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Normal select box vs autocomplete widget UX wise

Was wondering is anyone had experience dealing with autocomplete widget vs using a select box when you got 100-200-300 items in the select box. I think the general consensus is that the autocomplete ...
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Automatically limiting or correcting numeric input field values

The application interface I am working on has an slider to select a number, but offers a text input field next to it. This allows reading the currently selected value, but also supports keyboard ...
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How do you order federated autocomplete groups?

By federated autocomplete (pattern name from this question), I mean one of this: Background: I am working on an application where there are "types", for example people, documents, transactions, ...
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Autocomplete no results behaviour

First, a bit of background: I am using autocomplete to provide suggestions (in my case a list of users) to provide tokenized input to a text field: download bmml source – Wireframes ...
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How to force a user to choose from suggestions by typing

In auto-complete input fields, the suggestions are usually optional, but the user can type whatever he wants. I want to force the user to choose from the suggested list. The best option I can think ...
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Is it ok to change the (US) address input field order in favor of a pre-fill feature?

I am working on an international site that requires the user to enter his postal address. I am wondering if it makes sense to have a slightly different order of input fields in favor of a time saving ...
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Good web-form dropdown alternative for unfamiliar fields?

In general, I try to limit use of dropdowns to lists of no more than ~15 or so options. For larger lists with options the user is familiar with, I tend to favor autocomplete text inputs. However, ...
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Form auto completion and button placement

I have a form which represents a book, the user enters the title, authors, publication year, etc... We have a feature which will auto-complete the entire book if the user enters enough info for us to ...
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How to tell the user that an input box is autocomplete-enabled?

Is there a good graphical sign which tells the user that a particular field on the page is autocomplete enabled? For instance, the field name says "Document author". When you start typing in that ...