For questions about the mechanisms you can use to help people find their way around your application or web site.
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What is the difference between a Navigation Bar and Tabs?
Recently I found myself (potentially) discussing the nature of a horizontal/top navigation bar (h-nav-bar) and a tab set without knowing it.
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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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How to resolve lengthy hyperlinks?
When you’re editing content and have links to organizations or frameworks that has many words, the link might exceed an entire row or break a row. These lengthy links look ridiculous and could ...
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Is it a bad idea to resize fonts with the browser?
For certain special pages I want to put content all on one page.
Think of them as cheatsheets (or similar) the idea being is that users should benefit from seeing the whole page in one glance.
However ...
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Responsive website - navigation usability advice
I am developing a site which is to respond to different screen sizes. The site is fairly large and has up to 4 levels deep in terms of page/menu hierarchy. What I am wrestling with now is how to adapt ...
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Mobile Website: navigation at the bottom of the page with an anchor link at the top
On a mobile site I'll be putting the main navigation at the bottom of the page so that the main content is visible without having to scroll past lots of navigation options. (As per w3c ...
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Under what circumstances will vertical or horizontal navigation work better?
I have just started taking UX classes and am designing my first e-commerce webpage. I was wondering what type of navigation works better for users? Do users prefer eBay's vertical navigation ...
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Suitable alternative to trackbar control
I use a track bar control in two different places in an touch-screen application I have. The first to record a specific amount of Data. (lets say 260 samples) the second to record an unlimited amount ...
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How to help users navigate a very long list on mobile
I recently came across SXSW's native apps on iPhone and Android. Both apps revolve around the conference's schedule. On the home-screen of both apps, you get the day's schedule, which is actually a ...
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How Many Tabs are Too Many?
The mockup below, has a screenshot of a software I stumbled upon last week. It grabbed my attention that it presented information in the following way. It had Many Interface Level tabs, inside those, ...
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User benefit vs. UI consistency
I'm working on a configurator tool with a complicated back end and a large selection of products and product options. In the current behavior if an option is selected that requires the selection of ...
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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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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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What is a good way to display side navigation levels?
For the past few weeks I have been working on reconstructing my employers side navigation. While attending a recent meeting, discussion on side navigation hierarchy arose and there was a debate on how ...
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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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To search or not to search?
Having an internal search on a web site takes a lot of effort if you should do it “the right way”. You have to handle case sensitivity, visible results query, misspellings, result matches and ...
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Navigation & Link Hover State
Note: Please link me if this has been asked, I couldn't find what I was looking for
I just had a conversation with my mate who is an Art Director in regards to a website he designed, when it was ...
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Redesigning a My Account Page, What kind of navigation is best?
I have had this low priority pet project to redesign the My Account page on our site, http://www.yousendit.com, and since this has been on the back-burner for so long, I cannot determine the right ...
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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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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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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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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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Should we use ‘narrow and deep’ or ‘broad and shallow’ navigation pattern on mobile devices?
If we have a large content environment on a mobile device, we need some way to access that content with ease. One could implement a narrow and deep navigation pattern which gives the possibility for ...
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What's better than »More …« as a main navigation tab?
I am looking for a solution for the following problem: We have a horizontal main navigation showing some of the most important topics covered by the website and a tab called "All Topics". So far so ...
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If a microsite uses the same logo as the main site, which “home” should it link to?
Which 'home' should the microsite's logo link to - the main site or the microsite?
Consider that...
The content and layout of the microsite is the only differentiator
Half the users reach the ...
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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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Need help Displaying an Elimination Chart on a small display (iPhone/Android/etc..)
I'm building an Application for mobile device that needs to display an Elimination Bracket for a tournament (16, 8, 4, 2, 1)
I haven't seen any application doing something similar and I'm "jammed" ...
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Combine categories and tags in a blog-like website
This is a pretty specific question, but I really am not sure if it's the right way I'm thinking.
It's about a music blog with lot's of different kind of articles that needs a better way of ...
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Where should navigation go for a linear process?
I'm working on a iPad project with a linear process. At the moment I have a 'link' style navigation sat at the top in the 'navigation bar'. I've been doing some early test and the verdict is ...
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Task-based navigation with menu-items expanding to Mega Menus
First let me apologize for the length of this question, but I want to explain it pretty thoroughly.
Some background/rationale first: As part of the design of a new travel website I've gone with a ...
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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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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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Mega-scale industrial resource management UI case studies
We are setting out to design a system capable of managing a system that is comprised of 100,000 individually addressable resources (electro-mechanical controllers).
One very important visualization ...
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Elegant, simple and obvious sub-tabs?
I have a simple navigation setup that requires tabs and sub-tabs. I have the main tabs ready:
But I don't know how to make the sub-tabs fit in and still be user-friendly. What's a good way to ...
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What's this called and how does it fare from a UI perspective?
The Facts About Coventry website has a flash plugin app for navigation of data (bottom half of the page). It's a big circle where you can hover over the icons to get a description of the category and ...
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Should links that bring up a jQuery UI dialog be uniform or different than site hyperlinks?
I have page containing two types of links:
Standard Hyperlink: navigates to a webpage
jQuery dialog link: displays a jQuery modal dialog explaining a term in more detail
Here is a sample:
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Is it a bad idea to put the logo in the top-right corner and the navigation in the top-left?
Firstly I would like to say that I don't think there is a concrete rule about where the logo on a website should be – but intuitively I think it should be in the top left at least for continuities ...
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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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Best Practice for Tab Placement on Widget?
For the past week I have been working on restyling tabs on a widget. Some problems I have encountered during the restyle is our 960 grid system which with a side navigation included allows me a space ...
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Multi Select hierarchy for Mobile Design
I am working on a native application which will user to select multiple level of a hierarchy and perform some filtering.
So for example we have multiple level of category of products like Home Care > ...
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Alternative label for “Solutions” tab in main menu?
Analytics and heatmap testing show that users don't really click on the "Solutions" tab in our main menu. My guess is that this is because the "Solutions" label is overused and users are a bit blind ...
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Removing all nav links from the order/signup page. What do you think of this practice?
If you go to Assistly, you'll notice their pages have a navigation bar at the top... except for the signup page. I have seen this practice where all links are removed from the order page. This ...
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Putting critical but low traffic link in primary navigation
Our site (veetle.com) requires a video player plugin to be downloaded before you can play any video on the site. We've always had an inline install prompt when you enter into the video page:
Now ...
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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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What tooltip text should I give to controls that move a map?
The application is a 3D map of a large work area (several rooms), with information tabs at the bottom. Users can rotate and zoom the map, click on a room for details, click a piece of equipment for ...
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UXD Methodology - Best practices for identifying a Global Navigation Toolbar implementation
I am part of a large webapp project, but a small UX team (we just went from 1 to 2, a few weeks ago). We were brought in terribly late in the process, to the point where there was literally no chance ...
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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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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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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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Is swipe gesture in Mobile Application distracting users with vertical scroling page ?
Normally Vertical scrolling page that used with up-down gesture for Mobile Application to browse data but also have next page to browse too
Example of Sitemap
Categories (Table List of ...
