showing some, but not all, of a set of items.
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3answers
682 views
Differentiation between filter and sort on a single page
We are building a contest site in which we are displaying a number of videos with a filter by state and filter by store option and a sort by vote (low to high) and date uploaded (past to recent).
...
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4answers
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How can I allow multiple and explicit filters
There are N categories, each displays its own stuff when enabled.
The user initially sees stuff from all categories (they are all enabled).
Category actions:
Disable a category. This shows stuff ...
3
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3answers
517 views
How to display a faceted-search menu where categories could contain just 1 or over 100 choices?
I've been tasked with the following.
Review organization of search facets at left.
we have an issue where certain facets have >10 options and can have N options
define/design a new UI/UX to handle ...
3
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3answers
83 views
How should I refer to these two groups of filters?
On a search results page, there are a bunch of filters that are in two separate levels.
Let's say the first level choices are Wiki, Files, People, Projects, Books, and Everything. The second level ...
3
votes
2answers
132 views
Segment control with NULL selection
In our Android application we have a list view of items. The items can be members of two different groups, Group 1 and Group 2, but can also be without group. To filter the list to show the items in a ...
3
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3answers
758 views
Multi-select filter other than check boxes?
I have 5 segments to choose from when browsing galleries.
I want users to be able to browse more than one segment at a time.
The obvious choice is to have a filter under the nav with 5 check boxes.
...
3
votes
1answer
70 views
Printing Job Queue Grid display
I'm building a Printing Job Queue Grid Layout which contains 9 columns( Name, Status, Owner, Duration, Material 1, Material 2, Material 3, Material 4, print mode... (relevant for the current printing ...
3
votes
2answers
699 views
Search filtering UI in a mobile app?
I'm making a mobile app for searching an extremely large dataset (trademarks) that have each been tagged in one or more of 45 categories. (E.g., "Budweiser" might be tagged in both clothing ...
3
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1answer
136 views
How to combine Faceted Search with 'browsing' action?
I don't have a UX background, so forgive me if I am missing something. I am working on a small demo, to explore browsing a list of items (movies) combined with faceted search.
I was wondering what ...
3
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4answers
216 views
Naming words that are grouped
We have multiple lists of words that have been grouped by our users. They use the groupings later to filter. We're having a hard time titling the Filter and the action of Grouping.
"Group" cannot be ...
3
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1answer
123 views
Should department filter be located to the left or the right of the search text input in e-commerce sites?
I'm working on a new shopping site and i see a possible minor improvement.
We have a typical search form on top left, with dropdown for categories and input field.
I think maybe it's better if we ...
3
votes
4answers
72 views
Syntax conventions for search terms: wildcard, literal, options, etc
I have an application that presents a list of items and multiple filtering criteria.
Some of the filtering criteria take a string value for the filter, and the application currently supports basic ...
3
votes
1answer
107 views
How to search/filter long lists that incl. tree structure and flat structure?
I am currently working on a piece of software in which a user needs to select a group in order to display a information about that group.
Details as follows:
The user must select only 1 group at a ...
3
votes
1answer
242 views
How should “OR” filters be implemented in a filter bar?
Background
Our web application has a filter bar at the top of the page, with a data grid beneath it with (potentially) thousands of results. This is a simplification, but the filter bar looks ...
3
votes
1answer
244 views
What controls to fix this Filter?
https://www.scic.com/schedule
I'm looking to replace the filters on the right side of the page and need to know some of the possiblities.
For the date selector, I'm looking at using: ...
2
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5answers
690 views
How to accomodate a large set of filter controls horizontally on a page?
Since the left column is occupied by the left navigation, this leaves only the middle area for placing filter controls. But there is a need to provide for more filtering options in future. In such a ...
2
votes
3answers
303 views
Show only supported files or all files in open file dialogue?
I'm creating a mobile app which has a kind of open file browser or dialogue if you will.
Should i use a filter so only files supported by the application (.txt, .pdf, .epub) are visible or should i ...
2
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3answers
3k views
Android Alphabetical Lists
Suppose I have a list of many items. Each item is one line of text that the user could select. On average the list will contain around 750 items (although can go as high as 1,000)
Instead of ...
2
votes
4answers
510 views
How to combine Suggestions with Filtering in a searchbox?
I got a textfield/combobox for typing a search string (or selecting a recent searchstring). The search results are presented in a list below the box.
I also got a textfield for filtering the list.
...
2
votes
2answers
101 views
How fluent should filters be?
I have a few types of filters for a table and they should be concatenated.
So in the end I should get something like this:
URL contains google.com and Visits > 1000 and Date is before 30.12.2011
...
2
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2answers
121 views
Adding paging, sorting and filtering toolbars to a table
I have a bunch of report views, which essentially are tables. They should enable the user with sorting, paging and filtering capabilities.
My idea is to add those features via menu-bars.
Paging ...
2
votes
2answers
127 views
Multi Lingual Filtering
I am working on a multilingual content streaming website. By multilingual I mean we have multilingual content. The whole website is however in English.
And we have multiple categories (TV, Movies, ...
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votes
2answers
503 views
Intuitive AND/OR condition for query builder
Use case: User wants to find employees from a list based on some criteria. To simplify things let's say it is spoken language attribute only.
Case 1: user wants to find person speaking multilingual - ...
2
votes
2answers
549 views
Best UX for filtering
I have a text files which looks like this:
1 0.9 0.2 0.9
1 0.5 0.2 0.5
1 0.1 0.2 0.5
1 0.5 0.2 0.5
1 0.2 0.2 0.0
1 0.5 0.9 0.5
1 0.1 0.2 0.9
1 0.5 0.4 0.5
2 0.3 0.6 1.0
2 0.8 0.6 1.0
Where first ...
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votes
6answers
429 views
How do I tell the user a filter is active
I have a button in my interface that when clicked show a listbox so the user can apply a filter by those items she has selected. It looks like this:
My question is: How do I tell the user there is ...
2
votes
1answer
272 views
Design of tag based filtering using interesting and ignored tags
Take the general case of entries classified based on tags - a QA forum such as SO, a traditional forum that's to be designed without categories, a list of articles
or blog entries, or other entity ...
2
votes
5answers
364 views
What is the best design for buttons filtering a list?
My web app shows a list of tasks. I can filter them (for instance by done/todo, etc.) along 3 or 4 criteria. What kind of UI is the best to control the criteria ?
All criteria are "closed", i.e. ...
2
votes
1answer
160 views
Filtering stats: What are some good patterns to follow for filtering a time/date range?
Im looking for some good patterns of how to filter date/time in a graph. It doesnt need to be specific dates, more like day, week, month.
2
votes
1answer
97 views
Do multiple attribute navigations meet information seekers needs
I have been given a proposal that we are considering for the navigation of a content heavy health based site, it has been suggested:
one filter for disease type (type 1 diabetes, MS, prostate ...
2
votes
3answers
92 views
Faceted search - auto vs manual update of results
Question about faceted search.
What should happen when user clicks on some filter ? should it update results immediately or is it better to click on some button ?
Examples:
Lets say about Amazon.
I ...
2
votes
1answer
158 views
methods for list filters
I have a list of products in an android app, and I want to find a way to let user filter the results and narrow them. But, my filter has at least 3 or 4 entries including a TextView and some DropDown ...
2
votes
2answers
54 views
Should Time-Limited Posts Disappear or Archive?
In balancing the simplicity of only showing time-relevant posts vs. the completeness of showing all posts, which do you think is closest to user expectations?
Some background … on our websites, ...
2
votes
1answer
165 views
Alternative to a popup table
I need some advice please.
I currently have a screen and the plan is to completely redesign it. But first, to tell what is does.
It is a screen for managing orders, much lick a standard order form, ...
2
votes
1answer
164 views
Better way to show the calendars
I'm working on a single report page for a web app. I need to show how to filter the displayed data it be per day (diary) or between two dates (weekly).
When the user select diary (Diario), it shows a ...
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vote
1answer
158 views
What's a typeable symbol to indicate “starts with” in a filter field?
I am building a custom data grid control. The users do a lot of sorting and filtering. I want them to be able to do this with only the keyboard. Currently they can filter columns by typing in the ...
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vote
3answers
117 views
How to design linked filters? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best practices for no search results
I always get angry when I refine my search applying filters in any website and I get the 'no results' page. Why do they show me an ...
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1answer
307 views
How should I design a “filter” screen where you can filter on many fields
I have a webpage that has a filter screen where you can select filters on one or many fields and these filters are applied on other pages when it grabs data from my DB. Some of the fields have ...
1
vote
7answers
136 views
Possible functions for a column in a grid, list or table
I'm working on a portfolio management system at an investment company, which will include a list of stocks held and their attributes such as name, issuer, market price, value etc. These will be listed ...
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4answers
284 views
How to make it obvious when filtering by time
I have a simple app which is quite specific to my work, but generally speaking it allows users to query data for a certain 'ticket' by setting a few parameters using combo boxes/text fields, and then ...
1
vote
2answers
62 views
Filters search - right column or horizontal menu? Or something else?
I am designing a filter/faceted search for an automotive website.
Products are few but fitlers are many... I need to keep em, but I'd like to find out a smart solution in order to avoid a long right ...
1
vote
2answers
70 views
Search Select View Pattern Question
We're making a monitoring application and in it we have a pattern where, in a single screen, we have search, select and view functions. The basic principle of the pattern is we filter on something, ...
1
vote
2answers
133 views
Adding a filter on a tab nav bar
I have a list of posts that are sortable by type/category. The default is 'all'. Other types are 'messages', 'files', etc. When a user clicks on the tab, these posts are refreshed via ajax to their ...
1
vote
2answers
82 views
Suitable control to specify a filter parameter with a main category and its subcategories
I'm designing a list view to show workflows. The worklflows can be divided into two main categories, workflows that are ongoing and workflows that will not have any more processes.
These categories ...
1
vote
2answers
164 views
Time Filter (selector) UI?
What is the best UI for time filter? imagine if you wanted to see a list of sessions available between 11-12 pm on a certain day, what tool could be most helpful to you? A time Slider? a pick list ...
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vote
2answers
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Filesystem Treeview must haves [closed]
I'm currently working on a web-based project which will be showing a treeview of folders and files.
My question is, what must have UI features should I pack?
And specifically, how should I lay out a ...
0
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2answers
91 views
What should be the default view of a large collection of data (that can be filtered) on a web page?
I have a web page that shows projects (but it could be anything) in an html table (one row per project). There is a filter button at the top that allows users to can filter by a number of different ...
0
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1answer
116 views
How to allow filtering Films in my app intuitively? (GUI design)
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I wrote an app that shows all the movies in one's computer with the appropriate info such as genre, director, rating, etc.
I am wondering how ...
0
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1answer
310 views
Date-and-time control for time-series filter
Users of our (non-mobile i.e. mouse UI) web-app do a lot of queries on various lists of time-series values. Part of each query is "from" and "to" timestamps, limiting the range of values for a query ...
0
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3answers
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To what extent is it sensible to use filter and sort options together?
Working on e commerce shopping site I am observing that user sort first and then refine their result. Giving both option confusing the user ?
0
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1answer
66 views
At what option count should I add a search filter to a drop down element?
I have a booking tool that offers a list of services to choose from. The option list is variable per client. Some clients offer one service, some have twenty or more. One client requested a search ...
