the location in time or space of a control or element, position is often controlled to imply meaning or emphasis for an item.
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Why does Google position it's content to the left rather than centred? [duplicate]
For example, Search, YouTube, etc. display content to the left of a browser.
The majority of sites I visit centre their output.
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Google Search Bar?
I wanted to test the waters and see how other fellow usability people felt about Google's search bar in all of their sub sites. For instance if you are on google search, on google drive, or in Gmail ...
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Where to place registration form and its contents in page horizontally?
In a registration form I'm having trouble guessing where I should put the text and input fields. Obviously the default is flush against the left side of the screen which looks terrible. I noticed ...
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Where is the most effective place to put search button
I am designing a page with search/filter section.
I would like to know where is the most effective place to put the search button?
In the picture the gray box, created dynamically so it maybe 15 ...
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What is the most user-friendly way to show position of a user on a long leaderboard?
I am designing a gamefication app and I need to show an overall leaderboard, displaying all users with points and positions...
The problem is that the leaderboard requires pagination and the ...
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What might be the most intuitive positioning for a “Hide Page” CTA?
Admittedly this is a rare scenario, but there are some instances where providing the user with a quick method for hiding a page or navigating elsewhere is needed.
The typical scenario being a ...
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Does a call to action button on an site for an university make it commercial and reduce its impact ?
I am working on designing a site for a client who wants to create an online music school. The client wants to keep the site very professional with an academic design which would enforce trust. However ...
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Modal popup position
Being a Mac OS X user, I've implemented a popup engine which slides from top (transition is about 300 ms, see video) and stays hooked to the top.
Most people (all developers at the moment) say ...
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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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How tall is too tall for a fixed header?
I recently incorporated a fixed header on my site and its very helpful in keeping the search and important links available at all time. But my concern is it might be a little tall. It's about 100px ...
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Where to place advertisement with the least irritation to the user
I am wondering where I should place adverts for my site. I understand a bit about human computer interaction. So I am assuming that the adverts need to be positioned in places where they will catch ...
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Most acessed top menus according to position
I wondering where is the best position to place the menu in the top of the screen to it be visualized and accessed. I think that menus in the left side and near the content are most viewed and ...
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Adding comment in a pop-up
In our system whenever a user wishes to move one entity from its module to another module he has to enter a comment in a pop-up.
I want to provide the similar functionality in another module with ...
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Should radio options be displayed vertically or horizontally?
For Example:
Results must match () All () Any () None Of the search criteria
vs
Results must match () All of the search criteria
() Any
() None
The ...
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Share Buttons on Landing Page — Where to place them?
I've been reading up on share buttons in terms of placement, effectiveness, use, etc. However, the vast majority of resources are directed at blogs and other content oriented sites -- in fact, I ...
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Admin Layout - where to put the categories list?
See the Admin layout (wireframe) below.
Header - Logo and Logout Link
Main navigation - Orders, Members, Shops, etc.
Sub-Navigation - List of links that is related to Main navigation. Eg: If you ...
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How to indicate software is a trial?
I have this software which also has a Trial version (30 Days full features active).
What is the best position to add the word "Trial" to signal this version:
the header next to the logo - there is a ...
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Where to put the link to admin section?
I have a website with searchable information for users (catalogue, search, item details, etc.). The site does not offer (and doesn't need) any log-in functionality (content is never personalised and ...
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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 ...
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Ideal location for a donate button?
I am working on a website for a non profit and they anticipate the need to have a donate button in the near future.In that context,I was revisiting the site architecture and I was wondering about ...
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Right call to action buttons vs left call to action buttons?
I read this interesting article which talks about the Gutenberg principle of a terminal area as being the most appropriate location to place a call to action button to enhance conversions.Simply put
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Which side should an illustrative picture be in an online calculator? Why?
I have designed two options, but would like to get to know which one would you prefer, and why?
Option 1:
Option 2:
On the basis of your answers and comments, I have made up a new wire. Answering ...
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Where should I put a sub-menu on the screen?
This might seem like an odd question, but where should I put a sub-menu on the screen, assuming the main menu is horizontal - similar to the Questions/Tags/Users/Badges menu on this site.
The ...
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What's the best positioning strategy for dialog boxes?
In a Windows application, there are many options for determining the starting position of a dialog.
In the center of the application's main window
In the center of the screen where the application's ...
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Toolbar at the bottom of the screen
In IE in Windows 8, the toolbar/addressbar in Internet Explorer is at the bottom of the screen. Is there any research or study that supports this kind of layout?
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Would putting a submit button at the top of a long form be usable?
I have a form with 3 long columns of checkboxes where the user needs to check whatever options she/he needs. Sortening the amount of checkboxes is not an option Im afraid.
Our users are mostly in the ...
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Field and label alignment with whitespace
I'm designing a form with a typical 970px wide page. I've been trying to read as much as possible for label alignments. What is the best way to solve an abundance of white space to the right of the ...
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Optimal placement of share on Twitter/Facebook/social media widget on web page to encourage use
Like most every site out there, I develop a site where we encourage people to share the content through Twitter and Facebook.
Also, like most other sites, the placement of the widgets is in a fixed ...
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Submit Buttons on the Left or the Right?
We have been puzzling over where to put the submit button, on the left or the right. In researching, we noticed that many sites put buttons on the bottom right in dialogue boxes, and on the bottom ...
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close button on the left or right side? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the important aspect to consider when deciding where windows interaction buttons should be placed?
From a ux point of view, does it make a difference if the ...
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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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QuickBooks UI and (still on) buttons position criteria
My company is redesigning one of its accounting software.
Intuit's QuickBooks is something that be considered in the same market field, so I took a look at its UI.
Here is the invoice management:
...
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social share buttons best position
If you go to any site with content you will have social share buttons.
I was wondering where would you consider the best position for social buttons.
I saw 3 approaches:
bottom of the content page
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In a grid, how to manually reorder rows?
I wish to let my users reorder elements in a grid - not do automatic sorting on a column. They select which element is the first, which one comes after the other, etc.
I thought of and saw some ...
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Its good , bad or neutral from psychological point of view to place a cart on the bottom of a page
I am thinking a lot the matter of the position of the ajax cart.
I have place my temporary show cart on the bottom of the page. This is just an information for the user when its add products on the ...
