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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Autosave settings
We are developing an web app. Users can log-in and change their settings. We are in process of making settings page and we are wondering if Autosave option is good idea.
For example:
User edits his ...
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Minimum length for Street Address field in HTML form?
When a user has to enter a street address, to ensure clean data is it a good idea to enforce a minimum number of characters?
For instance, I can't see any possible reason a street address could be 2 ...
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How many characters should typical address fields allow on an international website?
On an HTML form, What is the maximum amount of characters that should be allowed for:
Street Address 1
Street Address 2
Town/Suburb
State/Province (I would have drop downs for main countries, but I ...
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If I was asked in an interview to provide a 'written spec' for a form, how would I reply?
I initially left an interview assuming I was going to have to sketch mockups for a registration form that was requested as a test, but when probing for more information I was told that a 'written ...
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Does the size of an input influence its value?
I've recently started using BackBlaze as my backup service and I noticed something interesting on their restore sign-in page. The password input is slightly longer than their email input.
Since ...
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Is it bad practice to reset a user's focus to the first input item?
When a user tabs to the last input element in the form, is it bad practice to bring the user back to the first tabindex / input item?
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Forms in fancybox or full size page - which is good for conversions? [duplicate]
I have a responsive website, with a Sign Up form & a Contact form.
I'm not able to decide whether should I open these forms in fancybox / prettyphoto or redirect user to a full sized page with ...
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Asking for more info on whitepaper download then on trial sign up
Im currently researching how to handle lead generation forms.
I came across a website which has 3 slightly different forms for downloading a white paper, downloading an ebook, and downloading the ...
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How to design the input field for recipe ingredients
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the most efficient way to handle a user inputting a recipe into a form. There are a couple different options I've seen across the internet, from offering up a ...
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When client and server side validations occur, doesn't it make for a better UX to only do server validations?
I find a problem on the MVC4 project I am working on now, using Fluent Validation, in that some validations are delegated to the jQuery client side validation, while some, such as the NotNull rule for ...
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Uploading files independently from Save/Cancel of form?
We have a form which has Save/Cancel buttons down at its bottom. A part of this form is managing a collection of file attachments. The user can add, open and delete as many files as she likes.
Should ...
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Forms with many choices - is it bad UX?
Im currently working on a companies product website. They have multiple things you can sign up to via a form.
Get a Trial of the software
Sign up for a webinar
Request on site presentation
call me ...
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Sending a Search Form on mobile - keypad and / or call to action button
say you have a modal view with a simple form and a cancel-option.
as soon as the user selects a field the keypad shows up and usually provides a "Send" or "Search" Button to send the form.
is it ok ...
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Form for property rent prices depending on season and length
Seeing the similar post about Form for inputting operating hours of a business, I am hoping you might help me with a similar issue.
We run a holiday property rental website. Properties can be rent on ...
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Why don't most forms have a hover state?
I've been looking at a bunch of forms and noticed that most form inputs do not have a hover state. Is there a good reason for this, that I'm missing?
A slight hover state, to me, is effective because ...
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lightbox (modal box) VS Inline Editing for a profile screen
what can give to the user the best and easiest experience, when editing their profile in a web site, practically we have three widely implemented options:
1 - Fields form and submit button:
this is ...
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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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Sending users an invite
Need a solution to a problem I've been having.
I'm working on an internal corporate site. Users can be invited to the website via email and attached to a credit card.
A user can only be attached to ...
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Accesibility vs. read only inputs
I have a form with some read only fields depending on the customer role. As a rule, I use read only fields for those inputs.
have you had any problems with this approach using and assistive ...
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Filtering Results: Parallel Selection: Checkboxes vs Links
I'm trying to resolve a discussion with a colleague and gain some insight into a common practice for search refinement behavior.
I've read Best Practices for Designing Faceted Search Filters and seen ...
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Leave data in form after submission?
I've got a form in my web application that a user would use to send messages to another user of the system. So for example, a manager might want to send a message to all of their direct reports about ...
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How to make the user fill out all required fields when signing up
In the registration form for a website, what is the best way to prevent the user from continuing until all the required fields are filled in? For example should the "submit" button be grayed out until ...
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Layout question regarding “Select existing record or create new one” pattern
I want to create a wizard for creating new data.
In one of the steps the user is supposed to select an existing record or create a new one.
There are of course different ways to solve this.
I am ...
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Form for inputting operating hours of a business
I am designing an interface where restaurants need to input their operating hours. I am thinking of using a slider control for timings for a single day, and then let the user choose days of the week ...
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Best UI to allow expert users to enter an ip address? (IPv4)
I am working on a web application which requires users to enter an IPv4 address (in dotted-quad decimal notation) for most of the primary tasks they need to perform. Our primary target "user" is a ...
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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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Should a form's style be left to the browser?
Instead of using CSS resets, I use Normalize.css, and I usually style an HTML form's containing elements such as input, label, textarea, etc. to the fullest extent. To make sure that the form's design ...
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How to present a view with large number of inputs
I'm developing a dashboard for hotel managament system application.
There's a view that allows the user to set prices for room types in different currencies. Sadly, I can't provide any screenshots as ...
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Is there a way to simplify the input of a canadian postal code on a mobile form [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s the Best Interface for Entering Canadian Postal Codes on a Smartphone Keyboard?
In Canada, postal code are structured that way
A1A 1A1
A = Letters
1 = Numbers
...
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Which button should get the focus at delete dialogs?
I thought that most destructive actions should be avoided from default actions. But when a delete dialog comes, I see that most Windows applications (even the OS), by default, set the focus at ...
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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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When should a select be replaced with a combobox?
I'm working with a site that is currently making heavy use of comboboxes. In fact, every select in the whole application is automatically turned into a combobox on page load.
My first inclination is ...
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Irreversible changing of state
I am working on a UI for a workflow and task management system.
Each task can be in one of three states:
new
in progress
complete
The task is edited in a form which has Save/Cancel buttons. It ...
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How early should you funnel users in a registration process?
As part of a registration form I am building I need to, at some point, differentiate between whether the user is a 'student' or 'professor'. I've seen this handled in two different ways and was ...
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how can I get users to add fields into a list where many fields are optional?
I need to design a page to get user inputs in below format:
1. Item A (text)
a. Sub-item (text)
b. Upload photo for Sub-item (Browse and upload)
c. Description for Sub-item (text)
2. Item B ...
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Auto-detection of credit card type in a credit card form
Some time ago (it might have started with Apple) designers started to use pattern of auto-detection of credit card type in credit card forms.
On the screen above you can see such a form (it's ...
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Sliders without inputs - terrible idea?
Here's a part of iMovie UI that confuses me. All clip&audio settings can be only adjusted by manipulation on sliders.
There's no way to type in specific number.
My first thought - this is just ...
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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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Best ios alternative for an html select box?
An app I'm working on requires the user to enter their address which is then stored on a 3rd party system. The 3rd party has a predefined list of countries and states so when I send off the address I ...
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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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Nested multiple selections
I am building a web application that allows users to search a gym chain's class timetables. This gym has multiple branches, in multiple states and cities. The inputs to the class timetable search are:
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Category Drop Down List with Descriptions
I need a simplified means of selecting a category from within a form that is contained in a modal. The problem is that each of these categories has a LONG description that needs to be shown before ...
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Labels inside or outside text inputs? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
On forms, is inline placeholder text better than a label outside each field?
Are there any advantages / disadvantages in placing ones labels outside ones text inputs ...
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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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Conveying progress for a set of items each with 2 stages
I think I have an issue with the hierarchy of information in trying to convey progress to a user. On the dashboard of a non-profit dashboard I have the following option:
The organisation deal with ...
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Single login page vs pop up iframe?
We have built a Single Sign-on system. A technical requirement is that it has to refer to another web page to login to get the token for the child site.
The current solution is a single point of ...
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Best ways to ask a user to select a worldwide destination? / examples?
I'm looking for examples of a user interface to select or browse for a worldwide location. A location could be as small as a town, or as big as a continent. It could also be vague such as "the Alps".
...
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What to display while waiting for a process (4-5 seconds) to complete?
We realized that in some cases the user may be waiting up to 4 or 5 seconds (depending on connection) for their form (or some action) to be processed. The form involves getting data from other servers ...
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Display form on page, in modal or separate page?
I have an application where users choose assignments to try over the coming days. When they choose an assignment, they state what they expect the outcome of the assignment to be. I'm not sure whether ...
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Is there a good UX widget for matching lists of items?
I want to ask a question of my website that has users match items up.
For example:
Match the animal with its sound:
Cow Bark
Dog Neigh
Horse Moo
If this were a question on paper I would ...
