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Using hover-overs on the web when the goal is to allow rapid clicking
I'm working to design a webpage where users are presented with a large number of product options, most of which will be irrelevant. Each product will appear as a tile and the tile will disappear upon ...
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Better to use hover vs. click to display dropdown menus on main navigation of web app?
I work on a web-based medical records system. In the previous version, main horizontal menu employed ExtJS. It used the standard click to display the sub-menu found in ExtJS. I'm considering whether ...
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How to resolve a multilevel sidebar menu where parent sections must show children AND link somewhere
Note: When reading this keep in mind we may have more of an information architecture problem than a menu usability one.
Suppose we have this menu:
Item 1 ............ Should link to ...
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Are hover menus in headers easy to use?
Do users find it easy to use headers/menus like the one displayed below?
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Why is there a convention on the web for dropdown menus on hover instead of on click?
This is something I've always wondered. On all major operating systems, application menus (File/Edit/View etc) only appear on click. However, nearly every web site that uses a drop-down menu ...
