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On mobile, how far apart should related checkboxes be from each other?
I have a grid layout that looks like this:
__ Item1 __ Item2
__ Item3 __ Item4
The __ are checkboxes. How far from the other checkboxes should they be?
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(PLEASE READ) Got laid off and facing deportation from the US
The company I was working in laid off 30 people from the design team out of nowhere on a Thursday morning earlier this month. People with families, people on a visa (including me). Now, I am facing ...
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UI vs Ux in real life cycle for a software development
I read many articles about what are the differences between UI and UX , but still i cannot fully understand the differences.
can i say that UI is concern about building themes, buttons location, menu ...
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Multiple selectable bulk actions
I have a webapp LMS in which there's a page that allows teachers to monitor the progress on ongoing exams. The page displays a table with data about all students that are participating in the exam and ...
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Selecting products from hierarchy
We have a hierarchy of products (documents) where there is a global library at the top that consists of all the products we have, a user’s account library that is a subset of the global products, and ...
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Is data table better or a card?
in a mobile responsive website is using a table with 9 columns a better idea or a card would suffice?
I have tried using a compact table to make it responsive for mobile but. it just didn't work.
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Where to redirect users after login when the log out was caused by a timeout
When a timeout occurs, users are automatically disconnected from the application and directed to the login page. After logging back into the app, on what page users should be directed? The home page ...
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Does an input type text with its css display property set to none need a label?
We've got a few inputs in various places, which are of type text but their display property is set to none. Something like this:
<input type="text" style="display:none" value=&...
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How best to present an option to type in text OR choose from a preexisting long list
I have a use case on mobile in which a user can type in a label for a group of items. Certain labels will be very common. The list of common labels is quite long. Finally, not all users will initially ...
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Accessibility question. Company has secondary brand color (orange) that doesn't pass any requirements. Only option change color?
The company I work for uses dark blue as the main primary color and orange as the secondary color. They have used it for years. It doesn't pass any accessibility requirements. We can't go darker since ...
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To lightbox or not to lightbox?
Our website hosts alot of technical diagrams, graphs, pictures of models, etc. We're currently deliberating whether to lightbox the images or not.
I have asked a handful of users who are typical ...
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Where to place buttons to customize a navigation list (reorder/add/delete)?
I have a subpage with a navigation list. This list can be changed by the user. The user can reorder, add or delete categories. This function is rarely used by clients, mostly only when they first ...
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Is there a standard algorithm for maintaining scroll position of a list when the list is filtered/unfiltered/modified?
TL;DR: Given an old list that the user has scrolled to index i and a new list that replaces the old list by adding/removing filters, what should the new scroll index be?
Details:
I have a list of ...
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What is the UX guideline or ruleset for making accessible while we have conditional formatting colors applied to each rows?
While we have color palette to handle conditional formatting of table rows we want to create accessible color palette. How is this handled addressing accessibility for colour blind like greyscale?
Any ...
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Who should own a DAM (Digital Assets Management)
Hello fellow Designers
DAM (Digital Asset Management).
Who should be owning this if referring to an enterprise, big corpo?
The content team, Digital team, Brand team, Marketing team or DesignOps?
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If a user is logged out as a result of timing-out, should they return to the homepage or the last page visited
We have a somewhat complex B2B app. If a user is idle for some time, they are auto-logged out and brought to the login screen. If they log back in, would the ideal behavior be to bring them to the ...
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Should I reverse the play button in Arabic?
Should the play button be presented in reverse in Arabic languages?
To be clear I mean the tip of the triangle pointing left
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How to validate removing of 'back' button from a form while usability testing?
I tried to validate the removal of the back button from a mobile and a web screen within forms. I used Useberry for usability testing and wasn't sure how to validate this.
I already have a back button ...
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Does a plus sign indicate to login to access associated price
The aim is to get the customer to login. So we are providing a different pricing model when signed in, does a plus sign indicate to the customer to tap this (a pop up to login will appear) and then ...
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checkout as a guest and delayed account creation
if a customer decided to create an account after a guest check out (Delayed account creation), would the order that they ordered at that time be saved in their account?
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Is it a good idea to have a back button go back if the link is the same as the previous history entry?
Let's say you have a website / app where there are user pages, and on the user page there are additional links for things like that user's awards or posts. Something like this:
The issue I'm having ...
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Is there any drawbacks in continuing to copy files in background when conflict occurs?
Any time I see this dialog, the whole process stops. It happens in standard OS file manager, FileZilla, MEGA (cloud) and other file managing software. It always bothered me when I can't answer to ...
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Should I use the same font size between phone, tablet and desktop?
When making a responsive stylesheet. Is it better to keep the text sizes the same pixel size. Note I am using the following to normalize the sizes across. Also for the purpose of this question I'm ...
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What UI elements do you use to display information in real time?
If some string like "Now executing cronjob...", "REST call made", "Authorization successful", "Cronjob complete", etc. need to be shown every 1-2 second, what ...
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Quick navigation between courses in an LMS
I have a webapp LMS whose workflow, for students and teachers alike, goes like this:
the home page has a list of cards representing the courses available, with a button to enter the course. When ...
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What are the reasons to choose different types of time picker (for range)?
I want to use a time picker for desktop only. It's not for mobile.
A few options I have are:
A. use 2 dropdowns with format HH:MM for start and end time with 30 minute slots
B. use 2 time pickers from ...
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How do you display users that new information is available?
Let's say we have a bunch of tabs like this or with svg icons, how would you show that new information that weren't viewed are now available to the users? Would you highlight the tabs in some way? How ...
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Setting up views - empty means none or empty means all?
I have a large set of data and I need to create specific views of it and display those views to specific user groups.
I am having a disagreement with my dev team on what it means to not specify user ...
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Best way to select a city from a list of cities unevenly distributed among countries
I'm working for a company that owns restaurants in 28 cities distributed in 10 countries. The restaurants are distributed unevenly in the countries: in some countries they are present in many cities ...
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Best way to display complex opening hours
I was wondering if you had any statistics or insight into the best way to display schedules that don't just say: open on a certain day from a certain time to a certain time.
For the moment I have made ...
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Does it make sense to have a bunch of modals replace tooltips?
Does it make sense to have a bunch of modals replace tooltips? Let's say instead of tooltip, you had white modals appear with text and buttons that look like the MUI card element, and you could also ...
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Does it make sense to put a card inside a side panel? [closed]
https://mui.com/material-ui/react-card/
Look at the example for the Lizard card, remove the image, and let's imagine there was no title and it said: "Try out our new AI feature. It automatically ...
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Does teasing a digital product increase or decrease conversion?
We built a SaaS that takes product serial numbers from users and generates codes from them that users pay for - these codes are used to unlock functionality in those products and so have real-world ...
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Mixed past and future events in one list?
tldr:
Has anyone ever seen a list of date-specific items, sorted by "distance from today" regardless of whether they're past or future?
Detail:
I have a page showing two lists of online ...
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How do you attract the attention of a user if you want them to click a button, or look at an ui element like a checkbox?
Let's say you have a side panel that's a bit more complex than this, and you have a button called "Fill in with sample data", "Use recommended filters" or "Use AI-generated ...
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How to indicate disabled list items in a list with alternating backgrounds?
I have a table of search results that have alternating grey and white backgrounds that, on it's own, look quite pleasant in my opinion:
Now, the user also has the option to unselect items by clicking ...
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Hide/Unhide Tabs based on Input field (dropdown may be)
Is there any research for HIDING/UNHIDING Tabs in a page using an input field? I am not sure if it is a good User Experience and Usability.
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Too many tabs - different ui layout?
I'm designing a website and I have a problem with too many tabs. The website has information on 18 different box diets (each has its own price list). On the price list subpage, I want to show a price ...
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How to visually indicate that anonymous user profile is non-clickable?
In our classified advertising website we have user profiles. You can click on a seller's profile (Pic, name, registration date) and see what they are selling.
We also have an anonymous way to publish ...
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Do you need an "All" filter for chips?
Im using a filter system that involves using chips to filter by category. You can only select one chip at a time. Does it make sense to have an "all" filter, or to allow the user to deselect ...
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Findability test and the length of time it takes for a user to find an icon
At a company I work for we want to find out how much time our users would need to find a specific icon in our UI. To accomplish this we plan to conduct a "Time to locate test" with users who ...
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Logout button: Hide or disable?
We have an iOS app. Before you can do anything with the app, you have at first come past a login screen.
There is alwatys a menu, even on the login screen, in this menu you can log out of the app (but ...
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Radio Selection before search
Context
Allowing users to search for any particular job based on multiple parameters.
Feedback needed
I've designed this application search component, which will have a default selection and the user ...
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Should modals have a route?
We use modal dialogs in our web application for actions such as deleting or creating an entity. These modals could be rendered as "on page actions", which are stateful and relative to the ...
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Recruiting users new to the website for a user testing
What is your approach to recruiting users new to the website for user testing?
We have pretty decent traffic on our website. The website is simple, there are several landing pages and an embedded ...
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What is the best practice for designing apps for 320px wide?
I'm worried about my content placement on narrow screens.
Should I shrink my fontsize for iPhone SE, for example? Specially when iOS keyboard is so big on 320px small screens.
My layout in Figma is ...
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What to do when the record has been edited by another user (aka "optimistic locking conflict")
Optimistic locking is the go-to solution if your backend is stateless (e.g. REST) and/or editing conflicts are rare. In a nutshell, the idea is to allow concurrent access to a resource, but, upon ...
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Component Library
I'm a UX Designer and want to know at what point in my project should I start building my component library? Before I wireframe, during or after.
I think it would be easier to start whilst I'm ...
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Toggle button description when each toggle does somtehing different?
So I have three toggle buttons, disabled, enabled, and emergency only. For the scope of this question, its not important what this toggle button does, but more the fact that each toggle has a slightly ...
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Checkout as a guest for an existing user
I am working on a checkout flow and wonder how to handle an existing customer who has faced a password issue and decided to check out as a guest. When entering an existing email in the guest fields, ...
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