Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
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Best way to offer a large amount of selectable options (without using Javascript)?
I come from stackoverflow and have no answers for this one, so I turn to the UI guys for assistance.
Let's say I have a library application that allows a user (librarian) to add a book to the ...
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When displaying statistics to a user, is it better to bold the data or the label?
The following picture shows some statistics. Here they bold the data, not the label.
Which is better? Does it depend on the information being shown?
What if you have a header on a report with some ...
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1answer
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Tufte's data density, readability and comparison
I'm intrigued by Tufte's data density. While I love his definition of data / ink ratio which can be easily measured, I have hard time measuring data density.
He defines data density in a graphic as a ...
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Greater Than > or Plus +
I want to convey a requirement that has a minimum but no maximum to my users.
For instance 8.
Which is more understandable?
Participants: >8
or
Participants: 8+
?
From layouts point of view >8 is ...
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How to present weighted values
I have a formula which is used to calculate certain scores. The formula has some parameters (shown in the image below) including a Weight parameter that is changed dynamically (the rest of the inputs ...
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Which is more motivating to continue a process until completion: a percentage, or the number of steps?
I'm working on a set of guides to help users learn how to use our app. We want to show which guides are available and some data with each guide indicating how far you've gotten. The idea is that if we ...
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What is the best way to graphically display item's position in a ranking?
My app has a table containing a list of financial securities. One of the columns is the security's position in a list of all available securities ranked by performance.
For example: security XYZ is ...
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Best way to display large amounts of user data on a single page?
I've been searching around for some related posts, but I haven't really found anything that has been a lot of help. I've found a few posts that might help generate some ideas.
Here is what I'm ...
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How to handle conflicting updates of a customer record
We are developing a simple web based single-page CRM-like app. I was thinking about what happens when two operators are both editing the details of a customer "John Doe". On the server side we use a ...
8
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1answer
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How to handle out-of-range data in a realtime plot?
Background
I am working on real-time data acquisition and visualization software for a scientific measurement device. The software gathers data from the device, and plots the data in real time. Data ...
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What is the best way to create an eye-catching display of numeric values in a web page?
I am going to design a management level monitoring page for displaying some sums and counts. No interaction is allowed and it will be used as a monitoring page on a big LCD in the managers view. The ...
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How to best display a table of data with sub items?
We have a web application where we show lots of data in "datasheets". As part of this, some data values can have other values associated with them. To make it more complicated, every item can have ...
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Interesting visualizations for a personnel in-out control
I have a database with the data of all the company personnel in and out through several facilities (All people must put their fingerprint in the scanner to open doors)
I'm looking for interesting way ...
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1answer
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Should filtering of data have an effect on the filter criteria as well?
My quesion is about filtering of data in a Windows desktop application.
I have a large amount of data coming from a database (> 900.000 records). The records are shown in a classic listcontrol (rows ...
7
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2answers
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List of checkboxes or multi-value select box
Currently in our application we have multiple lists of checkboxes. These lists comprise of random attributes related to a company. Each company will only perform a couple of these attributes and it is ...
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Best empty string
What is best way to represent empty value inside table of rows with some optional columns?
'', empty, N/A, -, -------- (number of allowed chars), any other advice?
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how to explain logarithmic scale to a non-techie user
In the product we sell, we show comparisons between websites on a number of metrics. Some of those metrics are best displayed with linear graphs, some are best displayed with logarithmic graphs.
...
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3answers
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Examples of nice looking html tables [closed]
All tables on my app look like sh*t, it's making me lose hair, I've been trying to make them look better but I end up making them look worse, do you have any examples of nice looking tables? ...
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Best way to represent null and empty data in an excel file
We have an application that allows users to design their own forms and export the data to excel. One problem is the representation of null or empty data. There are two scenarios that we need to ...
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How Many Tabs are Too Many?
The mockup below, has a screenshot of a software I stumbled upon last week. It grabbed my attention that it presented information in the following way. It had Many Interface Level tabs, inside those, ...
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2answers
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Data listed horizontally or vertically?
I am currently building a data entry application and a lot of our data is contained in Div's on a page. Right now all of our data is listed horizontally because I feel that it is more readable and is ...
6
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Data display for hierarchical data
I have various collections of entities that can be associated at various levels, varying in depth as well.
Would the best approach be to use a treeview? If I cannot use a treeview could I create the ...
6
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2answers
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Mobile App: Data Update Notification
I have a mobile app that displays simple data for a large set of items. The entire database is downloaded to the device (<5MB) on first run but requires updates in between source code updates.
...
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Ratio of search vs. browse on consumer web sites
Where can one find referenceable stats or industry research which highlights the percentage of users who search vs. browse on consumer web sites. Are there any known studies in this area?
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How long to keep information for expired accounts?
When an account expires for whatever reason (e.g. expired card, trial ends) how long should we hold on to the users data before deleting it?
I am referring to all data except what identifies them as ...
5
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4answers
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Design pattern for merging duplicate contacts?
Have you seen any good examples of applications (web or desktop) that make it easy for a user to identify and merge duplicate contacts or other records? We need our users to manually approve the merge ...
5
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How to display a connected boxes with inputs and outputs in a smartphone?
Imagine the concept of a black box, that can have inputs and outputs.
A box can connect with other boxes.
We have something like this:
Now imagine a smartphone. "Ok, this guy is crazy." You ...
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large amount of data on a single page
I'm a member of a team developing a business application. Basically - it is all about data entry. There are people (thousands of them) sitting whole day and filling the form below over and over in ...
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No output vs slightly wrong output
I'm developing an app that automatically captions photos. It uses GPS among other things to create a human readable text.
There are cases where a photo has some data missing, (i.e GPS coordinates). I ...
4
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2answers
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User interface for a “mapping” table
I have the following problem. I need to provide an interface for users inserting/editing "mappings" in a database.
A mapping is a record as such:
[Field A, Field B, Field C] --maps to--> [Field X, ...
4
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3answers
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Feedback wanted - pagination design on data-heavy site
My site is a sports pick'em social game. Given the nature of sports and pick'em, it tends to be a data-intensive site. I'm very wary of any new features or designs that might cause the user to be ...
4
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1answer
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Best formatting (aligment) for of a list of facts
In an application (though what follows applies equal well to a report) there will be a panel which shows a list of various statistics or facts, of this general form: "Category: data". So, for ...
4
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2answers
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Design for data-intensive web-page and search criteria
I am very much a UX noob, but I need to design a web-page to display a large amount of numeric data, presumably in a grid. The users will be able to enter search criteria using the attributes shown ...
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UX for a system that converts between units of weight and volume
I'm trying to design a system that aggregates transaction amounts recorded in units of both weight and volume.
Obviously, showing the total weight in kilograms of things you have individually weighed ...
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How to better display metadata about a card?
A Card has the following metadata:
Information: Status (ready or not), Stage (one of nine)
Actions: Edit, View Statistics, Edit, Delete, Archive
I need to display both sides of the card on this ...
4
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1answer
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Is it better to have a modal or an inline entry for a table?
I have a styled table containing first and last names in each column and nothing else. As part of the usage of my app, people will be entering names.
Should I:
Have the "add" button launch a ...
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How to present a view with large number of inputs
I'm developing a dashboard for hotel managament system application.
There's a view that allows the user to set prices for room types in different currencies. Sadly, I can't provide any screenshots as ...
4
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1answer
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Examples of Master/Detail UI for “Social-Style” data [closed]
I'm looking for examples of interfaces that allow users to explore complex, interconnected systems on a variety of levels, from high-level patterns to low-level details.
In the mapping world, this ...
3
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3answers
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Best practice for database user form(s) to search and edit?
I am implementing a web interface to a database (inventory of items, each item with about 7 parameters).
I wish to have a simple an efficient way for users to search the database, and update it. ...
3
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2answers
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Best practice for displaying no of records on datagrid
I am designing a banking application where i have a record count of over 1000 rows. I wanted to understand the ideal design patterns for pagination and displaying rows on a data grid.
I am ...
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2answers
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Showing a large amont of data on the iPhone
I have a large amount of data being drawn from a database to show on the iPhone screen. There will be around 100 fields for each record (100 records) Some will be links, Small images and some general ...
3
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2answers
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Better ways to display/interact with tabular data
Let's say for an example you display a list of category records or any type of records for that matter in a web page. Is there better ways of showing that list of records other than in a table? Or are ...
3
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2answers
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Does requiring manual entry with verification, as opposed to selection from a list of options, reduce data entry errors?
My apologies if this question is best suited for another SE site; I looked around and this seemed to be the best fit.
The answer to the question will hopefully be a link or cite research.
I am being ...
3
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1answer
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Hover for More Info on a data grid
Should a data grid be able to use a hover for more information pattern? This type of pattern is commonly used in interfaces that have more of a thumbmail view of items, for instance on Netflix when ...
3
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1answer
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Parent Record Data Lists Always Visible or Only When Needed?
I am rebuilding the interface for my band's web site. Currently, I have all main-level navigation in one, horizontal list. However, the navigation leads to some pages that have a defined hierarchy.
...
2
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2answers
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What are the fundamental Metrics in a data-driven design?
I'm keen to determine the an absolute list of fundamental metrics to gather for Data Driven design.
I realise this can be a somewhat broad subject given the differing types of sites and web apps out ...
2
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2answers
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Force Directed graph for visualizing hierarchical forms Bad Idea?
Currently we got lots of forms which we realize using Tree-view. Person clicks the tree node and a forms we designed for that opens in page aside the tree-view(Using the tree-view because there is ...
2
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1answer
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Charts or Tables
I have been working on a dashboard where a chart and a table are requested. However, both would contain the same data.
For instance, it is required that a country map is shown, with the values of ...
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Web Usability: pagination and column sort
I have a table of books with this data: name, description, cost, year. I show 15 rows and pagination using AJAX. Each header of each column is clickable and let the user sort the data. The problem ...
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Updating users data from a different system and presenting this to them
We will be linking our user database to a CRM system. As part of the project if a match is found our web database record will be linked to the CRM record and the data syncd.
If a match is found and ...
