a tab widget presents one out of a number of same sized panels to interact with. Which panel is presented is chosen from a list along one edge.
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Where should the second most important tab go?
Is this picture true or false?
My assertion is that it is true, but I would like your collective second opinion. Do you know of some research online on the subject?
My explanation is that users ...
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Tab Overflow: What to do when I run out of space for yearly tabs?
I have page that lists previous recipients of an award, with tabs separating each year's winners.
Every year there are forty recipients.
The recipient's name is listed, along with his or her job ...
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Why does Firefox remove the “close tab button” when you have more than n tabs open unless you focus on the tab?
The origin of this question is that I've tried to find a way to override the behaviour of Firefox which removes the close tab button of unfocused tabs as the number of tabs rises, with no luck.
My ...
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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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Is there evidence to suggest that designing tabs within tabs creates a bad user experience?
I'm designing a complex web application and my colleague believes that using a tab panel is a bad idea. I'm more ambivalent.
Can anyone point to evidence (anecdotal or research-based) that could help ...
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Senior Usability and Navigation
Does anyone have any current resources for senior usability? I'm specifically researching navigation: tabs and accordions. The Jacob Nielsen site has a report that's over a decade old. I'm looking for ...
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Is it ever okay to have multiple rows of tabs?
We're working on a UI at work and people want to have the number of tabs in a certain area be flexible width so that in certain situations depending on the title length and the number of tabs, the tab ...
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The use of tabs
I am working on redoing a clients application, which needs to be done for other reason, but one of the changes is to remove tabs.
The application is, in essence, fronting data records, very basic. ...
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accordions vs tabs
What is difference between accordions and tabs from the UX point of view?
This is repost from this thread on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5690589/difference-between-accordion-and-tabs
(I ...
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How to deal with tab overflow of dynamic tabs?
Tabbed interfaces where the number of tabs is up to the user employ different solutions for the point where tabs of the default size no longer fit on the screen.
Google Chrome begins to reduce the ...
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Can you see a good reason to remove the plus sign in Google Chrome's create tab button?
I am talking about this button:
The plus sign that used to be on that button has been removed in recent versions.
I am very intrigued as to why they might have found it convenient.
I'm a ...
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Need UI replacement for Tab control
My client is not fond of the tab metaphor, so I need to come up with something else.
Does anyone have any ideas on what I could use to replaced a tab control (containing 3-4 tabs) with something ...
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What is the name for the horizontal tabs expanding / contracting kind of navigation?
Can somebody tell me if there is a name for this kind of tab navigation implementation?
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Too many tabs - use buttons instead?
We have an admin page in our application that has toomanytab-itus (see the second set of tabs are stacking):
I've been tasked with solving this issue. Reorganising/grouping the content to reduce ...
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What is the term for the contents of a tab?
In a tabbed interface, each tab has... "content" associated with it. Each tab has distinct "content"; e.g. in a web browser, it would be a web page. And each tab's "content" gets stuffed into a single ...
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Tabbed browsing. Why close the application on closing the last tab?
This happens in IE, Chrome and Firefox. When you close the last 'tab' when you're navigating, the application closes. I'm aware that Chrome (at least) has a really fast restart after that, but still, ...
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Are double tabs on the same level acceptable?
In my Windows application, I want to show the user some kind of map. The information displayed on this map can vary a lot, depending on filters set by the user. With these filters set, the user will ...
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Best way to display large amounts of user data on a single page?
I've been searching around for some related posts, but I haven't really found anything that has been a lot of help. I've found a few posts that might help generate some ideas.
Here is what I'm ...
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Usability of multi-level tabs versus dropdown menu for navigation
We're in the middle of a redesign of our client portal, and there's been some discussion about whether to pursue a multi-level tab design or a dropdown menu (used on the current version of the ...
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Hide tabs without any content?
I am designing a dashboard that contains a number of modules bubbling up information from different parts of the product. One section is showcasing different people. I want to provide a tab-based way ...
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Plus icon for new tab not working in user testing. Anomaly or actually confusing for users…
For Context:
So I am performing some user testing, and the interface is changing how tabs work with in the system. Currently tabs indicate the top level of different customer define hierarchies. The ...
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Innovative alternatives to the classic “tabbed” window
Has anyone come across any online content that jumps outside the box and re-thinks how we can organize multi-windowed content more effectively than using the classic tab bar along the top of the ...
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When closing a tab, which tab makes the most sense to focus on?
I work on a web application that allows users to create tabs and fill them with modules that display analytic data. So one tab may have a series of bar graphs, and another may have a group of tables. ...
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What research, patterns or techniques will help me choose the correct colors (or saturations) to the various UI elements of a page?
I am building a tool that will be used by call center agents. It is to help them support products on behalf of the customers who call up. It acts as a portal to many different types of product ...
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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 ...
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What is the difference between a Navigation Bar and Tabs?
Recently I found myself (potentially) discussing the nature of a horizontal/top navigation bar (h-nav-bar) and a tab set without knowing it.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with ...
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How do you communicate the location of a user in a tabbed environment when they've navigated to a page that can't be described using an existing tab?
In my web app, there are 4 static tabs that follow you everywhere you go. The active tab is white while the inactive tabs are gray. Nothing ground-breaking there. But from certain tabs, you can ...
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How to make other tabs more noticeable?
We have a dialog that allows the user to choose the "type" of a shape: text, pop up and link. Changing the type also changes the modal's body. Our current design uses an underline to indicate the ...
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How Many Tabs are Too Many?
The mockup below, has a screenshot of a software I stumbled upon last week. It grabbed my attention that it presented information in the following way. It had Many Interface Level tabs, inside those, ...
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Tabbar inside Modal View - iPhone
Is it ok to have TabBar in Modal view in iOS UI (iPhone)?
I have a "Select Contact" view in my app and I plan to make it as modal view.
But "Select Contact" is a set of views: "Favourites", ...
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3answers
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Select as title vs. Tabs
I'm trying to decide between using a custom css select as a title versus using tabs on a page I'm working on. I drew up two wireframes below:
1. Using Tabs
2. Using Select
As you can see, the ...
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3answers
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Breadcrumb or tabbed form or best of both?
We have a web application that allows users to query a database.
The results are returned in a breadcrumb style interface.
We brought this change in at a new version, and our users have been ...
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Should I combine multiple User and Group management panels into a single screen?
Currently I am developing a user and group management plugin for out application with ExtJs 4.1
This is my first version. I packed all into 1 window, each panel has its toolbar and user/group ...
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Guidelines for making the active tab selectable?
I have not been able to find guidelines (let alone user studies backing up the guidelines) specifying best practice for this aspect of tab behavior: when (if ever) should the selected (active) tab be ...
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Elegant, simple and obvious sub-tabs?
I have a simple navigation setup that requires tabs and sub-tabs. I have the main tabs ready:
But I don't know how to make the sub-tabs fit in and still be user-friendly. What's a good way to ...
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Should tabs changes in a web app be part of the browser history?
I've implemented a JavaScript plugin that tracks tab changes in through the browser history. Here's a brief overview of how it works:
Once tab is clicked, the URL hashtag (the part that looks like ...
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Best Practice for Tab Placement on Widget?
For the past week I have been working on restyling tabs on a widget. Some problems I have encountered during the restyle is our 960 grid system which with a side navigation included allows me a space ...
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Products in Tabs - Bad idea?
In a current project I'm trying to make an argument against a 'major feature' of the homepage of an e-commerce site. The so called feature would be the display of featured products with different tags ...
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Best practices for Tabs
What are the maximum levels of tabs we can have in a web application..? I am working on financial application where i have display project information which will need atleast 3-5 levels of tabs to ...
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Choice Box or Tabs for multiple contents in a view [duplicate]
I am going to display a small view in my application that contains contents to be picked. The contents are sorted in an undetermined quantity of categories.
Would it be preferred to sort them in ...
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Porting an Iphone app to Android - what are the ActionBar considerations?
we have an iPhone app Design with an designed icon tab bar at the bottom.
For adoption to Android I have a few questions:
Is there a need to put the tabs to the top? Or is it okay to break with ...
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What are the requirements from a multi-row tab control in order that users will be able to intuitively tell which tab is active?
In the implementation in Visual Studio 2010's "Tab Well" (a feature of the "Power Tools" extension), pinned tabs can be multi-row, non pinned tabs are in one scrolling row.
In Firefox's "Tab Mix Pro" ...
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Tabs at the top AND at the bottom of a page?
In case of several very long pages organized by tabs, is it better to repeat tabs at the bottom or to have a "Go to top" button?
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq ...
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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 ...
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How to display 5 plus horizontal tabs on mobile device
This is purely for a mobile website that must have horizontal tabs.
The difficulty is that there could potentially be 5-7 tabs, with 5 being more likely. The text for each tab is long, which could ...
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how to make compact UI for lists
I'm making an app with 2 lists in the main screen, and the space allocated for the 2 lists are equal. So there will be only 5 items visible for each list.
I'm thinking of an improvement on making ...
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Is it bad UX to switch tabs automatically in an iPhone app?
I'm working on an app that allows users to buy tickets for events, one tab will have an event search and a second will provide a way of getting to the basket (there are others in addition to those).
...
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1answer
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What should we do with external links on a Reddit-like social news site?
Basically, we are working on a site that is similar to Reddit (but not exactly a clone). Users are able to post images, links and text posts (what Reddit calls "self posts") and we believe links will ...
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How Should Tabbed Content be Loaded?
There are several approaches to loading content inside tabs. For example,
Load all content initially, then just manipulate the DOM to show/hide tabs
Load only the content of the active tab ...
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Tabs or Accordion (collapsible / expandable) content sections [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
accordions vs tabs
What would the most user friendly experience be to display a the content of a long web page? Display it as collapsible and expandable content ...
