The way in which the elements of an interface are laid out.
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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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Which version of this upcoming beer app UI do you think is more effective and why? [closed]
I am trying to decide which version of my layout to go with from a color and post layout perspective. Any reasoning for your choice would be really helpful!
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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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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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horizontal vs vertical tabs
I was wondering, in which case are horizontal tabs better, and in which case are vertical tabs better?
There is one answer I can already give, but I'd like to see if there are more.
Because you ...
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Which is more important, less mouse distance to travel or visual consistency?
I have an interface that I am currently working on that asks the user to make a choice of a single item. These items are divided into 3 separate categories and the client has insisted that each ...
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What are the negative and positive aspects of dark color scheme?
I am using Light-on-dark color scheme (dark background with light text) in my application.
My question is, what are the negative and positive aspects of this color scheme and why this color scheme ...
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Is there a preferred manner of laying out a few radio buttons?
If I have a requirement to display three radio buttons, is there some UX standard that says they should be laid out vertically and not horizontally? i.e. is:
o High
Temperature: o ...
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What ways can I present an addtional field to combobox when user can't find item they looking for?
I have ComboBox and it has item inside user can select item they want, if they can't find item they can select first item (Not in this list) and input data in textbox (textbox will show if user select ...
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When displaying statistics to a user, is it better to bold the data or the label?
The following picture shows some statistics. Here they bold the data, not the label.
Which is better? Does it depend on the information being shown?
What if you have a header on a report with some ...
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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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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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Making contact detail form more friendly
I have a windows based form in my project for adding contact details.
Here's a screenshot
I have added textbox for First name, Last name , var and cst (vat and cst are numbers related to ...
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Is it a bad idea to put the logo in the top-right corner and the navigation in the top-left?
Firstly I would like to say that I don't think there is a concrete rule about where the logo on a website should be – but intuitively I think it should be in the top left at least for continuities ...
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Does moving the secondary navigation impact a users experience?
I'm in the process of designing the navigation for a web application.
I have a few different types of views. One is a map, the others are all fairly similar and are like a standard web page.
Mapping ...
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Should we provide “back” button for mobile website?
In mobile website for all smartphones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows phone 7), should I provide a "Back" button inside the webpage even when the browser has functionality to go to back?
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How do you go about convincing the stubborn “powers that be” to let you change a clumsy layout that users are used to?
How do you go about convincing the stubborn "powers that be" to let you change a clumsy layout that users are used to?
Say there was a layout in a previous version of software from years back and ...
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What would be the best layout width when traffic monitor sizes are mostly 1280 x 1024?
I am arguing with my client, that 960 pixels layout width will be okay for the site. He keeps suggestion that the layout width should be larger. He gave me these Statistics
In % descending order:
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How to represent a quoter and a quotee for a webapp
For my own personal project while I learn PHP, I am creating a web app where friends can quote each other. So a user will come and post what their friend said and their friends can like it and comment ...
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How and when to go about challenging a tried and true user behavior?
There are many user behaviors that have been ingrained in us over time. Some of them good, and some of them just because, "that's the way that it has been done for years, people expect it." The ...
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Common screen resolution?
I'm developing a web application which is quite information heavy. This means that every pixel available in the screen for display helps a lot, to avoid the UI looking too cluttered and to display ...
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What are unique UI controls on Android?
Apart from regular UI controls like tabview and listview, are there any unique and attractive UI controls like Quick action bar, Action bar, or iOS spinner (Date and time selector) which are ...
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Best organization option for handling a multi-level gallery or portfolio?
I am helping my cousin with a small web site for his custom upholstery business. On this site, there will be a portfolio section displaying images of his prior work.
His work typically involves ...
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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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What are the rules of thumb for margins in web design?
My web designer tells me that in a web page, the empty margins or padding should always be multiples of a standard. For example 6 px, 12px, 18px. This should produce nicely balanced lay-outs. I would ...
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Does having a visually distinct header help the user get comfortable with the website?
We had an interesting but "un-resolved" discussion recently within the team regarding header design (logo + navigation links etc) for a web application. I would like to know if having a dark or ...
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Using mobile design elements for standard web pages?
I'm a big fan of minimalist design and really like the efficiency and layout of sites and apps designed for mobile devices (Tripit.com comes to mind). I often find myself trying to incorporate similar ...
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Reporting web app - how to design large data tables?
I'm working on a legacy webapp that's mainly focused on reporting large amounts of data - ie tables with 20+ columns reporting financial data. The main problem is table layout inconsistency depending ...
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Simple, elegant manner of presenting parent/child CRUD operations
Consider the following grid:
The parent is comprised of "Code" and "Type", and each parent can have 0 or more children. Each child is comprised of "Name" and "Type".
There's already a delete link ...
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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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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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1answer
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Ideas for a interface layout [closed]
Hope you get the idea of what I'm trying to layout.
I have an interface where I display all the information of a user (name, age, height,etc etc) and I also want to display the last weight of this ...
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What are examples of complex digital interfaces? [closed]
This is a call for inspiration, as I don't seem to find any beautiful web-based UI that deals with complex actions and visualizations out there on the web.
I'm designing a (web-based) digital ...
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I'm developing a dark application UI, how do I make sure I access / style all possible components?
I want to make sure I style all the relevant tags so that I don't end up with a broken UI which will be ugly or difficult to use.
EDIT: I'm hope to produce a .QSS file (Qt4) that can be loaded into ...
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Advise strategy for partially translated webpage
I am working on a site and some but not all of the content is being translated into French. The content that is being translated is the long description and summaries of the content items (which are ...
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How do you conquer the challenge of designing for large screen real-estate?
This question is a bit more subjective, but I'm hoping to get some new perspective. I'm so used to designing for a certain screen size (typically 1024x768) that I find that size to not be a problem. ...
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Is there a usability reason for centering a website's content area on a page?
A lot of websites these days have content area's which are center-aligned: http://ux.stackexchange.com is an example.
However some sites are left-aligned e.g. http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa, ...
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Form's title and/or logo.
As you can see some applications have a logo or/and title at the top left side. Does it help to understand where is the user at this moment (what form user is working with)? Are there any other ways ...
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Legend Or Key??
What is the difference between a legend and a key? Is a legend still a legend if it is at the top of a page? Where is the optimal placement of a legend or key for a page that scrolls?
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Best way to tell user either to select an existing entry or enter new entry
I am designing a web page for mobile devices as I have limited screen space.
The web page is used to select a store name from a list of stores (which the user entered earlier) or enters a new store ...
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fixed-width vs full-browser for web app
I'm in the early stages of designing a web application (a network management application). And I can't really decide if to go with a fixed width layout (say 960px) or a variable (full browser width) ...
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As screens become wider, should navigations and toolbars go away from the top, to the sides?
The counter-example to my question are the ribbons that MS introduced with Office 2007; they take up a lot of screen estate at the top of the user-interface. Since the screens become wider and wider ...
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Alternative way to displaying unordered list items in 3 columns
I'm trying to find an alternative way of displaying 50 unordered list items in 2 or 3 column layout. I feel the pattern I've using looks quite "blah."
Sample layout:
Browse by Featured Topics
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Search box in header or body?
I am designing recruitment sire where focus is not to search job but to write resume .As I know focus is on resume writing service , I have option to place job search box in header or down after ...
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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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What is a clean, uncluttered way to have a “Main Menu” access button in a videogame?
I am trying to design a UI system for a computer game I am creating, but I don't know how to have the player access the main menu without clutter and unnecessary distraction. The ideas I have ...
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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 best display a long list of check boxes
In my application users are required to select from a drop down, a list of projects they wish to include in their custom search. The easy part is that users can select one project to filter on or ...
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Easy to understand public transit journey planner results
I am developing a London jouney planner app (called Pubtran London, it's on Android Market).
Somebody told me that the results are hard to understand and I was quite surprised by that. Maybe it's ...
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How to differentiate between vertical and horizontal splitting of a view
I'm working on the programming interface (public functions) to an API for graphical UI layout. The API does everything in terms of frame objects - simple rectangles in which stuff can be displayed.
I ...
