All questions involving the selection objects to be acted upon, including contiguous selection (e.g. strings of text), multiple selection (e.g. checkboxes), and single selection (e.g. radio buttons).
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Should i use country flags in language selection fields?
My users can create content in different languages, and i need to provide an option to choose the language when they enter new content.
Right now there are only 5 languages (en, fr, de, pt, es), and ...
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Choose Your Country: Best Usability approach
I'm looking at potentially designing a site which will have 'mirrors' in multiple sites around the world. I am experimenting with the best method to help users change both their country and language ...
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Assigning working hours on a duty roster
Here's a screenshot of the duty calendar in the system I'm working on (I've deleted all names here for privacy reasons).
Each person can have a day of particular type (listed in the legend above: ...
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User control for a two level selection
I'm about to develop an application that will be used by revisers to compile the errors they find while reviewing a translation. The application will consist of a simple form in which they will have ...
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Best way to offer a large amount of selectable options (without using Javascript)?
I come from stackoverflow and have no answers for this one, so I turn to the UI guys for assistance.
Let's say I have a library application that allows a user (librarian) to add a book to the ...
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What is the maximum recommended number of item to put in a drop down list?
I am introducing searchable drop down lists to filter grid data. The number of items in a list could range from anything like ten to a ten thousand.
The larger the number of items, the more awkward ...
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Changing the language of a website
While travelling abroad, I often get pages on websites that are normally in English for me (e.g. images.google.com) served instead in whatever the local language is. The problem is that I can't read ...
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Rely on user awareness by autoselecting or prompt the user to actively choose?
I came across a small dilemma in my development, namely whether as a designer I should rely on a user to actively review settings before submitting an action, thereby justifying having it pre-set, or ...
