element that displays various forms of information to the side of an application or desktop user interface
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Best practice or alternatives to handling sub/side nav in a mobile site
I am looking for what would be the best way to handle a websites sidebar in a mobile website template.
I am going to be involved in a redesign for a large web site (approximately 10,000+ pages) that ...
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Adopting sidebars in iOS apps
It looks like several known apps for iOS (Foursquare, Spotify) now adopt the sidebar that already was present in Facebook app (screenshot is from Spotify for iPhone):
AFAIK, this is not a standard ...
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Is better to have two columns of the same size instead of the typical sidebar? Could it confuse the user?
I´m working on the new version of this site and I would like some feedback.
The new site has two columns of the same size with information in both, instead of one main content column (bigger) at the ...
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How to choose the better placement for Sidebar: Left or Right?
I have a question about sidebar navigation.
I am designing a web page for latest news and placed the sidebar (news navigation) on the right side. My logic was that "On the news page at first people ...
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Arrows for Navigation/Menu/Expandables Misleading?
When a user visits a site they are presented with some sort of Navigation Structure. Typically the arrow is a standard convention that alerts a user that when this item is clicked an action will ...
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Order of items in a checklist vs the order those items are checked off
I have a modal with a sidebar of checkboxes that, when checked, append options to a panel on the right for the user to customize.
Example:
My question: I currently have the items being ...
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What is a good way to display side navigation levels?
For the past few weeks I have been working on reconstructing my employers side navigation. While attending a recent meeting, discussion on side navigation hierarchy arose and there was a debate on how ...
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Side Navigation Highlighting Current Page Link Items
I have been working on a side navigation reconstruction project that is now entering the design phase. Through research i've noticed many sites using different colored text to highlight/bookmark user ...
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Side Navigation Arrow Placement Right or Left?
I have been working on a project that involves reconstructing a page side navigation. Throughout the project i've researched current trends in navigation structure and noticed arrow placement on the ...
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Switching which side a sidebar is on
My boss insists on occasionally doing designs for our firm. The unfortunate part is he often does odd things. One such thing is that he likes to switch what side the sidebar is on dependent on the ...
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Best approach to designing a long multi-level side menu
I'm currently facing a problem with designing an effective and user-friendly multi-level side menu for a client's ancient website developed in year 2000. This side menu is referred as a table of ...
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Is swapping out the entire Left-Local-Side-Nav a bad idea?
We have a large Website with hundreds of pages. We have a horizontal global navigation, and a left-local-side Nav to navigate through a group of related pages.
As I was browsing clicking down from ...
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Why use or not use sidebar inside the content area?
Are there any studies of users response to having a sidebar integrated to the main content area (such as facebook) and sidebar outside the content area (such as Google)?
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The sidebar ...
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Is a website sidebar a user blind spot?
I've seen studies about how ad blindness can prevent users from even noticing ads exist on a website, but are there any studies that perform the same research for the entire sidebar?
On some sites, ...
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Animation with a vertical Toolbar?
We have a web mapping application (Flex), that our clients can use from anywhere between 10min to 5hrs a day.
It is simulating a desktop application (think similar to Photoshop) and users select from ...
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Is having a side nav and a top nav a bad idea? Why?
This is what I mean:
The idea is that one navigation is the main one and the other one a second level.
Is it a bad idea? If so, why?
Also, which navigation should be the main one?
I'm inclined to ...
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Ways to collapse sidebar as much as possible
OK, so here are two screenshots of classic collapsible sidebar:
As we can see, when collapsed, sidebar still holds some space.
The question is - what design patterns can be used to overcome this ...
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When is a right-handed navigation sidebar appropriate?
When is a right-handed sidebar for navigation a good choice? If possible, I would like some examples where it has been used, such as this sidebar from Google's official blog.
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Menu in right sidebar vs left sidebar
What do you think, is it better for handheld device users to use site menu when its in right sidebar (can click it with thumb/right hand doesnt block view when user click on menu item)?
The reason i ...
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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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Best practices for a sidebar on a blog
I see a lot of blogs that seem to have really cluttered sidebars, with a ton of additional widgets, navigation, etc, that I never find myself using. What are some tips for things that make good ...
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Which side of a web page should a side menu go on?
Many websites have side menus and I seem some have the side menu on the right and some on the left.
Which side is better?
