Questions tagged [hierarchy]
is an arrangement of items in which the items are represented as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another
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Nested (hierarchical) list needs solution for multi-select functionality
Our app requires us to allow users to created their own hierarchical groups, then associate documents with those groups.
In my opinion the biggest usability concern is that users also need to be able ...
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Is it odd to have search results displayed in a way that is inconsistent with the rest of an app?
I've spent a few days thinking about how to layout my mobile app's interface and I think I've found a way that makes sense to me. I just need some advice to check that I'm not veering too far from ...
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Improving dynamic list selection
I have the problem related in this link for a desktop app:
Suggestion for list selection and populating related lists dynamically
but instead of 3 list I have 7 and some lists have more than 20 ...
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Representing relationships/hierarchy within an otherwise flat table view
I have a standard table view which is used in a number of places in an online cloud portal. It's used to list servers, products, firewalls and more.
As I begin to build views for the firewall listing ...
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Windows explorer vs Mac Finder, which is better for navigating folder hierarchy? [closed]
What are the guiding design principles behind the two different methods of navigating the folder?
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How to improve readability of highly-structured text
NOTE: This question explores methods for increasing readability for a target user group.
Background: Readability is invaluable when dealing with large amounts of text. For some users, programmers, ...
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Multiple prices for multiple countries
I'm working on a multiple countries project. Until now, we only sold to one country, but we're working on letting users from its neighbour country (speaking the same language) buy our products.
For ...
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Hierarchy in chat between sender & receiver [duplicate]
Why is it that many chat applications, the chat messages you send yourself are often highlighted with color, whereas the messages of the person you are talking to are often grey & seemingly lower ...
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Highlighting parent in the top-most navigation
I'm using an always-visible side navigation bar for a web app I'm helping design. This bar serves as the topmost navigation throughout the app, providing fast access to top-most categories even from ...
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Table of contents for an ebook
I am working on Ebook and want to display the table of contents of the eBook. It will have units, chapters in the unit, topics in each chapter.
Any best practices to display the Table of contents for ...
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How to structure information when the top-level role may also be the lower-level role?
Let's say we have a list of subcontractors. Now subcontractors can either 1) hire workers to do the manual work or 2) do the manual work themselves (they're subcons who are also carpenters).
Normally,...
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Modal Window with Tab Menu font sizes (Prominence)
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I'm currently developing a UI, and I'm just wondering if it is acceptable in terms of prominence or in general.
If the font size of the modal title and its ...
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What should you consider when prioritizing information and features across screens on a product?
Based on solutions and ideas from "Can you make it more prominent?" stakeholder phenomenon I decided to list out and prioritize each of the features on each screen in the product.
Turned ...
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Menus under Menus
how do people feel about menus within other menus? I have the top menu which distinguishes between Individual Students and Groups, then the group name.
And THEN two sections which how the students in ...
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How to simultaneously open pages from different places in the hierarchy in the desktop app?
We have a desktop app where user has to enter information on different pages.
All pages in the app are placed in a hierarchy. For example:
Item 1
Item 1.1
Item 1.2
Item 2
Item 2.1
But you can ...
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How to select a parent checkbox either separately or with children?
In my web-based reporting case, users should be able to select one or more items from an organization hierarchy to show on a report. They should be able to select both whole branches with all subnodes ...
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Multilevel Page Title - Page and Instance order and hierarchy
I've got the following task.
I have to redesign the title part of the pages. Silly but as simple as hard to get the ballance with the stakeholders.
We have Page title and section titles. We need some ...
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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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Is there a modern reimplementation of Elastic Windows?
Elastic Windows is a windowing approach where windows are organized in a hierarchical fashion on a space filling tiled layout, developed by Eser Kandogan and Ben Shneiderman between 1996 and 1998. ...
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Differentiate between selecting a tree node and expanding it
We're doing a tree view for navigating through a hierarchical data structure. Technically speaking it's a JSTree javascript based application.
Clicking on the arrows expands/collapses the nodes and ...
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In burger menus, should "Logout" always be at the bottom and why?
I noticed this while using websites that require login/logout - I get used to accessing the "Logout" button at the bottom of the menu. For example:
On burger menu, the logout option will always be at ...
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Best interface or method to show hierarchy
I've been working a system which has categories and sub categories. Now, I have found three optimal way to achieve this
Using tags - Ex: StackExchange (single domain site)
Pros: Highly organized ...
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VIsualizing a collapsed mid-level in a hierarchical structure
I have the following structure of data:
A
/B
/E
/F
/C
/G
But most of the time, it is not interesting to the end user which 2nd level items the 3rd level items belong to.
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Adding subitems/children objects from the parent view
I have a page where users can start a 'timer'. Users can add an Attachment to this timer. So attachments are child objects of a timer.
In the timer page, it's important that there is as little ...
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Android Material Design paradigm for hierarchical data
I need to display some hierarchical data in a side menu of an Android app. Sort of a tree, with nodes that can be dragged and dropped around. The entire tree has to be expanded from the start.
I ...
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Should a floating section be affected by a page's save button?
I am designing an editable page that has a floating 'Notes' on the right section that follows users down the page.
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
I have ...
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Show important items on the top or put it in the right hierarchy where it belongs
I'm working on a website for a TV show, and according to the UX research one thing I found out was that people look out for some pages like "scripts" , "quotes", "nicknames of characters" etc..
I ...
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Displaying multiple levels of hierarchy in a table
I’m working on a payroll app for construction contractors. I’m trying to show hierarchy in a table for one contractor (In this case, “Vandelay Industries”. I want the user to be able to see where ...
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Hierarchical table display w/ sorting
Hello – I'm looking for a decent way to display hierarchical information within a table that will also allow users the ability to sort records by clicking the top of each column of associated discrete ...
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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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how to display hierarchy in search bar
So we have an internal form creating tool and the names of data here are very repetitive. We decided to bring in a search bar and show the data along with the hierarchy( basically the path of the file)...
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How deep can tabbed categories / filters go?
For best practices, how deep can tabbed categories / filters go? Like in my example, for this page, there is a broad category 1, 2, 3 that the user can choose from. Then for each of these categories, ...
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nested checkbox behavior check/uncheck
I have a hierarchical category tree and checkboxes next to each item that allow to enable/disable the correpsonding category.
I assume it is an expected default behavior that all subategories of ...
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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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Optimal heading visual weight to paragraph visual weight ratio
Is there any research about optimal heading visual weight to paragraph visual weight ratio?
I have noticed myself that extra large and bold headings make me feel comfortable to skim a long text but ...
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How to represent hierarchical choices
We have a hierarchical selections that currently is represented as a wizard to the user. There is tree which can have many branches and each branch can have many leaves. For now I'm using table ...
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Material Design - bottom navigation with upper tabs?
Prototyping a new dialer app based on Material's framework and style guide.
Side navigation is not an option. Instead, I would like to use bottom navigation for 4 main pages/features.
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Checkboxes that allow you to select parent and children as distinct entities
This is a bit hard to explain but let's say I have this hierarchy for a checkbox list:
->Item A
---->Item 1
---->Item 2
->Item B
---->Item 3
---->Item 4
I need to be able to cover both these cases:
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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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How to best organize multiple taxonomies when the content resides on categories?
I'm working on a website about public health that has a somewhat confusing data structure. It currently opens up to a list of location categories (one-to-many) that contain a content page and a list ...
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Configuring a hierarchical structure with inherited attributes
The information model of my application consists of a hierarchy of objects (one to many), each has its own specific attributes and inherited attributes. For each inherited attribute in an object, user ...
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Pattern or strategy for showing hierarchical response content?
I'm expanding my app's capabilities from this:
...to displaying all the rules that were applied, results for each rule, rule description, and link to more info.
I'd really appreciate pointers to ...
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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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Adding text to a hierarchy of items
Given a predefined hierarchy of foods, a user while viewing a specific food on the back-end can add/edit text associated with that specific food, its parent, and its grandparent. Text for each level ...
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How best to present origin in a hierarchical settings structure
I have this hierarchical structure. For simplicity & understanding's sake, let's call it a postal address:
country
--city
----street
------address #
--------apartment #
I need to provide ...
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How to structure a navigation
I had found a while ago a study that offered some general guidance on what hierarchical patterns in website navigations worked best for users.
For instance :
Level 1 : a lot of items
Level 2 : very ...
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Display hierarchical structure and corresponding reference data
Do any of you have any suggestion on how to design view for reference data and make it easy to navigate and understand. We are developing a web application and have this hierarchical setup:
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suggestions for dealing with multi-dimensional hierarchical data
We are designing a price calculation tool, for which every property adds a percentage increase/decrease in value of the object. Properties in combination with each other can have shared impact on the ...
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How to navigate up, down and sideways in a hierarchy of tasks?
I'm working on a workflow application (web) in which users work on projects.
Each project consists of a workflow of tasks, which can be nested to an arbitrary level
(subtasks).
On a single nesting ...
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