A web app(lication) uses technologies such as javascript, CSS, and HTML5 and is executed in a web browser.
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What icon to use for archive and for restore? [closed]
In our web-app there is a message centre with a time-line of communications. We let the user move instances of these into what we are calling an archive. On each of the listed messages there appears a ...
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How to best present data that is incomplete?
The app uses data and images to create an interface. It will be a web or native app.
Some of the data that is gathered is incomplete. Sometimes the data on the images are missed.
The question is: How ...
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Is it better to have more than one way to navigate to functionality or only one way?
We are building a web app in Silverlight and currently have more than one way to navigate to the same functionality. I.e. there is more than one button/link on the page that does exactly the same ...
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Need a better way to list events
Our site, http://www.racedayworld.com has events that you can register for which are listed in a table with sortable rows ...
I'm basically not too enthused with the design, but can't think of ...
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Best approach to presenting data that is being compared and the differences within it
I am developing an app that compares source data and destination data (the data is transferred from one database into another)
I would like to create the best possible interface that clearly and ...
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How to design a futuristic-looking application
I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced UX developers. I have been presented with a unique challenge by my customer, and I feel like I am failing.
Specifically, they want a UI that ...
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Look and Feel Consistency for existing app with new features
I have an existing app, which is almost two year old and I am planning to build new UI screens using bootstrap framework. I start to realize that new UI screens are NOT having the same look and feel. ...
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Static tooltips vs tooltips that follow the mouse
This is for a debug app (programming) that prints additional information when the mouse is over a certain element.
For example, the app can display a list of class methods. When the user mouse over a ...
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Entity and State Based Navigation
Our web application is built around a single entity, say A.
User creates A1. Then user can do a limited number of actions on A1.
If one of this actions is taken by the user on A1, A1 changes to ...
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Will combining fixed and flexible layouts on the same page confuse people?
I've recently put a limit on the maximum width of my web app (similar to the Stack Exchange sites) to avoid looking ridiculous at very high resolutions and large monitors.
Most pages are limited to ...
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Which term seems more appropriate to use for a user, “player” or device"
Working on a site that allows users to listen to audio through some sort of playback. Whether it is on their desktop (software) iPhone, iPad, touch (App) or special hardware, they can choose one of ...
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Efficient insert/update in web applications
What are some efficient ways to insert/change some amount of data in a web application for users that are used to do it in Excel sheets?
(the most efficient could be kind of subjective, and I would ...
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Is there any free tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen? [closed]
Is there any tool to explain the interactions between website pages and elements on a big single screen?
I have all screenshot images for all pages of websites, Some are lightbox on same page. some ...
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Options of options in web form
So I have some options that a user can choose from, and then from those options they can choose sub options.
Right now it is setup using the jquery accordion, where the main option is clicked and ...
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What function keys can be safely used for a web app?
I'm creating a small web app and I want to be able to toggle it on and off via a keyboard shortcut.
I would like to use one of the function keys (F1–F12). I'm planning on overriding F4, F8 or ...
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Looking for a perfect control panel user interface
So I'm kinda stuck and I hope someone here can help me. I'm building this Control Panel for a data center, and I'm not very good with that. I want to make it as simplistic as possible, but expandable ...
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Mapping navigation to content in a CMS backend
I'm trying (desperately) to collect good ideas for a backend form to manually map various types of content to navigation items.
The problem is apparently very common, but since there are gazillion ...
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HTML templates for web applications [closed]
There are a lot of sites with free templates for homepages. These are often too simple for web applications, which have sometimes a lot of deeper nested content.
For example. An application view ...
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Clarifying the controls in “draft” mode
We have an application where pages are created/viewed. There is two modes for users of the application: live and draft. When the application is in draft mode, you can edit multiple changes and then ...
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Way to display a lot of end-game data
I am building a web app for providing League of Legends players with a more detailed match history and statistics as well as an internal ranking system (for friends) and achievements, as well as an ...
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How do I figure out what people need by observing?
I'm taking an online HCI class over at https://www.coursera.org/ Our first assignment is a "needfinding" assignment, where I'm supposed to observe people and come up with an idea of how technology can ...
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Action inside a table vs. Specific screen for the action?
So.. My webapp is targeted for Human Resources departament.
The app has a screen that list Positions.
Now I'll have two new requisites in the application which are:
The user might be able to ...
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Default choice for a “leave without saving changes”-dialog
I have an existing design (web application) where users can edit small parts in a webpage. A small editor will open up with the editable fields and three buttons: [Cancel & Close] [Clear] and ...
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Language Selector plus Action control
A web application I'm working on has a primary content action to "Add" something to a collection. As a secondary choice, the user can choose a language particular to this content item.
I implemented ...
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How best to design a UI that allows for the user to add multiple objects to one master object?
I am in the process of designing a form that allows a user to build a "book" from a group of documents. The documents are selected by the user selecting several options/filters using buttons.
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What is the best practice for a web app with “Change language” on front and back
We have a webapp with a front/presentation/landing page. On this page it is possible to change language and, for already registered users, to login to the secure area.
Now we have a "Change language" ...
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What are the good UI/UX elements of a web bug tracker
What are the good UI/UX elements of a web bug tracker?
Does anybody have an example of good web bug tracking UI or elements of good UX design of a bug tracker?
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Accesskeys for enterprise web apps / SaaS - worth it?
(Not sure what accesskeys are? Here is an ALA post about them)
If you've ever implemented accesskeys on a web app, do you know if they got used (outside of accessibility concerns)? There seem to be ...
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Multiple, hierarchical selections for web application
We are currently making improvements to the user interface of our real estate management web-app. One big problem we have is multiple, hierarchical selections for big amounts of data in input masks.
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Where to find design patterns for product management web apps?
I'm creating a IA-prototype for a product-management web app.
I don't know the field (product-management) that well and I'm looking for samples.
The requirements for this Web-app are:
web-based
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Association of child items to a parent in a form
My app manages companies data and allows selecting multiple partners (also managed by the user) to associate with a company.
One option would be having two listboxes: one for the available partners ...
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web application redesign suggestion [closed]
We had built a application using Ext JS web desktop. Something similar to:
http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.0.0/examples/desktop/desktop.html
The application is basically a web based ...
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Buttons for showing None, Some or All of list
I have a set of list headings eg.
List One (24)
List Two (34)
etc. and I want to start with them collapsed, but allow the user to view the first 10, or expand to view all. So, I have setup so the ...
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What's the best way to present multiple many to many options in a form?
I'm working on a web app where the data is structured as follows:
CLIENTS may have one or more CONTRACTS
CONTRACTS may have one or more CASES
CASES may have one or more CLIENTS
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traditional window popup vs inbuilt poup [closed]
Almost all of the websites/apps uses the custom built popup (HTML) to show menu,messages,page load etc... but, some of the apps still insist on opening the same in a browser based popup window (which ...
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How could I handle product returns through this interface?
I have a dialog where users allocate product on an order to various available lots of product.
So basically if there are 100 units on a line item of an order, the user would have to allocate this ...
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What is the best way to indicate to the user to type/select production numbers
I need to ask to the user for this fields: area planted, area harvested and the yield.
I got this approaches:
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Obviously the three fields are numbers, they are between 1 and 40 for the ...
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Loading Times / Breaking points
We all know that a user is not going to wait forever for a website to load. Given there are certain factors and circumstances that can apply to this, is there a breakdown of users stages/breaking ...
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Very simple Welcome page/menu vs functionality
I am writing a small intranet web app for ticket managing. Most users will only be able to create new tickets and search/consult tickets previously created by themselves.
The question I have is what ...
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“startup” sites have a certain look and feel - does that style have a name?
I have been looking on various freelancing sites for a designer for my web startup. A lot of startups have a certain style which I am having difficulty describing, these are the sort of sites I mean:
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How to utilize analytics for mobile consideration
The company I work for has about 15% of their users/prospective members coming from a Mobile non/desktop device. Though that is not a high number, it is still a decent number. The data is collected ...
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Scrolling inside overlay or on the whole page
I have this web-app that has mostly web pages with search results (such as google is), so there's scrolling normally. But I have this scenario that you can open an overlay that shows additional ...
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Keyboard shortcut for validating a field
I'm designing a web application where the user have to go through a lots of already fillec text fields (~50 a page, could be lots of pages) and must correct some of them and mark the other as "OK".
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Is grid the right layout for mobile web applications?
Suppose you are creating a web application which supposed to work on mobile platforms like Android or iPhone, and one of the features of your app is to give the user an interface for adding, viewing, ...
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How to access “products” of a very different nature
We have a web app that is a centralized toolbox of various marketing tools. On it our users can either order printed documents, send one of our predefined email newsletters and download various ...
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Making clicks meaningful on iPad
As a web designer building a shopping cart for the iPad, I find the lack of down and click states difficult.
What's a good way without raising a confirmation pop up or something terrible and ugly to ...
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Four different types of actions need to be applied to elements in a list on a mobile phone. How do I organize these actions?
I have a bunch of user created items in a list on a mobile phone. I've broken the possible actions applied to each into four types, listed below in order of most often used:
reply to internal ...
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Vertical scroll down navigation for Facebook app?
I am designing a web app that must live both on a Facebook app and on a external website.
The website is designed as vertical scroll-down website with 3 sections.
How do I translate this kind of ...
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any software or online service to draw web page layout sketch? [closed]
any software or online service to draw web page layout sketch?
I want to construct a website , the first step is that I need to sketch a contents layout for every page . this job can be write done on ...
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Appropriate level of granularity in a card sort for a web app
When putting together a card sort for a web application, what level of granularity is appropriate for each card?
For example, is the function "forward an email to a distribution list" granular ...
