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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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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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Show conditional elements?
Context:
I am designing an application with different login options.
In the settings of the application, you can turn on/off each of the logins options.
50% of the logins options require additional ...
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How to represent alternatives in a column view (like the Mac OS Finder)
Background
In an expert system, configuration users may be able to define custom behavior by way of business rules or decision tables. For those to be meaningful, the system offers its domain-...
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As per usability which view is better to show product hierarchy: Horizontal view or Vertical view?
I am facing problem to show complete hierarchy of consumer product for a company where products can be up to 500. And hierarchy can be up to 7 level. I am attaching 4 level horizontal & vertical ...
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Hierarchy VS Usability in Mobile Design
Taking into consideration the ease of access areas on a mobile device:
I am not sure how to determine/prioritize where to organize the main actions:
Hierarchy: Most important actions at the top
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Effectively displaying complex "expanded/extra" information in a list
I've got an application using Material Design, and I'm having trouble laying out information in an easy to understand way.
On the top level, I'm happy with how things are (even if the bars are a bit ...
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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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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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Usability of nested accordions
I have seen some interface designs that nest accordions that show/hide information at more than one level of hierarchy.
The example show also uses both vertical and horizontal hierarchies to add ...
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Showing the user the hierarchy of inputs in a form
I'm working on a form where the user can enter multiple "disciplines" using multiple text fields, the form starts out like this:
then if they press the button (Add SUB), this happens:
As you ...
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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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How to navigate between item list, search and item details?
I have a hierarchy explorer-like list of folders and items. User can select one and explore its children (child folder and items):
[Top folder] -> [Child folder 1] -> [Child folder 2] -> [...
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Content grouping based on time and theme
I have some articles which need to be arranged on a new website based on time and theme. For example on a blog site the content is usually arranged by date (descending latest first) - see first figure ...
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What is the best way to visualize an org chart when people have multiple responsibilities?
I have asked the following question on stackoverflow around modeling an org chart. This focused on the DB modeling details, etc but I want to ask a related question here focusing purely on the user ...
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TreeTable as a flexible condition/filter editor
I face the task to create condition/filter editor every time I need to develop a data/request/event processing system. As usual, there is no universal one and only solution.
Google shows a lot of ...
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How to display the relevant data on the UI
I was going through a book, which said that the data should be organised in such a way that primary and secondary levels are accessed within 3-5 clicks and remaining data should be at ternary level (...
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Presenting Hierarchical Options
I'm wondering what is considered "best practice" for displaying hierarchical lists that allow selection in a web app. In this case, we're presenting users with the option to select n counties per ...
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Does the use of lines improve the usability of tree widgets?
I am in the process of defining a style guide for a family of software applications, including the usage and visual design of a tree widget. Right now, we are having discussions whether to use lines ...
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How would a perfect overview for 400 competitors look like?
I have to create an overview for a competition with about ±400 competitors. They are separate in the "best 100"-group and the others.
A random number of competitors shown as thumbnails with (if so) ...
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