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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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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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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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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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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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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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Do “add” or “edit” functions need a confirm button?
I am designing a UI that includes a list of items that you can add to or edit. When you click on an item it turns into a text dialogue. When you click off or hit "enter" it saves the changes. Does ...
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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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Most intuitive multi-select component for the web
My target audience are users that are not familiar so much with computers so i try to simplify the UI elements in use as much as possible.
For instance I try to avoid drop down menus and use big ...
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Designing the sign-up process?
I am starting a website consisting of info on local shops, product catalogs, and coupons. now I am in a dilemma over the vendor sign-up process. I want to know which of the following ways should I do ...
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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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Should radio buttons be pre-selected?
I am working on a re-design for a eCommerce site and they have a section where they offer a free gift card if the user makes a purchase over $1000. The idea of the gift card is to get users to ...
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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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Cataloging item during creation vs. updating cataloging information
Lets say it is possible to add an item with come hierarchical cataloging information.
For my use case example the item is a fault report.
The end user is a mechanic who is not an expert with ...
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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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Is it useful to have all the input controls in a form the same width? [duplicate]
All the input controls are the same size in this question about form design: Why might right aligned field labels be better?
My question is if does it help with something, or it is just a matter of ...
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Two dependent inputs in a form
I have a form where the user would need to input a text field, and then enter pricing based on the first input. I've come up with an idea on how to do this, but not sure if its the best approach:
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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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What are pleasant ways to move the user through a technical support request, if they are not very tech savvy?
Say a user has a request for service on equipment.
The person that will handle this might likely be someone who is either not familiar with the technology or even how to use the equipment. For ...
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Normal select box vs autocomplete widget UX wise
Was wondering is anyone had experience dealing with autocomplete widget vs using a select box when you got 100-200-300 items in the select box.
I think the general consensus is that the autocomplete ...
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Best way to implement a chained category selection
Im in the process of making a website where user must select a category between +400 categories and/or subcategories.
The forms needs Parent category and x child categories. What is the best way of ...
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Easiest way to have a user select a letter grade?
I have a report card form that I'm creating for customers to rate performance in several areas. Our old format was using radio buttons, each labeled A-F with one N/A option. The current idea from ...
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Case-study for hiding the optional fields?
I am currently designing a web form for the Online Travel Insurance System and I am thinking of hiding the optional fields since there were so many of them. Like the image below.
I put a Show More ...
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Is it ok to force a user to reenter data instead of editing existing
Is it acceptable to force users to delete and recreate data they entered incorrectly or should they be provided with a way to edit every instance of that particular data?
Use Case:
The wireframe ...
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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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selecting 2 levels of information in one screen using search
I have to levels of information, for familiarity, let's name them hospitals and doctors.
The user first searches for hospitals and somehow selects a list of them, and then for each hospital she ...
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Adding text to textbox from a list
In our application there is a form to specify command line arguments to run an EXE with. We also want to provide some keywords that the user can use, now we put them in a listview. Currently, it ...
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Add new field to the form as user focuses on the field
I'd like to hear opinions and pros/cons for the following approach to handling HTML forms http://jsfiddle.net/FsY7y/6/ (this is a simple demo). As user focuses on a field, a new field is added in case ...
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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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Which is the best way to limit textarea or wysiwyg content? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Character limits on fields - pros and cons and best practices?
I have one section where user can enter only 140 characters.
What is the best approach from below options ...
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Taking input from user on the homepage
I have a side project and I have made a simple homepage with a form where I need:
user's email address
some keywords which they are interested in.
I am noticing a problem here, people confuse ...
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What's the best way to arrange a large number of filters?
I'm building a page that allows users to select "Accounts" in an enterprise software system (Salesforce.com). At first there were only three filters and positioning them all horizontally worked ...
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Checkbox vs. menu
I am building a calculator where the user must choose if has has a hybrid car or not.
I was wondering which is better a checkbox - where you check if you have one.
or a menu with yes/no ...
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Managing CRUD operations in a tree
I'm using a tree view in my web application to present the administrator a way of managing entities in the system.
So far I had to deal with simple entities that require only a name that is way i ...
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Drag and Drop vs Double Click behavior
I'm working on a web application for a client which is essentially an inventory management system for a shipping/warehousing entity.
One vital part of the system is the ability to add products to a ...
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Presenting conditional form elements in a complex scenario
I am currently building an interface for creating user accounts within a system. This interface is to be used by system administrators.
I am currently unsure as to what's the best way to present the ...
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Designing a “create” UI for a complex “object” in a system
I am currently working on designing an interface for creating accounts in a web application. Note that this interface is to be used by the administator to create accounts and will not be used for ...
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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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What is the best approach to labelling text input fields on smartphone application forms?
Platform: iOS. Must be able to run on all (probably most) iphone devices.
As part of a smartphone application design, I am currently designing an "event creation" form, originally implemented in a ...
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Discard Changes/Cancel behaviour in a web app
I have a web app that allows multi-tasking. If the user is on a page and has made changes, on navigating to a different page, the previous page is added to a list of tasks, which he can then revisit ...
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What is the best practice for “save” function on applications?
I'm helping to pull together UI/UX best practices document for my company, and we have discussion on the "save" function for applications and multi-page webs forms from which a user could leave and ...
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How do you order federated autocomplete groups?
By federated autocomplete (pattern name from this question), I mean one of this:
Background: I am working on an application where there are "types", for example people, documents, transactions, ...
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Pictorial checkbox selection
I'm working on a wizard of sorts that first takes in systems that a client is interested in.
As you can see, the selection is full of dead links, since we're not sure if we want to use icons or ...
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Should I combine pages that manage “settings” and “private user information”?
I am currently building a web application and am trying to come up with a way to manage private information and account settings.
Currently, they are in 2 different tabs:
download bmml source ...
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Should we try and avoid fail states at all cost or allow users to recover from fail states?
Today, I came across a site where the submit button to a login form was disabled unless you have filled in the username and password. Unfortunately, I could not reall the URL, but it looked like this:
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Interface for managing public and private profile fields
I realized that my previous question was somewhat confusing and a bit hard to answer. I have thought about the situation and decided to delete that question and ask this one (which is better set out).
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Where do you put the delete button if you have delete, cancel and submit?
I have a web app which currently uses the following interface.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
Here's what the actions do:
Delete will delete this group ...
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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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Autocomplete no results behaviour
First, a bit of background:
I am using autocomplete to provide suggestions (in my case a list of users) to provide tokenized input to a text field:
download bmml source – Wireframes ...
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Having lots of checkboxes and an extra action for each checkbox
I am using a similiar interface to Lisa Tweedie's awesome answer to my question on what to do if you have too many checkboxes.
I am going to be using an interface similiar to this for selecting ...
