in kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display
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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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Rough and fine adjustments with horizontal slider
I'm used to scrolling being thrice as effective as arrowkeys in Firefox.
I want to give the ability to quickly and roughly adjust values by hovering over the slider and using the scrollwheel. Finest ...
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How many items in a carousel should be shown to the user at a glance?
Is there any recommendation or best practice?
The context is that of a web application running on desktops. The number of items is variable ranging from 4 to around 10.
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Vertical & Horizontal Scrollable UI
I am creating a UI that will allow users to search and the search results of which are displayed in section that is scrollable both horizontally and vertically. This is kind of weird because the web ...
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Most common ways users scroll a website
Are there any studies that show the percent usage of the following techniques for scrolling a long web page?
Mouse scroll wheel
Up/Down arrow key
Page Up / Page Down | Home / End keys
Dragging ...
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The Great Mobile UX Debate: Scroll or Click
Here's the stage:
We have an inspection app on windows mobile. We are considering a html version. There are numerous inspections and there is an internal debate as to whether
all questions should ...
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iPhone & Mobile Web: Pagination vs. Load more vs. Scrolling
We're working on a iPhone app and mobile website with search results loaded from the web. Several sorting options are available, every result has a photo. There are potentially hundreds of results.
I ...
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In what situations would pagination be perferable over scrolling on the iPhone?
In the case of displaying blocks of text I know that the majority of applications on the iPhone support scrolling. Notable exceptions are ebook apps like iBooks and the Kindle app.
Is the decision ...
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Multiple lists on one screen — best approach?
Let's say I have a profile screen with two lists: one for Friends and another for Hobbies. This is just an example. It could as well be a Customer screen with Suppliers and Orders. I'm looking to ...
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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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Scrollbars as a semi-transparent overlay
In most GUI implementations today, scrollbars take up a dedicated space next to the scrollable content. How about presenting scrollbars as a semi-transparent overlay on top of the scrollable content? ...
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Long scrolling form or 3 compact pages?
I have a form with three sections, each with about a dozen fields:
General Product Information
Product Details
Shipping Options
Should I place all sections on a single page (thereby forcing the ...
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Scroll function in a map layer control
I'm currently working in a project where we're building an application with a map as an important component. In the map there's a layer control with map layers grouped in to different categories. As ...
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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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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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What reasons are there to not break a web applications default scrolling mechanism?
on the project I am working on, they want the web application to have the header, sidebar and footer remain fixed in the browser. So only the content area will scroll. I don't think this is a good ...
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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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Implement Drag-Scrolling everywhere?
After using a smartphone for a year or so, I find myself sometimes on the PC trying scroll a page by just clicking into the empty space and dragging around. Of course, in most programs, it either has ...
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To scroll down or to use thumbnails, that's the question…while building a web portfolio interface.
What is more efficient: scrolling down or opening thumbnails?
Which one would respect the user's patience the most?
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Scrollable tabs
To use or not to use horizontally scrollable tabs? You can see them in iTunes store or
see this demo: http://flowplayer.org/tools/scrollable/index.html#demos
Sometimes I am little bit surprised while ...
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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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1answer
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Ever-shrinking scrollbar sliders in very long documents
I am working on a very long document in Word 2007, and it's getting difficult to navigate around it. Well, I can navigate by headings, etc., but lets focus on the scrollbar slider.
The problem is ...
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1answer
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Should an iPhone application scroll to the top of a table when resorting
My application has a table view with a segmented control in a navigation bar. When the users taps a segment in the segmented control, the application fades the table into it's newly sorted state. The ...
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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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4answers
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How to scroll up and down a mobile document
Assume you are using a mobile device where the only scrolling method is an up/down control - no scrollbars or other 'proportional' controls. You are viewing documents which typically have many links ...
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Scrollbar on the left
Is there a deep study that suggests to place a scrollbar on the right? Personally I move it to the left whenever it's possible (firefox allow this, as well as xterm and emacs).
I know that placing a ...
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One scrollbar or two for content + sidebar?
I'm working on a website design and trying to decide whether to have the sidebar scroll independently of the page content, or have just one scrollbar control both divs. What principle should I use to ...
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Page fold: myth or reality?
Do users scroll?
I read a blog published last year from CX partners that suggests that you do not need to worry about the page fold at all and that users scroll.
Although they give valid points and ...
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iFrame accessibility and usability issues
Aside from confused scrolling and screen reader problems (and I'm not downplaying these issues, it's just that I've already discussed them at length), are there any concrete accessibility and ...
