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How to Choose Between Radio Buttons and Checkboxes for a Multi-Page Form with Required Fields?
I’m designing a multi-page form with several sections, each containing multiple questions. Users can initially skip required questions and move to the next section but must complete them before ...
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Optional Newsletter Signup Best Practice - Checkbox = Yes/[empty] OR Yes/No?
My site has many, many forms and a user may fill out multiple forms in a visit. Each form filled out places the user on a specific mailing list related to their inquiry. At the end of each form, the ...
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Location of advanced options on form
In our platform, you can schedule routine scans. Imagine you can check boxes to scan for people, cars, locations. But under advanced options (located currently at the bottom) you can perform a type of ...
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How to clearly communicate a checklist with pass and fail boxes for each item but also the possibility that the item is not applicable?
So I have a checklist for inspections of some technical goods. Each of those goods has it's own criteria that can either be 'fulfilled', 'not fulfilled' or, if the item doesn't have the relevant ...
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What is the best pattern on selecting options to display look book prices
This is an online app for our product salespeople. This app allows our product managers to create a custom pdf look book that can be emailed or printed out for specific customer. The selection ...
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Checkbox dirty state
I would like to highlight any changes made to a long list of form checkboxes.
That way the user can review all the changes made (whether checked or unchecked) before saving.
Are there any examples for ...
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Mutually exclusive Switches
The software I am designing for has 3 functions, which can be turned on or off with Switches. However, due to how the software works, the following rules apply:
At least one function must be enabled ...
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What's a better way to enable a feature – checkbox or dropdown?
Imagine a form where you can enable a feature. After enabling, you have some additional options related to the feature.
(A) Would you design a checkbox for enabling/disabling the feature + a dropdown ...
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Progressive Disclosure: Checkboxes vs Switches
I'm designing a web app that has forms where the user can turn features on and off with switches. When certain features are turned on, the form displays additional fields/controls that provide ...
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Checkbox alternative?
I have a problem to design a form. I know that :
Radio buttons are used when there is a list of two or more options that are mutually exclusive and the user must select exactly one choice. In other ...
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Submit button placement on a form with long columns
This question is related to the Sticky submit button at the top and bottom of the form?, and Submit button on top of the long form but I consider has other nuances.
I have a form that is made only ...
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Drop-down Form and Check Box Combined—Bad Practice?
I am working on a form wireframe, and getting stuck on this one part.
The user can either pick out an extracurricular involved, or choose "none", if not relevant. Having both a drop down and ...
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Checkbox while applying Filters
We are creating custom forms. The user can choose any type of field that he wants to. It can be a checkbox, dropdown, text, paragraph, etc. Customers can fill these application forms and the admin can ...
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Multi-select checkbox (or radio buttons) error styling on validation?
Are there any common pattern for styling checkboxes where at least one option needs to be selected?
E.g. it's pretty common for text fields to have border and error message below:
But for checkbox, ...
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Avoid toggle switch on any page with save button?
I'm currently working on a tool which more or less requires a submit/save button on every page. This is due to avoid any immediate effect on the end user who consumes the content.
Sometimes, it feels ...
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Accessibility Guidelines for saving changes to boolean controls in a web app
We currently have some settings pages in a web app where there is a list of controls with checkboxes, so you can enable/disable certain features. We also have a save option below these that is ...
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What is best practice for large amounts of options in an HTML form?
I inherited an old web app, which includes an HTML form. This form has a large list of checkboxes for a yes/no on selecting counties to receive updates about.
Obviously this is not best practice, ...
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What is better: yes / no radio, or simple checkbox?
In a very big form on my company's website, there's this tendency to use Yes / No radio buttons combination.
I can think of one argument of not using it, but it is not UX related: we need to ...
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Orientation of checkboxes and their labels in a form
I have a form that has a combination of text fields, checkboxes, drop downs etc.
Generally, UX fundamentals dictate we do this.
This works well when text/drop down fields outnumber checkboxes
But, ...
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Is there a good non-language specific (international) way to describe Yes/ No or Present/Absent?
For example, each row in table has Y or N to denote the presence or absence of something. This could be changed to a check or "x". Check means present, "x" means absent.
Does the check vs "x" make ...
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Which is better button input or form input?
I understand that technically they are the same thing, but from a visual UX point of view which performs better button input vs check box?
Has there been any thorough research done around this? if so ...
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Can we use Radio/Checkbox for mandatory form fields
I am working on designing a website which has admin side fuctionalities involving large number of forms related to creation of sevaral entities within the application along with normal user login. The ...
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Should Checkboxes be Checked or Unchecked by default in forms
I have a quiz creation form, in which an admin is required to fill the quiz name, details, number of maximum attempts and similar admin level configuration items.
The admin should configure if the ...
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Checked and disabled checkboxes for non-changing setup
I'm designing the setup UI for a contact form. By default, the contact form will always have 4 fundamental fields: first name, last name, e-mail and message.
As a new feature, we are enabling an "...
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Placing checkboxes inside of text input fields
Okay so i am currently working on an intern application.
One of the tasks is to create a new entry for a specific contact person.
After entering all the information, the user has to decide if the ...
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Different checkboxes - OK or NOK?
I am working on one project in the role of UX Designer. Its a web app focused on sales and the most important part are forms. Quite long forms - to be exact. Every form is divided in several steps, ...
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Are toggles pro usability when used to autofill a form?
I am currently working a UI project and I have to create a payment form for it. In one of the stories the user needs to be able to use his already inputed profile information as the personal ...
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Is it good practice to have a disabled checkbox which is always selected, to give information during application entry?
I'm involved in a software development project for which an application entry page is required.
I received a model for implementation of that page which includes checkboxes which are always disabled ...
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Replacement options for Checkbox and Radio buttons
In my web application there are a lot forms where I need to use radio buttons and checkboxes. To make the forms look not so boring I replaced radio buttons with toggle buttons (similar to ios) and ...
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Accordion boxes add to click total
Hello I have a form that consists of 7 accordion boxes. Inside each accordion are a set of select boxes pertaining to that accordions question.The user has to click to open the accordion and then ...
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Combining radio and checkboxes [duplicate]
This might be a technical question or maybe there's a better way of approaching the area but what is the best interaction for asking users to select either an unknown or the specific items.
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Are checkboxes with crosses (instead of ticks) safe to use?
Would you consider checkboxes using crosses instead of the standard ticks OK to be used in UIs?
There are several CONs (being easily confused with close or delete crosses and wrongly implying there ...
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Best way to display many yes/no options (checkboxes) and comments
I am migrating a piece of functionality from an old app (for which I only have a screenshot of the UI) to my new app, and this one part I need some advice on.
In the current UI there are around 60 ...
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What is the best way to collect a yes/no answer to a required question?
We've got a form that asks users if they are U.S. citizens. We want to make sure they answer that question.
One idea is to make it a checkbox, like this:
Are you a U.S. citizen?
[ ] Yes, I am a U....
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Should clicking a checkbox in an indeterminate state check it or clear it? Why? [duplicate]
Below I have provided an example of a checkbox group including a parent checkbox in an indeterminate state. Some of the child nodes in the Tall Things tree are selected and some are not, therefore ...
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Multiple preferences 3 layers deep
I'm trying to come up with a solution for the problem that is the ability to select multiple preferences with upto 3 layers deep.
The primary layer would affect the options shown for layer2, and ...
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Table with multiple submission links for flip switch input
We are working on a shopping app and have the following display as shown below. The main idea of the app is to help users organize their shopping lists, and note when to, and when not to buy items ...
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How to improve billing address pattern?
I'm trying to find the best pattern to use in a sales service flow where some employers will be using an app to sale products in local stores. They will keep in touch with many clients so they need to ...
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Control that changes state automatically and needs to be a part of a form. Any ideas?
I need an example of a control that changes its state automatically once a condition has been satisfied.
I need to use such a control to allow admins to set a flag at the user level that would ask ...
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How to hide additional rarely used checkboxes?
I'm building a form in which there is one input with checkboxes. The list comprises of 3 or 4 popular options, and about 10 rarely used ones:
I think I've seen ways in which websites hide the rarely ...
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Is it best to add or remove functionality when using checkboxes?
Suppose there's a system where the user can make a blog post. This user can choose to allow or disable comments to their posts. He's going to make this choice for every post he creates.
Now, the ...
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Checkboxes or Radio buttons: Only one or zero choices
I'm building a quiz-type web application in which the user must answer a series of multiple-choice questions. I need to decide whether to use radio buttons or checkboxes.
I'm familiar with the ...
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Using mixed radio and checkbox buttons - is there any efficiency or usability gain in the design?
I have noticed that many online forms and surveys these days are starting to use a mixture of radio and checkbox buttons for the same question, that is, for a question that gives the person a number ...
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Adding a "none of the above" option to a list of checkboxes
I am working on a series of complex life insurance forms and trying to optimize using standard conventions...
I have this nasty list of medical diseases and a mutually exclusive option, "None of the ...
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What are the best practices for showing required Boolean field on a form?
I have a required field on a form that is Boolean. Two radios (one labeled "off" and the other labeled "on") seems heavy and old fashion. A single checkbox is lighter but doesn't make much sense since ...
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How to indicate that one set of checkbox answers will result in an AND search, wheras an other one will be an OR
I have a search form that contains two sets of checkboxes (along with other elements). One set will result in an OR search (Item has checkedbox1 OR checkedbox2) - the second will result in an AND ...
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Best control for display boolean readonly data
Now we are using readonly checkboxes for displaying some information about other users:
Mike Angel
And I feel that using input elements for displaying readonly data is wrong, but I cannot think of a ...
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Select any combination of items, but at least one
Quite often we allow to choose multiple items, this what are checkboxes are actually exist for. But in some scenarios something always had to be chosen.
For example, quite often user can have may ...
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An alternative to Indeterminate checkboxes?
How best to display incomplete or indeterminate state?
Microsoft UI pattern has an display icon for this - a dark box within the checkbox instead of a check. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/...
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force a user to fill out a check box so they don't skip the question
I have a form which asks:
Are you, or is anyone in your household employed in the following areas?
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Media
etc.
This would of course be check boxes, but my client is ...
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