2
votes
1answer
164 views

What is the best method to show selected filters from very long lists?

I need to find a solution for displaying flagged items from a very long list. The following pics shows the filter panel of the iPad App. Users can select all the items or search for specific items ...
3
votes
2answers
66 views

“Important” Items Box versus Pinned Items

I am designing an application which has panel with a list of items. The items in the list can be re-ordered by drag and drop: The number of items in the list has the potential to be very large. In ...
6
votes
4answers
160 views

How to paginate alphabetically grouped items?

I am in the process of creating an interface for browsing contacts in a CRM. I have the contacts displayed in alphabetical groups. like so: A------------------------------ Andrew Bloggs ...
5
votes
2answers
339 views

What are some good patterns for displaying large lists on the web?

I'm creating a web application which will contain a large list of ingredients. You can see my current approach below: However as the list grows it starts to take too much of the screen estate. Here ...
3
votes
4answers
191 views

Single 'Edit' link or two 'Edit' & 'Add' links for insert/update/delete operations

I have a dropdownlist and the user has the ability to delete and edit the selected option, or add a new option by clicking a hyperlink which brings up a popup with a form. Would an 'Edit' link be ...
3
votes
4answers
148 views

How can I describe what checkboxes do in a long list of items?

In my web app, I have a long list of items on one side of the screen and a shopping basket list on the other. Here is an example: The app works by checking the boxes next to items and then clicking ...
2
votes
2answers
178 views

List Selection mechanisms - OK to mix?

I have a window with multiple tabpages. On one tab, I have a set of controls designed to allow the user to "include" or "exclude" any of a set of pre-defined items from some consideration. You've seen ...
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votes
2answers
208 views

Displaying millions of records usably

I'm playing with millions of records where I fetch 100 records per page with pagination and a search panel to help user if he wants some unique record. But the questions are: 1: Do I really need to ...
1
vote
1answer
144 views

Quickly and intuitively entering quantity and item

I am trying to find an intuitive input control to create a list of QUANTITY x ITEM lines. The items already exist in the database and the simplest way to do this would be: In order to make it ...
2
votes
3answers
575 views

Displaying selections from a Dropdown Check List

First of all, I apologize for my Englsih and will try to be as clear as possible! I'm currently having a problem with a Dropdown Check List. I have, on the left of the search results, a Dropdown ...
4
votes
5answers
215 views

How to indicate which section you're in, in a flat list?

Think of a smartphone style flat list with items that can belong to one of three priorities: High, medium and low. Each priority is separated with an inline header. Now suppose we have a small ...
6
votes
5answers
182 views

Update list when a user is viewing the list without annoying them

We have a list of items that the user will be interacting with frequently during sessions. Each session will last a minute or two and during that time they are changing state on items and updating ...
2
votes
1answer
237 views

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 *) -> ...
3
votes
4answers
369 views

Top list of the most down-voted items. How to avoid user confusion?

Context: web application. I have a list of items, each one with up and down arrows (a la reddit) but my list doesn't shows the most up-voted items, but the most down-voted (technically it's ordered ...
2
votes
5answers
652 views

Select item from a list to be added to another list

I have an application implemented with Java Swing. The main view of the applications is divided in a left side and a right side. The top of the right side contains a SearchField, and a list of search ...