a list is collection of elements (or items) that may or may not be ordered in a particular way.
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How to visualize the possibility of drag'n'drop?
My web application contains a list of elements, which can be sorted by drag'n'drop. How to visualize this feature to users?
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Best way to select a subset of items in a long list
One of our clients wants us to build a web application to share information about the magazines he publishes. Each edition of a magazine contains a variable amount of advertisers. These advertisers ...
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Alternatives to a dual list for selecting a bunch of items from a long list?
What alternatives and examples are there for selecting a bunch of items from a long list of items instead of a dual list?
This question has some nice enhancements on the traditional dual list, but ...
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Adding USA at the top of dropdown list of countries. OK practice or not?
Some web sites have a country dropdownlist where USA and Canada are listed at the top of the list (as well in their normal positions). I read once that this was insulting to non US/Canada users. The ...
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Replacement for long drop-down list
I'm currently working on a part of our application in which the user edits a document. Part of the application allows the user to input certain "parts." We've implemented this as a couple of drop ...
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Choose Your Country: Best Usability approach
I'm looking at potentially designing a site which will have 'mirrors' in multiple sites around the world. I am experimenting with the best method to help users change both their country and language ...
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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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Best design for displaying list under a list of items ?
I have a list of items in a database and i display 10 items with some additional details at a time(as table rows). I use next & previous buttons to fetch the remaining items.
This part has been ...
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What is the most user friendly way to allow users to insert data into a hierarchy?
I have created a hierarchical data set which I use to store a tree of regions. I want users to be able to add new nodes onto the tree, but I am having a hard time thinking of a very user friendly way ...
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Location of new items in list
I have a medium-sized list (about a few dozen items, the container is very likely to have internal vertical scrolling). There is no sorting, so items are displayed in the order of their addition to ...
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Most intuitive way to offer manual sorting?
all. I'm designing an online form builder (think Forms in Google Docs / Spreadsheets). The functionality is complete, but I'm not happy with the sorting capabilities. Everyone that I have done ...
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Alphabetical lists - horizontal or vertical?
When listing a large set of data alphabetically Is it better to list them horizontally or vertically? Craiglist lists states in columns vertically. Another site I've been using ...
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User control for a two level selection
I'm about to develop an application that will be used by revisers to compile the errors they find while reviewing a translation. The application will consist of a simple form in which they will have ...
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How do you sort a list of languages?
A website is available in 100 languages. There is a form to select a language, and it includes these 8
English
Русский
日本語
עברית
العربية
বিষ্ণুপ্রিযা় মণিপুরী
მარგალური
አማርኛ
Normally, I would ...
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What is the best way to display edit/delete actions on a row?
I am building a web application that deals with a lot of tables/lists of records. I am currently building an "AJAX edit-in-place" feature, so that you can edit a record while being on the same page. ...
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For large hierarchies - checkbox tree or 'guided tree construction'
Context
In my Web based application I have a hierarchy of musical genres. There are around 1.5k genres in the tree, and the depth of the tree is at most about four levels.
My application allows you ...
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Best way to add items to a paginated list
I have a long list of items sorted by date that is pageable. When a user adds an item it is shown and highlighted in the list. The problem I have is that the date entered affects where it ends up in ...
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Android List View - delete row button, delete selected button or delete from item click menu?
Android List view activity with item rows. User needs to be able delete some rows.
I know standard way in Android is to use item click menu. But it's 2 clicks. Is it best way?
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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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File manager on a mobile device
I've termed the question "File manager" because it most closely relates to what I am looking for. This question is for a mobile web application but as it is a UX/UI design question any native app ...
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How many items should a list optimally display? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is 10 search results per page the best?
We have a webshop where the products are listed in rows of 3, each being 340 pixels high. One of our categories now has 38 ...
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What is a good visual cue for drag and drop? (for reordering a list of items)
I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on what is the best visual cue to indicate to the user that list items can be reordered via drag and drop?
Here are a few options I've been playing around ...
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In a long list of customers, how can I efficiently mark which have been edited?
There exists a narrow table listing about 250 customers in alphabetical order. Each row contains the customer's name, account code, city and state.
I need to indicate in each row if the customer ...
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Why not default a user's view to the middle of a sorted list?
Is there a compelling reason (besides convention) why a user's typical default view of a long sorted list is always the beginning of the list and not the middle? Assuming a random distribution of ...
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Allow list box to expand to browser height?
I'm designing a web app that includes a list builder. I've proposed that the height of the list box containing the available items should grow depending upon the available browser height. However, I ...
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Moving Elements Between Lists
I have a question... I'm dealing with an interface that has two lists, and you can drag and drop elements between them.
What would be a better approach and why?
a) Moving between lists doesn't ...
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Best way to shorten item's names in lists, but retaining per-item uniqueness?
We have a drop-down menu for the user to switch between several accounts or profiles, and these accounts are identified by their legal entity name. There's a higher than random chance that many of the ...
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Is custom manufacturer order confusing for users ?
I have an eshop that has in the menu a list of manufacturers available on the website. The default order for them is alphabetical, but due to marketing reasons the owner asked that several ...
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Item list - where should a new item go? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Location of new items in list
Let's say you have a list of item you can order. When you add a new item should it go on top or to bottom? Did you read any studies about ...
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Context sensitive click/long click, yea or nay?
In an Android 2.1+ app I have a list of items belonging to categories. Clicking an item will perform a search for items in that item's category. Clicking a search result will repeat this action (i.e. ...
