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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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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Best way of representing Hierarchical data in android
I am trying to find out the best way of representing hierarchical data in android. There are no tree view controls and expandable list views dont work since i can have many levels of hierarchy. I ...
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Displaying Hierarchical Information in a Mobile App
trying to come up with a good way of presenting a hierarchy of information on a mobile device. Specifically, I wrote this Khan Academy app for Windows Phone:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/...
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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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What is the most user friendly way to allow users to insert data into a hierarchy?
I have created a hierarchical data set which I use to store a tree of regions. I want users to be able to add new nodes onto the tree, but I am having a hard time thinking of a very user friendly way ...
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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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Preview pane for various nested elements
I am working on a device which presents pieces of related content. The content has child/parent relationships and the user can click to expand the various trees.
In the attached sample I mocked up, ...
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Numbering Cards for Card Sorting Excercise
I am going to be conducting various card sorting exercises with a small group soon and I have a question about how to label some of the cards.
I have about 6 that will contain words that I would like ...
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Are there any useful tools / techniques for creating website content inventories? [closed]
This is probably wishful thinking but here goes...
Now obviously I don't expect some magical app to crawl a website, summarise each page and detail all the assets within each page (if only!) however ...
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Can tags have hierarchy?
Does anyone have experience working with nested tags? I could not find any websites that allow users to have hierarchies in their tags (equivalent to non-mutually exclusive categories). Is it a bad ...
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Presenting a dynamic hierarchy with a great number of elements
This is my first post here. Hopefully the description will come across as clear.
What I'd like to do in an application I'm working on is to present a form of hierarchy with a potentially great number ...
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Grouped list with a lot of singletons -- how to present groups of size one?
We have a table with a large number of items (50-500+). Items are grouped -- basically, think of a list of folders each with at least one item in them. Actions need to be taken on each item, or ...
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Which is the best way to display priority in a large list of items?
We have a list of approximately 50 items. The item at the top takes highest priority, and the item at the bottom takes the least. These items can be re-ordered by selecting the item and clicking 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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For large hierarchies - checkbox tree or 'guided tree construction'
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In my Web based application I have a hierarchy of musical genres. There are around 1.5k genres in the tree, and the depth of the tree is at most about four levels.
My application allows you ...
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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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Alternatives for Tree structure [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
In a desktop application what are the innovative, alternate methods to a tree structure?
Provide me some example links to ...
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A Better alternative to display Hierarchical Data than using TreeView
I am a ASP.net Developer and am looking out for other alternatives to Treeview control. Reason behind is shipping too much of viewstate information for each request. Functionality of treeview would be ...
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How do you approach educating clients about "the fold" (and other UX 'myths')
I've always been of the belief that "the fold" is a bit of a misnomer, and indeed there's a whole bunch of research (including material posted on this very site) suggesting that users don't have a ...
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What's the best UEA/Design/Code team setup? [closed]
Due to the discussion I need to rephrase this. (I put the old content as a quote.)
My question is about a good setup of people with a strong focus on UX experts. Those could be UX Architects, UX ...
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Any value to gathering qualitative data from card sorts?
One of the best tools I've found for card sort experiments seems to be websort, mainly because you can just send out a link for participants to go through the exercise at their own convenience.
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Data display for hierarchical data
I have various collections of entities that can be associated at various levels, varying in depth as well.
Would the best approach be to use a treeview? If I cannot use a treeview could I create the ...
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Is there a way to display a hierarchical file tree-view in a fixed horizontal space?
This is more of a musing, but in Windows Explorer, and IDEs like Eclipse, I often end up with a file tree that is expanded so many levels deep, I cannot see both the root and the files I'm working on ...
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What is the best UI for multiselect from a hierarchy of data?
I have a hierarchy of data and I need to create a UI to pick from this list. The data is structured something like an org chart, where teams have parent teams:
team seven
team three
--team one
--team ...
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Tri-state checkbox: Which state should be selected after clicking?
There is a hierarchy of selectable items, let's say a parent and two children. All three items have checkboxes. When both children are checked, the parent's checkbox is also checked. When both ...
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Hierarchical comments usability issues
For blog, what are best practices to implement topic’s hierarchical comments?
How to help users to find yet unread comments when they may appear anywhere in the tree?
How to show what parent comment ...
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hierarchical input and display design [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
In my application, I need to design hierarchy of product.
i.e. Parent group, group, parts, subparts etc. ( add, remove , ...
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What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
I've been pondering the best way to show a deep hierarchy for a desktop application I'm working on. Here are some alternative designs I'm considering...
Mac OSX Finder:
If you understand what you're ...
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Displaying a panda's family tree
I have a section on my website that displays information about all known captive pandas, (Nearly 700) in total.
Each panda has a single page which display it's name, birth / death and where it has ...
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UI paradigm for nested layout editor
I have an application that with a layout editor, somewhat similar to the WinForms editor in Visual Studio -- with drag-and-drop widget placement, a property panel, etc.
I'm adding the option to have ...
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What is the best UI design for hierarchical data?
This is such a common issue and I'm running into it in many projects.
Let's suppose you have a system that tracks conferences:
Conferences
Venues -> Buildings -> Rooms
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How to use topic maps
Some time ago I found a very interested technology: Topic Maps.
It solves to find information and to share knowledge. One of examples of this technology is presented on this site. See "tags", "...
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How to display the hierarchical data [closed]
Some real ui javascript library wanted!
I have to display some hierarchical data on the web page. It should not be a classical tree view with the text items. I am looking for a graphical ...
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Designing modern Site Maps
In my opinion, the Site Map is possibly the most important deliverable for any IA or User Experience project. The structure of the website needs to be pinned down before anything else can be started.
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