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Users typically want to see the most recent activity first. Think tweets, online banking transactions, news updates. It makes it easy to see what's new since you last checked.
With conversations, it's different because there is the context of whatever message came before and after the one you're looking at. It's a similar situation to what you see in ...
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Let the user decide because everyone is different.
From the User Experience standpoint this can be tricky. If you have a very long running discussion then you have to navigate down through the whole thread until you reach the part that you're looking for. Since English speakers read from top to bottom this is somewhat intuitive, but it can be quite time ...
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I am trying to remember which email service other than gmail and office outlook groups emails with the same subject line.
That said, the reason Gmail might want to show the latest email at the last is so that the user can scan through a long list of related emails and quickly get an understanding of the starting of the discussion and its current state as he ...
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Conceptually I would say that seeing the emails from oldest to newest makes sense because of how we keep archives in the real life - but let's look at a couple of use cases.
Use case 1. If you are cc'd in a thread and you need to get up to speed, having them chronologically makes sense and it's easier to understand the timeline of events - when and how the ...
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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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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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You should present the most important information first, and so that will determine the order that you present the logs in.
For most logging applications, the most recent logs are more important, and so it's better UX to present the newest items first.
However, there are situations where each log is fairly long, and either the older logs are more critical, ...
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I would do it the easiest way: new logs at the top. Many applications with a dated list of items do their sorting this way; Outlook, gmail, twitter, windows event viewer, etc. Your users will be familiar with this style of layout, and find it easy to use - with the most urgent events immediately visible at the top.
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What do the people visiting the company history page want to read? What information is the company trying to communicate to those people?
(Is a company history page even needed?)
The answers to those questions is going to guide you to the best implementation for this particular page.
I've had some clients where:
The company history has been prose ...
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37signals has a great example of how you can make this interesting for the user and help them understand your story.
No offense to the HR professional who commented (though, it wouldn't be the first time I've offended HR), a history page that starts with the present is probably too much about what you want to say. Your current achievements are, hopefully, ...
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The information should be given in the order of importance. The vast majority of the time this will be reverse chronological, as more recent events are usually more important.
However if older events are more important (for example if the page is stressing a rich history), then you should sort it chronologically.
Here is an example from Royal Delft that ...
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As an HR professional, reverse chronological is ALWAYS the preferred order when looking for information. I don't need (or want) irrelevant information.
I think you should determine how you want the information to be interpreted. Is it a story? From day 1. Is it a company update? Latest, first. You may need to evaluate who your audience is, as well.
The ...
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