Reusable solutions for commonly occurring problems in user interface and user experience design.
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Where can I find info about rudimentary navigation / architecture paradigms?
I need something that refers to classic approaches to structure content and the reason to choose them over others.
For example:
Tabs - use tabs when the different sections co exist and can be ...
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How to map dependent attributes into a table?
Is there a pattern, which allows mapping the following datastructure to table columns?
The clue is, that there are 2 attributes, which depend on each other, one should be entered, when the other was ...
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Patterns and models for representing Many-to-many relationships in interface design
I seem to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to design User Interfaces for many-to-many database relationships.
There are lots of resources available to assist with the data-modelling ...
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Designing a Report list page
I was asked to design a user friendly Report list page, where 100s of reports will be listed.Format of those reports are "word","Matrix","Tabular","Distribution Metrics" etc. What would be the most ...
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What's the best web design pattern for a list of people?
I have a list of people. Totally around 200.
I need to display the people's name, pictures and some other information in one page. Users could sort those people by name, country and other attributes.
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Design paradigm for order process where customer has no existing record
I'm creating an intranet app (MVC and razor) for a jewellery business. One of the forms is for creating a custom piece of jewellery, sometimes these are made for display purposes and have no initial ...
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Look and Feel Consistency for existing app with new features
I have an existing app, which is almost two year old and I am planning to build new UI screens using bootstrap framework. I start to realize that new UI screens are NOT having the same look and feel. ...
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Tooltips to shorten your content
At my job there is no UX expert, which can be frustrating since most of the daily discussions I have with colleagues is about user experience / interaction.
Right now there is a discussion regarding ...
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What's the best design pattern for splitting things in parts?
I want to design the following interaction: user buys 1 ton of sugar and 100 apples, and wants it to be shipped to him in 3 different packs:
Pack 1: 200 kg of sugar and 50 apples
Pack 2: 100 kg of ...
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Adopting sidebars in iOS apps
It looks like several known apps for iOS (Foursquare, Spotify) now adopt the sidebar that already was present in Facebook app (screenshot is from Spotify for iPhone):
AFAIK, this is not a standard ...
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Should Desktop UI Patterns include Keyboard Shortcuts?
Not much to describe here. But I think that it'd be a good idea to have UI-Pattern documents to suggest relevant keyboard shortcuts. However, I haven't seen it anywhere and I'm wondering whether this ...
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Rarely used translation function placement
I have just been looking at the analytics of one of the websites I work on, and one of the features is required - but rarely used. There is a Microsoft Translate button, with their "Powered by ...
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Best way to present an already filled form
We have a longish form to fill. After first step, we know that some a particular user is already registered. The rest of the form is already filled in, but we still need her to validate the data. ...
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What's the best way to show efficacy/difficulty of a certain solution in guidelines?
Background: I'm in the process of writing guidelines for use within the company. These guidelines list all sorts of possible solutions to a given problem, and each of them are rated according either ...
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What UI design pattern for choice between 2 actions comes to your mind?
My goal: find optimal UX/UI pattern.
Pattern's goal: give a user choice between two actions.
Simple example:
http://dribbble.com/shots/599154-Choose-Your-Option
Here is UX/UI pattern I implemented ...
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Navigation design pattern for showing current state
I'm looking for a high-level navigation design pattern that will also show the current navigational state. (Ex: Dashboard, invoices, settings, etc...) I am currently planning on using an accordion ...
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Formation of groups in a webpage
I have to make a webpage to associate users (around 30) together into groups. I have thought about a vertical list of users with radio-buttons (number of users) in the line. Example:
groups 1 2 ...
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Linking to external sites on a portfolio website
I'm doing some work on a portfolio site for a freelance writer. Their published work can be seen on various other sites/blogs and I'm thinking about the best way to link to these works.
A straight ...
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Where to find design patterns for product management web apps?
I'm creating a IA-prototype for a product-management web app.
I don't know the field (product-management) that well and I'm looking for samples.
The requirements for this Web-app are:
web-based
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Providing multiple paths/flows for the same Action
We are developing a complex platform with heavy functionality, and I am having a dilemma, concerning whether or not to add a button for the same functionality one-step earlier in the User Flow.
As ...
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Master details form in Android
I have an activity that is used a lot, that requires a lot of input fields and it can be updated when the user wants, although it won't be very common.
In this moment, I have something like this:
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What is the best way to represent audio visually?
I've only taken some basic signal analysis courses, so I might be missing some things.
Purely theoretical question:
What methods exist for representing audio?
What methods could be made for ...
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What is the standard convention for ordering On/Off buttons?
I am working on a Windows application that has a set of On/Off radio buttons, specifically "Low Power" and "Normal".
I have arranged them so that the Low Power button comes first, and the Normal ...
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Is it good or bad to follow iPhone native look and feel in design of mobile Websites?
Is it good or bad to follow iPhone native look and feel in design of mobile Websites?
I'm making Mobile website for Smartphones (iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry, Windows 7 Mobile) but the UI ...
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What to do about “occasional” recommendation in a decision support application
I am designing a clinical application which displays a list of potential actions for clinicians to take ranked by their appropriateness to the clinical scenario (i.e., it looks like Google). ...
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Tap to hover and double-tap to click?
One of the limitations in mobile design is the lack of any sort of hover state. This is especially problematic when it comes to tooltips.
So why isn't the system one where: single tap = hover and ...
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Action buttons for mobile — ok to go full width?
Is it acceptable to use full width mobile action buttons, say in the footer, like in the 1st example? It's nice and simple but I'm afraid users might mistake it for a regular footer. The 2nd example ...
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Is there a design pattern for an informational pane?
What I'm picturing is a side panel that updates with region-specific information as I mouse over portions of the form. Is there a name for this pattern?
It's like a Two-panel Selector, but not ...
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Are there fixed names for patterns being used by Facebook, Android Market(famous apps)
Is there a fixed name for pattern like Facebook's current sliding dashboard style pattern,
or the swiping tabs in Android Market
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What approaches to online commenting best promote high-value discussions and content?
Anyone who's read a news article online... ever... can see that old-style commenting ( ie: Enter your name, email address, and website (optional) ) is broken. StackOverflow's reputation model, and ...
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UX for encouraging naming of an auto-saved item
I’m working on a web application where users can generate results after answers questions in a workflow. Over time, they will use this workflow to generate additional, different results. Our goals ...
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How to display large data over a full screen image slider?
On my website www.goo.gl/uompd I have a full screen image slider which works just fine (the images are from screenshots of other websites I have done). On the slider I want to put 4 text boxes, a ...
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CMS Pattern Book
I am working on redesigning a CMS and I am looking for some more possible patterns. Does anyone know some good books or websites where they discuss CMS UI Patterns?
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What is a good globalization pattern for user-entered content?
I'm trying to come up with a pattern that will support globalization for user-entered data. For each language, the Admin User can enter a Name, Description, and possibly other fields for their own ...
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How to represent asynchronous states?
I am working on an interface where there is a list of things (tests) that can be running, drafts or running and pending tests.
In the latter options the same object represents two states (A - the ...
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name for top-of-page informational messages?
Many apps show informational messages to users in a pane at the top or bottom of the sceen. Often these are shown sliding down after an important operation completes like saving data or sending ...
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How to list items with variants in an iOS Table View?
I'm looking for an elegant way to show a list of items in a Table View, where most (not all) items will have 2 variants.
If I lay the items out as is (with A and B represented by icons):
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What do you call a control that changes the relative sizes of two sections?
I want to implement a control to change the relative size of two sections within a single entity. This would use an east-west resize cursor, and as the user dragged it would make one block smaller ...
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Comments Design Patterns or Best Practices?
Are there any resources online that discuss best practices for comments/threaded discussion systems?
I'm wondering if there has been any consensus on issues like comment edit windows, deleting ...
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Multiple edit table UI
I am wondering if you have seen a table design on web where multiple items could be edited at the same time. For example if I have a column with title group name and the first row is having value ...
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Status Bars and their Nature [closed]
I want to know more about status bars, what are they useful for and what is the appropriate way to use them.
I've noticed the following:
Status Bars are always located at the bottom with the most ...
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Is there a design pattern for pull-down to <action> gestures?
Wondering if there is a design pattern for the RealMac Clear app on iOS that enables uses to create a list item by pull down?
I have seen pull down to refresh on Android and WP7 issue, btw: ...
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What are the best practices for designing quote request forms in the insurance industry? [closed]
Can any of you suggest studies, usability test results and patterns for best insurance quote forms? How is this different from ecommerce checkouts or does much of the research around this also apply?
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Separating actions on items from general actions in a toolbar
Rearranging an existing toolbar of ours, I would like to separate between types of action buttons.
General actions that applies to the system, e.g. Settings,
List actions that applies to the entire ...
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Do you know some interesting patterns galleries for tablets? [closed]
I need to find some good examples of patterns for tablets. I know already a list of mobile patterns websites that I find really usefull but now I need something specifically oriented to tablet design. ...
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Long form sales page techniques and / or examples? [closed]
I've worked with a number of UX experts over the last several months and while I have resisted going down the "long form" path, they have circled me back around to this time after time without fail. ...
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Seeking info about the theory of patterns and pattern language [closed]
My PhD studies are about patterns and educational learning software. I want to write about what I personally call the «theory of patterns», from «what is a pattern» to «why did I choose this type of ...
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Patterns in thinking driving UX design? [closed]
Ok, this question will be tricky.
We were having a discussion among some colleagues, and I came up with the hypothesis that most of the current-accepted UX design patterns are mostly based on our ...
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Trying to decide which page should be my home page [closed]
I'm not a UI person and would love to get your recommendation -
which page should be my homepage?
myvoternation.com
or
http://myvoternation.com/mvn/questions
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Android/iOS: Homescreen [closed]
I have noticed more and more mobile apps are removing their home screen, especially iOS apps. What do you think of this?
Personally I think sometimes an app's home screen is redundant, just a pretty ...
