Questions tagged [data]
Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
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What are the UI/UX guidelines for data heavy modern style Windows apps?
I'm working on an application that uses the Windows "modern" design language (née Metro). The app involves a lot of data entry and manipulation. Think of something like you might do with MS Access - ...
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How to show number of outcomes per filter applied? [advanced filtering]
I'm working on an advanced filter for a data platform containing many thousands of rows.
My filter is split in to categories, which then have various options for the user to select.
I'm looking to be ...
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Best way to present user details for review. Single vs multiple pages?
My application has 3 sections (20 pieces of data in total) and the user can part-complete an application and pick it up again later to finish. If I wanted the user to review their previously entered ...
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Filter all the data - big data load
I'm creating a platform that has a lot of company data, around 200,000 companies with 1000 branches each, so it's a lot.
When we load the platform we usually don't show anything until we have loaded ...
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Do you get differentiated data from Google Optimize A/B test with multiple user targeting variables?
If you target test variations for your users with Google Optimize will you get differentiated values for those variations such as mobile, tablet, location and so on in one single A/B test, or we just ...
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How to load long-time-taking content?
We have a page that takes very long to load (approx. 15 seconds, might be even more for some clients) as the data it generates is heavy and slow.
While we are trying to directly speed it up, 15 is ...
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Encouraging users to 'group' very large data sets
We have a product that requires users to import large data sets (100+ rows) and then 'group' those datasets into buckets within the product. This is part of the set-up process so that they can start ...
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The state of the art / UX of multi-user data editing (at the same time)?
What are the best practices or what is the "state of the art" of having multiple users edit data in an admin panel UI? I am working on a dictionary app where you can in theory create a ...
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Display accessibility reports in a concise way
The following is meant to be full screen on a website like a dashboard.
I have accessibility reports for different webpages.
Which gives accessibility scores and mark them as critical or serious and ...
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How to make a wall of unicode symbols useful?
I am having fun playing around making a dictionary app, one part of which is adding pages teaching about scripts. One script page is on Tibetan consonants. I am trying to keep every page extremely ...
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Correct column order of comparison data table
I need to design a table where the user will have to approve new values. The table will show two old values and the difference between the old and the new (the percentage represents the difference ...
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Clarifying a simple list of data changes
On the left side I have a list of (currently) 3 items. These items have their own list of changes on the right. See screenshot:
This represents "new data --> [position]". The application ...
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Refresh button in addition to 60 second auto refresh?
This may be an obvious question (I'm hoping so, since I'm new to this), but I haven't found an overall rule of thumb for this online or in this forum. In a data table for large data sets, the auto ...
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7 fixed columns with horizontal scroll in complex data table
I have been trying to define the UX of a complex data table that needs to have the first 6-7 columns fixed followed by infinite weekly data columns. The weekly data columns need to have a horizontal ...
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How best to handle deviation in this ui?
I was initially trying to create a component, that would by default show changes in deviation over time. On hover, the badge would slide over to show the exact total in change.
ie if you started with ...
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When data is grouped in a table, should pagination be based on individual rows or groups?
I have a table of data pertaining to stores. The user has the ability to group the data by Store Name, which will display the Store Names in a collapsed view with a (#) that indicates how many rows ...
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Application with Multiple Modules: shared vs separate data types
This is my first post here, I apologize if this is confusing but I attempted to make it clear as possible.
The web application is one big application for multiple related teams. We have split up these ...
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How to: User offboarding with active paid subscription?
How should an application behave when a user triggers his accounts deletion while having an active paid subscription?
I'm talking about completely deleting the account, not pausing a subscription.
For ...
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How to display a multi-valued heatmap chart
I will try to describe the issue in a simulation similar to my case, I went with the vehicles:
A company that performs tests for vehicles of the types (Truck, Car, Motorcycle) wants to display score ...
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Table that mixes different type of data
I am designig a SaaS product and it has a table that is mixing different types of data.
It's a sort of register that lists all customers' assets. It provides a ton of value to the users, giving them a ...
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Shall keep the table header if it's an empty table?
I got the feedback from UX expert who suggested displaying the table header even though that there is no data created, UX expert thought if have table header, user can foresee what kind of information ...
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Is a data download a viable text-alternative to a visual chart?
I have a dashboard with various different at-a-glance charts. For some of them (such as pie charts) it's simple to offer a toggle / alternative view to change from chart to table view, but for more ...
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Greater Than > or Plus +
I want to convey a requirement that has a minimum but no maximum to my users.
For instance 8.
Which is more understandable?
Participants: >8
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Participants: 8+
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From layouts point of view >8 is ...
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Showing year on year data visually in a map
I am working on visualizing year-on-year data in a map. This data needs to be shown on the map, show what year the data was recorded in, and convey the frequency/total amount of records at a specific ...
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Fitting two tables in 1280 viewport
well I work on complex SaaS which has two tables currently. Pretty much when you select one row in first table second one loads data (it's like software for restaurants/coffee shops etc.). Currently ...
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Filter by values not present on the table
Is it OK to offer filters whose values are not present in the table?
For example, I have a table of industrial shipments. I know some users may want to filter by driver, but I don't have room in the ...
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A/B testing - client wanted the test run 70/30
We recently ran an A/B test for a new sidebar in a checkout flow. New variant 70% of traffic, old 30% of traffic. We tried to get client to run at 50/50 but they were sure our version was an ...
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Should an expandable table be collapsible?
I have a page with tables that can have a large amount of data depending on the customer you're looking at.
Each customer can have multiple entities and each table represents an entity. Please note ...
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Visualizing Data Hierarchy and Inheritance in a Multi-Layered System
We are working on functionality with three layers of data hierarchy, where data and settings are inherited or 'inherited' from higher to lower layers. This indicates a parent-child relationship within ...
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Real-world examples of searching through data
Our company collects a user's data and allows the user to explore their data by using various dropdowns. We want to give the user a way to save their filters, like a saved config or saved view (...
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USA date format best practise
I am working on a table that displays dates by using USA format. I was wondering which format below is more legible or usable - I guess there's a slight difference between these two, but I was ...
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How do you differentiate between '0' and 'no data' on a graph?
I am working on platform that shows data on a graph over a period of weeks. Right now, weeks with no data and weeks when there is data but the property is 0 are shown visually the same.
On hover, it's ...
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Any ideas for a half success, half error modal?
I am working on a forecasting tool where a user enters their current week's data and our tool outputs a forecast for the following week's data.
The user can have various sets of data. When our tool ...
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User Interface for Deduplicating Records
I am looking for UX interface patterns that can be used to dedupe records.
Suppose, for example, one has a database of customers. Perhaps Ronald T. Wiggins and Ronald Wiggins are both in the database ...
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What's the best alternative to export thousands of rows?
I have an application that has many reports. Those reports includes thousands of rows with dozens of columns (too much data). My customers sometimes need to export this data to a .csv file, just to ...
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Ways to display images in a data table
I have data table to show, some columns are of type "image".
Airtable, for example, displays images directly in the cells, but it makes the rows very thick :
That thickness is not required ...
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How to display a bar chart for users' test scores if you have more than 50 users
For an admin panel I have to present visually the employees' test scores and after lots of searching to decide which data visualization is the best I decided to choose the vertical bar chart but as ...
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What is the best way to have two exclusive sets of filters above a data table?
I have two sets of filters which work with the same data. There is a table of data below those two sets of filters.
But if one set of filters is applied, modified, i.e. worked with, I completely ...
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In desktop apps, is it necessary to display information to the user after adding/modifying data?
Should desktop apps display an information to the user after e.g. adding new customer to the database?
I see that some apps do this, some others don't.
Is this kind of information necessary to the ...
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Dealing with non-fluid data tables
I have pages consisting of mainly data tables. So far I'm using a fluid design with Bootstrap's rows/cols. Here is an example:
As you can see at the bottom of the page, table 1 has very wide columns ...
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How to prevent users from spamming the system with record updates back and forth? [closed]
I have struggled with the UX for this general problem for quite some time, and not sure the best way to handle it. The basic problem is, imagine a user submitting a dictionary term. Say you can ...
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Imposing text limit in form without affecting old data
We have a form with fields below:
Code
Item Name
Description
When we reviewed the list of 'Code' in customer database, we noticed that the 'Code' values tends to be quite long. It seems like the ...
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How can I display large amount of active organizations within the platform?
Currently when the user uses the platform is able to choose an active organization (within his organization) and which data he wants to include. The current solution indicates a narrow bar under the ...
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Good UX for Data Vis for Multiple X-Axis of Different Time Scales?
I'm currently trying to create a singular data visualization of a dot plot with datasets that have similar y-axis scales, but different x axis scales. The x-axis scales range from daily (Jan 1, Jan 2),...
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How should I visualize the average of two bars in a bar chart?
I am presenting results from an experiment in an academic publication. Here is what the figure currently looks like:
The gray bars are the averages of the red and the blue bars.
Goals
I want to show ...
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How to show negative and positive values in a graphic for data visualisation
I am preparing a proof of concept for a user account dashboard to show positive and negative values within a graph of some sort.
My current solution is to use a pie chart with positive and negative ...
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Why does MS Outlook Express store vital data inside a hidden folder? [closed]
Microsoft Outlook Express stores email files in a hidden data folder buried deep in the user's home folder. It makes it nearly impossible to selectively backup your data files unless you know exactly ...
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How to simplify the filter
I´m working on the UI of the filter page that would allow the user to filter the Projects/Assets/Sub-assets to visualize the data. We are implementing a new "sub-asset" feature which will ...
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How To Display Too Much Data
We're building a web-based platform where the main dashboard shows a table of data for users to view and analyze. As we're growing this tool, we seem to be adding more and more columns and are running ...
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Using 2 side-by-side tables to display a long list of key-value pairs?
I've a list with 20+ key-value pairs that I need to display in my app. The data is static and cannot be edited.
I'm using a table, currently it looks like this:
keyA
valueA
keyB
valueB
keyC
valueC
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