An interface element that indicates the progress of process by filling a percentage of a shape (usually a rectangle or a bar) with a color. The percent of the bar that is filled reflects the progress (If the action is 25% complete, the progress bar will be 25% full).
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Is it a bad idea to have two progress bars in one dialog?
I'm discussing with my teammates this morning but we're not sure which one is the best way.
Scenario: When users select a single document to process, they will see a progress bar and text displaying ...
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Can a visual progress bar be used as a navigational element?
We're having a bit of a debate here among teammates as to what would be a better UX solution, so I was hoping you guys could help me settle this.
We have a linear flow through a data-collection ...
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Battery - what percentage range to use for each color?
I need to display battery with 3 colors: green, orange (or yellow?) and red.
This device's battery (like iPad, iPhone etc..) with a battery life of up to two days.
What percentage range to use for ...
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Progress bar that allows to understand both current and maximum values
I need to design a health bar for a game, so that the player could guess at a glance not only its relative value (i.e. amount of remaining health compared to its maximum), but also to understand how ...
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How to show progress towards goal?
On our intranet we display some numbers for our employees so they can keep track of their performance goals. Currently it's just a table.
We'd like something more visual, and this was the first ...
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How should I alter my programs progress bar?
An application I have just been asked 'to take care of' has some interesting code features.
One is that when it is loading up the login screen, it displays a 'splash' with a progress bar. This splash ...
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Should progress bars show percentage
In the application I am designing we are currently just displaying a circle that rotates clockwise from gray to green. Inside the circle is a number indicating where in the process it is (20, 50, 90). ...
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Is it bad UX to omit a progress indicator?
Background: Stack Exchange now lets you paste images from the clipboard into the image upload dialog. Unfortunately, there is no indication that an upload is going on. I am wondering if this is ...
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How to make a progress-speed bar more understandable?
I've just installed Windows 8 and noticed the brand new File copying dialog. When expanded, it shows the progress and the current transfer speed in one graph. However, the graph confuses me greatly. ...
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Signing up for a site. Finishing progress after step 1 of 4. What/How to indicate?
EDIT: Screenshots will be added soon to better explain the problem
I got a four step progress on a website signup page and have a 4 stepped progress bar to indicate where the user is currently at:
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Showing progress for a long many-step process with a discrete progress bar?
I've got a desktop-focused web application where the user is going to be initiating tasks that take a long time. Sometimes, these tasks will take hours to complete (users don't have to do anything ...
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Alternatives to the progress bar
I'm designing a website which elements that have a "progress" property, a bit like change.org or KickStarter.
Both of these websites use the classic progress bar. We would like to innovate. What are ...
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What's the cleanest option for a loading indicator in a login dialog?
I have a login dialog for a desktop application, something like this:
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When the user clicks on Login, the color of the ...
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How should I display a “please wait” animation?
I have to create a "please wait" page on our website. I would think you usually put the words "please wait" with some kind of spinning animation, but do I really need text?
Doesn't an hourglass or ...
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How to handle long processing task in UI?
We have a Desktop based WinForms application. Application performs some very complex logic in database and is bound to take long time. By long time i mean it will take anything from 1 min to 20 min ...
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Multipart progress / status bar colours
I am working on an application that needs to show users their currents status / progress in performing a task on a number of items. There are three states that each item can have:
New (blue) - ...
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Conveying progress for a set of items each with 2 stages
I think I have an issue with the hierarchy of information in trying to convey progress to a user. On the dashboard of a non-profit dashboard I have the following option:
The organisation deal with ...
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A single, long load - or multiple short loads, which would provide a better experience?
I have a very large, modular web application.
When it starts I can do things one of three ways:
A moderately long load time (about 60 seconds) to fetch all of the modules from the server (presented ...
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Why are progress bars horizontal?
Question sparked by this discussion.
Why are progress bars almost always presented as horizontal lines that increase from left to right? Is this the best method of indicating progress (and why)? And ...
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How to deal with variable number of steps in discrete progress bar?
We have an application that various other departments will use to create questionnaires. These questionnaires can hide or show extra questions based on responses to previous questions.
When creating ...
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How mixed percentage bars should be?
By mixed percentage bars, I mean something like the "likes bar" in youtube, with a left percentage bar, a right percentage bar, and maybe a separator:
Should they be like:
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From which direction should a modal progress bar enter the scene?
I have a form to create a new Widget. After the user presses "Create," a modal progress bar appears and shows the user the status of the background process that saves the Widget. How should the modal ...
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When shortening time expressions in progress dialogs, should they be rounded up or down?
When a user executes any prolonged task, including downloading large files or copying many files, an interface such as the one below is typically displayed to keep the user informed of the progress.
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Confirmation screen after e-mail verification part of multi step process or not?
I am designing a multistep proces that nicely shows the user which step he is in. Between the second to last and the last step the user needs to click on a confirmation link send via e-mail.
My ...
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How do you treat overview and detail pages when displaying a progress bar?
I have a progress bar at the top of all pages in a signup process:
Personal details > Contact details > Choose membership package > Buy > Finish
The order of these steps is fixed but I ...
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Indeterminate Progress Indicator Styles
When you have an operation that has too many factors to reliably give an estimate of actual progress towards task completion, you'll often find an indeterminate busy/progress indicator.
Through the ...
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Displaying wait indicator for a long running task — which sometimes completes quickly
In a web application I am working on there are some actions which usually take a few seconds or longer, depending on typical variables (connection speed, PC speed, amount of data involved, host load, ...
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What gives the impression of faster progress: progress bar or countdown?
Any thoughts on what would be a more effective progress indicator: a progress bar or a countdown? I've seen both used and get the feeling that with the countdown, time seems to pass faster.
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Why do progress bars animate backwards?
Gmail's new loading bar drew my attention to this today:
The colored pattern inside the bar animates from right to left.
The Mac OS progress bars do the same:
Is there a reason for this? If I ...
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Gallery of form Progress Tracker UIs for web apps? [closed]
I'm building web UI for a "wizard" workflow with 4 sequential steps-- users proceed in order from Step 1 through Step 4. I'd like to include a progress indicator showing the user where in the ...
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How can I display progress through a multi-step wise process to be carried out by user? (Smartphones / Tablets) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you indicate progress to users in a multi-step form?
What is the best way to display progress in a multi-step process (for e.g. linear filling various forms) on ...
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Progress Indicator suggestions for multithreaded operations?
In the old version of our application, the operations performed during loading were sequential. We indicated progress by updating a single-line text string with the component that was being loaded. ...
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Jumping progress bar or running process indicator?
I'm developing a process with a predefined number of steps to complete so while process is running I can know how far the process has gotten and how much is there still to be done.
My process ...
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Progress Bars - Why are they never “useful”?
I'm sure many people have noticed this before and I can't be the only one to be annoyed by this, but progress bars (I'm referring typically to those that display the progress of the execution of ...
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What are some iPhone app examples that successfully use progress indicators [closed]
I am designing a iPhone app and the main function of the app is a 3 step process (steps most likely don't happen all at once (there could be a period of time between steps, unlike a signup flow). I ...
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How to show that a bar is loading?
I'm building a game.
Each character has an energy bar. It's red when it's in the low, and green when it's full.
I'd like to make it obvious for the user to see that the bar is progressing ( getting ...
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What is the name for the technique used on Yammer, LinkedIn etc profile pages?
The technique I mean is where the profile page will say "You have completed 60% of your profile, fill in your x, y and z to get to 100%". I think this is a very powerful technique but I can't remember ...
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UI pattern for showing progress of concurrent tasks?
This is in the context of a desktop application.
Typically if you fire off a request to some back end server then it is nice to be able to show some sort of progress indicator in say the status with ...
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Visualization of a resource with multiple competitors
In a game I am working on, the goal is to gather a specific percentage of some limited resource. Additionaly, players can shoot each other, resulting in a permanent loss of some amount of this ...
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Do progress bars help completion rates?
I'm expanding on a question I posed in comments on How do you indicate progress to users in a multi-step form?.
Roland made the comment "because everybody wants to reach 100% percent" when discussing ...
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How do you indicate progress to users in a multi-step form?
What do you think of the following form design which I've prepared?
there's a progress bar in the top
on the right side the steps are listed, and every time the current state is indicated by ...
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Using progress bars in long web forms: motivating or demotivating?
I've been going through the jQuery demos to determine which UI widgets could be used to help optimise our user's journeys through our web forms.
One such widget is the progress bar, but it raises a ...
