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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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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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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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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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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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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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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5answers
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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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4answers
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horizontal vs vertical tabs
I was wondering, in which case are horizontal tabs better, and in which case are vertical tabs better?
There is one answer I can already give, but I'd like to see if there are more.
Because you ...
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2answers
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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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6answers
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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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3answers
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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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2answers
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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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1answer
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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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3answers
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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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4answers
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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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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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4answers
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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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2answers
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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 ...
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4answers
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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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6answers
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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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4answers
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Best place for “save” button
I have a tab based interface, each tab has a form with fields, the user is supposed to make changes on each of the fields in the tabs and then click on a "save all" button to save all changes, I have ...
