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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 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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Entity and State Based Navigation
Our web application is built around a single entity, say A.
User creates A1. Then user can do a limited number of actions on A1.
If one of this actions is taken by the user on A1, A1 changes to ...
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Alert window, navigating to the right button
Working on both Windows and OSX, I have some habits on both.
In alert dialogs, there is a huge usability variance between both operating systems.
In the latter, you can either tap enter and have the ...
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Placement of edit link beside long title?
I'm working on an web application that is flow-chart like. Each page has a star to "bookmark" the page, a title and below it is the actual flow chart/shapes. The flow area takes up the remaining ...
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On a click, show a stub or not?
Consider a click event that would cause a significant change of view (e.g. going from a list of items to a detail view of a single item). What is a better experience:
Switch to a stub view which ...
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Action inside a table vs. Specific screen for the action?
So.. My webapp is targeted for Human Resources departament.
The app has a screen that list Positions.
Now I'll have two new requisites in the application which are:
The user might be able to ...
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What should be done when user leaves a web page either by clicking the browser back button, closes tab or F5?
I noticed in SharePoint 2010 publishing pages that the page content is being saved if user clicks the browser back button or closes browser tab without warning him if he needs to save content or not? ...
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Should I reload only those areas of site where data has changed?
I think the rule is: Reload only those areas of site where data has changed. Don't fetch the areas where no changes have been made.
The pros of this rule are:
1. Users will be able to examine ...
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Breadcrumb or tabbed form or best of both?
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 our users have been ...
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Adding D-pad navigation to an existing web application: Resources?
I have a web application (HTML5) which works well in Google Chrome with mouse navigation, and I am adding d-pad navigation support.
I have asked on StackOverflow about programming models for d-pad ...
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Could you please comment on this web layout? [closed]
I am designing a forum related to certain academic topics with features similar to Stack exchange sites. I have designed a web layout to facilitate easy navigation between the post overviews & the ...
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Is the left or right side of the screen “more clickable”?
I'm in the second year of fine-tuning a homebrew CMS, and I've been going with this theory (which I imagined) that it's best to have interactive elements like submit buttons, back buttons, and links ...
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Is it better to have more than one way to navigate to functionality or only one way?
We are building a web app in Silverlight and currently have more than one way to navigate to the same functionality. I.e. there is more than one button/link on the page that does exactly the same ...
