For questions about the mechanisms you can use to help people find their way around your application or web site.
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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 ...
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Is it still a good practice to have a “Go Back” button? [duplicate]
Is it still necessary to put a "Go Back" button? Or do users already intuitively know that they can use the browser's back function instead? I just feel it can be an unnecessary "action" to put and ...
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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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3answers
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Can I change the bottom navigation bar in an iOS app?
I have an application with three tabs on the bottom, as shown, that each bring up their own view within the scope of the 'main' part of the app, BUT, if I want to have separate but similar lists ...
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Are navigationbars fading into sidebars?
Several popular sites are moving the navigationsbar to the left side. This mainly because of the evolution of the portable devices with smaller screen sizes and also the widescreen monitors. The ...
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2answers
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How to deal with too much navigation
I have an app that I am creating for a customer that at some points has 6 levels of navigation. Basically our user wants to select an item from a navigation. that will lead to another set of ...
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4answers
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How I can make primary navigation links look more like buttons?
I've recently revamped the navigation bar on my website and I'm trying to explore simple changes that will make the links appear less like flat text, and more like clickable buttons. I've added icons ...
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1answer
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How to make the options change for a recurrent button (such as add and locate)?
I am currently working on a new project for a financial trading and broking platform, where we are splitting the screen into 2 columns, one sidebar and one for content. The purpose of the sidebar is ...
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1answer
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Navigation Design for GoogleTV
I'm doing some research on ways to navigate on a GoogleTV.
There aren't any design guidelines, but it seems a Left Menu Bar design, like the GTv YouTube app, is common use.
In my opinion it doesn't ...
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Icons vs. Dropdown for primary mobile navigation
I am working on a responsive design in which there are 5 selections in the primary navigation. I'm thinking because there are only 5 I could use icons instead of a dropdown for the primary navigation. ...
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4answers
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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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3answers
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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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Should you optimize mobile experiences based on individual handedness?
In abbood's question "How to implement a stack exchange style voting for mobile?" he answers his own question with the following mock-up:
My immediate thought was that the up-vote control was on ...
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Avoiding the use of landing pages
Working on a website that has 3 levels. Some of the second level pages have sub-pages beneath and therefore become landing pages to access the third level content. They just seem incredibly pointless ...
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1answer
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Is the browser back button still the second most used navigation feature?
In 1999 Jakob Nielsen stated that "the Back button is the lifeline of the Web user and the second-most used navigation feature (after following hypertext links)". But the web has evolved since then, ...
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2answers
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Is it helpful to colour-code different sections of a website?
A design pattern that's been around for a long time is the tendency to use different colours to demarcate different sections of a website.
For example, in the BBC.co.uk website, hover over the main ...
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2answers
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Best practices for menus/navigation in an online textbook?
I'm writing an online textbook (link) that's organized into many sections and subsections, and I've currently got it in a basic Wordpress template with an accordion menu on the left side:
This ...
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Difference between Navigation button and Action button? [duplicate]
I am trying to figure out what is the possible difference between two buttons.
Can anyone guide me?
kind regards
Andy
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2answers
193 views
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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2answers
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How do you prioritise certain user journeys in a responsive website?
Working on a responsive website where we have decided to make all content available on mobile but prioritise journeys we have identified as being key. What ways can I prioritise these journeys is it ...
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3answers
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How to show up heavy content on webpage
First I will introduce myself by saying that I am not a web designer and non native speaker of English, so I apologize in advance for my bad designing explanation and English.
Actually, I am ...
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2answers
219 views
How large should the logo be for easy clickability?
I was skimming through some of the older questions namely Is 'Home' button still a must? and Home button vs Logo link? and there seems to be a general impression that the home logo serves as a general ...
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2answers
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Grouping two audiences because they have some overlapping tasks
Designing the navigation for a corporate website. We have decided to go with audience segmented navigation. One solution is to group "investors & media" due to the fact they would perform similar ...
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5answers
173 views
The navigation on Corporate websites
Corporate websites appeal to multiple audiences. I've seen from benchmarking the majority of sites have based their navigation around the audience segments. You'll see Investors in the main navigation ...
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2answers
611 views
Responsive Design, how to display two large navigation menus?
we are currently looking at redesigning one of our sites so it is responsive. The problem is the site generally has two large menu systems per page. One at the top as the main navigation and then a ...
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2answers
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How do you decide between a topic-based and an audience-based main navigation?
Any hints from past experience?
Any best practices?
Any research on the subject?
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3answers
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loading new view from which direction ? L2R or R2L?
I've been developing mobile apps using sencha touch for quite a time now. In that, whenever a new view is to be loaded, default animation direction is from Right-to-Left. This can be seen in android ...
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2answers
525 views
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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2answers
122 views
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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3answers
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Multiple Navigations - messy or necessary?
I'm looking at UEFA's website and seeing they have 3 navigations menus.
Is there any support for this being a good UX? The organization does alot, and structuring their site this way might make ...
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2answers
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Placement of 'Cancel/Done/Home'-Button on iPhone modal view
I have a modal view in my iPhone app including a navigation bar with two buttons on the root view controller. A a button to dismiss the screen, also not sure which title to use calling it now the ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Working out the site navigation
I've been tasked with a corporate website re-design. The first thing I did was a content audit. A column in my audit was 'content type' I went through every page of the website and recorded the ...
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1answer
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calendar alternate views - aim for clean UI
I am making a scheduling application where a user will be presented with a calendar, see the available time slots and book the slot that he wants.
The decision I cannot make is whether this calendar ...
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1answer
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Convention For Marketing Section
Background:
Part of a SaaS service is a web-management tool. The main part of the website, when you log in, contains a header with a lot of marketing-related links like pricing, benefit and ...
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'Contact Us' in Navigation bars
So looking at a particular site's analytics, you usually find 'Contact' very high on the list of destination page views.
My question is... Do you think people expect 'contact us' to be the last ...
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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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2answers
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Visually distinguish an index versus a single view
I think I'm having a hard time pulling this off because no one has yet done a good job of this.
Think of the home page of most blogs as the index, just a list of the latest blog posts.
When you ...
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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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1answer
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Tabs, but no tab selected by default?
I am working on an view that allows you to define a list of matching criteria and then allows you to view various reports.
This is what I have till now:
Now, you would probably want to ask... if ...
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4answers
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User navigation icons or text based
I am working on a web based hosted CRM personal project which I will release to public ones it is done. My goal is to create a CRM with absolutely zero to none learning or training requirement. To do ...
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Select as title vs. Tabs
I'm trying to decide between using a custom css select as a title versus using tabs on a page I'm working on. I drew up two wireframes below:
1. Using Tabs
2. Using Select
As you can see, the ...
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1answer
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minimalistic top navigation + huge footer = winning combination?
Ive seen a lot of very successful sites of big companies like mailchimp and others with minimalistic top navigations consisting of 3-5 buttons, but big footers where detailed navigation is located.
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4answers
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Where should the user end up when clicking “Previous” or “Next” on a search result?
I´m having a discussion regarding how our site filter should work.
The requirements has been the following:
User enters the site and makes a search for eg. "jackets"
Let´s say that we get 10 ...
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Website redesign how do you know how to organize the navigation structure?
I know this question is extremely broad but I would like to know the steps a UX'er would take in order to understand what content there is on a site and then how to organize this content in terms of ...
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2answers
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mobile first design - main navigation placement & considering desktop users too
I'm considering placement of the main navigation for a responsive site in a thin sidebar similar to the navigation on Twitter's iPad app, as seen on the left.
However with the icons and links ...
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Best way to add navigation for a site with lots of pages
I am designing a knowledge center site for a large consumer company. Currently there are more than 800 pages on the site that are all different. In order to navigate the site, we decided to go with ...
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1answer
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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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Shrinking down a grid to use as tab-like navigation?
I am trying to design a navigation system for users researching entities. This is what you see when you arrive at a page for a particular entity - basic info, plus a whole load of different expandable ...
