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How to lay out a screen with dozens of fields and have help for each
We have a screen that has a form that gathers a lot of input.
Many of the terms and questions are confusing so we have help for them.
We are trying to put a little (?) help icon for each line.
We ...
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How Many Screenshots Are Too Many
At what point am I offering too many screenshots? I am working a redesign of my company's help guides - these guides are mostly centered around our hosted mail services. How to set up Outlook, set up ...
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Where is the best place to put example input for a form? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where should form instructions or hints be placed?
Which of the following is the best place for the example (e.g. 12345) on long/short/busy/simple forms? (...and why?)
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Where should form instructions or hints be placed?
I was browsing Forrst and came about a screenshot of a form designed with Twitter Bootstrap that had the label on the left, the input field on the right, and the instruction that it's required under ...
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How should I design a small help system for a Windows application?
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I've written a simple, business application which generates a report from information in a database. The only user input required are two file paths--one to a list of items to report on and ...
