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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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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 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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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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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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Quick Booking UX/UI design [closed]
I am using Twitter Bootstrap UI for developing screens for my application.
I created the booking / appointment page.
This page will be used by hospital staffs. They want to quickly fill the data, ...
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Forms: Is it right to show empty fields in an info page?
In an application i am designing, there is a form, where the user completes the fields and some of them might remain empty (not filled by the user). Then we have the info page showing all these fields ...
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GUI Design advice on Add/Remove/Edit form
I am building a GUI that needs to allow the user to:
Add entries
Remove entries
Modify Existing entries
Each of these "entries" hold very simple information:
Outlet Number (Non editable, ...
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Good UX for a page
I am working on a UI design. I have good CSS/HTML knowledge. But not good in UX.
Attached image is the UI I created for one page.
I tried alter it nearly 10 ways, still my customer says it looks ...
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I have to track activity start and end time shall i track in mins and sec?
I have to create a form to track activity start and end time. Which format is more appropriate. While filing the form the time passes by and it gives a warning - "Start time should be greater than ...
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Can I reformat personal names obtained from a single form field?
I have been reading this excellent question and its answers, about collecting names from people in forms.
The best answer (the accepted one anyway) seems to be to follow the W3C's advice on ...
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Is it OK that url is changed after invalid submit of form?
Let's say I am at Create new user page and current url is /users/new.
When I submit this form with invalid data (e.g. mismatched passwords), user is redirected to /users.
Is it OK that user will see ...
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Best Method for Adding Ingredients
I have a recipe application that has a "Add Your Recipe" feature that's current implementation looks like this:
Some notes:
Upon clicking "Add Ingredient", a ingredient form is added. Same for ...
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Traditional file upload vs repository
I'm working on a b2b web application where users might want to upload files for several purposes: assigning images and/or documents with specifications to their products or businesses, attaching files ...
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Ternary Switch - How to implement?
My website gives users a report for their search term, this report contains many different datasets.
Each dataset can be configured via options on their profile page, to either;
Load when the ...
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Behavior of the Enter button in a form
What is a better experience for a user if they press enter when using a form?
Should it submit the form or move to the next field?
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How to present filters graphically?
I'm creating a UI which allows users to specify filters, such as Age > 18. Until now, this has been quite straightforward as all it required was a simple layout as shown below:
However, besides ...
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Should forms be aligned left or center, if less than full page width?
Our web application has a small header and nav menu at the very top, and below, there is simply a large area of open space. We have no need for an always-present sidebar, so there is just one column. ...
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Placeholders for format in address form
I am creating an address form and want to add placeholders to the fields to display the format of what the user needs to enter.
For email addresses, phone numbers and credit card details this is ...
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Tab order for previous/next buttons in a form
We have a multi-step form that has 2 buttons (Previous and Next) at the bottom of each page.
The Previous button is on the bottom left-hand side, and the Next on the bottom right-hand side.
What ...
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How to show unfilled fields on view mode?
How can i show to user an unfilled fields of a edit mode on a view mode page?
I have on the form, on edit mode, this type of fields.
Label: (input) (type of unit) (button with contextual help)
If ...
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Placement of delete button on form
I have a form which edits a flight, and it should be possible to delete them. I have considered putting a delete button in the index page, which lists all the flights, but the table rows are clickable ...
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Group of checkboxes and supporting text fields
What is the best way to layout a group of checkboxes and supporting form fields?
For instance, in this form the user can select several choices for a report delivery method. Some of the choices ...
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UI Layout improvement
I'm currently implementing a database querying tool, and am currently working on a section which would allow users to specify ORDER BY and Aggregate clauses. My biggest challenge has been to represent ...
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Why does the advanced twitter search options not using a radio button
https://twitter.com/search-advanced
has the following options
Any of the words
All of the words
Exact Phrase
But the user could make a mistake and enter values for all of them, why didn't they use ...
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Input mask on credit card number & SSN
Our company is discussing the use of an input mask (asterisk) on credit card numbers and social security numbers.
I'm completely against masking the CCN, from a UX perspective, especially since our ...
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Adding new data while filtering current data
I'm working on a table that includes employee data (Name, Age, Position). Above the table I have a live filter that can filter the data by Age Group and Position.
I'd also like the possibility of ...
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Form prompts inside form fields always wrong?
I've noticed in the edit-profile form on UX Stack Exchange a weird prompt with an important message - the date format.
Personally I would consider it terribly wrong (force to memorize data format, ...
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Encouraging the user to enter a value in an optional field?
This is a follow-up question from the previous question Case-study for hiding the optional fields?
I have taken all the responses from my previous question and I have come up with this mockup, ...
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Does it make sense to place 4 “Apply” buttons on a form?
I am design a "Setting" form for a Windows application (Winforms).
I'm doubting if I should place an "Apply" button 4 times on the same form.
On the first hand, each button refers to a separate ...
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Idea for improved usability for HTML form checkboxes and radio buttons [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should the cursor change to pointer over radio buttons, checkboxes, their labels and selects?
My problem is that the little checkbox and radio buttons for form controls ...
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Alternatives to failing a form to ask for additional input
I have a simple form that asks the user to enter details about an airplane he or she has flown:
The form asks for the model of the aircraft (172, 182), it's registration (N-261GY) and its home ...
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A complex form within constrained space
We have a modal in our app where people can search for products within various user flows (in this instance it's for connect products in your inventory to your Amazon listings, so you can keep orders ...
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To preselect or not preselect checkboxes
Lets say you want to customize and buy a new car online. You get to choose from a list of options for the interior. (Radio, Nav System, Leather or Cloth seats, powered windows, doors, locks, etc..)
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Name and Company - One field or Two?
I am laying out a form on a website with the typical name & address fields. While I've done this a number of times, I have began to try and trim fields from my forms that will be on smaller ...
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How to convey a true/false value to a user?
I'm developing an application where users will be allowed to create custom fields that are part of a record, in addition to the fields that are provided by default. Users will be able to choose names ...
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Form usability / best practice for field label positioning [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
On forms, is inline placeholder text better than a label outside each field?
Is putting text field instructions inside the text box rather than having a field label a ...
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Combobox-clutter… how to solve?
I'm involved in the fixing of an Online Dating Service.
They have a registration form (all fields required), and 11 fields out of 16 are comboboxes.
The fields are (in order, with comboboxes in ...
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Form with scores and question weights
I have been tasked of designing a form which has X amount of set questions the customer can pick in a back end software. Each question has a point against it (which can be defined) and to complete the ...
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Inventory management screen
Here IMAGE is the settings screen for my application.(desktop).
This screen is for categories and product management for a pos system for cafe/bar.
I am not a designer not a ux specialist. The gray ...
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Advantages of big forms (especially in ecommerce)
What are the advantages or disadvantages using big forms? (especially in ecommerce)
I notice sites like Stack Exchange are using big form input fields with big bold labels inside of them ...
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Good way to allow user to change city
I'm creating a site kind of similar to Yelp.com, so I was wondering what the best way to show users which city they are in:
The Yelp way: put two search boxes on the page, one for what your ...
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Should selections of 'other' always auto generate fields for the user to populate
As per conversations already on this site such as What's the best placement for an "Other" box I am guessing the answer to this might just be a quick 'Yes' but I figured I would ask!
I ...
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How can I make the purpose of a complex user interface element more obvious?
I am the author of SQL Fiddle, an online environment for testing and sharing database problems. The target audience for my site is for pretty technically-sophisticated users (database programmers, ...
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A method to display error validation in forms with severe space constraints
I am familiar with common form error validation techniques. However I would like to find a nice way to handle error messages in an interface with little room to spare.
I'd like to show:
Flag the ...
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What is the best way to ask for a specific amount?
Consider the following simple scenario: User has 2,352 cookies in his account. Now, he is prompted with a message, "How many cookies would you like to eat?" Given he can enter any number from 1 to ...
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Interface for linking multiple email addresses and addresses to an account
In a web application I am building, I need to allow users to link multiple email addresses and addresses to their account.
The requirements are:
Users can add and remove email addresses and ...
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dynamic form design
I have a multistep form setup in my rails app.. In one of my steps the user can enter a friends name, birthday, gender, and the persons interests.
They can enter as many friends as they like (each ...
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What technique(s) would you use to evaluate and [re]define fields in a lengthy and complex form?
We were commissioned the redesign of a web application for real estate agencies. During the first stage of our user research, which was a contextual inquiry, we found that the form fields (or data ...
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Search based on multiple fields - usability
We have a search scenario where the user should be able to do a search based on four inputs, three being 'optional' text inputs and the fourth one being a select box
We came with below three ...
