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BBC.co.uk & USA Today [closed]
Some website nowadays seem to be going "mobile first". If you look at the BBC Website and also the USAToday website, they are using tablet look and feel from the outset. I was wondering what other's ...
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How should I link-back to a website's landing page?
My client would like to include a link back to his landing page (Lawyer Jump Page) in case a user mistakenly clicks to the wrong website link (either Divorce Law or Personal Injury Law).
He ...
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Where to place the '< Back' link or button?
I am building a simple transactional site with two step process both on web and mobile (responsive).
Target users both male & female age from 30-40 relatively tech savvy.
First page is a ...
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Can a visual progress bar be used as a navigational element?
We're having a bit of a debate here among teammates as to what would be a better UX solution, so I was hoping you guys could help me settle this.
We have a linear flow through a data-collection ...
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Two-level menus: Why? and When?
Two level menus: should they be used? Why are they important?
I never found any resource explaining this.
Should I avoid them and only use them when you really have too much stuff to present?
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Should I use 'Load More' or Automatic Loading? [duplicate]
I am creating a website that I want to have an infinite loading system on the home page. This page contains a tiled list that will fill up the page from left to right, and also most likely from top to ...
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How to best deal with many thumbnails in a product image gallery
We have an image gallery with thumbnails that can be clicked to reveal a larger version of them in a viewport.
Here are some conditions that the layout needs to meet:
The Gallery has to cater to ...
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DropDownLists becoming TextBoxes - Should the user be able to go back?
So I have a menu on web application I am developing. In this menu, there is an option for how many Project vacancies one wishes to create. The user can choose as many as they need (large numbers will ...
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When to display a link as a previously visited link?
Websites of today contains a variety of links including logo link, global and local navigation links, supplementary or related links, other header links, footer links, inline related links and more. ...
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In a website, how to make two segments of users follow the desired path
I was asked to design a website for a company that has two different segments: B2C (business to customers) and B2B (business 2 business)...
The company says both segments are equally important.
How ...
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Infinite scrolling and page views
I'm working on a content-delivery portal restyle. Basically, it has huge lists of addresses and numbers (sort of whitepages). What I was wondering is:
I wanted to test infinite scrolling and avoid ...
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Why do menu labels behave differently in desktop applications and websites?
In a desktop application when you click a menu, you see all the options which reside within it, in a drop-down/pop-up list.
In many websites with a navigation menu which has sub-categories, I have ...
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Is the upper-left logo an acceptable place to put a master site nav menu?
For a number of reasons, having a number of main nav dropdown menus in the top bar isn't feasible. I'm considering making a master site navigation dropdown by clicking a down arrow right next to the ...
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In what situation is it best to use a mega menu?
The current site I'm working on typically has 3 levels on navigation. Site-map and navigation has already been done. They have chosen to use a mega menu to show top level navigation items and ...
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How to show up heavy content on webpage
First I will introduce myself by saying that I am not a web designer and non native speaker of English, so I apologize in advance for my bad designing explanation and English.
Actually, I am ...
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How large should the logo be for easy clickability?
I was skimming through some of the older questions namely Is 'Home' button still a must? and Home button vs Logo link? and there seems to be a general impression that the home logo serves as a general ...
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The navigation on Corporate websites
Corporate websites appeal to multiple audiences. I've seen from benchmarking the majority of sites have based their navigation around the audience segments. You'll see Investors in the main navigation ...
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'Contact Us' in Navigation bars
So looking at a particular site's analytics, you usually find 'Contact' very high on the list of destination page views.
My question is... Do you think people expect 'contact us' to be the last ...
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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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Caption below or above image for navigation purposes?
It was already discussed here that for layout purposes, where images and video appear on a web page, ordinary captions are probably best placed below the graphic — largely due to convention.
I want ...
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Switching which side a sidebar is on
My boss insists on occasionally doing designs for our firm. The unfortunate part is he often does odd things. One such thing is that he likes to switch what side the sidebar is on dependent on the ...
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Metro Box Style Navigation
Train and Subway Information Design
Metro style refers to boxing information so that it's easy to digest. Windows 8 uses this, although they failed to make it usable.
Metro Style on the Web
I ...
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Navigation for a Web Comic - Icons, or Thumbnails?
The typical webcomic navigation is usually:
First | Previous | Next | Last
Which is about how my comic's current navigation looks, give or take some wingding icons for good measure:
There's ...
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External links and duplicate content
How one should link to pages that are outside the current domain?
Do, i simply make them target="_blank" and give them a different background color or add some icon to them to differentiate them from ...
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Expert consultation request: Best solution for multiple choice and pricing of large number of products / services
I am looking for a solution for multiple choice and pricing of a large number of products or services. Available studies are related, in my opinion, to small amount of items, hence I am asking for ...
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drop down navigation for web/mobile
I'm in the process of a website redesign and I'm not really sure what to do with the navigation. The goals of the redesign are to simplify the site and make it more mobile friendly.
The existing site ...
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Pros and cons of a Single Page site versus a Multi page site
I am working on trying to re-design the site for the agency I work for and a recommendation was made that we should move to a single page site with a vertical scroll which which walks through all the ...
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How to resolve lengthy hyperlinks?
When you’re editing content and have links to organizations or frameworks that has many words, the link might exceed an entire row or break a row. These lengthy links look ridiculous and could ...
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Why choose dark navbars?
Been reading about Google's new dark navbar over at ReadWrite. It's funny that ReadWrite, as well as StackExchange, has chosen a dark navbar as well.
Why this trend to choose dark navbars?
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To search or not to search?
Having an internal search on a web site takes a lot of effort if you should do it “the right way”. You have to handle case sensitivity, visible results query, misspellings, result matches and ...
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What is the value of FAQs on a product website?
I am re-designing a product site, and the client insists on having a FAQs section. I originally placed it in an area of low prominence on the site, but now the client is questioning it. What is the ...
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Does navigation menu have to mirror the actual page structure in my site?
Can I put items in a navigation menu list, that don't actually mirror the website pages structure ?
e.g. if the pages in the site follow this structure:
Homepage
|--Products
|--Product 1
...
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How to tell the user to click to edit data
I'm developing a website which basically contains all the info about a serie of projects (a few hundreds). Each project has its dedicated page with all info about it (dates, classifications, schedule, ...
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Training Video Section of website
I'm looking for some help with my training video user experience. http://advantageanywhere.com/advantageUniversity.html
I'm currently working on a training area where the new users of our ...
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What are some best practices in picking navigation bar background color? [closed]
I am using twitter bootstrap and I don't like the default dark gray background color for the navbar.
So I was thinking of chosing a different color. But being a programmer and not a designer first ...
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Level selection on dropdown
Designing a radio button interface for selecting how many sub-levels you would want to display for a website main menu dropdown.
The options are:
OFF
1 level
2 levels
Considering that the default ...
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How should I toggle navigation for 2 distinct user types
I am trying to determine a method that will allow visitors to toggle between two categories of users.
The high level navigation:
For Professionals vs. For Users
Many product categories within ...
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How to present articles & videos in the same section
This might seem really obvious but i'm working on a cookery site and under the tab 'How to cook' there will be videos to show you this as well as step-by-step articles the user can print.
Within this ...
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Pagination on navigation links?
On a web application we have two ways to navigate to our collaborative project sites. One is the “recent visits” and the other is alphabetical. That navigation element has a fixed element height of ...
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If a sticky window panel is larger than the screen size, how should I display it?
I have one panel at the right where users can choose search options that is a sticky panel.
However, on different screen sizes etc., if the height of this panel is higher than the screen height not ...
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Which of the following options best draws attention to the “buy tickets” action without detracting from the surrounding visual hierarchy?
I'm working on touching up (as much as I'm allowed) some of the design elements for a website. One client requirement is to draw more attention to the "buy tickets" link as this action is one that ...
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Touchscreen interface for menu and dropdown menu ease of use
I'm doing webpage design using Twitter Bootstrap's dropdown menu.
Problem:
Suppose I have a horizontal menu as shown in the Twitter Bootstrap documentation. That menu bar that list pages I want to ...
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What is the navigation concept Bootstrap uses called?
The Bootstrap documentation site uses a very interesting navigation concept.
They have a per-page navigation bar that sticks on top of the page once you scroll down and highlights the current area on ...
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Navigating a section in which content displayed varies depending on selected year
I have a page that lists a bunch of events depending on what year is given to the site (current, or via URL):
The page happens to be at the front of a sub-section, so I have the site's main ...
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Responsive website - navigation usability advice
I am developing a site which is to respond to different screen sizes. The site is fairly large and has up to 4 levels deep in terms of page/menu hierarchy. What I am wrestling with now is how to adapt ...
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Is it advisable to separate the landing page from the home page of a non profit organization?
I am helping out an organization on sparked which wants a landing page on which a video will be embedded along with some descriptive . However I am not sure if it is advisable to have a landing page ...
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When is it appropriate to combine “help/support” with “contact us”?
Suppose we have a horizontal menu at the top of our website like this:
products | pricing | help | login | 800-555-1234
When is it appropriate to combine help/support with contact us?
We want to ...
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Profile for users and Page for companies?
My question is mostly about the name of it.A company to view their personal account options visiting domain.com/page
On the other hand, users can see their personal account options with ...
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Global drop-down: Necessary?
I've architected and am now designing a site that has level 2 vertical navigation. It's featured on the upper left corner of all sub-pages EXCEPT for the sub-section "landing" or "main" page because ...
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Advertisement headers for a website
What are some good ways to incorporate a 728x90 ad into the header of a site keeping the navigation in mind?
