in kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display
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Scroll in a dialogue overlay (lightbox)
I have been asked to redesign some existing dialogue overlays, which have a lot of options within them. So many in fact, that they're using both vertical tabs and a scrollbar to manage the volume of ...
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Should I avoid using a scrolling div?
I am currently implementing a prototype of Lisa Tweedie's answer to my question about having too many checkboxes.
The prototype I am building will look quite similiar to this:
Problem:
I am working ...
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What's the appropriate scrolling deceleration behavior?
I am implementing a list view on a touch screen.
I want to implement iPhone-like behavior, where you can scroll through the list by dragging any part of the list with your finger.
The hard part is ...
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Does pagination make the impression that there is more content than when it is displayed all at once?
Does pagination make the impression that there is more content than when it is displayed all at once?
Note that this is not the regular "Is pagination better than scrolling?" question. I'm only ...
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Vertical & Horizontal Scrollable UI
I am creating a UI that will allow users to search. The search results are displayed in a section that is scrollable both horizontally and vertically. This is weird because the web page will end up ...
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Would adding horizontal scrolling to Facebook profiles be a good idea?
I saw these designs by Fred Nerby. He proposed adding horizontal scrolling to Facebook profiles. Is this good UI?
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What are the pros and cons of mixing horizontal scrolling with vertical scrolling?
I'm working on a new site for a company. We are working on a new concept for them, using horizontal and vertical scrolling. We know that the users that interact with the sites are advanced users so a ...
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Forcing the user to view the entire disclosure before continuing on a kiosk
For a KIOSK application, the user is required to view the entire disclosure before they are allowed to continue. This is a legal requirement, the legal team also turned down an 'I agree' checkbox. We ...
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Why do some patterns flicker in strange colors while scrolling? [closed]
This image (source: Guardian Business) exhibits strange behavior when scrolling on some browsers. At 100% in Safari (on OS X on an LCD display), it flickers red when scrolling; at some zoom levels it ...
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Multiple forms on a single screen
I have about 5 sets of forms to be filled up by the user, one by one. Most of the fields in these set of forms are mandatory so it is obvious that the user has to check out all these 5 forms. Now I ...
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Mouse scroll wheel should target focus or hover?
I've noticed an inconsistency with controls responding to scroll input. Different OSs (and even different programs within the same OS) behave differently.
Here's the scenario:-
Imagine you have two ...
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How to hint that there's more beyond what you see in a scroll view?
I'm developing an (iOS) app that mainly consists of a UIScrollView. The view is paged and the scroll bar turned off, so currently there is nothing to indicate to the user that they can scroll down and ...
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How to handle very long accordions?
I have condensed a rather long list of items into an accordion so that only the titles are initially visible and the accordion expands to show the details. The list contains the main content of the ...
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What's a good UI for a “zoom” function?
I'm making a component for a webpage that will need zooming in and out at the location of the mouse cursor. The de-facto standard way I know of doing this is via Ctrl+Mousewheel... but I can't use ...
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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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Iphone app test scrolling
I’m designing a test for an iphone and android app.
The test consists of 10 questions. Each question has 3 answers, A,B and C. The length of the question and the answers are variable and pulled ...
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What options do I have for variable width data, but without horizontal scrolling?
I've written a weather app for Android. Its primary screen and function shows a data table with multiple columns (e.g. temp, wind speed, wind gust, pressure, etc). A feature of my app is the ability ...
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Help find the fastest and easiest-to-grasp approach to let a user go through a complex schedule
I want to let users view schedules on a mobile phone.
Its a generic schedule of events
Events can be spread across multiple days
Events can be spread across multiple venues
An event has a time slot ...
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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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Research on continuously animating list panel content
I am trying to find evidence for or against automatically scrolling (animating) panel content. Please open this Axure prototype to see exactly what I am talking about.
http://share.axure.com/5287A1
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When should scrolling navigation bars be employed?
A few sites have recently deployed scrolling nav bars. (Twitter is one example.) A scrolling nav bar starts at the top of the page and then follows you as you scroll down and up the page.
I think ...
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Effect for smooth scrolling over slider/carousel
What is this effect called?
http://ruudvaneijk.nl/
when you scroll down you see it scrolls a bit over the slider on the top.
I searched the internet for half an hour but could not find how it's ...
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Using scrolling up from pageload to reveal additional content
There are certain sites have a pattern where the page loads, and then if a user scrolls up, additional content is presented. I know that NBCNews.com does this with certain pages, and I've been told ...
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Should Carousels auto-scroll?
I am redesigning a portfolio site and a suggestion was given that we should use a carousel to show featured works. This would allow us the flexibility to define as many featured works as needed. ...
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Should scrolling be disabled when there are no items to scroll to?
Assume a horizontal scrollview is being populated with 2 views, leaving 80% of the scroller empty.
Should scrolling be disabled?
Allowing the user to scroll makes the 2 views move without a purpose.
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Is scrolling acceptable in dashboard design?
I am designing a Business dashboard (Financial Product). All info is reachable in a single scroll and primary insights are visible without scroll.
As some information below the fold the customer ...
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Parallax technique on the Web: Types and Best-practices [closed]
I'm trying to gather some best-practices on how to use the parallax effect, combined with different types of uses of the technique.
Here is my beginning, do you know more than me? (probably!) What am ...
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Why did google change the behaviour of the cursor keys on the search results screen?
In August 2011, Google made the following change to the search results (this is no longer default behaviour, though can still be accessed by hitting the Tab button):
I use my cursor keys to move ...
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Name of this semi ubiquitous pattern in Google Now search field?
With Android JellyBean, Google introduced Google Now, which is a fantastic addition in itself as far as I'm concerned.
One interesting feature usability wise, something that dmh pointed out in a ...
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Is it OK for scrolling interactions to not scroll content?
This is a general question about scrolling behavior with a trackpad or mouse. I've been discussing this with my peers, and it's become quite a debate.
Our conversations are specifically about the ...
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Keyboard hiding lower buttons on small Android screens
I have a application (Android) which have scroll activity form. On which there is a button for next screen (lowest of scroll). It's looking fine on large screens of android devices. But keyboard hides ...
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Touchscreen: Select small zones from a huge scrollable image
My app lets the user take a picture of a sheet of paper, then select a block of 2-3 words, then another block.
The user must be able to clearly read the (potentially tiny) written words, so she will ...
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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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Does a URL fragment identifier have a bad effect on user experience?
In this link from CSS-Tricks, it's claimed that using the hash sign in a URL for linkablity purposes is not a good idea, because browsers will scroll to the item which has its id mentioned in the ...
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how to display long text on mobile website
I trying to display a 2 page long page in a mobile website, i tried text area option but the scroll bars are not getting displayed in iphone mobile web. What are the ways you can think of for ...
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What's the most efficient/least troublesome way to scroll when reading on mobile?
For reading purposes on mobile devices, what is the way to go? Paging or scrolling? If I want to give the reader the option of a scroll, should the controls for that be on-screen or in a menu?
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Should I use dynamic fast scroll on an Android application?
I'm developing an app on the Android platform and the main UI component used is a ListView. Now, in my case, this ListView may contain a huge amount of items (depending on the user) so with that in ...
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Examples of designs that keep a title or heading in view [closed]
I'm looking for examples of designs where there is special logic that prevents a title, heading, or landmark from being moved out of view, so that the user doesn't lose their context.
Examples:
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Need advice on a scroll situation where the clicked item is hard to place
I am developing a GUI where I have a list with products to the left. When a product is selected, an info box is shown to the right. My problem is that the scrollbar for the products is placed to the ...
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Would a shake-to-scroll-to-the-top scroll view annoy users?
I have a very functional and minimal application where I try to maintain functionality and screen real estate at the same time.
My scroll view takes up the whole screen and I would like it to stay ...
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When should stepping through a list wrap around?
Given a list of items (messages in an email reader, tracks in a music library, options in a menu) that can be stepped through with arrow keys, when is it appropriate for scrolling to wrap around when ...
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Is there any research to confirm whether “classic” scrolling or OS X Lion's scrolling style is “better”?
...or scrolling the content vs. scrolling the window (video for Apple's "natural scrolling")
I'm a happy Lion user now and (as many of us know) by default, the scrolling mechanism is reversed. The ...
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Why is the user experience of licence agreements always so terrible?
Why is it that the user experience of licence agreements always seems to be intentionally unpleasant and difficult?
The font is nearly always too small. The text is dense and difficult to scan. ...
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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 Twitter's official clients invert the scroll direction on some screens?
Twitter's official clients on some platforms (iOS, OSX) invert the scroll direction when reading DMs and @replies from a specific person. Is this the best UX in your opinion, or is it just confusing? ...
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Android - Is it a good idea to display a list of horizontally scrollable lists (shelves)?
The project I'm currently working on requires that I present a list of "shelves" to the user. These shelves need to be in a standard, vertically scrollable list, and each shelf should be scrollable ...
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Scrollable element within a scrollable element
Is it a bad idea to have a scrollable element within a scrollable element? I sometimes feel it tricky because, when I scroll with the mouse or keys, the element that I didn't intend sometimes scrolls.
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Maximun number of page scrolls (or swipes) on mobile website
I'm trying to find some numbers / data / studies / testing that uncovers the maximum number of scrolls (swipes) that should be used on a mobile site in determining page length. I know the typical best ...
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Native-style scrolling on mobile devices
What does native scrolling refer to on mobile platforms and tablets ? Does it refer to the inertia feel of a scrolling list ? The ability to pull down the list for refresh ? Or both. I'm having a hard ...
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Why are most lightbox galleries on the Web using a previous/next paradigm, instead of a vertical scrolling?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
The computer mouse allows to easily scroll vertically, so why are most of the standalone image viewers (lightboxes, etc..) ...
