A way for users to put information into a computer system.
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What is/are best practice(s) to align an HTML checkbox on a web form?
Consider this HTML form:
The checkbox in the form is really a pain in the ..., because no matter what you do, it can't be aligned in a good visual form with the rest controls of the form. For ...
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Is The HTML5 Search Form Useful In Terms of Usability
HTML5 (the new version of html) has a number of new features, and one of those features is that there is a new type of input that is basically the same as the normal input field (like the one you use ...
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Do you think that it is a wrong decision to use a textarea for “add comments”?
Whenever we add a comment there is this textarea box. OK the first thing that gets into my mind is that I can press the "Enter" key in a textarea box and it will give me a newline. If its a normal ...
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How necessary is it to point out your call to action so obviously on a simple site?
I am trying to figure out, especially for returning users, the value of pointing out a way to add input to a site. Facebook and Google+ both have placeholder text and placement of the input for status ...
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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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What's an intuitive way to enter several heterogeneous fields?
I need to give the user a way of entering (at most) three fields.
For example, for a list of ingredients for a cooking recipe, each entry has a quantity, a unit and a label, e.g. 2 big egg(s), 1 pinch ...
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Select numerical value with +/- buttons or manually entering?
The design I'm working on has the user assigning a value to each Item, then if the value is more than 1, a second dependent attribute appears (as shown). I want the numbers to be large and not default ...
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Is the asterisk the common symbol to mark fields as required in all languages?
I did some research but didn't find an answer to it.
The asterisk seems to be a common symbol on the web for marking input or user interaction as required. Most likely it has it's origins in print ...
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When Users Select a Ship Date During Holiday
In a shopping cart where a user can select their preferred ship date, how would you alert them when a date is a holiday or weekend? Would you use processing to not allow it? Add an alert that it would ...
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Windows directory picker: why need an extra button?
The standard directory pickers are as follows. They have a long input box with the current chosen directory, a '...' button next to it that opens a directory picker to chosen a new direcotry.
Why is ...
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Is having more then 1 label for a form element really against web accessibility guidelines?
I'm working on making my pages compliant to us section 508, and wcag 2.0 aaa. I've got a bunch of fields that have ghosting on them, like date text boxes.
they use the labelOver plugin that can ...
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Adding D-pad navigation to an existing web application: Resources?
I have a web application (HTML5) which works well in Google Chrome with mouse navigation, and I am adding d-pad navigation support.
I have asked on StackOverflow about programming models for d-pad ...
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Best View Widget option to input a quantity
I am planning to create a rate convertor for food recipes. The user has to introduce the quantity of some food and then select the unit (gr,kg,mg,cl...).
First of all I think in seekbar, but as the ...
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Subdomains and usability: giving a user an address that immediately redirects them
This is a practice that simply baffles me. For example just today I got my water bill, which tells me to pay at www.water.website.com. This page exists only as a redirect to www2.website.com/water/. ...
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UX for a system that converts between units of weight and volume
I'm trying to design a system that aggregates transaction amounts recorded in units of both weight and volume.
Obviously, showing the total weight in kilograms of things you have individually weighed ...
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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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Input control and concept of default values
I'm working on an application which purpose is to edit data from a specific domain.
The domain has a concept of default/inherited values.
For instance:
Let say I have a control with an edit box to ...
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Cursor position and movement in Bidi Input.
In the case of Bidi input, where both RTL and LTR types languages can be mixed together, what should be the cursor position? And what should be the movement of the cursor with Home and End buttons?
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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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Mobile: differentiating device-shake and touch-shake with sensible names
With mobile devices, there are (at least) 2 kinds of user actions that could be called "shake"
Shaking the device itself
Shaking some draggable item (à la Windows 7 shake-to-minimize-other-windows)
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Is text-transform uppercase frustrating when used in input form fields
I have a field in a form where the entered data is usually presented all uppercase. It's a field for a person's code that is similar to a Social Security Number with the difference that it also ...
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Forgiving Format: Rewrite on blur or ASAP?
I'm implementing the forgiving format pattern for phone numbers and social security numbers on a web site.
Basically, the idea is the user types their (US) phone number:
5558675309
The system ...
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“Modernizing” legacy applications and legacy users
I'm tasked with modernizing many older UNIX based applications to new, web-based applications. The UNIX applications are completely keyboard-based (ie. "04" to select the fourth application, "Enter" ...
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When to combine comboboxes?
Let's say that my GUI has two fields to configure: input and output.
Both fields are implemented with comboboxes that may have the following values:
Input Values: A, B, C, D, E, F
Output Values: 1, ...
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Multiple Phone Number Inputs on Forms - Best way to reduce manual entry?
I'm working on a web application that will be used internally in an organization. The application will ask users for multiple pieces of contact information. We will allow them to optionally enter a ...
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The calculator app question: preventing users from entering illegal input
I know there are a number of ways to prevent users from entering illegal input: disabling buttons, showing warnings, and other solutions that fit the domain of the problem. However, the usual ...
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What's the best and most intuitive way to have a user enter a height value in feet and inches into a web form?
What's the best and most intuitive way to have a user enter a height value in feet and inches into a web form? The major choices seem to be:
Have one text field where they can enter values. This ...
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Get user Birth location
So i need to get the exact location of where a person was born.
Currently, I have two maps on a page and an input field. So you can basically use either one. Right now the top map is a view of 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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Date picker subtleties: Input year by using numeric keys
We are developing a date picker and have run into a problem related to interpretation of user input.
Suppose you have a date picker as the one in the picture below and the user is to change the year ...
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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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Usernames - Sentence case or Normal case [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should first and last name be formatted?
Scene
User doesn't care how he/she types their name in "First name" &
"Last name" text boxes.
What happens
If the ...
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How to mark cells in a spreadsheet that are meant to be edited?
I just put together a spreadsheet to demonstrate how some calculations work. Three of the cells act as inputs. The values in those cells kick off a cascade of calculations in other cells containing ...
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Best way of editing rows and row details of a UITableView in iOS
I have a table view which may have several items (rows), which in turn have more information that I want to be displayed in another view by tapping the row (common scenario). The point is, I'd like to ...
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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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Input field label position, in context of view and edit mode
We would like to use top aligned fields for our form page, wherein the label text is in bold and the input text, normal (not sure if this is the best scenario). In edit mode, this works fine. The same ...
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When are “hidden” usability improvements helpful vs. confusing/frustrating?
I just read an article about some bonus keys on the iPad's split keyboard. Obviously this seems like a great idea to prevent a usability issue from even happening. It seems like this could backfire ...
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new type of hours input
I'm building an app for Smartphone devices where the user needs to input his hours per task (a.k.a timesheet)
Unlike traditional keyboard, I designed an input for hours and minutes as the following ...
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How best to handle a popup gaining focus in the middle of the user typing?
Often I'll set some process off, then change focus to another program and be typing away in a textbox (for example), when the first thing pops up into view, maybe with a Yes / No box which I'd then ...
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How to tell a user how many characters remaining for a form input
We have a couple of form fields on which we impose some character limits. However, I'm having trouble thinking of how to appropriately convey this character limit to the user. At the moment, it looks ...
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Enabling spell check in the UI
We are building an application which will contain spell checking features for areas where users will enter input.
We have already implemented the feature for our rich text editors, whereby spell ...
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Managing User roles as admin
I'm working on a UI where there are multiple roles, with two (Finance and Legal) that are constrained to only support one user.
I'm using a fairly standard matrix, with checkboxes that become ...
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3-state control on/off/suspended
I’m creating a prototype for a system which will give the user to control a specific feature in the system by switching it on and off. To control the feature we have a 3-state control:
on
off
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Folder picker: Some users want to preview contents of the folder but others find this confusing
In our Silverlight application we have a wizard that gives the users the ability to browse to a specific folder on the server and in a subsequent step select the specific files that they wish to ...
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What is the best graphical interface for inputting a list of pairs?
I want to create a graphical interface for inputing skill build orders for an RPG game. A skill build is an ordered list of (skill, number) pairs, like this (see footnote):
(A x1) -> (B *) -> ...
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Combining email and phone inputs into a single text field
Let's say you want to combine both email and phone input into a single text field because you require either or, not both. What's the best way would you approach this? As far as making it clear ...
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Multi Language Name Input
We are developing a Client Application that supports multiple languages. We have some MasterData that requires to have a localized Name (e.g a Product is named different in every location). When ...
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Forcing user to enter correct data
Consider the following scenario for a form with two fields "Full name" and "email".
When user starts editing the "Full name" field I will not allow user to start editing "email" field until "Full ...
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How to enter a number from a range on a mobile web app?
I'm designing a web app for smartphones that allows the user to enter some numbers within a large range (say 0-511 or 0-1023). The numbers are exact and equally likely to be spread across the whole ...
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Which is more suitable Separate Box vs Single box in BrijPad
I have created an editor for fast development BrijPad. I get feedback that there should be two boxes one for input and another for output. but I think for multiple operations it would be ...
