Input fields are several different controls such as textboxes, dropdown lists and radio buttons who reside in a (web) form.
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Why does the email subject appear before the body when composing an email?
Note: I am not talking about reading experience, I am focusing on the experience of componsing email.
I am very aware of this issue since it happens to me all the time, and I am pretty sure that it ...
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Forms: Sample description- for label or field? what should be the placement?
I need to place example input text [abc@pqr.com] for a field or label.
Where should I place example (or sample) input description? Here, I have shown four examples of an email ID input for ...
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Padding locked in Axure [closed]
I'm just starting with Axure and have created a prototype of my first form element. I created it as a dynamic panel to simulate an input hint. State 1 has a text field with gray text giving the hint. ...
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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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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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Usability of an email field without label “email”
Does it make sense to a user that this field is for email only?
Or is it confusing?
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Default Android input field styling
I have been showing a prototype of my app to a few people and am surprised by how many of them don't know where to type.
The main screen has three input fields and a search button.
I'm talking about ...
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Display input text that exceed input width
I'm having some issues when the user types extensive text in a small input field.
I need some good way to display data that will be cut off.
I tried to use a Bootstrap based Tooltip or Popover on ...
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Allowing user to input a range value where end points have special meaning
I need to allow the user to input a setting that controls the showing of a GUI feature after performing a number of steps.
The setting would control the number of steps in the application that should ...
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Does leaving a field blank - mean “everyone”
I'm beating myself up over this one, since we had just that discussion today. We were arguing why a customer was eager to pay a week of work for something that could be trained. And to me it’s pretty ...
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Where to place registration form and its contents in page horizontally?
In a registration form I'm having trouble guessing where I should put the text and input fields. Obviously the default is flush against the left side of the screen which looks terrible. I noticed ...
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Layout of information on registration page
I am making the registration page for a website. How should the different components be laid out relative to each other? For example should the heading be on level or above the text input field?
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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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Converting two character dates into four character dates
I have an application that converts the following invalid dates, with only two-character years into a valid date format automatically while the user's filling out the form:
(NOTE: The application is ...
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What's the official name of concept of input boxes with tags?
I'm looking for an implementation and the (official) name of this kind of control where it's a inputbox where we can add multiple tags into it. By example, it is used in JIRA like this capture (and ...
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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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Is it “unsafe” to rely only on placeholders (input fields)? [duplicate]
I've noticed that in many sites, the text within input fields are always either label tags and span tags. Twitter's example:
(in this case, the labels seem to be inside the input field).
I never ...
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What is the best way to indicate that text in a text input field is editable?
Imagine an app like yelp. In this case, you select the amount of stars that you want to rate something. When you do, a pre-generated text is displayed in the text input field. You can either keep this ...
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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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About the creation and management of items
I need some guidance regarding the following design issue. In my application I need to create, maintain, delete and manage so called "Roles", they are just basically a name and a description pairs. I ...
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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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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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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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How to avoid 12:00 AM midnight/noon confusion in a time input field?
I recently specified the wrong deadline for an assignment, for a "dropbox" in the D2L course management application. I was trying to choose 12:00 noon, and the time entry field showed 12:00 right ...
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Showing/Hiding vs.Enable/Disabling form fields
I would like to know the benefits and drawback relative to form design of "dependent fields". For example, in my form I have a Marital Status field, and depending on it's value, I need to know the ...
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What is the best approach to disallow an empty search?
I want to disallow users from searching without a query string (at least one character). To achieve this, I tried to disable the search submit button when the search box is empty, and restoring the ...
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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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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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Automatically limiting or correcting numeric input field values
The application interface I am working on has an slider to select a number, but offers a text input field next to it. This allows reading the currently selected value, but also supports keyboard ...
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When the username is an email address should the field be called 'username' or 'email'?
When the username for a service is an email address should the field be called 'username' or 'email'?
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Side by Side, Stacked, or something else?
I am creating a property manager module for our CMS, one of the forms is very basic, but I am having trouble getting what should be the most appropriate layout for the form.
Below is a screenshot of ...
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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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Why do you have to enter your e-mail when commenting a blog post?
Why do you (usually) need to enter your e-mail adress when commenting a blog post? I guess it's for some kind of spam-protection but if the system doesn't need it - is it ok to skip that input field ...
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How should you represent a short Unordered list
I have a list of exactly 2 steps a user can follow either the first or the second can be completed first, both have to be completed for the next action to occur.
I have large circular icons which ...
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Input Field Widths
I just created my account on ux.stackexchange.com. I'm a developer and don't have much experience in UX best practices. So I intend to start coming to this site regularly.
My question is really ...
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Inputting percentages - in decimal or whole number form?
I've come across a situation in a form where one group of people is expecting an input field for a percentage value to be whole numbers, whereas the other expects decimal values. Either way when the ...
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Remove or keep Clear control in mandatory input-field? (iPhone)
I've had a little discussion with one of my co-workers regarding how to handle the Clear all -button in a mandatory input-field on the iPhone. The field holds the account email address and is present ...
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Order of fields in contact forms
I'm looking for evidence to support changing order of fields in various contact forms.
The first is a general form with:
Enquiry details - textarea
Where did you hear about us? - textarea
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What solutions are there for a date picker on a responsive website? [closed]
We're working on a website that is responsive.
So my question is: What about datepickers. If we choose normal datepickers
Jquery Mobile date pickers don't look good on the full blow template.
And ...
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Disappearing input field placeholder aesthetics for web apps
Background
Users may provide various categorized input entries (e.g., danger, warning, avoid, and relax), such as those in the following image (e.g., "Relax #1", "Avoid #1", etc.):
Problem
When ...
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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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What is the most user-friendly software license installation process?
I have Windows desktop software that requires the installation of a small binary license file (1KB) that controls access to DLLs that are installed with the software package. The GUI part of the ...
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Required field validation error message – Next to field vs. in a Popup
In our application, we mark all the required fields with an asterisk and when user tries to perform an action without providing values for all the required fields, we display an error message next to ...
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Coming soon pages - best practices?
I think the design of these pages vary greatly, and there is no set standard on what's usually on these pages. However, one thing that has been common with these pages in the past is that people tend ...
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When appending items to a list, should the input fields be above or below the list?
We are building an application that allows a user to build a form.
The user can enter the name of the label, pick the type of the input field and indicate whether or not it should be mandatory. The ...
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List autocomplete delete/edit behaviour
I am not sure what these widgets are called, but they are the ones used to assigned tags to questions on SE and appear in webmail apps such as GMail and Hotmail as well:
If someone could chime in ...
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How to structure complex forms for business documents?
In our enterprise management software we use forms to record document like customers, invoices, sales order, tasks, products, etc. We wanted forms to look like their hard paper version.
Below is an ...
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Editing an array of numbers which length is variable
For the needs of a line drawing program, I need to edit an array of integers. The only constraint on the array is its length, which has to be even, and greater or equal to two. The solution I have for ...
