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Best placement for a “Go Back” button: top or bottom?
I know that it is bad practice to use a "Go Back" button (since the browser has such a function) but when it can't be avoided for some reason, is it better to put it on top (similar to how the back ...
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How to better display metadata about a card?
A Card has the following metadata:
Information: Status (ready or not), Stage (one of nine)
Actions: Edit, View Statistics, Edit, Delete, Archive
I need to display both sides of the card on this ...
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How should a website handle signup for two types of accounts?
For instance, say a site is for merchants and consumers; people should either sign up as a merchant or a consumer – they require two different forms located on different pages. From the home page, ...
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Where to put a global “add item” button?
We're adding a global "Add new X" button to our application (it will show a CRUD form for an activity, the fundamental "thing" in our app). We want it to be clickable from anywhere in the application ...
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What design should I use to represent multi-touch video controls?
I am creating app for multitouch devices which has big screen (22 inches and more). It would be application for presenting content (mainly video content) to people who would be passed through the room ...
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1answer
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Is a layout with '3D' elements easier to parse?
Contemporary web applications favor designs that make heavy use of shadows and gradients to create the effect of 3D elements.
One justification for this practice is that 3D effects can be used to ...
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2answers
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How to layout buttons/bars alongside a dynamically sized table?
I have a table of data with a dynamic number of rows. It could have none, one, or a hundreds. The width is fixed across the web page and it has a fixed number of columns: 9.
Along with this I ...
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3answers
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Button layout in outliner
I am writing an outliner software. At any state, one of the items in the list is selected, and the software can do the following with respect to the selected item:
Prepend a new item (sibling) to ...
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4answers
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Which of the following options best draws attention to the “buy tickets” action without detracting from the surrounding visual hierarchy?
I'm working on touching up (as much as I'm allowed) some of the design elements for a website. One client requirement is to draw more attention to the "buy tickets" link as this action is one that ...
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1answer
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Facebook Like button too intruding? [closed]
Does anybody feel the Facebook Like button is too intruding in ones UI? Like it doesn't fit in, like it's some cheap plastic thing?
Have anybody ever used JS or something to make any alternatives ...
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1answer
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Price plan table with multiple payment options
I have a pricing plan table with multiple payment options. I'm not sure whether it is best to place the pricing options in a drop-down (and fire off the submit on the "onchange" event) or simply have ...
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5answers
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Button placement while others ones are invisible/disabled
I have a tool bar of buttons. The state changes every time user interact with it (fig. 1).
Fig. 1
Sometimes application allows user to refresh view only, so other buttons are invisible (fig. 2).
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5answers
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Too many tabs - use buttons instead?
We have an admin page in our application that has toomanytab-itus (see the second set of tabs are stacking):
I've been tasked with solving this issue. Reorganising/grouping the content to reduce ...
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4answers
1k views
A keyboard for developers? [closed]
Being a software developer, the keyboard is the most important tool to interact with the computer. Thus, the layout and placement of buttons is very essential. Especially the grouping of the ...
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11answers
558 views
Separation of play and pause buttons for playing media
I seem to remember reading somewhere that having the play pause actions triggered from a single button that toggles is a bad idea
It seems to me that this idiom works well (e.g. pressing space to ...
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23answers
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OK/Cancel on left/right?
Should OK button be on left of Cancel button or vice versa?
Are there any studies suggesting either of the solutions?
