when a user directly or indirectly stores data for future use by the user or application.
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2answers
55 views
UX for encouraging naming of an auto-saved item
I’m working on a web application where users can generate results after answers questions in a workflow. Over time, they will use this workflow to generate additional, different results. Our goals ...
5
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5answers
135 views
What is the most familiar wording of linking to a PDF file?
For certain industries and user-bases, it can make sense to include a link to a PDF version of a HTML web page — so that visitors can either view or download it.
From a recognizability and ...
29
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8answers
1k views
Save, Favorite or Star?
I'm working on a job app and I would like to offer our user the possibility to save a job and let them find it quickly later.
First I thought using a star icon to let them "star" a job like starring ...
2
votes
3answers
101 views
Is there a need for save/cancel buttons in iOS app?
I am developing an investment property evaluator app that allows the user to record information about a potential investment property and evaluates the property based on certain metrics. It uses drill ...
7
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2answers
96 views
Saving: Global save vs Sectional save vs Item save vs Instant save
I have been modifying my Facebook and Gmail account settings when I come across several types of saving strategies. Take for example, at the time of this writing, Facebook:
Instant save - saves upon ...
3
votes
2answers
72 views
How much should I automatically sanitize filenames for compatibility?
I'm writing a program for Mac OS X that allows the user to drag a row from a list in the application to Finder, where it automatically exports the data represented by the row to a file named after the ...
5
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2answers
81 views
Autosave settings
We are developing an web app. Users can log-in and change their settings. We are in process of making settings page and we are wondering if Autosave option is good idea.
For example:
User edits his ...
3
votes
2answers
40 views
Include option to favor a returned result?
Is it good UX to provide a favorite button/icon to save a returned result? Let's say I'm searching for a home. I get a bunch of results, some of which I'm highly interested in. I don't see myself ...
3
votes
3answers
97 views
Saving multiple files on program close
I have a Windows desktop application that can handle multiple files open on one canvas (in one instance of the program). You can modify and save each file individually, or all in one go.
If a user ...
2
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2answers
136 views
How and when to gently prompt user to save between pages
I am working on a complete rewrite of a complex, multi-step and enterprise-/internal-facing web application. The existing application's UI was literally based upon Excel spreadsheets that had been ...
3
votes
2answers
298 views
Inline editing vs Edit view
I've seen this question asked a few times, but none that relate to my particular scenario. I'm working on a large, complex UI that involves many user types. For this screen, there are 4 types of ...
1
vote
2answers
59 views
Best default sorting for saved search queries
We run a social media search engine. We offer our users to save the advanced search queries & reports they build for future use. We have a dedicated "Saved Items" page that somewhat resembles the ...
3
votes
2answers
221 views
Large Screen - save button position - multiple forms
I have an application built for 1920 width screen. Stacked side by side there are forms that can be edited independently of editing the others, or user can edit all of them at once.
Should I have ...
1
vote
1answer
483 views
Navigation-back button and/or Cancel button in upper-left corner of iOS data entry screen?
I have an iOS screen that is usually used for data entry but is occasionally used to later view the data that's been entered.
For data entry, it seems like the iOS convention (e.g. stock email app) ...
1
vote
1answer
52 views
Should we allow empty profiles for newsletter generation?
I am working on the web application which provides newsletters for users. These newsletters are based on interests selected by users on their profiles. If user does not select anything he will just ...
2
votes
1answer
60 views
“Save as” title for selecting location
i have an UI Element :
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I cant figure out the title/label I need to give this UI element. The element is used for choosing ...
2
votes
5answers
325 views
What should I do about my save button inconsistency across tabs?
The user profile in the app I'm building is across a few tabs, however, I've had a situation where I feel the expected save functionality will be inconsistent across tabs.
Most of my tabs look ...
2
votes
2answers
248 views
Default choice for a “leave without saving changes”-dialog
I have an existing design (web application) where users can edit small parts in a webpage. A small editor will open up with the editable fields and three buttons: [Cancel & Close] [Clear] and ...
7
votes
7answers
368 views
Best solution to inform and enable users to save changes on a page
I'm working on a micro site which includes a profile section wit diverse pages.
The pages allow the user to change their profile settings - e.g. update or complete personal details they provided ...
2
votes
1answer
131 views
if a screen has unsaved changes - if the user switched to a different view, should he be prompted to save (otherwise changes will be lost)?
I'm working on a screen where the user can see the same information in 2 modes: graphic mode, and table mode (there's a toggle to switch between them). In the graphic mode, there's a graph and a ...
4
votes
4answers
229 views
Denoting a tab as being “unsaved” in a web application
I have a web application where one of it's pages uses tabs to break down the page into "bite-size" chunks. The contents in each tab has no relation to any content in any other tab and can be ...
9
votes
7answers
512 views
Should we re-think the use of the word “Save”
Inspired by discussions on using the floppy disk icon for save button, and how this might not be good enough nowdays since nobody uses floppy disks anymore, I started thinking of the word "save" ...
0
votes
1answer
175 views
“Save” Design - Wording
In the UI design I'm revising, there is a small floppy icon isolated on the main subpane toolbar. Usability tests indicate that people don't see this, so I was considering adding the word 'Save' to ...
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votes
1answer
336 views
Non-Archaic Symbol for “Save” [closed]
Scott Hanselman blogged about "14 icons that the younger generation hasn't seen to understand," like Save being a floppy disk.
I did live through the floppy era, and I find that the symbol itself ...
1
vote
1answer
69 views
Should revisions of drafts be stored?
My application has auto-saving and versioning/revisioning (keeps a copy of every change).
It also has the ability to save draft versions of things, which I define as "something that you want to save ...
3
votes
2answers
151 views
Should a popup close automatically after a user selects an option from a tree menu?
For a popup window that requires the user to select one option only from a tree menu, should the selection of this option automatically close the popup?
I think this would break the fundamental rule ...
7
votes
1answer
253 views
When to save data?
When should i save data in an business application. We have a lot of applications and currently they have not all the same behavior. I am not very experienced with UX and would like to know when I ...
2
votes
4answers
382 views
Android Explicit Save or Background Save?
My application has a interests page where the user can select which
interests they wanted selected. It looks like an expandable listview
with checkboxes.
When the user first enters the page, the ...
9
votes
6answers
2k views
Save/Cancel/Close button behavior question
The attached image shows a dialog with a save/cancel button bank and a "x" icon to close the dialog. The question I have is this. Should the cancel button even be on the modal if it does not ...
40
votes
6answers
2k views
Should I provide feedback from a save button?
I'm currently in the process of developing a Windows Application which produces Word Documents.
In the program there is the ability to save your progress (different to the "Save as a Word Document" ...
8
votes
3answers
781 views
What's the Best Placement for Save/Cancel Buttons on Very Long Forms?
I have a big project creation form having atleast having 30-40 fields where i have already grouped the relevant fields as a set(splitting into 3 columns) with proper headers, but still i have a long ...
2
votes
4answers
156 views
Optional Comments on Saving
Maybe I'm crazy, but every UI mockup I seem to get passed to me, I end up ripping apart. And in the end, my suggestions are often shot down. We end up creating UI's with what I consider to be a ...
2
votes
3answers
312 views
Behaviour of save function on modal window
I have a modal window in which are three tabbed forms:
[caveat This began life as a sliding div a la twitter, but for whatever reason I have been asked to consider a modal window]
The user uses ...
1
vote
2answers
200 views
Dialog asking to save changes when doing a selection change?
In our desktop application we have a viewer which shows the content of a selected item (both, viewer and list, are located in the same window). When the user selects a different item, its content will ...
13
votes
7answers
1k views
Disable the save button until changes are made?
We have a list of complicated things, which the user can click on to get a new view in which they can edit all the details stored for that thing.
The edit view already has a Cancel exit mechanism ...
6
votes
2answers
643 views
Guidelines for when to auto-save settings vs “save” button
In our web application we have a number of pages to do with user settings, in different categories. For most of them we have a display page with an edit button/link, which takes them to a form which ...
9
votes
6answers
986 views
Floppy disk icon for “Save” [closed]
It's funny that we still use floppy disks icon for save operation association while floppies have long been outdated, unused and many computer users nowadays don't even know how floppy disks actually ...
4
votes
1answer
324 views
When is an auto-saving form appropriate?
A trend Google has been pioneering in many Cloud applications is a sort of "autosave everywhere," especially noticable in Google documents's immediate save feature. I personally greatly prefer this ...
0
votes
1answer
87 views
Should I save changes to visible columns automatically, or require a 'save' option?
I have a page in a web app that displays a large amount of tabular data regarding certain resources. With this release, in addition to standard columns, there can be an arbitrary number of ...
0
votes
4answers
523 views
Best place for “save” button
I have a tab based interface, each tab has a form with fields, the user is supposed to make changes on each of the fields in the tabs and then click on a "save all" button to save all changes, I have ...
14
votes
6answers
1k views
Disabled submit button on form vs allow submit then show errors?
We have a few different forms as part of a web-based medical application. These forms have quite a few fields - 10-20 depending on the form. Each has at least 5 or so required fields. We currently ...
74
votes
13answers
3k views
Why don't we auto-save for users instead of having them save manually?
With the advent of Apple moving to auto-saving in its newest release Lion, should everyone start adopting the convention of auto-saving?
At first it is definitely awkward and the user can feel like ...
8
votes
5answers
420 views
Renaming a file you are currently working in, why is this still not done?
We've all experienced this: You open a new document inside an application such as Word, Excel, Textmate, or others. You work on it for a while and save it. Then you wish you could rename it. What ...
3
votes
1answer
230 views
Is autosave appropriate for password fields?
I'm developing an application that has user based access.
Each user can change some settings for their profile (localization, timezone, the password, etc). I've chosen to perform autosave (a la ...
16
votes
6answers
2k views
Autosave UI pattern
I'm developing a web app that puts great focus on simplicity and "just-use" mentality. The basic idea is to write notes. When planning the concept, we where very positive towards the idea of ...
11
votes
7answers
440 views
Saving & restoring undo stack — good or bad?
In a sovereign desktop app with multi-level undo/redo (ie Photoshop, Word, etc), would being able to save and restore the undo history of a file with the file itself be a good thing or a bad thing? My ...
14
votes
3answers
401 views
Save vs Save & Exit
We're desigining an application for creating personalized photo books through a Flash-based interface. When the application first opens, we display a dialog encouraging the user to give their project ...
