Pagination refers to the splitting of information across multiple pages and the related navigation control.
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Infinite scroll vs Pagination in E-commerce websites
Infinite scroll has been around for a while now, however I have not seen infinite scroll being implemented on any successful or well known e-commerce sites.
Does anyone know of any e-commerce sites ...
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New Style of Pagination Pattern
I was looking at a few of the huge ecommerce sites, and how they handle pagination.
Asos
Amazon
I've shown how Asos and Amazon handle it above. This pagination works okay if there are 5 or so ...
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How to paginate alphabetically grouped items?
I am in the process of creating an interface for browsing contacts in a CRM. I have the contacts displayed in alphabetical groups. like so:
A------------------------------
Andrew Bloggs
...
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Should I use pagination in a forum's thread
I am designing a forum with large discussions, with no specific need to order answers. Do I need to implement pagination or should I maintain one unique page per thread?
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Resorting items after editing on a paginated page
We show a list of users in a paginated fashion (10 rows per page). There is a column to flip the status of an user to activate or disable. Assuming I am in the 3rd page and I am disabling a user. ...
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Alternatives to scrolling to display long text? [duplicate]
As you can see on the picture below, my text is displayed within a 'relatively small' DIV. Currently users have the possibility to scroll down within the DIV to read the full text but I don't really ...
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Fixed items on table list - how should I paginate it?
I have a table list that consists of two areas:
The top area has 'new' items which require attention and action from the user. It is important that these are noticed.
The other area includes the ...
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Which page should we go to after results are deleted?
I have a list of users shown in a paginated fashion and need to determine how to handle these two scenarios:
Scenario 1
41 users, 10 users per page - There will be 5 pages and the 5th page will ...
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Is scrolling better than clicking to reveal more content?
Which is faster? Scrolling down or clicking a button to reveal more content? Currently, our site requires clicking of page numbers to reveal more content. We have 9 channels per page, which fits on ...
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When is it better to paginate and not to paginate?
I've heard some people say that if you have a long document you should break it into relatively short pages. Others (including the curmudgeon Jakob Nielsen) say that pagination is common practice but ...
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Is there a point to paginating articles online?
Is it better to paginate a long article or show the entire article on one page?
The following is a side-by-side of the same article. On the left is page one with navigation and on the right is the ...
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Pagination of tree structure tables
Ok first things first. I did not design this layout but all feedback is appreciated. I
have a web app that takes in a user file and spits out a table. the table also has hierarchy.
Lets say its a ...
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Regular pagination vs. infinite scroll
I'm currently making a dating site, my choice for pagination is between the traditional:
[<< Prev] [1] [2] [3] [Next >>]
vs
[ Load More ]
The 2nd is the "load more" bar or button ...
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Multiple level alphabetical pagination [closed]
I want to paginate a long list of words by alphabet in multiple levels (by first letter, then by second letter, and so on). What are possible ways to do this?
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What are some alternative design patterns I can use in this case?
I'm working on a magazine-style website which has a fluid two-column box centered in the middle of the screen (think of this as the spread of a magazine). The left column contains an image and the ...
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How to effectively paginate many objects
We used to have a table interface which showed 1-10 on load and had the pages listed all the way from 2, 3, 4, ... n.
We would like to re-design this interface to support scrolling of objects much ...
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Alternative for circles page indicator for many pages?
What's a good alternative for indicating that the user can swipe across the screen to get the next/previous item and/or showing the current position, considering that there are many pages (usually ...
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Pagination vs Scroll in is iOS apps (ecommerce) [duplicate]
Do you have any detailed study on expected navigation patterns in iOS applications, especially in ecommerce apps?
We are designing a photo shoot & order application and I would like to get to ...
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Scrolling vs. Pagination for a Mobile Order Form
Ok here is my windows mobile application for ordering system. As client requested i added a next page button (the button after the +). This turns a page with preferences of a product. However most of ...
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Paging buttons position – Top, Bottom or both?
The question is on where to place the paging buttons on a catalog page. We have some basic choices here.
Only on bottom.
Both on bottom and on the top.
The obvious argument to place it only on ...
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hierarchical tables?
I have a shallow tree to display: action -> action item -> error
There can be millions of actions, tens to thousands of items per action and (usually) 0 to 1 errors per item. There can be also errors ...
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Android tablet app pagination
I got an tablet app, and I'm facing a usability issue, I got several people who never had seen the app, and put them to test it, some already had smartphone/tablet experiences, and some not. The app ...
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Best way to add items to a paginated list
I have a long list of items sorted by date that is pageable. When a user adds an item it is shown and highlighted in the list. The problem I have is that the date entered affects where it ends up in ...
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How to avoid pagination when an items list is very large (Webapp)?
We have a web application for correcting automatically-detected mistakes in translation documents. Those are split into sentences and their amount can be up to hundred thousands (its not even closely ...
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Browsing a data table with scroll bar or paging?
I have a web application. On the homepage dashboard there are several tables containing a lot of records/rows, say 300. Sometimes users have to browse all of the rows in a table instead of directly ...
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Is it a good experience if a table pagination doesn't refresh the whole page but only its own area
I'm working on a UI pattern thing for an ERP system. the problem is about the table pagination.a common table have a pagination, I'm fine with that.
Here is the problem, if there is a lot of content ...
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Symbol for additional content present in a passive display
I have a digital signage application in which a portion/row can show a max of 3 blocks of information at a time. The number of total blocks vary from 2 to 6, in which 90% will only contain 2 or 3. On ...
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Horizontal scrolling of a small area on a desktop website
It seems that a new design patterns is becoming more popular in mobile apps. If you look at the latest release of the App Store they use a horizontal swipe pattern in order to navigate through various ...
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Should the pagination widget be shown when there is only 1 page?
I am building a social network web application. When a user visits a profile, he can visit a page that contains a list of the profile's friends.
That page is paginated with a simple pagination widget ...
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Why paginate/page break an infinitely scrolling dynamic list?
There is no shortage of pagination questions on UX.SE.
Still, something struck me recently while looking through Google's Image search: it's a dynamically-loaded, infinitely-scrollable list with ...
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Pagination urls
Currently considering a couple different URL schemes for pagination:
/blog/ -> First result page
/blog/1/ -> First result page
/blog/2/ -> Second result page
Another ...
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Floating submit/cancel buttons
I have a form in the system I am currently working on which loads in a dialogue window within the system. The form is about 3 times the length of the window it shows in, which obviously scrolls.
I ...
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adding/removing/searching thousands of data
I have 2 tables : a contract table and a part table.
every contract has thousands of parts.
The user can select a contract and I display the thousands of related parts to the user using paging.
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Pagination - a thing of the past? [closed]
This article on pagination left me with mixed feelings.
Is pagination always a usability
issue?
Should more sites utilise the
'endless page'?
Who's got it right? Twitter? Bing
images? Someone ...
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Best practice for displaying no of records on datagrid
I am designing a banking application where i have a record count of over 1000 rows. I wanted to understand the ideal design patterns for pagination and displaying rows on a data grid.
I am ...
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How do I elegantly limit text area input by size not by character count.
I am building a web app that requires user input of text and images to be placed on a PDF page which will later be printed as a letter. This page will have a specified area for text and a specified ...
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Best table pagination pattern for a mobile browser experience
The dominant UI pattern for pagination involves a list of numbers.
<< First < Prev 1... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...27 Next > Last >>
sometimes including a "+10" link, and/or a "jump to" ...
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Pagination usability in eCommerce
I've started to read that pagination in eCommerce is bad practice because of the implications it has on SEO (seo source 1 and seo source 2) . However, I feel like every site out there users pagination ...
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Tab Overflow: What to do when I run out of space for yearly tabs?
I have page that lists previous recipients of an award, with tabs separating each year's winners.
Every year there are forty recipients.
The recipient's name is listed, along with his or her job ...
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Should pagination be capped in web app search results?
Search results can be a funky thing to design sometimes when it comes to the value of results for a user. IN this Web App I am helping build, the global search bar, when searched, can lists results ...
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First Checkbox in header - selects all available records or only showing records (excluding pagination)
While showing hundreds of records in a table, I am dividing it in set of 10 records. First column is for check boxes for selecting record(s). User can select one or multiple records and clicks the ...
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How to make user notice the paging feature
This is a typical admin page, There is a table, a lot of rows, you can sort it by clicking on the header and you can select a different page at the bottom ( I set it show only 5 rows for testing ...
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Pagination on navigation links?
On a web application we have two ways to navigate to our collaborative project sites. One is the “recent visits” and the other is alphabetical. That navigation element has a fixed element height of ...
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Type ahead search and URL history entry
I am designing a user management system for an intranet. It takes after most traditional interfaces for managing and editing user details.
The system is designed with fall back so that users without ...
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Pagination : which page numbers to show?
On my blog I put the following links to show pagination (première and dernière mean first and last, respectively) :
But on the stackexchange sites the links are different :
Which is easier to ...
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Pagination - Placement of Navigation Control Relative to Search Results?
In a web application I am building, I will have a list of search results I am displaying to a user in a tabular format. I plan to page the results in smaller groups (10 for example) for performance ...
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How to handle pagination in lists that autoupdate
My current project is a running system that I've been tasked with improving.
The user task is monitoring and adding information, when for example somebody calls on the phone with news. There are ...
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Is 10 search results per page the best?
When there are a lot of search results they often are paginated. Most search engines I know show 10 results per page. I guess this was born out of an easy technical solution or habit. But I don't know ...
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How many items should a list optimally display? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is 10 search results per page the best?
We have a webshop where the products are listed in rows of 3, each being 340 pixels high. One of our categories now has 38 ...
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Whats the design rationale behind putting the pagination of the bottom end of the search results?
If you look at the search results provided by Google and Bing,they have their pagination right at the bottom (after all the search results in a page are displayed)
I was just wondering about the ...
