions vs tabs
What is difference between accordions and tabs from the UX point of view?
This is repost from this thread on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5690589/difference-between-accordion-and-tabs
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Best way to make user complete each accordion of content
I have a page with a number of accordions on the page that are used to group certain items together and take up less screen space.
I want the user to know to have to go through each accordion to ...
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Which way should arrows point in a collapsible accordion? Left/down … down/up?
What is the best way to indicate that it's possible to open and close an element accordion-style?
Arrow pointing left/arrow pointing down
Arrow pointing down/arrow pointing up
Plus sign/minus sign
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Senior Usability and Navigation
Does anyone have any current resources for senior usability? I'm specifically researching navigation: tabs and accordions. The Jacob Nielsen site has a report that's over a decade old. I'm looking for ...
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Tabs or Accordion (collapsible / expandable) content sections [duplicate]
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accordions vs tabs
What would the most user friendly experience be to display a the content of a long web page? Display it as collapsible and expandable content ...
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When is it bad practice to use an accordion control?
I've been using Accordion controls in many design situations...
I find them useful for:
Progressive disclosure of long wizards (reduces number of pages)
Questionnaires where you want to be able to ...
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How to handle very long accordions?
I have condensed a rather long list of items into an accordion so that only the titles are initially visible and the accordion expands to show the details. The list contains the main content of the ...
