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Tagged with hierarchy gui-design
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Effective graphical representation for parent-child containers to indicate relationship level
I'm seeking insights on the most effective graphical representation for visually indicating the relationship between two containers: one serving as the parent and the other as the child. The primary ...
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How to best showcase selected state of visually important elements
I'm creating a feature to select profile badge – how might I best showcase the selected state?
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File tree expander arrow directions
Is there any explanation on why the expanded node/folder has an arrow pointing down and collapsed pointing to the right?
My guess, an arrow pointing down directs user down to the content of that node. ...
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Selecting products from hierarchy
We have a hierarchy of products (documents) where there is a global library at the top that consists of all the products we have, a user’s account library that is a subset of the global products, and ...
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Reducing the prominence of information on the UI
I'm redesigning the UI for an industrial smartwatch face, the challenge I'm facing is one of the complications 'Active Hours' needs to be less prominent. Not all their users are required to use it ...
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How should sub-items behave with multi-select controls?
The scenario: A user can add individual items to an order, or use a template to get started, which preselects several items. If a template is used, the user can de-select items that they don't want to ...
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Best location for current file title
This is an enterprise web application. It has a workspace in which a file can have multiple tabs. The user opens the file, then creates as many tabs as they want (up to some reasonable limit) to ...
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UI design when root and child nodes are reused [closed]
Imagine I have structure where root and child nodes are same but intermediate nodes are different. Each node represents one data class with multiple attributes.
Flow 1
XY
-Y
--YY
----XYZ
Flow2
XY
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Tree View with Popular Sub-Items Preview
There is a geographical hierarchy: Country -> Region -> Subregion.
We need to represent this in a dialogue like this:
Country 1
Preview of top 5 popular regions or subregions of country 1...
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What is the best approach for showing a button hierarchy when there are multiple buttons?
I am working on the UX/UI for a large web application. My question is regarding the button hierarchy. I have done a bunch of research but can't find any good UI examples that deal with this issue.
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Display hierarchy of mutually exclusive options
INTRODUCTION:
I am a software developer with no experience with UX/UI.
In original application I worked on, I had 4 mutually exclusive options from which user had to choose one.
I used the below ...
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What is best UI/UX solution for displaying taxonomies hierarchy in simple grid list(table view)?
Overview
What we have in this release of our eCommerce software (e shop), is a simple table view with filterable search and pagination in an admin panel for managing product taxonomies.
Taxonomies ...
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Modern Alternative to Tree View for Hierarchical Data
There are other similar questions to this, but none of the solutions really fit my problem space. Breadcrumbs and drill-down menus are not the solution. So without further ado:
The design problem ...
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Displaying Hierarchical Progress Feedback
I have an application which processes data within a set of AutoCAD drawing files.
Basically, there are a few parent drawings and a few child drawings.
My objective is to create an informative progress ...
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Visualizing version-controlled hierarchical data
What would be the best way to visualize versioned hierarchical data in an interactive application?
Let's say we have the following hierarchical data, where the capital letters identify the enitities, ...
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TriState treeview with checkboxes
Scenario
I have a use case that asks for something like a tree view with checkboxes, but somehow it is one step more complex.
I have a tree structure where for each node, the user can chose one of ...
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How to indicate hierarchy from left sidebar list -> horizontal top tabs
I have a desktop (i.e. not mobile) app with an overall two level hierarchy:
Items -> Dimensions
Typical number of items/dimensions:
Items: 2-40
Dimensions: 3-4
Item 2 -> Dimension A is of the ...
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Which implementation for a dynamic hierarchy tree will show as much info as possible while still allow seeing the changes made in the background?
I'm in the middle of building a search engine website for a specific corpus.
We've already implemented most of the menus and the structure of the website. recently we got some feedback that forced us ...
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Design patterns for hierarchical multiple selection
Given the hypothetical structure:
Representing a group of items that can be classified as type A or B, and each subtype can be classified as type C or D, and within D can be classified type E or F.
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Do I have three levels of content, or can I reduce it to two?
I'm working on overhauling an interface that has two clearly defined levels of navigation, and then one murky level. Clicking on the first level will reveal sub-options which correspond to that ...
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Multiple actions for each node in a hierarchy
I am looking at improving an existing design, which has the following properties:
The information is hierarchical;
Every node in that hierarchy can do multiple things, such as expand to view children,...
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Better way of merging two tree views into a single
I am working on a UI design which has two tree view components to show data hierarchy.
Each tree shows same data but has two different functionalities. I felt showing them in such a way will confuse ...
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How best to display top-down decomposition data (hierarchical) with in place-editing and child addition?
We have an HTML/CSS UI where there exists a top-most item (root) - you click that you get a text box to enter some content and save. It shows up as indented/styled child of the parent. Basically the ...
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Better way to implement a dynamic hierarchy
Just a bit of a background, I write business apps and have never been concerned with user experience. If the application works then that's what is shipped. I have been starting to change my thinking ...
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What is the best way to allow users to navigate through a large amount of information on a website that is categorised in numerous ways?
As a web developer, I'm often given designs that look good from the web designer, but don't necessarily function as well as they should. This is especially true for navigation elements, increasingly ...
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Multiple, hierarchical selections for web application
We are currently making improvements to the user interface of our real estate management web-app. One big problem we have is multiple, hierarchical selections for big amounts of data in input masks.
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