Questions tagged [data]
Numerical or other information represented in a form suitable for processing by computer.
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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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When to save data?
When should I save data in an business application?
We have a lot of applications and currently they have not all the same behavior. I am not very experienced with UX and would like to know when I ...
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Cumulative percentage between 4 controls
I have a tricky request that requires the user being able to change the values across 4 vectors. The catch is that the four vectors between them must total 100%.
My initial thought is to go with 4 ...
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When displaying statistics to a user, is it better to bold the data or the label?
The following picture shows some statistics. Here they bold the data, not the label.
Which is better? Does it depend on the information being shown?
What if you have a header on a report with some ...
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Design pattern for merging duplicate contacts?
Have you seen any good examples of applications (web or desktop) that make it easy for a user to identify and merge duplicate contacts or other records? We need our users to manually approve the merge ...
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How Many Tabs are Too Many?
The mockup below, has a screenshot of a software I stumbled upon last week. It grabbed my attention that it presented information in the following way. It had Many Interface Level tabs, inside those, ...
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Should users be able to enter data directly into a pivot table
... or should I offer them a separate formular/window where the user can fill the data to the related person?
Its about entering marks/grades of pupils for a certain subject. So sliding to the wrong ...
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Best way to offer a large amount of selectable options (without using Javascript)?
I come from stackoverflow and have no answers for this one, so I turn to the UI guys for assistance.
Let's say I have a library application that allows a user (librarian) to add a book to the ...
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Best empty string
What is best way to represent empty value inside table of rows with some optional columns?
'', empty, N/A, -, -------- (number of allowed chars), any other advice?
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Showing which direction a value should go towards
I have an interesting UI challenge. I have a ratio that I am showing in two ways: one using a percentage surrounded by a circumference pie chart, and the other showing a status bar. In some cases a ...
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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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Ratio of search vs. browse on consumer web sites
Where can one find referenceable stats or industry research which highlights the percentage of users who search vs. browse on consumer web sites. Are there any known studies in this area?
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What is the best way to create an eye-catching display of numeric values in a web page?
I am going to design a management level monitoring page for displaying some sums and counts. No interaction is allowed and it will be used as a monitoring page on a big LCD in the managers view. The ...
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Is it better to have a modal or an inline entry for a table?
I have a styled table containing first and last names in each column and nothing else. As part of the usage of my app, people will be entering names.
Should I:
Have the "add" button launch a modal(...
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Web Usability: pagination and column sort
I have a table of books with this data: name, description, cost, year. I show 15 rows and pagination using AJAX. Each header of each column is clickable and let the user sort the data. The problem ...
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Best practice for displaying no of records on datagrid
I am designing a banking application where i have a record count of over 1000 rows. I wanted to understand the ideal design patterns for pagination and displaying rows on a data grid.
I am ...
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Displaying selection based attributes in a table?
I have a table column, where data should be entered through a dropbox. Depending on selection an additional value should be asked.
What is the best way to display this value in the table?
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Expand truncated table cell content on hover
I'm working on a project using Google's Material Design and am running into an issue where we need to truncate table cell content. There is a spec for truncating table headers and showing the full ...
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Input data in data tables
I have to design a data table which is going to be 288 rows and 15 in size. I want to make it easy for users to input data efficiently. The data covers an entire day, in 5 minutes intervals, i.e. (...
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What are the best ways to show the statistics of Hours? [closed]
I found one of the good option which Google is using "Popular Times" in Google Maps for the store searched. Below is a GIF showing a quick demo:
Any other idea or option can you suggest which has a ...
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Summarising grouped data in a data table
I'm working on a financial app and we're getting mixed feedback from users as to how we've displayed the summary for groups in data tables.
We've data tables which are, say for example, shopping lists ...
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Data syncronization standard
I have two questions about the standards of data loading from an URL (data syncronization).
Here is my first question. I have an application with a slide menu, where each page has different data.
I ...
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