Keeping a consistent look and feel within an application. For questions about whether to break consistency and when or how to foster a sense of consistency.
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Is it okay to use breadcrumb navigation on some pages and not on others?
Breadcrumbs would be redundant for some of my pages and quite pointless, but effective on others which are a bit deeper.
Is it bad practice to only implement breadcrumbs on some of the pages?
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Skeuomorph or OS-consistency?
Skeuomorphic UIs should give the user something that looks like a familiar object, presumably making it easier for them to understand what it should do and how it should be used. Even if the UI isn't ...
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Can a button be 'secondary' on one page but 'primary' on another?
For example, an "Edit" button. In most pages, it is a secondary button ("Submit" may be the primary one). But there can be a case where in "Edit" is primary action for the page.
Is it good practice ...
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Having two different label alignments in one website / application
I've come to learn that label alignments have their purposes: top-aligned / right-aligned for faster completion (usually for forms asking common information) while left-aligned for slowing down ...
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Multiple similar tables with varying column widths
When multiple forms are displayed on a page that display the same type of data, grouped into categories, is it OK for the columns in each table to be varied or should fixed widths be used to enforce ...
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Replicated bars and menus consistency
So, using Google tonight I noted, in the results page, some links get duplicated among two bars, one anchored at the top, and a second one below the search box.
You can compare the initial page with ...
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Is it useful to have all the input controls in a form the same width? [duplicate]
All the input controls are the same size in this question about form design: Why might right aligned field labels be better?
My question is if does it help with something, or it is just a matter of ...
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Why is Facebook using two Form styles in their homepage?
I was under the impression that using two different styles for a form was not visually attracting and confusing for users.
Yet a big internet player seems to bee using a different style for their ...
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Should the order of add / edit / delete buttons be based on the frequency of their use?
In our application we have several places where users see a list of items and can add, edit or delete an item.
For some of these lists adding new items is probably the most frequent used ...
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Consistency in navigation
Is it going against best practice to have some items in the main navigation clickable and other items not clickable they just reveal a drop down? Should the pages that reveal a drop down have a ...
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Save session state on search option change or after getting the search results?
I have a widget that helps looking for posts in my site.
Here's a picture of the widget (site's not online yet)
I want to use html5 session storage to store the widget options among pages.
When a ...
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What should I do about my save button inconsistency across tabs?
The user profile in the app I'm building is across a few tabs, however, I've had a situation where I feel the expected save functionality will be inconsistent across tabs.
Most of my tabs look ...
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Font Size Consistency
How important is font size consistency between pages on a website.
I have a site with about 80 pages, but some have only a few sentences; Is it important to maintain font size on these pages vs ...
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Is breaking established web conventions in order to be consistent across multiple devices an unexpected (and therefore harmful) user experience?
As a good working example: The standard convention is for mega menus to appear on hover (see sites such as play.com and next.co.uk).
This fits with Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience which ...
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How to make a application with several different user controls feel more unified?
We have an application where we're combining several different user controls into one main window. About 3 of the controls are developed outside our group, so we really don't have much control over ...
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Name for a rule about re-using terminology
Does the rule "Don't use the same name/word to refer to two different things" have a name, and, if so, what is that name?
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Jumping progress bar or running process indicator?
I'm developing a process with a predefined number of steps to complete so while process is running I can know how far the process has gotten and how much is there still to be done.
My process ...
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Drop down consistency needed on navigation on site header?
I am building a website which has a horizontal navigation in the header. Only some of the top level menu items sub-pages, so there are only drop downs on a few of the navigation options. I didn't ...
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Best way to present toggles for sharing on other social networks?
I'm trying to come up with a way to display toggles for whether you want to share your status on Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr. This is intended for a web application.
I looked at a couple of other ...
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Should my menus drop down on hover + on click or just on click?
I have a web application that currently has menus that drop down 'on hover'. This is obviously an issue on tablets, etc. where there is no hover equivalent.
So, I need to add an 'on click' ...
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Adaptive UI vs. recognizable UI
I'm reading a thesis which discusses Task-focused user interfaces. They discuss an application which adapts/filters views based on relevant items determined by an interaction history. They prove their ...
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Which is more important, less mouse distance to travel or visual consistency?
I have an interface that I am currently working on that asks the user to make a choice of a single item. These items are divided into 3 separate categories and the client has insisted that each ...
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Is this element using the correct affordance?
what do you guys think about this page http://apple.stackexchange.com/:
The "active" button is highlighted in a way that looks like the iphone's drag button.
So the first thing that comes to my ...
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Consistent UI experience
Shouldn't a user interface be as consistent as possible?
I believe when a user uses an interface, he experiences certain behavior from the interface, and tries to couple those experiences to the rest ...
