a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more detail or less, and browse through different documents
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Should users be able to zoom in a responsive webdesign?
When it comes to a responsive design: should users still be able to zoom in or out?
We are currently working on a responsive design and one of our testers found it awkward that he wasn't able to zoom ...
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2answers
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Tap or Drag to mark a specific point?
The scenario
We have a screen with a view containing many small symbols. The user will have to choose a single element. In order to find the correct element, he'll have to pinch and pan. As you can ...
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disabling the zoom in functionality on an iPad due to fixed navigational elements
I have an iPad-specific website which has had the "zoom-in" feature disabled on it as I have horizontal and vertical fixed navigational elements that I do not want to go out of view.
I would like to ...
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1answer
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Unidirectional ZUI? [closed]
There are many zooming user interfaces (ZUI) that zoom in 2
dimensions, but are there any that zoom in just 1 dimension for people
creating timelines, etc? Something like:
...
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1answer
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How should window resizing affect what portion of a large image is being viewed?
Alright, maybe this isn't that big of a deal, but I'm in perfectionist mode, so here it goes.
Imagine you've got a 3000x3000 image in Photoshop on a 1680x1050 (or whatever it is) monitor. Obviously, ...
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Should Mobile-optimized sites allow Zooming?
Zooming is common on mobile because sites aren't designed for it; you need to zoom, generally, you don't want to zoom around. Mobile sites are supposed to not need any form of zooming, and often ...
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votes
2answers
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What features to scale when zooming?
Suppose I have a resizable graphic - users can zoom in and out. However, zooming does not scale the whole image the same way: some parts get zoomed in in a traditional way, but some may resize only in ...
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2answers
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Zoom behavior - can you recommend websites with good zooming experience (not maps)
I am working on a system that presents a hierarchial organizational tree. Each node can potentially have 10 children. The tree has about 10 levels. I want to present information on each node when ...
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What is the best keyboard/mouse click action for zooming in on a globe?
I'm working on a usability study of an interface that shows a globe. You're currently able to click, hold, and drag the globe to move it around (i.e. view the other side of Earth). In testing, I've ...
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What is the standard zooming factor?
I am making a simple graphing widget that will have zooming functionality.
I need to decide the zoom factor to use for typical + / - zoom buttons.
My intuition is to go with 15%.
What zoom factor will ...
4
votes
5answers
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What's a good UI for a “zoom” function?
I'm making a component for a webpage that will need zooming in and out at the location of the mouse cursor. The de-facto standard way I know of doing this is via Ctrl+Mousewheel... but I can't use ...
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2answers
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Examples of a zoom/pan on hover [closed]
I've got this user interface idea in mind for my dashboard app, and I swear I've seen it before but cannot find an instance of it on the web.
The essence is that you present a thumbnail image to the ...
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votes
7answers
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Fallback for MultiTouch pan and zoom
A planned app that will run on tablets that support multitouch needs a graceful fallback for tablets and desktops which don't. I have a view onto a possibly very large 2D electron microscopy image ...
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2answers
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Examples of magnification/zoom to see details [closed]
I'm looking for examples of interfaces where the user is shown part of the UI enlarged or magnified so they can perform a detailed task.
One example would be the magnified text on an iPhone when ...
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vote
1answer
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Are there any UI libraries for zooming user interfaces. [closed]
I'm creating a CAD package for Windows/Mac/Linux using wxWidgets and OpenGL where most of the UI is implemented in OpenGL, and can be zoomed in and out, including most of the menus and icons. In the ...
