is the act of arranging elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
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Why does the email subject appear before the body when composing an email?
Note: I am not talking about reading experience, I am focusing on the experience of composing email.
I am very aware of this issue since it happens to me all the time, and I am pretty sure that it ...
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How should email threads be ordered?
I thought I had the answer to this question. If you view raw email, you can see that the most recent email is at the top, with the rest below in reverse chronological order. I think it's fair to say ...
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Dropdown option order best practices when not using alpha sorting
Looking for some best practices on ordering dropdown options when using a logical sort vs an alphabetical sort. To keep this from being open ended, here are some specific cases:
Chronological - ...
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2answers
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Log add to top or bottom
In my WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) application I have a log that display important events in the application.
I'm unsure where to add new events? Or in other words, how should I sort the ...
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Best order for the company history page?
I'm making a company history page for 2005 to today.
Each year has a paragraph about what happened that year.
I'm conflicted as to whether I should show 2005 first (and let the user scroll down to ...
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How many steps should a checkout process have?
I'm currently auditing an e-commerce website, and I noticed that the checkout process has 3 steps:
Login/registration
Delivery address/payment
Verify/place order
The page of the step 2 is quite ...
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1answer
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Ordering a short list of images with HTML input elements
I want to create a quick survey in Amazon Mechanical Turk for an image sorting task, say from brighter to darker images. I know that I can even create an external website and design a drag-and-drop ...
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Insert New Item - Before or After Selected?
For a list that allows the user to control the order of items, where should new items be inserted?
Hamlet
**Ophelia**
Polonius
After hitting "New Item", where should it go?
Before the ...
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Order of items in a checklist vs the order those items are checked off
I have a modal with a sidebar of checkboxes that, when checked, append options to a panel on the right for the user to customize.
Example:
My question: I currently have the items being ...
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2answers
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What impacts the user's visual flow on geometrically non-traditional web layouts?
I'm interested in making pages that don't conform to the traditional layout of a rectangular grid, for example:
Using a grid of hexagons or triangles.
Placing the title in the center of the page ...
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1answer
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Order of items in admin panel?
When editing a product, its variants are shown as accordion headings using twitter bootstrap; clicking on one reveals the form to edit the variant.
My question relates to the ordering of the items, ...
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Threaded messaging, simplicity
I am building a many to many messaging system, which means that one user can send a message to 35 other users, and any one of these users can reply, to this message, which then again everyone else can ...
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1answer
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Order of fields in contact forms
I'm looking for evidence to support changing order of fields in various contact forms.
The first is a general form with:
Enquiry details - textarea
Where did you hear about us? - textarea
...
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What is a good visual cue for drag and drop? (for reordering a list of items)
I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on what is the best visual cue to indicate to the user that list items can be reordered via drag and drop?
Here are a few options I've been playing around ...
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How to prevent bias toward top filter results?
We have a part of our intranet that lists all the foreign language speakers within the organization that fellow employees can reach out to if they need translation assistance. Naturally, there are ...
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2answers
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Best way to reorder a list on a web page
I started using the Careers site in the StackExchange group of sites and came to entering my list of publications. I had my initial set of 15 or so that have already been published. The list widget on ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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In a grid should I allow rows to be moved or use in place cell edit?
What is a better trade off:
Allowing users to move rows around within a grid by dragging them and placing an "Edit" button on each row (see image)
Giving users an in-place cell edit capability and ...
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5answers
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In what order should contestants' entries be presented?
We run contests in which people submit either a photo or video, then audiences vote online each day for their favorites. When there are enough entries that many fall below the fold (particularly in ...
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1answer
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Guidelines for ordering of tabs?
I am wondering if there are some guidelines for ordering of tabs.
Typically we see General tab as the first which makes sense. What if there is no general tab? How to decide which ones should follow ...
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1answer
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Flow of Dynamic Grid
There's a recent trend in web design to use dynamic masonry grids, like Pinterest, for just about everything these days. If you haven't seen such a layout before, it presents content of variable ...
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3answers
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Ordering Timezones for an Event
I have an event website that I'm working on and noticed that my client wants all 4 US Continental timezones to be accounted for the time of the event.
For example:
Sunday, January 1st | 1:00 PM EST ...
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Which comment sorting order makes more sense on blogs?
I realize this is a pretty minor thing but anyway. I'm adding comment support to my website/blog. I'm trying to decide if I want the comments to be sorted from oldest to newest or from newest to ...
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1answer
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Alphabetical lists - horizontal or vertical?
When listing a large set of data alphabetically Is it better to list them horizontally or vertically? Craiglist lists states in columns vertically. Another site I've been using ...
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1answer
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what is the ideal order of fields to have in a contact form?
I'm working on a contact form and was wondering on the order of fields.
if I should start with the subject first and then name, email and message field or name, email subject and message field.
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2answers
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How should I sort items in a drop down list?
I have a simple drop down list containing about 12 choices. The choices are not countries, states, or any other common set of items that users would be used to scanning alphabetically or by name. ...
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Can tags have hierarchy?
Does anyone have experience working with nested tags? I could not find any websites that allow users to have hierarchies in their tags (equivalent to non-mutually exclusive categories). Is it a bad ...
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Should menu items be listed alphabetically or in order of most common use?
I have a bunch of little submenus on a site I've inherited and their ordering is pretty random. I know there has been research showing adaptive menu ordering is confusing/frustrating and that a ...
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2answers
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Advice on ordering horizontal lists of commands
I have a set up like this with a title and then several buttons/links to perform actions:
TITLE delete preview share stats publish
All else considered equal, I'm trying to consider how to ...
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What is the best way to order items on an admin page?
We have a Content Management System (near enough).
The picture below is the Administration page, which is a flex based front end, viewed in a browser.
Thanks to Roger-A on another Q, he gave me the ...
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2answers
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Item list - where should a new item go? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Location of new items in list
Let's say you have a list of item you can order. When you add a new item should it go on top or to bottom? Did you read any studies about ...
