The way in which the elements of an interface are laid out.
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Lateral Navigation with swipe views and tabs together with mapview
I've recently designed a new Android Application for a theme park.
According to Android Design Guidelines:
If your app uses action bar tabs, use swipe to navigate between the different views.
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What's the best way to design the web interface which runs the same on almost all resolutions?
With web pages, what's the CSS framework or any other idea, which may show the web pages the same way on almost all screen resolution using div?
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Is it OK if asterisk is put after label that is above the field?
Look at wireframe:
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Does it look OK that labels above fields have asterisks? Or should labels be placed left of the fields?
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Should both bold and italics be allowed in electronic flashcards?
When people create electronic flashcards, is there a valid need for them to have markdown for both bold and italics? This is a question that I have been debating with some colleagues for a while now ...
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Tabs within a tabbed layout in Android?
I'm working on an app for public transit information that has a base layout looking like this:
The three tabs represent trip planner, departure times and disruptions respectively, which are the ...
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What is the optimal layout for a form with two respondents?
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I'm redesigning a form that is used by office workers who interview respondents in person. In some cases, there will be two ...
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I'm looking for good examples of Welcome pages, and any good theory on how to go about it [closed]
Kind of a discussion based question, but bare with me anyway.
I am working on a web app that provides reporting. It makes reporting fun, honest!
I am struggling to design the Welcome page. It's a ...
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Login Form Placement/Isolation
If you go to http://www.notableapp.com/, you will see that when you click the Sign In button, it takes you to a completely new page with only the login form on that page.
Why did the designers ...
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Where should vertical tab-bars be placed?
we are redesigning our webbased software product. All main tabs (called: modules) have the same layout: In the upperleft of each they have a breadcrumb and the page title.
Most modules have a second ...
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Scaling an Address Form on Resize
My application has a form for filling in the names and addresses of a donor. Each donor gets a closable tab and each tab has an address form.
The problem is that the application runs in a regular ...
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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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Flow of Dynamic Grid
There's a recent trend in web design to use dynamic masonry grids, like Pinterest, for just about everything these days. If you haven't seen such a layout before, it presents content of variable ...
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Chrome Options UI Pattern Name
I've been looking for a way to organize hierarchical data. I came across the UI in Chrome Options. I really like it and think will work well for what I need. Is there a name to this pattern?
As you ...
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What is the best way to allow users to navigate through a large amount of information on a website that is categorised in numerous ways?
As a web developer, I'm often given designs that look good from the web designer, but don't necessarily function as well as they should. This is especially true for navigation elements, increasingly ...
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Where can I find research on readability of web sites?
I am looking specifically for text alignment (e.g. left vs. full justification) and what size/width text sections ideally have.
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How to place advertisements effectively, but not annoyingly
I was wondering the best way to place advertising on a website, so users don't feel like the advertising is forced upon them. It can often make a website unpleasant to be on (like quite a lot of u), ...
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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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Is it necessary to reorganize your entire layout to suit multilingual left-to-right languages?
I'm working on a flash project right now that is necessary to support 16 languages, from english to hebrew, and etc... My dilemma right now is whether or not it is necessary to flip my whole design to ...
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What's the best way to display and navigate about a list of 2000+ items?
I've recently decided to update the look of a site and was confronted with a page that is a list of 2,000+ items sorted into a table and a blob of links that go with it.
First Robotics competition ...
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Best way to handle a system failure (not the user's fault)
In my application, we're very dependent on a service to provide some information that the user can interact with. It's possible that the service could be down, or in some invalid state to where any ...
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What is the optimal vertical margin between paragraphs?
Here on ux.StackExchange they have gaps that are a bit smaller than one line height (~88%), but I’ve read a few times that 100% of the line height provides best readability because it continues the ...
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How to contrast read-only labels from their corresponding data
Given the interface below, what would be the best way to contrast the labels from the data labels?
The only thing I could think of would be to shade the background of the labels, however, according ...
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UX of background advertising (or other options)
My company's users use a website that features advertising from specific sponsors. The ads are all directly related to the content of the page and the situation in which the user is viewing the page ...
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Should my gutter/margins expand in a fluid design?
I'm redesigning a page, and am going for a fairly basic fluid, 2-column layout. With a fluid layout though, should I have my gutter and margins expand along with the columns, or would it be better to ...
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Is the left or right side of the screen “more clickable”?
I'm in the second year of fine-tuning a homebrew CMS, and I've been going with this theory (which I imagined) that it's best to have interactive elements like submit buttons, back buttons, and links ...
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Best layout for lots of user input elements?
I have an application that presents a question/answer form to the user. It was mandated that the form look as close to the paper form as possible. The paper form was built in a spreadsheet as two ...
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How to calculate the best width of a text element
I am developing a visual editor where the nodes in the editor can contain text. The size of the text can vary, and can contain any character. Since it is important for me to minimize the size of the ...
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Stressless user experience for data entry forms
We're currently discussing a redesign of the applications we develop for internal use. Now, to change things for the better, we'd like to make as many UX considerations as possible before we go ahead. ...
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Handling images larger than viewport in carousel-based gallery
I'm trying to figure out the best way to design an image gallery embedded in a lightbox. The gallery has thumbnail versions of each image in a carousel, and clicking a thumbnail brings that image ...
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Help with body layout to produce non-floating effect on contents
I am a programmer and I need a designer's expert advice regarding the website layout I am currently working on.
Here is the layout to start with. ...
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How to make a application with several different user controls feel more unified?
We have an application where we're combining several different user controls into one main window. About 3 of the controls are developed outside our group, so we really don't have much control over ...
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Encourage users to tap the “review” button
How to layout an Info screen, so as many as possible are tempted to tap the "review" button?
I wish users would tap the "review" button and write a long positive review on the app store where they ...
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How to lay out a list of lot of checkboxes that may vary in length?
I have a list of checkboxes under header titles (at least three, one of them has sub headers, all in one page), something like this:
Problem is, these checkboxes may end up with 10 elements per ...
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Best way to fit a lot of stuff onto one page
I have created a webpage, but my boss came back saying that the page is too busy. I was just wanting some ideas of how to split up the page e.g. accordion, tabs etc. What tactics have you implemented ...
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Best layout for a custom calculator (for mobile web browser)
I like to record my Max Weights for exercises (e.g. Bench Press) on my phone.
I have a web app I created for doing this.
One of the tools I created is a "Barbell Calculator".
I plug in my weights ...
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“Here will be your logo” - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
"Here will be your logo" - any idea how to visually represent this to a client on a demo website?
We are a company offering free demo of client's website, before going for a deal.
Although, the ...
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Attractive website layout without a tile of thumbnails
I'm trying to figure out possible layout options for a website project. Its function closely resembles EnglishCentral. This website helps people practice spoken English through a series of videos with ...
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Navigation with or without sub-navigation?
Considering following site architecture, where each category has multiple products inside it:
/Home
/About
/Products/Category 1
/Products/Category 2
/Products/Category 3
/Products/Category 4
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Does Usability/design matter in admin(client) sites?
I worked at many organization, few of my old employers developed old system for clients which is running from more than 5 years and work perfect.
They do not care about any user experience(design, ...
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large amount of data on a single page
I'm a member of a team developing a business application. Basically - it is all about data entry. There are people (thousands of them) sitting whole day and filling the form below over and over in ...
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Banner Blindness on Non-Profit Web Site With Zero Ads
I am currently considering a page structure that would include a video.
The context of the page is it is a kind of landing page meant to provide access to informational and educational materials ...
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Should I use a radial menu design for a touchscreen game?
We are working on a game for android. We had a normal menu where each menu entry is below the other. As we find this boring, we looked to different approaches and came across the lock screen on ...
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Multiple forms on a single screen
I have about 5 sets of forms to be filled up by the user, one by one. Most of the fields in these set of forms are mandatory so it is obvious that the user has to check out all these 5 forms. Now I ...
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Displaying/presenting options neatly
I have a Windows application which has some options regarding notifications. Each type of message can be turned on and off for the statusbar and for pop-up messages. Here is what it looks like now:
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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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Pull-to-refresh and search bar
I have an iOS app that uses tables views. It also implements a pull-to-refresh model, which works very nicely. I now want to add the option to search that table view. Normally, I would just hide the ...
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What are some reasons that not all websites have fluid layouts?
Recently, I was using Facebook and I resized it to 50% of my screen to look at something else.
What I saw was that most of the page was cut off.
What are some reasons for Facebook or any other major ...
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Is Amazon's layout good or bad from a UX and conversion optimization POV? [closed]
I'm in the process of designing a theme for my company's online store that will (obviously) hopefully boost our conversion rate as much as possible.
It seems only logical when planning the theme to ...
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How to prevent grey/black lines after effect?
I have made some new design for my private blog (a black design).
However, If I now read a blog piece and then look around I see around me all kinds of black/grey horizontals bars as after effect, ...
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Should certain functions be “hard to find” for powerusers to discover?
This is more of a fundamental question about access to the "poweruser" features for an application.
One side thinks that power features should be more or less, "tough to find" and leaves the curious ...
