Questions tagged [autocomplete]
Autocomplete involves the program predicting a word or phrase that the user wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely
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What to highlight in autosuggest options?
When using an autocomplete or autosuggest component, which of the following highlighting options are preferable, and why?
Assume user types Mal. The suggestions are:
Option 1 (probably the most ...
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Do people value more a city map or autocomplete input?
I'm building a classifieds website for my client and I'm confused as to what's the best way to show cities to the users of the website.
Do people find a city map with selectable areas more valuable, ...
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What is a reason for using both autocomplete and suggestion features?
This pattern is best shown when searching on Google. When a user starts typing (in this case stack), four suggestions show up on a dropdown list below but also, at the same time, the one that is at ...
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Autocomplete on mobile browsers for username fields
I'm looking for useful advice on whether autocomplete should be disabled or not on mobile browsers specifically for inputs in a username field.
I already have: <input type="email" name="signin-...
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multiple auto-suggest fields on the same screen
I need to design a screen where the user needs to choose 2 types of values before moving to the next screen. one value from one list and the other from a different list.
The lists are dynamic, so I ...
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How long should my website wait before auto-suggesting possible choices?
We have an app that autosuggests various possible options based on a database query. For example if a user types 'Steve', it will find all Steves and allow them to choose the correct one. It looks ...
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Does Google filter on auto suggestion to avoid causing offence?
I've discovered that Google removes auto suggestion for some phrases on their service.
For example try googling:
women should
men should
women are
men are
The auto suggestions will disappear after ...
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Should search results auto update when an auto-suggest option is clicked?
Google, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, and Ebay implement auto suggest when a user types in the search field. Google automatically updates the list of search results when an auto suggest option is clicked. ...
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Handling bad input in an autocomplete
Due to browser compatibility reasons and some issues with specific forms, in one of the products I'm working on we included a custom control for autocompletion of the Recipient field of an email ...
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Autocomplete / Typeahead / Find As You Type widget usability on mobile
I'm wondering if anyone has a good solution for the following scenario.
In a Web App I'm working on users can type "freeform" in a text field that has an AJAX Autocomplete list "drop down" provided ...
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What are the proper keys for navigating multi-column “search as you type” results?
Given a search box that has a menu which opens after the user begins to type listing results in two columns, plus a "view more results" button and a "close" button, what are the correct keys for ...
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Search results: Auto-suggest or click to search?
My question revolves around search results and how they are initiated from the criteria selection.
Two options I'm looking at:
Auto-suggest results depending on criteria selection i.e the results ...
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How to present a long list of autocomplete items beside a short list
We have the requirement to implement the autocomplete feature for the search textbox. That's when user enters a certain search term, the web should bring the suggestions that let her/him do these ...
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Search Suggestion Drop List Width
From a UX perspective, should I make the width of my search suggestion drop list dynamic (width changes depending on the longest suggested term/phrase) OR constant (width remains the same as the width ...
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How many search suggestion should I display?
On my e-commerce site, we are implementing search suggestion to help users find their products quicker.
Most sites displays 10 suggestions but my teammate is suggesting 5.
From the UX perspective, ...
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How best to let a user specify a subsets of a series of really long lists of long titles?
I'm writing a special-purpose CMS. It focuses on brief, rich text content as nodes in a large network of densely interrelated information. There are many different kinds of relationships, like "...
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Typing speed for updating results
I'm implementing some ajax autocomplete. Whenever user types something result gets displayed.
One thing that is bad about those autocomplete is that constantly hitting database.
So I went with making ...
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Google places autocomplete with multiple(2) submit buttons
I'll try to make it short, as the problem is simple but long to explain:
I'm using google autocomplete on a location search input. It's on the site's header so it should be quick and comfortable to ...
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Search Engine Autocomplete based on Relevance or Popularity?
Let's take the 3 big SE's and have a look at their Search Suggestions:
Bing, Google and Yahoo!.
When you begin typing in the search box on the homepage of each search engine, a suggestion list ...
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Autocomplete: How to display minimum characters
I've joined you especially for this question :-)
Our web-based system has a search for person names that is heavily used - so heavily that we have run into performance issues. The search uses jQuery ...
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Why do some sites block autocomplete on emails?
As a regular and frequent online shopper I have noticed that quite a few sites switch off autocomplete on email fields.
For me this doesn't make too much sense, I am more likely to make a mistake ...
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How to combine “Find Company” and “New Company” in one text area?
I am designing a website where users can enter "assignments":
Company details
A project they have worked on with the company
Their role within the project
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Handling Autocomplete when User Presses Enter
I have a simple JQuery Autocomplete with a list from the database. My question is not of technical nature, but of usability.
How do you respond to a user pressing the Enter key when the search key is ...
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Postal Address Autocomplete
There are quite a few fields to fill in, and I can't make up my mind regarding how should the autocomplete functionality work. I found 2 or 3 other similar questions here, but they didn't help me with ...
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Search auto complete / suggestions usage
Does anybody have any statistics as to how many people end up selecting an auto-suggestion versus typing their own search phrase when performing a search online with auto-suggestion capabilities? (...
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Need feedback on how to design a web-based search for books, authors or isbn
We have tens of thousands of authors in the database and there are sometimes over 100 books published by a single author. Each specific type of book is uniquely identified by ISBN.
I want to create a ...
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What to do for slow autocomplete?
I'm making an app that can search Metacritic (screen-scraper app). In the search box, I have an autocomplete function, which essentially does exactly what pressing "Search" would do, which is query ...
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Town selection autocomplete (by zipcode or town name?)
Was wondering what is the general practice for filling in the town name in a form.
I have to use autocomplete as I'm using the information for geolocalization, so I can't let the user enter free text ...
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What intent does the Tab key convey?
My particular case is an autocomplete dropdown, but this goes for the general use case too: what does the user intend when they hit Tab? Is it merely to leave the current field, or to deliberately ...
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Should I use javascript cookies in lieu of autofill where autofill is unreliable?
Autofill is a good option for users who don't have an account. But it seems that how browsers determine how they'll implement autofill information varies. I'm not surprised of course. In Chrome, it's ...
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Effectiveness of suggested answers on forums, like Stack Exchange
Is there data or research on how effective suggested answers are in preventing people from asking duplicate questions on online forums and Q&A sites?
While some people make an effort to search, ...
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Helping users identify site search functionality
I'm looking for ways to better expose the search functionality, which in my case plays a big usage role. I've been conducting talks with users, and have managed to identify that it's functionality was ...
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How to provide autocomplete and autosuggest on the same search box at the same time
In this article, Tony Russell-Rose explains autocomplete and autosuggest, and the differences between them. Any thoughts on how to apply both to the one search box and the one time? Any examples or ...
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Is there a standard way to indicate a suggestive search (autocomplete) in a wireframe form?
I'm designing an interface, and I'm currently creating a wireframe to guide me before developing it. I know that a particular form will make suggestions, but if I were to, say, get another developer ...
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How fast does autocomplete need to be for a good user experience? [duplicate]
Has there been any study into how quickly autocomplete suggestions need to show up for a good user experience?
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Should I change how a list is displayed based on number of options?
In a web application I work on, I have been asked to change an existing 'Owner' field from being free-form to accept only predefined values from a list.
Sometimes that list can be manually configured ...
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When should you start autocompleting a search in autocomplete search field?
We're implementing an Autocomplete search field on a website we're working on. However the question arises:
At what point should you start showing the autocomplete results?
download bmml source &...
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“Responsively” select an item from a large closed collection?
I'm building a responsive web application. One of the main focus of this application is to efficiently collect information.
In some fields, I need the user to select one value from a large collection ...
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Delay on keystroke when search as you type
I'm deploying an instant search on my Windows app. At the first implementation, when the user types a key, the search engine makes a query and returns the results. I thought that that wasn't too ...
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Autocomplete Search takes you directly to product
A user enters text in a search box and a list of autocomplete options appear. The user clicks on one of these suggestions.
Should they be sent straight to that product's page, or should they be sent ...
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Inputting addresses using autocomplete
I have a web application where the user will need to fill many addresses (a few users entering the addresses of other people). It uses autocomplete to speed things up and to reduce duplication (the ...
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What is an effective way to allow user select from a list of thousands of customers
For browser based web application, I need the user to select a customer from thousands of available customers. The user may have the ID of the given customer or just the Full Name & Address. In ...
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position of lens icon in auto suggest field
Can some one suggest which is the best place for keeping lens icon for auto suggest/ auto complete field from usability point of view? I have seen most of the sites keeping it on the right side of the ...
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Normal select box vs autocomplete widget UX wise
Was wondering is anyone had experience dealing with autocomplete widget vs using a select box when you got 100-200-300 items in the select box.
I think the general consensus is that the autocomplete ...
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Automatically limiting or correcting numeric input field values
The application interface I am working on has a slider to select a number, but offers a text input field next to it. This allows you to read the currently selected value, but also supports keyboard ...
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How to analyze quality of data to be used in an autosuggest or autocomplete?
How does one review and analyze the underlying data set for an autosuggest in order to know what mitigating choices to take with the autosuggest UX? I am concerned there may be problems in a data set ...
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Disappearing input field placeholder aesthetics for web apps
Background
Users may provide various categorized input entries (e.g., danger, warning, avoid, and relax), such as those in the following image (e.g., "Relax #1", "Avoid #1", etc.):
Problem
When ...
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How do you order federated autocomplete groups?
By federated autocomplete (pattern name from this question), I mean one of this:
Background: I am working on an application where there are "types", for example people, documents, transactions, etc.
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Autocomplete no results behaviour
First, a bit of background:
I am using autocomplete to provide suggestions (in my case a list of users) to provide tokenized input to a text field:
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List autocomplete delete/edit behaviour
I am not sure what these widgets are called, but they are the ones used to assigned tags to questions on SE and appear in webmail apps such as GMail and Hotmail as well:
If someone could chime in and ...
