For questions about the mechanisms you can use to help people find their way around your application or web site.
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Do multiple attribute navigations meet information seekers needs
I have been given a proposal that we are considering for the navigation of a content heavy health based site, it has been suggested:
one filter for disease type (type 1 diabetes, MS, prostate ...
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Handling selection and navigation in the same table view cell in iOS
I've a list of items in a table view, each of which display a small image and a name, as well as a disclosure indicator to navigate to a view with the item's details:
The behavior I want is to be ...
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Accessible way to override tab key in textarea
I'd like to create a textarea for code which would allow the user to press Tab and Shift + Tab to indent and outdent the content respectively, however I'm worried that overriding the Tab key would ...
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Hiearchichal Selection for Grouping (ie Teams)
Say I have a page where I want to be able to select what people are on what team.
Each team can have up to 3 participants(so height shouldn't be an issue) but the same people can appear on multiple ...
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How should I link-back to a website's landing page?
My client would like to include a link back to his landing page (Lawyer Jump Page) in case a user mistakenly clicks to the wrong website link (either Divorce Law or Personal Injury Law).
He ...
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Is the back button in Windows 8 apps purely chronological?
The back button is ubiquitous in Windows 8 ("Metro") apps.
What exactly is its meaning? The Microsoft apps I have seen and the Visual Studio page templates use the button in a chronological manner ...
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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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Navigating a multi-part article in ios?
In my application I've got some multi-part articles, about test-driving a car. The articles are split into multiple section.
I'm using this control to navigate between the sections (note: it's not ...
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Navigation menu with only one drop-down child — intuitive or not?
Here is a website's main navigation:
Having sub-navigation on-click is pretty common and irreplaceable:
But as a user and designer, I have struggled with the case where there is only one child ...
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Navigation bar and buttons considerations for iOS
I have some questions regarding navigation bars and their usage in iOS apps, both from the point of view of UX and Apple´s submission and human interface guidelines:
1) Since the iOS Human Interface ...
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Keyboard hiding lower buttons on small Android screens
I have a application (Android) which have scroll activity form. On which there is a button for next screen (lowest of scroll). It's looking fine on large screens of android devices. But keyboard hides ...
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Where to place the '< Back' link or button?
I am building a simple transactional site with two step process both on web and mobile (responsive).
Target users both male & female age from 30-40 relatively tech savvy.
First page is a ...
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Mobile application navigation setup
We are making an app to register progress on certain functions, such as delivery on purchase orders or time registration. Everything is registered for a certain project. But we seem to have two types ...
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Can a visual progress bar be used as a navigational element?
We're having a bit of a debate here among teammates as to what would be a better UX solution, so I was hoping you guys could help me settle this.
We have a linear flow through a data-collection ...
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Card sort with 'Don't know' group
I've recently piloted an open card sort, and have had some feedback suggesting that respondents should be told that they can add a 'Don't know' group if they're not sure where to put cards. I'm ...
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Is it OK to have a global navigation tab link to another site?
My organisation, which provides information and advice, is starting to sell things online as well. The 'shop' will be run on a different platform and is effectively a different website (but will be ...
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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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Use of tab bar and navigation bar in iPhone app
I'm developing an app that provides information about companies. I would like to have tab bar buttons for "Favorites" view and "Search" view. I also need tools for actions, for example in the ...
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Two-level menus: Why? and When?
Two level menus: should they be used? Why are they important?
I never found any resource explaining this.
Should I avoid them and only use them when you really have too much stuff to present?
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When Back Button is Expected but Not Supported, The Least Invasive User Assistance?
Problem: I have a situation where in a browser-based web application the back button (and backspace key for that matter) cannot be supported or used. If it is used, the results can be unpredictable in ...
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Modal vs non-modal views in iPhone
I've been reading and looking at different iOS apps to design the UI for mine, and it feels like sometimes the difference between using a modal view or a non-modal view is not entirely clear... for ...
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Should I use 'Load More' or Automatic Loading? [duplicate]
I am creating a website that I want to have an infinite loading system on the home page. This page contains a tiled list that will fill up the page from left to right, and also most likely from top to ...
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How to best deal with many thumbnails in a product image gallery
We have an image gallery with thumbnails that can be clicked to reveal a larger version of them in a viewport.
Here are some conditions that the layout needs to meet:
The Gallery has to cater to ...
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What is the most common way navigate in 3D-scene?
Different 3D editors (Blender, 2D Studio Max, Autocad etc) use different shortcuts for view point moving, rotation and zooming.
What is more common way to do that?
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iOS multi-step form and user input validation
I need to design a form that may consist of 3 or 4 steps, all of them requesting both mandatory and optional data. The overall form contains a lot of data inputs, so I thought it would be better to ...
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In Android application, when to use View control instead of Tab
I develop a shopping application for one company. First time I design to use Tab to categorize product in shop. But I am not sure Ishould use "View control" instead of "Tab" or not.
Tab and View ...
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Is Tab Bar based iOS Design for feed driven apps a better UX?
Working on a feed driven iOS application and wondering peoples thoughts on Tab Bar driven iOS design for feed based apps. There is a large amount of evidence that supports the well integrated use of ...
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Nested dropdowns in mobile view
So i build a website using bootstrap.
The problem is that i have nested drop downs. The link below is image for dropdowns that look nice and not cluttered in desktop version.
However this is how it ...
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Inverted L navigation - still valid in a responsive world? [closed]
I'm curious to know what people think about Inverted-L style navigation structures. For example: http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/Find
For me personally, I question whether this works in a world ...
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Seeking suggestions for faceted navigation [closed]
We offer insurance education. The filtering or faceted navigation of our schedule listing is in dire need of refactoring.
Can anyone offer suggestions to how they would revamp it?
Link to page.
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Should mobile navigation be aligned to the left or right?
I apologise if this question is a duplicate. On a quick browse I couldn't see anything referring to this. I've always aligned my navigation icon on mobile to the right. Mainly because I just assumed ...
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What is the best alternate layout for horizontal and vertical tabs on one page?
The original design uses horizontal tabs for categories that are not related, and vertical tabs for pages that are sequentially related. In terms of usability and navigation I think it is not as ...
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Navigating backwards in Miller Columns
I've got a set of Miller Columns on a web application that could be wider than the page width. So this means the first level of the hierarchy might not be visible anymore. What's the most effective ...
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DropDownLists becoming TextBoxes - Should the user be able to go back?
So I have a menu on web application I am developing. In this menu, there is an option for how many Project vacancies one wishes to create. The user can choose as many as they need (large numbers will ...
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When to display a link as a previously visited link?
Websites of today contains a variety of links including logo link, global and local navigation links, supplementary or related links, other header links, footer links, inline related links and more. ...
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Using a back panel image as navigation
I wanted to get some opinions and feedback on using an image of a back panel for navigation. In our current UI we have a setup of a appliance. The appliance has a number of ports and some need to be ...
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When is it appropriate to split functionality into separate apps?
I'm a designer and my company has a single app that serves two different types of user.
One group is the general public, who uses the app to navigate big events (e.g. annual user group meeting ...
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Is it better to offer 2-3 links to access the same page or one single link?
I'm currently working on an events website. On the events landing page, there is a list of upcoming events. Here is how each event is presented:
The banner, title and 'more details' button lead to ...
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Mobile navigation
A responsive approach has been taken to the current project I am working on. It is a corporate website with 3 levels of navigation. Attached is an example of the solution I have come up with for drop ...
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In a website, how to make two segments of users follow the desired path
I was asked to design a website for a company that has two different segments: B2C (business to customers) and B2B (business 2 business)...
The company says both segments are equally important.
How ...
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Best way to separate navigation and search bar
I am in the process of improving an existing eCommerce site design. The client has asked that we highlight the best selling categories.
Currently all the categories are under the heading Categories ...
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When do you link to content within a page and when do you make that content part of your sub nav?
I'm working on a website where navigation is getting down to the fourth level. I'd like to reduce the layers of navigation by linking to content from within a page instead of making this content part ...
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Infinite scrolling and page views
I'm working on a content-delivery portal restyle. Basically, it has huge lists of addresses and numbers (sort of whitepages). What I was wondering is:
I wanted to test infinite scrolling and avoid ...
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Multilevel navigation menus for mobile devices
We have a 5 level navigation menu that needs to be incorporated in Mobile devices with a good & best usability approach.. which does not cost multi click for the user to view the 5th level menu.
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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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Is it necessary to use titles on the navigation bar of an iOS app, or could I get away with displaying the logo all the time?
Within my app there are several views accessible from a side navigation pull-out panel.
Is it necessary to put the title in the navigation bar all the time?
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Back button logic
The app works with some abstract items. Those can be shown in list or on map
Bordered button in list leads to map view and vice versa, bordered button on map leads to list view.
Everything ...
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Navigating to details of an item from the list
I'm working on a Windows Phone 7 app that has a screen of some abstract items that we load from the server.
If the user clicks on an item they are navigated to a "details page".
Currently the ...
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Unintentional link clicks in table rows
The problem
In a desktop application, our users browse a lot of tables. Some cells contain links. Link texts look the same as other cells', except from when hovering, when they turn blue and ...
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When do you apply a persistent navigation - is there a minimum page length?
We have pages where it is a very long list of products (often using infinite scrolling), which a persistent navigation would be a very useful device.
However, what about shorter pages that are long ...
