New answers tagged drop-down-list
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I think the main question to ask is why to use dropdown?
A dropdown takes less space, but makes the user click on it to see the options - moreover, after the user chooses an option she can review other options only by clicking on it yet again (though it is not always important).
You can put the dropdown items in order of their chance to be selected. Or ...
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My recommendation would be to with a logical approach based upon the use case of where you see this dropdown being used and what is the information which is most critical to your users. For example if you are using this in the backend CMS for a e-commerce site and your user is the owner who wants to see how many orders have been paid for and then how many ...
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NN/g article explaining different sorting which should be used depending on the scenario. Alphabetical Sorting Must (Mostly) Die
Widths and heights are ordinal data, meaning that they have an inherent monotonically increasing sequence. Such items should almost always be sorted accordingly.
Other times, items have domain-related logical groupings. ...
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I find people have issues tracking down options in logical order when the list is longer than 4 items long. Some ways to address this issue:
Group the options and label the groups.
Stick the logical options in a sentence, or madlibs style form. You can make complicated options much easier to understand, and you can break options lists down into smaller ...
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Menus are a navigation element and so what make the most sense is whatever makes navigation easier for your users.
Your first example is a good menu, as although you have only one item under 'Otters', it wouldn't make sense renaming 'Otters' to 'Sarah' as it would then look like 'Sarah' were a type of animal. Additionally, if you get a second otter to keep ...
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I would wonder if theres any established best practice for this situation. This would depend on different factors.
Scalability:
If your navigation menu is category based and there is significant possibility that the number of menus under it may increase, its definitely good to keep it as category. Example, If 'Accommodation' may contain 'Guest House', ...
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A approach I would take is to provide the alternate filtering option on the page of the main level only.For example,taking your last example of filtering by hotels the design would be something like that
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
The advantage of this method is that you can provide the superset of results ...
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Menus don't have to be logic they have to be meaning and useful.
If there is one "child" then you do not need a "parent" like a unique radio button does not make sense.
Having sub-navigation on-click is common but very replaceable
Most web sites do not have sub-navigation menus. A book of one chapter does not need a summary: you just read it, a house with ...
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A list can be sorted in one of the following ways
Technical Ordering (Ascending/Descending)
Logical Ordering (FIFO, LIFO, Sequential)
Ethical / Value Driven (Projected by Paradigms)
2 seems to be a bit more difficult of a case, do you order from most restrictive to least restrictive or the opposite.
What you are looking for is a value driven ...
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I think you are describing a check box :
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
I propose you to use your 50x28 room for a Plus button that delivers you the options in a drop down menu.
download bmml source
I do not know if I am or not respecting the following constraint : I can't change the dropdown box UI but ...
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You problem seems to be that you're collecting a number of buttons in the same list that are completely different from each other. Being in a single drop down menu implies a relationship between them that isn't there. Viewing system messages and marking an object as read are so far removed from each other, they should never be part of the same menu.
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Don't bother the user with information about the system unless it directly impacts her. She only needs enough of a mental model to understand how things work with regards to her. (See the Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman for more information on users' mental models.) This means that you should only make minor edits to some of the action names ...
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