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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Insight on Number of Subtabs
Anyone know of usability studies that indicate how to deal with a design that comes your way and has a lot of subtabs? By subtabs I mean tabs within tabs on the same page. So, there might be a row of ...
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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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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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A tabbed Android UX element similar to iOS App card?
Is there a standard Android layout that allows for tabs within a context menu? Something similar to the iOS app card would be great.
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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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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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What is the best alternate layout for horizontal and vertical tabs on one page?
The original design uses horizontal tabs for categories that are not related, and vertical tabs for pages that are sequentially related. In terms of usability and navigation I think it is not as ...
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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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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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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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In Android application, when to use View control instead of Tab
I develop a shopping application for one company. First time I design to use Tab to categorize product in shop. But I am not sure Ishould use "View control" instead of "Tab" or not.
Tab and View ...
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What shall the recent tab consist of?
I have a site which creates activities and perform various functionality in it. It consists of two tabs, current and recent.
Current activity -shows the name of current activity on which user is ...
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Why don't browsers have an icon that appears on a tab indicating it's producing sound? [closed]
I think we've all experienced this problem. You've got two dozen tabs open (let's face it; tabs are like a to-do list) and all of a sudden your computer starts making sound and you have no idea where ...
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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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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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Issues with Tabbed Layout
Larger View
Here's a screenshot of something I'm currently working on. I decided to use tabs at the top because filling in the "Office Details" is just as important as the list of employees and ...
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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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Product frontpage content - tab solution versus scrolling [duplicate]
For a payment related project I want to create a product page.
Example: Paymill.com uses a combination of tabs and scrollable content on their front page.
Question:
Is it better to have an only tab ...
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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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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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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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1answer
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Tabs, but no tab selected by default?
I am working on an view that allows you to define a list of matching criteria and then allows you to view various reports.
This is what I have till now:
Now, you would probably want to ask... if ...
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4answers
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When using a popup or a new page?
I have following situation at work (older Forms application):
we have an order entry form, which consists of 3 main tabs: the order header, a confirmation tab and the order detail (lines). I have ...
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2answers
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Moving items between tabs
I'm designing a template editor for my WPF app. Each template is compromised of multiple child items. Here's a mock up:
The user should be able to move template items between the History, ...
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1answer
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Shrinking down a grid to use as tab-like navigation?
I am trying to design a navigation system for users researching entities. This is what you see when you arrive at a page for a particular entity - basic info, plus a whole load of different expandable ...
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1answer
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What are the Best Practices for Server Side Tabs?
My client wants to use server side tabs as described here and found here and here.
I've read through the 13 Tab Usability Guidelines and we're mostly on track there.
For #13 Fast Response Time: ...
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2answers
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Sort by recent / popular: Use tabs or buttons?
I need to sort my content by recent and most popular. I see Reddit uses tabs, but unfortunately tabs won't fit into my layout.
Would I be breaking any UX principles by using buttons?
This question ...
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2answers
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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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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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2answers
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Category and tagging organization
Background
Looking to present tagged recipes (edit: that users have tagged themselves on their own recipes) in a way that makes them easy to find. All tags are automatically categorized; recipes may ...
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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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4answers
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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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2answers
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Multi-pane layout tabs confusion?
I'm curious what people think about android < 3.0 tabs in the action bar, specifically for tablets.
In the picture I uploaded, the tabs are on the left side, but I want them to be associated with ...
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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 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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1answer
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Tab controlled website
Has anyone designed a website where they have used the tab key on the keyboard as a primary method to navigate within the navigation of the website? I am doing a website where the client wants to rely ...
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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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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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Fixed Feedback button on the side of LEFT or RIGHT side of the window?
My start up [WEBSITE] is going to be launching in private beta soon and we're trying to decide where our feedback button/tab should go.
We've looked at how UserVoice does theirs (bottom right) and ...
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1answer
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Alternative to 2 tab bars in iPhone app
I am working on an iPhone app. I am in the early stages of designing the structure.
I will be using word department as a node in the information architecture structure of an app.
I encountered a ...
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5answers
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What should I do about my save button inconsistency across tabs?
The user profile in the app I'm building is across a few tabs, however, I've had a situation where I feel the expected save functionality will be inconsistent across tabs.
Most of my tabs look ...
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2answers
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How and when to gently prompt user to save between pages
I am working on a complete rewrite of a complex, multi-step and enterprise-/internal-facing web application. The existing application's UI was literally based upon Excel spreadsheets that had been ...
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2answers
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What can be an alternative to tabs in an iphone or android application
What type of a design/design philosophy/gesture can be a good alternative to tabs in an iphone or an android application? Tabs are good and tell the user that there is another ...
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Can web analytic tools track user's behavior across tabs?
I'm curious about logging user actions across multiple tabs; is a user's actions across multiple tabs within a browser trackable? So from user's point of view is there an additional element of privacy ...
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1answer
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Multiple tab systems
I am designing a multiple tab system to replace an accordion. Each section of the accordion now holds a tab system with lists.
I mocked a solution, but have no contact with final user to run the two ...
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1answer
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Settings dialog with multiple tabs: same options on two different tabs?
I am designing a settings dialog with multiple tabs for our desktop application. There is a particular (small) group of options that is applicable to two separate tabs in the settings dialog. I ...
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What should the behaviour be of tabs in a form?
I'm implementing a (subscription)form which is designed by another party.
A description of the form:
- First there are a couple of text-fields
- Then there is a section with tabs which contain ...
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1answer
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Opening a new browser tab [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Opening website external links in new window — published usability tests
Should you open a new tab when linking to an external website.
Historically I know this ...
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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 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 ...
