Questions tagged [back-button]
The back button is a ubiquitous control in browsers (and occasionally operating systems) for navigation back through previously visited pages. Typically when clicked it takes the user to the previous document in the browser's history.
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After submitting a form and moving to a new page, should the back button take you back to a blank form?
Imagine a web app page which shows all your recently submitted expenses (Page A). You then click the primary action button "Add a new expense" which takes you to a form to complete (Page B).
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Is it bad to place the back button next to the navigation button?
I have an enclosed checkout flow that I want to allow users to go back one step at a time while also allowing them the freedom to jump to specific steps using the navigation. Is it a bad practice to ...
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Browser back button - behavior on gray area changes (ie. list/grid view)
As in this research mentions, you should not break the back button (and Nielsen said it as well).
My question is in regard to 2 separate edge cases:
From the homepage you search on an e-commerce site ...
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Where to place the return to shop button on a product page?
I'm working on my personal site as a gallery for my photography with an attached shop and while I have a strong CS background which makes the JS/PHP/CSS stuff easy to me, I sometimes struggle with the ...
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Position of Cancel and Back Button
We have are building a room finder application where we have a back button and a cancel button. The back button goes back a step in the navigation, while the cancel button cancels the navigation. &...
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Are menus with no way to back out ever justified?
Here the user is pressing his finger down on the period (".") key.
Five choices pop up, and one in fact is then filled in for him in the above URL line.
But what if he doesn't want any of ...
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Back to top button with other floating action button [closed]
I have a long page with a detail of an event. In the right corner of this page is present a floating action button to enter editing mode. Where I can place a back to top button?
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Custom back button vs multiple user paths
I'm working on a Hotel chain website that has custom back buttons on their hotel pages. The back button takes users to the previous level in the navigation.
E.g: A user in "Hotel page" ...
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Back and Close button in the same native page
In this period, the current version of Netflix offers the user who has browsed through several films, the possibility of closing the page or going back through the content history.
To do this, Netflix ...
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How do I know when to use back or close button (or both) on mobile apps
I want to know when and why should I use the X or back button on top of the page. And additionally, related to that, how should I judge the transitions, when should a page just slide from the right, ...
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Users are not figuring out that they can use breadcrumb to navigate to go to the previous page
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This is the screenshot of the breadcrumb navigation where users face issue,
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Back button in web application
In a backoffice application should I implement and provide to the users a back button or I should let the user to use the browser back button?
The application is not mobile, it's mainly a web ...
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Why do many modern web apps keep adding back functionality?
Is it really creating a good experience if we implement the back button inside the app? If yes, then how? I was unable to understand why users wouldn’t like to use the browser back button. Many new ...
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How should Android back button behave when it's not possible to go back to previous screen?
I'm designing an on-boarding process and it is not always possible to go to the previous screen with the Android back button. So in this case I have two options:
Let user know that is not possible to ...
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Stepper Next button text - Name of next step vs. simply "Next"
I have a multi-step form with five steps.
At the bottom of each page there is a button to go to the previous step and the next step.
Should the text inside the button have the name of the next / ...
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Cancel button, reset form or go back?
I'm working on a project where there's a CRUD table, but the editing takes place in an individual page. In this editing page, if the user presses the cancel button, a modal pops up asking for ...
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Where is the best place for the back button? [duplicate]
In some apps, you need to go through a number of steps. Of course, a back button is needed in this process, in case the user has made a mistake or changes his mind.
But my question is, what is the ...
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Wizard/Stepper in mobile app: navigation options in final review step of wizard
I have an 8-step wizard in my app and in the penultimate step, the user has to review all of the choices made in previous steps.
The user may only proceed to the final step of the wizard if the ...
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Are there studies on how the back button is used? [duplicate]
I'm wondering if there is some research on how the back button is used in browsers and what their expectations are.
Personally I've noticed that I don't use the back button that much.
In some ...
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How to use back button or navigation in app?
How do you decide the navigation method to use, whether backwards or hierarchy navigation?
For example, users are navigating on the app, and they received a push notification which leads them to open ...
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Should a web-based UI rely on the browser back button?
The back button is a great "get out of a flow's dead end" option that browsers provide. Should a UI rely on the back button as the only method to allow a user to get to the previous page or should the ...
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Should progress be retained if browser Back button is pressed during a progress tracker task?
If I have 3 steps and I'm actually in the 2nd one, what should happen when I press on the back button?
Would a user expect to maintain the previous configuration of the 1st step, or should it reset ...
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Recommended browser back button behaviour for SPA's
Our company is building an SPA and we're having a discussion about the best behavior for the browser back button. The SPA is a management tool with a lot of tables and filters. Every time a filter is ...
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What is the correct translation for a "BACK" button?
I am fluent in Spanish,
but this one has me struggling for some reason. What would be the correct translation for a "BACK" button in Spanish? If you want want to go back to the previous ...
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Back button shows user old state
QA have found the following bug in our web application:
Go to a list of sprockets
Create a new sprocket
Click the back button
Result: The list of sprockets shown does not include the sprocket that ...
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How to reduce user confusion between my "Undo" button and Android's Back button?
My Android app has an Undo button in the action bar:
Many users are confused between this Undo button and Android's hardware Back button (which exits the activity).
Even I sometimes press the wrong ...
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Correct "Back" button behaviour in CRUD-like web application
I'm going to simplify the scenario I'm working on.
In my CRUD-like application I have several lists of entities and an associated create-new-entity-form that I can reach clicking on a link in the ...
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Android: minimize, exit app, ask for second tap or ignore?
I am developing a password manager app that requires the user to enter a pin when the app starts. Resuming the app from background either asks for pin or fingerprint. There is also a settings option ...
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Should back button close the app or go deeper in it?
I just received a feature/change request regarding my app that I subjectively found wrong, but I want to see what other people (or studies) have to say from their knowledge and/or experience.
My app ...
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Mobile reverse navigation (back) and Auto forwarding pages
I have a couple of questions:
When a user press back within a flow - do you show (when going back) screens that are "confirmation states" or steps that were needed to be field in order to ...
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iOS/Android: Best practise for adding a back button on top of an either dark or light image
Challenge: Creating a back button that is placed on top of an image that can either be dark or light WHILST keeping the style/layout in line with the current layout for headers.
Ask: Help with either ...
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Should browser page back present modals as well as pages?
Currently, on using the browser back button, our site pages back through not only the pages but any modals used. So if the modals were part of a 'series' (e.g. three consecutive modals to capture ...
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Is scroll to top with Android native back button a common pattern?
I have noticed that e.g. Facebook and Instagram use the Android back button so that instead of taking you to the previous screen or out of the app, it takes you first to the top of page (if you have ...
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Position and style of back button in web [duplicate]
After studying about the 'Back' button, I still can't decide on which best suited my case. I am designing an internal portal where the content varies in width.
Button position:
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Right side seems ...
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Back button in wizard
I'm designing a multi-step wizard, and in the design I've included a back button in-line with the individual step markers
We've discussed things internally, and it has been suggested that the back ...
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Navigating Deep links
Im working on a mobile flow that allows a user to deeplink to separate jobs within the same app via toast messages and/or notifications from a notification centre.
Im struggling with getting back to ...
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Is it okay to display Home icon instead of the Back icon in mobile applications?
I am designing a mobile application, it is to schedule medical visits. The initial screen is the list of appointments and from there, user can navigate to see visit details. When the user is in the ...
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Home or back button as first item in navigation bar?
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I'm in a project where we're building an android system service (meaning it will work regardless of which app is currently in the foreground) for an action bar that will overlay ...
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Should a message show up confirming the user wants to leave when they press on a 'back' button within an app?
I'm having trouble deciding if an app should show a message when the user presses the back button while he/she is leaving.
See image below showing how 9gag does this (note the "Press back again to ...
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chat and back to top in the right bottom corner
I can't find any good examples from the web where chat box button and back to top button are both placed in the right bottom corner.I have to place both of them and I don't know what would be the best ...
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Do good UX guidelines exist against little JS windows inside the browser
I encounter a lot of web applications that essentially implement a small windowing system inside the browser. On you web page there exist a number of little boxes that look like windows, which can be ...
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How can I make it clear for our users that Logo button is also a Back button?
Currently, my team is designing a Shopify-model website which basically looks a lot like Shopify.
And here's the problem.
When our users use the website builder and try to go back to the main admin ...
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Back button look bootstrap which one to use?
I have a multi page web app where the user first selects some information and uploads a file to import, then the file will be sent to the back end for processing. After that the results will be ...
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A 'Close' button, a 'Back' button and user journey branches
We have an interface where users can search for a customer. The customer details page has a 'close' button which at the moment means the user will go back to the Customer Search page. In other words:
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How to manage logged in status when the user clicks back button?
Something I have had trouble understanding the technical/implementation requirements is what should happen to a user's logged in state when they press the back button immediately after logging in (or ...
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Do average users expect the Esc key to work on websites?
I'm currently working on a fairly standard website where one page lists a series of projects - clicking on a project leads to an animation and then displays detailed info for it. I've got a back link ...
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Best way to handle browser "back" functionality for a voting webapp
The context is a single page webapp with a section that allows users to vote on content. The votable content is loaded via ajax.
The webapp itself implements the back button using the HTML5 history ...
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Does it make sense to put a back button on first page of a wizard?
I have implemented this four-step wizard.
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Should I disable or hide the Back button in last step of Wizard
I am preparing a wizard for the account setup for the first time users of the application.
Since, it is account setup wizard, there are few actions that cannot be edited. However, the other actions ...
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Back button from Thank you page
User has just completed a purchase of the insurance product and he has gotten a Thank you page.
Now he clicks browser's Back button. What is the best practice?
block an back button action and ...
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