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What's a good alternative to cascading checkboxes?
We have a web interface for running a report. The report can be pretty complex. There are various topics that can be included in the report, and each topic has sub-topics.
Right now, the interface ...
5
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1answer
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Resorting items after editing on a paginated page
We show a list of users in a paginated fashion (10 rows per page). There is a column to flip the status of an user to activate or disable. Assuming I am in the 3rd page and I am disabling a user. ...
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4answers
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Better to Show Empty List or Default List?
This is a web application for people to manage a large database of stuff. When the user clicks on the a button/link to "View Their List of Stuff", is it better to present them with a populated list or ...
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4answers
202 views
Do “add” or “edit” functions need a confirm button?
I am designing a UI that includes a list of items that you can add to or edit. When you click on an item it turns into a text dialogue. When you click off or hit "enter" it saves the changes. Does ...
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4answers
194 views
Where to place controls on a tree/list
I have a chronological list of items. The user can operate on these items with three actions.
So each row has three actions (or buttons for example).
My dilemma is thus:
Having three buttons on ...
3
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2answers
66 views
“Important” Items Box versus Pinned Items
I am designing an application which has panel with a list of items. The items in the list can be re-ordered by drag and drop:
The number of items in the list has the potential to be very large.
In ...
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4answers
162 views
How to paginate alphabetically grouped items?
I am in the process of creating an interface for browsing contacts in a CRM. I have the contacts displayed in alphabetical groups. like so:
A------------------------------
Andrew Bloggs
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5answers
285 views
Have controls fade out on scroll?
Background
In our application we have a list view of contacts. In addition to the list there is a filter panel at the top of the list which provides contact type filtering through a segment control:
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5
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2answers
346 views
What are some good patterns for displaying large lists on the web?
I'm creating a web application which will contain a large list of ingredients. You can see my current approach below:
However as the list grows it starts to take too much of the screen estate. Here ...
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4answers
176 views
Advice for designing a multi-vendor product list
I'm working on a web app that allows users to quickly build a custom quote by searching/filtering our (large!) product database.
My problem is that we will often have multiple vendors offering ...
3
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2answers
84 views
Should a duplicated record be added to the end or after the selected record?
I'm wondering what the preference (or what makes the most sense) is for duplicating a record in a list. I torn between copying the duplicated item right below the selected one or copying it to the ...
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3answers
113 views
Where to notify someone of an empty list?
Let's say that you have an app and the home page of the app has icons (with text) to link to various actions. One of the actions would typically show you a list of objects that you are subscribed to.
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9answers
186 views
Intuitive text to “go to” or “navigate to” an item
I have an application that has many "lists" of data. For example, lists of appointments, billable accounts, patients etc. At the top of each section page, there are action links: "Create patient", ...
