a dialog that prevents interaction with the rest of the GUI until it is dismissed.
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Confirmation styles: Dialog window vs. two stage/dropdown buttons
To better illustrate my question, here's a quick example.
When the user is attempting an action that would typically require some sort of confirmation (such as deleting a record) would it be ...
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How to design a Win 7-like dialog for choosing One of N options without a confirm button?
The Copy file dialog of Win 7 constitutes an approach to presenting One of N options choices to users.
This dialog, however, has been accused of being too hard to scan, and lacking click affordance.
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What are the benefits and drawbacks of dialog sheets as seen in Mac OS X?
Introduced with the original Mac OS X were dialog sheets:
As I understand (not being a Mac user) these sheets are modal, requiring user interaction in the current window, but not limiting the user ...
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When to display a success notification from modal window
I'm working on a web app which heavily uses modal windows to display forms/options for different tasks. Some of the modals have a one time only 'confirm' action which warrants a 'success notification' ...
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2answers
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Displaying _your pop-up blocker is interfering with this_ alerts?
Saw a tweet today from asking if anyone had seen a good example of a site that displayed an alert to users with pop-up blockers turned on (in the case where the blocker interferes with display of some ...
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Where to place a delete button in a modal
Currently in our application we have tables of information that give you some of the most important data and them we have a view more link that pops open a modal dialog and gives the user all of the ...
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2answers
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File operation open/close workflow
I'm working on an application (Mac OS X, if it matters) that opens a user defined file or folder, does a bunch of operations on it (as set up on the main window and tracked on a progress bar), then ...
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Button order Save | Save and next | Cancel | Previous
In an application, the user is able to edit the information of several objects.
The user is able to save and go to the next object.
What is a good order for this buttons?
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Edit user modal box [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Expressing that new password is optional
I have built a simple user management system on my webserver. There is a list of users, each of which is either "Administrator" ...
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1answer
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Use of Modal Dialog Box for User Sign In
The site that I am working on has a signed-in and a signed-out state. We're in the process of implementing a soft signed-in state (e.g., remember me on this computer). Doing that requires users to ...
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2answers
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How complex is too complex for modals?
We're in the process of developing an application that makes use of modals to provide the user with extra functionality without having to go to a separate page. I have two questions related to this:
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1answer
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Are ''updating results ,please wait' modals really needed to indicate a change on a search-results page?
Consider a search page (say kayak.com for a good example) , with lots of options/filters. Filtering updates the results through Ajax, so without a page refresh.
On most of those sites, after ...
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Behaviour of save function on modal window
I have a modal window in which are three tabbed forms:
[caveat This began life as a sliding div a la twitter, but for whatever reason I have been asked to consider a modal window]
The user uses ...
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2answers
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using iframe in modal window good or bad?
I am working on a flow that as part of it can ask the user to select an address but if the address is not in the system i am using a modal window to allow them add one so not to move them away from ...
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1answer
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Multiple call-to-action popups while flash app loading
We are developing a new component for our flash application which displays HTML news popups before the application loads. These popups are typical modal window style popups which may contains random ...
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2answers
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How to manage photo tagging on a modal dialog?
I am developing a bookmarking service allowing users to save an image into a specific folder.
Users can replace the original photo with a custom one from different sources (PC, Webcam, URL)
Once the ...
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votes
1answer
176 views
lightbox (modal box) VS Inline Editing for a profile screen
what can give to the user the best and easiest experience, when editing their profile in a web site, practically we have three widely implemented options:
1 - Fields form and submit button:
this is ...
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2answers
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traditional window popup vs inbuilt poup [closed]
Almost all of the websites/apps uses the custom built popup (HTML) to show menu,messages,page load etc... but, some of the apps still insist on opening the same in a browser based popup window (which ...
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Scrolling inside overlay or on the whole page
I have this web-app that has mostly web pages with search results (such as google is), so there's scrolling normally. But I have this scenario that you can open an overlay that shows additional ...
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1answer
131 views
Which is the correct use case of Full Modal Windows
I don't know when I should use a modal and when not.
For example, a list of things to buy, user click in a button "new", should I open a modal or a new page as expected for web apps?
The information ...
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1answer
228 views
ideas on instant messenger implementation on a website
Im looking for a discussions, feedback and ideas on implementing a custom instant messenger implementation in my webapp. I have tried some ideas but they all lack and I dont feel like "ok this feels ...
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1answer
111 views
From which direction should a modal progress bar enter the scene?
I have a form to create a new Widget. After the user presses "Create," a modal progress bar appears and shows the user the status of the background process that saves the Widget. How should the modal ...
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3answers
379 views
Confirmation message when closing a lightbox / modal box
A feature of a website I'm designing requires the user to perform various steps inside a "lightbox" / modal box. This is a requirement, I cannot embed the process inside the main layout.
I don't want ...
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1answer
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Best Practices: Location of close button in a modal [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the important aspect to consider when deciding where windows interaction buttons should be placed?
I've been seeing a lot of modal windows lately, some which ...
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4answers
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Show hint only once?
When a user adds an object to his favorites I'd like to tell him where he can find the favorites list (unfortunately it's not that obvious and can't be changed at the moment). My idea is to show a ...
