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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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Checkboxes or Radio Buttons in a Table
I'm working on updating a table with a new design. Currently, our table allows users to select only one option across three different tables, each in its own tab. This selection is made using radio ...
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What's the best way to select from two options if both can be selected and at least one must be selected?
I have encountered a scenario where the user can filter a dataset of inventory based on two location designations (internal stock vs. external stock). The user can filter for internal stock, external ...
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Differentiating single/multiple selection in polls in a mobile app
as the title stated, I would like to seek some ideas on the need of actually differentiating the choices. see below:
A: traditional checkboxes for multi-selects, radio button for single
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Two options of how user selects mode. Which one is better? [closed]
Hello, guys! My colleagues and I had a very heated discussion over those options of how a user can tune settings in our web-application.
A little bit of context: we build a system for professionals ...
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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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UI for autosaving checkboxes and radiobuttons
I am re-designing an online platform and we've decided to introduce autosave for settings. I understand it's important to communicate the autosaving feature to the user. This seems to be typically ...
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Why do Google Photos use rounded checkboxes in their app? [closed]
I know people asked this question a decade ago. (Are round check boxes confusing or an accepted standard?)
So, after all these years, has this become a standard in terms of usability? Or is it purely ...
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Deselectable radio button or limited checkbox in search filters
I'm currently working on a change request for a search filter we have in our product overview. Our search form has some basic search filters e.g. price range, delivery time,... Our products can also ...
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radio button matrix in a checkbox tree
I would like my users to toggle opt-in or opt-out the nested items in my checkbox tree individually but also toggle them all opt-in or all opt-out at once. In my example, I use radio buttons. But the ...
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Which is the best control for a digital checklist?
Designing an application that has a checklist for workers to fill out before starting routine Maintenance work. this includes a list of 10-15 safety checks. this will be used on an android tablet on ...
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Table which contains checkboxes and radio buttons - labels issue
Table, which enables users to configure items within. User can select "active" items (checkboxes) and among them he/she needs to select just one "best one" item (radio button).
I ...
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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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How to make users choose at least one option in a list but allow additional selections
We know that radio button groups are used to limit user input to just one selection in a list of items, and that checkboxes are used to let users select from 0 to a set number of options from a list ...
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One checkbox or two radio buttons? Is there a case where both are acceptable?
I read an interesting article talking about the philosophy behind the use of checkboxes versus radio buttons. Of course, in most cases you would argue that the decision is pretty obvious because radio ...
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Is there a good way to communicate choose at least one?
I am wondering if there are any known good ways to concisely convey to users that they must must choose at least one option.
Check boxes convey that the user can select 0 or more items.
Radio buttons ...
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Clearly differentiating between radio buttons and checkboxes in funnel
As a complete UX beginner, I am having trouble differentiating pages containing 1-choice-only radio buttons and multiple-choices-possible checkboxes. I feel like there isn't enough to clearly ...
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iOS list with checkboxes and radio buttons alternative
I have a question regarding the default component for checkboxes and radio buttons in iOS.
[Context]
In this flow, the user will have to create a two period charging recurrence (for a service), ...
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Is there any reason not to change the style of web radio buttons and check boxes?
It's still very difficult to change the visual look of HTML radio buttons and checkboxes using CSS.
For example, changing the check box's border-color does nothing on major browsers.
Is there a UX ...
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Using accordion lists with radio buttons
I am designing a UI for a popup that would allow the user to share a post with one class at a time and select which class. They should also be able to drill into each class and select all or certain ...
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Multiple options vs single option UI
On the dashboard we are building we got 2 sets of options users can pick:
Multiple options (checkboxes)
and single options (radio buttons behavior)
while the look of the components is similar, ...
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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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Why are there two checkboxes for 1 state selection?
Those permissions could be handled only with one checkbox. Checked - allowed, unchecked - Full Control denied, for example.
Why two checkboxes, not one? Also why not radio buttons?
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Usage of switch box, checkbox or radio button for a visibility flag
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I have a visibility flag against document attached to a student profile. Administrator is the persona of Student profile. Administrator manages student profile and in the student profile we ...
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Checkboxes and Radios styled as buttons - need differentiation between them?
I am using Bootstrap's button groups to present checkboxes and radio buttons in the form of a button group. You can see an example of this functionality here: https://ng-bootstrap.github.io/#/...
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Should I clear checkbox upon disable?
In this form, a user can ether select the checkboxes or the radio buttons, but not both. If the user selects a checkbox and afterwards selects a radio button, I then grey out the checkbox.
Should I ...
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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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Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, and Mobile Development
I am currently working on an iOS app where the user interface should allow them to pick 1 of 2 options. One and only one option must be selected. My boss feels very passionately that this should be in ...
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Is it better to use Checkboxes or Radio Buttons, when there are two or more fields and at least one of them must be filled out to pass validation?
Is it better to use Checkboxes or Radio Buttons, when there are two or more fields and at least one of them must be filled out to pass validation?
My concern comes to the validation errors that will ...
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Gmail's Email filter checkbox or radio?
I was just trying to filter the emails I was getting from the particular site and the time when I clicked on filter messages like these and then to Create a filter to this search, it opened some ...
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shape used for checkboxes
Since the Macintosch conventions of 1984 (I-312) it's sort of standard practice - apart from the 'X' or 'V' to appear when selected - how checkboxes and radio buttons are shaped. Square shapes for ...
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Do non-technical users understand radio vs checkbox?
Using a circle for a radio button and a square for a checkbox seems like a de facto standard, but does the average, non-technical user actually understand the functional difference implied by these ...
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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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Is a circular checkbox bad UI design?
A radio button is normally presented as circular control but more recently checkboxes are also being presented with a rounded border making them look like radio buttons.
http://flatlogic.github.io/...
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What are some UI patterns where an option in a multi-select acts like a radio button choice and clears other selections?
Problem
Typically, a survey question will ask for someone to select one option or select many. Also, the system would like to clear any choices, if Don’t know is selected.
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Cannot ...
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Enable/Disable - single check-box or two radio buttons?
I am working on system which is intended for rather technical users - engineers, etc. The system consist of several windows, each provide the user with the option to configure (create/edit) some ...
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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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What's the difference between a toggle switch, radio buttons and a tickbox? What's the best cases these patterns can be used?
What's the best cases these patterns can be use?
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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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Checkbox or radio button
I have about 20 checkboxes, each corresponding to a data source. The user is able to select 1 or more data sources ("0 or more" is OK too, if it's handy when coding it).
The issue is that, almost ...
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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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Do users understand this hybrid checkbox/radio control? [duplicate]
I'm wondering about the perennial problem that arises when presenting multiple options, where the user can select none, one, or several options.
Using checkboxes, it's not clear whether a user
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Radio buttons with none selected
I feel like there's an answer out there but I can't find it.
We have a situation where customers need to choose one of two options for billing their services, but we can't choose it for them.
I've ...
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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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Deviating from the check-mark convention
I would like to create a slightly different convention for single select and multi-select toggle choices. I hate the stereotypical look of default radio buttons and check marks in boxes, so I came up ...
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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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Independent selection but can also be alternative
I have binary properties, say A, B, C, D, that a user can independently switch. This is usually done using checkboxes as so:
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But ...
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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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Checkbox or Radio, specific use case
I have a very specific use case and it has led me to question the checkbox vs radio button convention...
Radio buttons are used when there is a list of two or more options that are mutually exclusive ...
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Which is better: radio-buttons or error message?
The Android Virtual Device Manager uses checkboxes instead of radio buttons for "Snapshot" and "Use Host GPU". However, they are mutually exclusive. Why would they use checkboxes instead of radio ...
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