Forms are generally used to retrieve user input such as text, selected radio button, selected checkboxes and actions like pushing a button
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Button vs Form based attachment uploading
I am designing an an internal company application where uploads must be added to the user. I originally started with a simple form, but noticed that the number of clicks could be cut down for the ...
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How is the HTML5 date input type presented on different Mobile browsers?
I am building a form for Mobile Web that requires users to enter in their DOB.
I'm interested in how it is presented across different mobile OSes and browsers as I understand support is patchy.
Is ...
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On Mobile Web, what's the best way to present Date of Birth form fields?
I am building a form for Mobile Web that requires users to enter in their DOB.
What is the best way to present the date input field(s)?
Some of the following options were identified in this question ...
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Many to many form with hundreds of items
I'm trying to think of a suitable design for an interface to handle entry and management of many to many relationships.
In this particular scenario the elements are users on one side and servers on ...
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Mobile site: contribute functionality yes or no?
I'm currently busy with a mobile version of a website, but I wonder if I should allow the user to add reviews / upload photo's ed. First of all, they have to log-in and then they have to fill in a ...
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How to handle users typing without input focus
An issue I repeatedly observe with novice web users is that they will occasionally begin typing without first properly selecting (focusing) an input field. A typical pattern I see is this: the user ...
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Should login button on a website be disabled if user hasn't entered values?
I see this behaviour in some desktop applications, where the login button is disabled until the user enters text. I don't recall ever seeing it on a website. It must be used somewhere, but it isn't ...
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Best practice for sorting and being able to “check all” in a table with checkboxes
I have a table as part of a form for which users can click the header row to sort by that column (and click again to reverse order). The table also contains checkboxes, and clicking the checkbox in ...
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Tooltip for a User-Set URL
I'm dealing with a situation where we have a place for a user-entered URL/hostname after entering and re-entering their password. I've attached an image of what we're considering below. What I'm ...
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Field focused tooltip vs. clickable information icon
I'm building a public website and I need to display helpful information to guide the user when filling in forms. The forms may contain text inputs, dropdown lists, sliders... The site will be mobile ...
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Should I use javascript cookies in lieu of autofill where autofill is unreliable?
Autofill is a good option for users who don't have an account. But it seems that how browsers determine how they'll implement autofill information varies. I'm not surprised of course. In Chrome, it's ...
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What text to include on “Next” buttons?
I have several forms spanning a few pages. What should I ideally put on the "Next" buttons after one page form has been filled-out?
For instance, my page 1 form is "Describe Book" and the next page ...
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Best way to prompt user for additional demographic info?
Trying to better profile our donors for marketing purposes. Short pop up survey? Append to registration? Email? But most people disregard such emails as spam, and adding an additional field to ...
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When filling out a form to what extent should validation be done while the user is still typing?
I'm working on a registration form and it validates some parts while the user is still typing. For example, the username is being checked after each character is entered to see if it is available or ...
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Expiration (expiry) date - drop-down or typed? [duplicate]
I've done some research and noticed that a large number of successful eCommerce sites use a drop-down box for the 'expiration date' and other sites use a small text-box that allows for 2 or 4 ...
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What's the advantage of disabling paste functionality for password input field? [duplicate]
Some web forms don't let the user paste text into password input fields.
For example I just noticed this on Apple's iTunes Connect website:
https://itunesconnect.apple.com/
I don't see any ...
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“Expiry date” or “Expiration date” label
What is the best form label to use for the credit card expiry date (during a checkout process on an eCommerce website)?
I've done some research and noticed that some sites use 'Expiration date' and ...
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Multiple email address field in a simple form
This is a survey site, and after completing the survey the user has the option to send a copy of the report to themselves. There is a small container on the page, with a text field and a submit ...
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Should a user be logged in after resetting their password?
Lets assume following flow:
I want to log in
I don't remember password
I click on the "forgot my password" link (email is dispatched)
I check my inbox and click on the link
I type in password and ...
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UX perspective on asking the user for their 'industry'
When users go through my signup/checkout process, one of the questions I ask them is 'what industry are you in'?
The reason we ask for 'industry' is to collect some marketing statistics (which I'm ...
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Should input be accepted after confimation (or other actions)
I often find myself in the following workflow:
Enter user name
Enter password
Click "OK" (or enter key)
Wait for response
Discover the checkbox next to OK-button
Think: "Bugger! It would be nice to ...
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select from predefined list if exist ,else insert a new item to the list?
What's the best experience to do the following:
The user will insert a new subject(text) only if it isn't in the existing list. So, it will be added to the existing list for all users.
I have ...
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Why do most Create Account forms clear the password fields upon wrong validation? [duplicate]
In most Create Account forms that I've used, when you enter in something wrong (username not long enough, passwords don't match, invalid email, etc.), it'll keep all the fields but erase the password ...
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Is it better to use tabs instead of a dropdown menu in a contact form?
Is it better to use tabs instead of a dropdown menu in a contact form?
Examples:
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Should I clear out placeholder text onfocus or ontype? [duplicate]
Should placeholder text in fields only be used when there is no label for the field?
Is it better to remove the placeholder text in a field on focus or when the user starts typing? Facebook ...
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Not defined variables display
We have a pretty large CMS for fleets and sometimes people leave some optional input fields blank. Displaying that information on the screen doesn't help anyone, and from my point of view it looks ...
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Describing how to copy an email message to clipboard, visit site, and paste it into textarea?
A customer buys a product from an online store and receives an order confirmation email. My company receives commission for having referred that customer.
We want to pay a bonus to the shopper (i.e. ...
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Multi-Column Form Design: Is There a Consensus? [closed]
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I've read a lot of articles/research on this topic, but some practitioners insist that multi-column forms can be used effectively. To aide in the discussion, here is a list of research we can ...
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Should the selection of a Radio button control the display of two different forms?
I am working on a reporting form for an electronic healthcare record application used by physicians to generate reports on usage. There are two different report types.
Only one type of report can be ...
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What are some ways to visually communicate hierarchy between two different select elements?
The use case having two input elements, in which second select input depends on the first one; so when first one is updated, options on the second changes.
Conceptually; both of these elements are ...
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Managing users, roles and permissions [closed]
I'm designing an administrative interface to manage permissions. As of right now I have something along the lines of this:
The next step is to create the form for how roles are tied to specific ...
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How can I improve this simple form?
I have a simple form with 2 text fields and a searh button.
I.e. something like this:
I don't like the checkbox as it is. How could I improve this better?
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Best scenarios to use ajax [closed]
I'm building a website application where users post contents using a form similar to blog-entry forms, this form allows uploading of files, has a wysiwyg editor, etc.
Now since it will be posting a ...
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How can we visually improve the nested rule/predicate builder?
This has been discussed a bit here: Building logical criteria (with AND , OR, etc) - but we felt the examples left a lot to be desired.
Apple (with their hidden nested rules/predicate builder) in ...
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Managing User roles as admin
I'm working on a UI where there are multiple roles, with two (Finance and Legal) that are constrained to only support one user.
I'm using a fairly standard matrix, with checkboxes that become ...
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How to make file download progress more obvious
We have forms on our site that we're using for lead generation. When submitted, the user is directed to the requested piece of content and the file begins downloading right away.
We track user ...
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iOS and UITableViewCell: best practices when requesting user input as a form
Firstly, I'd like to make a general question regarding table view cells' customization: are there any restrictions about the controls they can cointain, and/or its number? I read in iOS HIG iOS Human ...
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Long select dropdowns
I'm working on a responsive landing page where users arrive after clicking on online ad. On the form, users need to select a location (105 possible) at which they would like their service. ...
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Success and error message placement and colors
I'm working on a responsive landing page users arrive on after clicking on an online display ad for the spa chain I work for.
Currently I validate the fields on blur. If the input is valid on blur, ...
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Form Design: Mutually Exclusive Tabs vs. One Form
I am working on a form design that currently has two mutually exclusive forms accessible via tabs (Option 1). During usability testing my team noticed that users missed the tabs and only noticed them ...
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How to unobtrusively confirm a user's choice in a survey?
I'm running a survey on students to collect their feedback of the courses of study they've undertaken in a college.
They have to answer the same question for every course they study. There are some ...
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Asking for multiple postal addresses
I need to design an intuitive form to get one or more (current and previous) postal addresses.
I have created a quick mockup of the current idea
When a user clicks 'add another address' the idea ...
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How to provide translations alongside untranslated iframe?
I have a site that is translated into 4 languages.
We accept credit card information via an iframe (because we don't want to deal with PCI compliance, so we're letting a 3rd party receive and store ...
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Is Successful Validation useful for step forms
We've been designing a registration form with 5 steps.
The form has many input fields, some required and some not.
The validation is client side and is represented with red text for errors.
I was ...
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Is constantly updating the formatting of a numeric input box a good idea?
I have a numeric input box, as part of a form. I'm implementing delimited splitting, to make large numbers easier to read. ie, 1000000 would become 1,000,000.
Would it be a good idea to automatically ...
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Time Scheduler UI
Working on a doctor availability schedule page. In this page I need to setup the available time for each day in a week for a doctor.
This is one time activity. Samething is repeated for every week. I ...
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When soliciting donations on a website, should you start by providing a box for the donation amount?
A coworker forwarded me some feedback she had come across during an annual giving network discussion regarding website design for online giving websites:
I'm jealous of this ...
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Which form service allows for the most seamless integration into a sites UX? [closed]
A site that I work on needs an application form, and for varying reasons the decision has been made to use a third party service, similar to WuFoo or JotForm.
The most important criteria is:
The ...
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What's a good alternative to cascading checkboxes?
We have a web interface for running a report. The report can be pretty complex. There are various topics that can be included in the report, and each topic has sub-topics.
Right now, the interface ...
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iOS multi-step form and user input validation
I need to design a form that may consist of 3 or 4 steps, all of them requesting both mandatory and optional data. The overall form contains a lot of data inputs, so I thought it would be better to ...
