A menu is a list of commands presented to an operator by a computer system
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What is the name of this combined button/popupbutton?
This button is in the new Firefox, but what is the name of it?
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What is this side menu called that can be found in many multi-touch apps, and where does it originate from?
It can be found for example in the YouTube and Facebook app.
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Alternative actions: nested submenu or interactive question?
I have a user interface that provides two alternatives for one action. The alternatives describe how the chosen action should be performed by the computer (different goal functions or heuristics of an ...
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What is a good method for organizing internal team tools and public comments?
I'm creating a mobile web application for debates. There is a public discussion between two people displayed on a "card", with buttons to tell the other person they made a good point, and to add a new ...
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How high should a top floating menu be?
More and more websites are getting top menus that always stay when you scroll.
Examples:
https://9gag.com/
http://www.ign.com/
http://phpmaster.com/
Personally I don't like them ...
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Usability of transparency in navigation menu
I have seen a couple of websites using some css properties to make the navigation menu semi-transparent. I assume this has to do with giving the user a more continuous feel to the page scroll, but it ...
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Horizontal and vertical menus in web applications
It is now very common to find top horizontal menus in websites. Some reason of that might be habits and Jakob's law.
In web applications you might find a menu on top or on the left side equally. Most ...
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How to best indicate navigation menu on mobile
What's the best way to indicate the navigation menu on mobile?
I see this three-bar icon being used a lot but do users really understand what it means?
Wouldn't a button simply saying "Navigation" ...
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Translating a UI from English to a language with different constructs
I am trying to translate an application with an English UI into Hindi.
The menu items such as Edit in English can be interpreted as either nouns or verbs, which doesn't seem to matter as much. While ...
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Accordion Menu or Static Menu Options for Touch Screen optimization
I'm in the process of redesigning dialog menus for our application. The biggest reason is to make the application touch friendly. But these menus will be used in both touch and mouse environments.
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Best way to display support, contact, and preferences in Mac App
I'm trying to decide what the best way to display the following options to a user is:
Contact / Social Connection Links (ex. find "company name" on Twitter / Facebook)
Support options (ex. in-app ...
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Mobile Menu with 150+ links
I'm building a website that has over 150 menu items. Normally, for small sites, I would use a responsive mobile menu for use on mobiles. However, as you can imagine, 150 or more menu items loaded onto ...
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In what situation is it best to use a mega menu?
The current site I'm working on typically has 3 levels on navigation. Site-map and navigation has already been done. They have chosen to use a mega menu to show top level navigation items and ...
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Is it ok to use drop-down menus in Mobile Website?
Is it ok to use drop-down menus in a Mobile Website which opens on clicking? Like http://ux.stackexchange.com
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Massive menu on website, how to solve it?
I must change the following menu in some web site.
This menu contain almost 30 items!
Screenshot:
Any idea?
Categories:
Home, Games, Leisure Children, Openly Software, Recipes, Study Lessons, ...
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Should clicking a drop-down menu in a native app a second time close it?
Why do some UIs use drop-down menus that can be closed with a second click, while others do not? It really annoys me when I have to click outside of the menu in order to close it and I accidentally ...
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Why do menu labels behave differently in desktop applications and websites?
In a desktop application when you click a menu, you see all the options which reside within it, in a drop-down/pop-up list.
In many websites with a navigation menu which has sub-categories, I have ...
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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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What alternatives are there for “My x”, like in “My Documents”
I'm working on a tool where people place work and other people choose to do that work. The menu now has the following items:
Choose work (which lists all possible things you could do)
Place work ...
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Adding “Select…” as first option (placeholder) of dropdown list
Would it be considered a good practice to add the word "Select..." as the first option of a dropdown list? I think it's redundant and not at all necessary and what is in the dropdown list should be ...
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Should the “Help” menu really be called Help?
Most of todays applications have a menu called Help as the last element in the menu bar. But many applications are using the Help menu as a general container for anything that does not fit into other ...
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Measuring Keystroke Against Click Count
Currently working on bettering our internal tool/ticketing system's UI. We have several products - broken up by category, of course. Each product has an email template that a technician will wend in ...
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Help menu - “?” or “Help”?
It is a very simple question, but it has been bothering me for quite some time: when creating an application, should the help menu (in the menu bar) be called "?" or "Help"?
I can see a few ...
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Better approach to blue/underlined for link?
We have a web application that allows users to query a database.
The results are returned in a breadcrumb style interface.
We brought this change in at a new version, and assumed it was ...
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What is the best name for login/logout button [duplicate]
About the system:
Web application with users like WordPress.
The question:
What is the best name for this "login" toggle button?
Options:
Login / Logout
Log in / Log out
Log In / Log Out
Sign ...
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Responsive Menu that has a LOT of menu items
We have a responsive menu that on mobile just shows the top level menu items (x8), but on desktop also shows hover drop drop downs with service areas within the parent menu item.
The problem is we ...
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Is the upper-left logo an acceptable place to put a master site nav menu?
For a number of reasons, having a number of main nav dropdown menus in the top bar isn't feasible. I'm considering making a master site navigation dropdown by clicking a down arrow right next to the ...
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What shall the recent tab consist of?
I have a site which creates activities and perform various functionality in it. It consists of two tabs, current and recent.
Current activity -shows the name of current activity on which user is ...
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Horizontal menus, do they scale?
I'm a user of a popular website that uses horizontal menus for navigation. As the site's functionality grows, the number of menu items also grow. As the horizontal space is limited, the design choice ...
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Do “add” or “edit” functions need a confirm button?
I am designing a UI that includes a list of items that you can add to or edit. When you click on an item it turns into a text dialogue. When you click off or hit "enter" it saves the changes. Does ...
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3-state control on/off/suspended
I’m creating a prototype for a system which will give the user to control a specific feature in the system by switching it on and off. To control the feature we have a 3-state control:
on
off
...
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Toolbar buttons - to be or not to be?
I need to create a toolbar for my application, and let's assume that due to external constraints it must be a regular toolbar, not a ribbon. The application itself has a significant number of ...
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Navigation hierarchy: categories next to single items at the top-level
In our new product we have several pages grouped into several categories.
One of those categories is more important than the rest.
Moreover, we have relatively a small number of pages and categories ...
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Replicated bars and menus consistency
So, using Google tonight I noted, in the results page, some links get duplicated among two bars, one anchored at the top, and a second one below the search box.
You can compare the initial page with ...
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Icons and colors on menus
I wonder when (if at all) it is appropriate to use icons next to menu entries (drop down menus, right click contextual menus etc).
I have noticed that pretty much all of the menus I have seen only ...
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Maximum usability for purely text-based menus?
I'm designing a 'retro-style' video game, in which the user has to navigate relatively complex (around six or seven options on the screen at a time) text-based menus very often (once every minute, ...
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Navigation toolbar design
I'm working on a new web page using a navigation toolbar at the top of the screen. There is an employee profile box on the left, certifications (if any for that employee) in the center of the toolbar ...
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App menu created from keywords
I have application which allow users to select video and play it. I have for each video few keywords and with help of WordNet I created tree from these keywords. So now user can go from generally ...
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Hover over a disabled item to know why it's disabled. What do you think?
How many times did you use a desktop app or an online page and you come across one or more menu items which are disabled and you have no idea why its disabled. Using help or documentation is of no ...
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What is the name for the horizontal tabs expanding / contracting kind of navigation?
Can somebody tell me if there is a name for this kind of tab navigation implementation?
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Should I place my menu on top of my mobile version of this showtimes website?
I'm trying to design a simple website that will show movie showtimes in a few cities. It's going to be a french website but I translated the important content in the screenshots and the website to let ...
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Side panel navigation default on or off
I'm designing a web app specifically for all tablet traffic.
I'm going with the very popular left side panel navigation like youtube,fb etc.
The icon to open/close the navigation is the standard icon ...
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Removing main menu on large map page
I have a small map on my page, and want to allow the user to look at a larger version of it if a link is clicked.
On this new page, the map will essentially be full screen, covering everything except ...
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Thoughts on mobile 'matrix' style navigation?
What I mean by 'matrix' style is something along the lines of
But could potentially be a multi-page menu as well (accessed by swiping left or right).
I feel these designs try to mimic the iOS ...
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Where can I find examples of solutions for four level menus? [closed]
I've got a huge site with a menu looking kinda like this:
Level one
Level two
Level three
Level four
Level four link 2
Level four link 3
Level one link 2
Level two
...etc
The top two ...
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How to manage actions that could be nested 3 or 4 levels deep?
I have a site that has a main menu that is tabbed, and a sub-menu that always displays actions for the current selected tab.
For more areas on the site, this works perfectly, but one of the tabs is ...
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User Profile, My Account, or just Settings?
I am writing a little webapp, and am stuck on a UI hangup. I have a global menu bar at the top of the screen, that when the user is signed in consists of:
Signed in as Joe User (with username as ...
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Web application, minimal design, white bg — how to contain top menu links?
I am working on a web application that has a typical top nav, using this paradigm.
[logo].........[search bar]................[home] [link 1] [link 2] [link 3] [logout]
By top nav, I mean that ...
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How to indicate top level menu not clickable?
Working very test example here:
http://learntango.webfactional.com/
I am working to make my Argentine Tango website more friendly to new devices
mobile
touchpad
etc
I (the tango teacher) am ...
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What ways are there to highlight a selected option or link without using bold?
What is the best way to highlight a selected option in text/link format without using <strong> or <b>?
I cannot use underline as they are already links and are therefore the underline is ...
