For questions about the mechanisms you can use to help people find their way around your application or web site.
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Global drop-down: Necessary?
I've architected and am now designing a site that has level 2 vertical navigation. It's featured on the upper left corner of all sub-pages EXCEPT for the sub-section "landing" or "main" page because ...
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How to solve/avoid “circular” navigation on an iOS app
Let's say I have an app that manages some items. An item can be "owned" by an user.
I'll have these screens :
List of items (A)
Item detail page (B)
User Detail page (C)
I want to display ...
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Positioning Back, Cancel and Next in a full screen wizard
Hi I have a full screen wizard that like many wizards has the back, cancel and next buttons. What is the optimum way of positioning these buttons on the screen?
Are there any studies that have ...
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Fixed feedback tab on the left/right window border
What is your experience about using tabs/buttons that are fixed to the left or right on the browser window? (see an example to the right on this site) They are usually used for feedback forms or ...
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What makes good navigation when the user is providing the links?
The application I am working on allows users to specify sections, and pages within these sections. They are all related to the same area of the site, so I don't want to hide the secondary navigation ...
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When should scrolling navigation bars be employed?
A few sites have recently deployed scrolling nav bars. (Twitter is one example.) A scrolling nav bar starts at the top of the page and then follows you as you scroll down and up the page.
I think ...
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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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How can I indicate that you can view more of a similar items or results?
I am currently building a web application with associates various questions and answers to a specific page in a book. Without going into too much detail, a question can be associated to multiple ...
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How to show people where they are in a site structure on mobile devices
One of the oldest rules when it comes to navigation and page design is to make it clear where the users are on the site, where they have been and where they could go next. Usually this is solved by ...
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Option for switching between a table or a list view necessary?
I have noticed that a lot of web sites that contains product category pages give the user an option to toggle between a list view and a table view of their products. Usually the only difference ...
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Too many navigation levels?
Do you thing the user workflow is too "busy" on the screenshot below?
The idea is to bring a user through all the the tabs. The workflow would be:
Use the main tabs (vertical or horizontal..not ...
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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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disabling the zoom in functionality on an iPad due to fixed navigational elements
I have an iPad-specific website which has had the "zoom-in" feature disabled on it as I have horizontal and vertical fixed navigational elements that I do not want to go out of view.
I would like to ...
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Level selection on dropdown
Designing a radio button interface for selecting how many sub-levels you would want to display for a website main menu dropdown.
The options are:
OFF
1 level
2 levels
Considering that the default ...
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Navigation Bar, mixing links and buttons
I am trying to create a navigation menu with 2 functions in it... the website 'page' navigation links and 'action' buttons... sort of like this image
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How to display a list of videos like YouTube?
I'm trying to find a nice way to display a list of video's in a way that'll allow the user at a quick glance get insight to the video's and easily let them navigate through the list of video's without ...
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Side navigation menus for Android tablets
The new trend of side navigation menus has taken over Android apps - Facebook, Evernote and now youtube and google+ are all doing the side navigation menu like here:
Though it seems like this has ...
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Slide out teasers near the bottom of the page?
On more and more sites now I'm seeing what I'm calling "slide out teasers" appearing at the bottom of pages. What happens is I'm scrolling down the page and nearing the bottom, and then a small box ...
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How to choose the better placement for Sidebar: Left or Right?
I have a question about sidebar navigation.
I am designing a web page for latest news and placed the sidebar (news navigation) on the right side. My logic was that "On the news page at first people ...
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Disabling the browser's back button in multi-page forms
We're having this internal debate where some people think that the user shouldn't use the browser's "back" button when filling a multi-page form (for security reasons), and that the whoever hits the ...
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Why choose dark navbars?
Been reading about Google's new dark navbar over at ReadWrite. It's funny that ReadWrite, as well as StackExchange, has chosen a dark navbar as well.
Why this trend to choose dark navbars?
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Dropdown navigation menus - should top menu option link to content?
I have a client with a group of users which seem to have constant troubles using a menu like these two examples:
Pages (links to a list of pages in a grid from where the user has
access to ...
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If all pages are linked in a menu, should a back button be provided?
If full navigation is provided for every page of a simple site, should there be a back button among its options?
Example Scenario:
A mobile website has 4 child pages, all accessible via navigation on ...
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Should we call “Home” something else?
In the main navigation menu of a website, should we call "Home" something else?
I am guessing that from a broad UX perspective, the answer is no -- but when are other names viable? When are they ...
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Better to use generic verbs or slash-separated specific verbs in navigation?
I'm currently revising a menu that has evolved over time to include lots of generic verbs in menu items. The biggest offender is 'Manage'. Manage Users, Manage Portal. I feel like these don't really ...
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What is the value of FAQs on a product website?
I am re-designing a product site, and the client insists on having a FAQs section. I originally placed it in an area of low prominence on the site, but now the client is questioning it. What is the ...
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Where should a 404 page link back to?
This might be a no-brainer but I can't decide whether the 404 error page should link back to the page, from which the user has come, or should it direct to the main page where the user can navigate to ...
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Drop down consistency needed on navigation on site header?
I am building a website which has a horizontal navigation in the header. Only some of the top level menu items sub-pages, so there are only drop downs on a few of the navigation options. I didn't ...
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When can UX best practices be ignored?
I suppose you could rephrase this question as "When can design supersede User Experience?"
I've just designed a Nav bar that goes against everything I stand for as a UX Professional, yet I feel I can ...
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How to tell the user to click to edit data
I'm developing a website which basically contains all the info about a serie of projects (a few hundreds). Each project has its dedicated page with all info about it (dates, classifications, schedule, ...
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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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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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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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Touchscreen interface for menu and dropdown menu ease of use
I'm doing webpage design using Twitter Bootstrap's dropdown menu.
Problem:
Suppose I have a horizontal menu as shown in the Twitter Bootstrap documentation. That menu bar that list pages I want to ...
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Back to search results
When a page has been reached from a search, rather than having a fixed location, is there any benefit to presenting a button to take the user back to the specific search they were in (and their ...
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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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Does navigation menu have to mirror the actual page structure in my site?
Can I put items in a navigation menu list, that don't actually mirror the website pages structure ?
e.g. if the pages in the site follow this structure:
Homepage
|--Products
|--Product 1
...
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Examples of mouse-over “quick preview” in a Windows app [closed]
I'm working on a UI in a Windows desktop app where the user is given a textual list of names of icon galleries; clicking on one opens that gallery. I'd like to add a "quick preview" feature so that ...
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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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Navigation on a desktop website targeting mobile-friendly users
More and more people are browsing the web primarily from their mobile devices; similarly, most young people use their phone as their main browsing device.
I'm part of the generation who grew up with ...
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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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Task-based navigation: Find a document vs Search for a document
Our web application has a task-based secondary nav bar which, for the "Documents" primary nav item, offers...
Documents
Find a document | Add a document
The "Find a document" item links to a page ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Side Navigation Highlighting Current Page Link Items
I have been working on a side navigation reconstruction project that is now entering the design phase. Through research i've noticed many sites using different colored text to highlight/bookmark user ...
