Questions tagged [input]
A way for users to put information into a computer system.
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Personal information or generated information
Dear community, I am creating a appointment process for a rental process. Currently I am evaluating whether to show the user their First- + Lastname + E-Mail in step (3) that they have entered in ...
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Do International/Non US Based Users Automatically know/type their county code when filling out phone number forms
I am designing a phone number field for an international audience. Initially I separated the country code with the ability to select ones country from a dropdown. Once a country flag was selected, the ...
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Is there a pattern name for allowing users to add fields?
When a user is allowed to add/remove additional fields (or field groups) within a form, what is this interface paradigm called?
EDIT: in the example screenshots, each "row" of field(s) can be added/...
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Mobile app requires user to pick a number (min: 10, max: 30, increment: 0.25). Should I use an input field, picker, or something else?
One of the requirements for my application is that the user has to pick one number between the ranges and in the increment stated above. If I did a mobile options picker, there'd be 80 options. Do you ...
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When should i do an autocorrection?
I am using the levenshtein distance to recognize keywords despite typos, but i am wondering until which value the typo is still a typo or should be considered a different word. I am only comparing the ...
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Ways to educate the site visitors on what you can search with the search bar?
The current search bar design has search type filter tabs that allow the visitors to search for various result types. We looked at the site analytics and learned that site visitors are not using the ...
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<input type=“number”> or <input type=“text”> for entering an ID?
My website has a form with an input box to enter a long, random, numeric ID. Should it be a text input or a number input?
The problem with <input type="number"> is that it has useless up/down ...
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Which is better button input or form input?
I understand that technically they are the same thing, but from a visual UX point of view which performs better button input vs check box?
Has there been any thorough research done around this? if so ...
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Will users understand this horizontal spin wheel below a number input field?
I have implemented a horizontal spin wheel as an additional method to input a number:
You can slide or scroll the measurement left or right and this will change the number in the input field directly ...
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Edit many inputs [duplicate]
I have a problem about UI/UX
Design on mobile. There are 50 users, each user has 4 inputs (name,DOB,address and phone), so confirm step I show all of information of 50 users and put a "edit icon" in ...
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Does it make sense to display error messages for in-place editing?
In place editing definition: A label fields that when I click turns into an input field and allows me to type modify the text. Then either by clicking out or pressing tab it will automatically save ...
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How do I get a chart input from a user?
I would like to get a chart input from a user:
download bmml source – Wireframes created with Balsamiq Mockups
One way could be to let the user manually enter (X, Y) values like here but that ...
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Would you rather have the system to auto correct invalid date input, or an error message saying you need to correct it?
What do you think would be the preferred way of handling invalid date input on a desktop GUI?
Let's say the user needs to set a date range, e.g. for a search. And he sets the start date to 2018-06-...
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Instant typing search pattern
I've been meaning to implement the pattern of an "instant search" on a Desktop site, which would work by simply starting to type and have the input focused on a search form.
The only example I have ...
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When a radio-button is not yet chosen
I have three radio-buttons for "kind of project":
personal / unregistered nonprofit / registered nonprofit
I also have text input "Organization name" below the radio buttons.
"Organization name" ...
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single input or seperate inputs for a solution containing units
We are trying to create a web application to teach units to students of 4-6'th grade, the question would be like
what is average velocity of the car that moved 60km in 3 hrs?
The answer would be ...
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Form for creating/inviting new users
What I would like to achieve?
A form that enables a user creating a group of people on my website. Now: not every member of that group needs to be active (in other words: not every member needs to ...
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Input Fractions of an Inch
A form control should allow users to input a length accurate to 1/32 of an inch.
The users are used to working with fractions of an inch (rather than decimal places). However, I plan to store the ...
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Button Behavior and when to trigger on release
I am writing menu logic and was wondering if there are any general rules for when an on-screen button's function should trigger on release, vs when to trigger on press?
(A release trigger requires a ...
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What do you think about phone number input field’s width in web design? Is it important whether the number is long or not?
I'm designing a new form field for sign up page and something disturbs me. I have to show phone number field but I don't want to make it wider than phone number's length. I realize most web sites don'...
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Empty input fields and functional design
Let's say my application has two input fields. Here is the situation:
When starting the application, both fields are empty.
When entering a value into one of the fields, it will be parsed to a number ...
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What is the UX effect of input labels (NOT placeholders!) inside vs outside input wrappers?
I was wondering if there is any research or literature you know which discusses the position of an input label in regards to the input wrapper?
Take the following example:
Both versions take the ...
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Which styling should the field have, once a value has been chosen?
I'm working on the input style for a dropdown field, and I have two options for once a value has been selected. The default field state is shown at the top, which has the same border color as the ...
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How to handle a user text input which accepts tabs as a valid character?
Working on an automated data handling system. It attempts to work out the format of the uploaded data itself but, if it fails, it asks the user to put in things like field delimiters so it can process ...
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If I start editing one table cell without saving changes to another cell, should it apply my unsaved changes?
I have some table and adding row. You can add elements to the table by typing something and clicking on Add.
Every data item can be edited. Now i want to add something and i type in input "Ite" (look ...
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Does a select input element (fixed options) need a “clear input” button?
In our custom select element the user can start typing a category.The option nearest to the typed text is highlighted and will be selected with enter, tab or clicking. The options list is fixed so ...
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Input field with icon and placeholder as label
I was prototyping some inputs for a product I plan to develop and was wondering about the bad practice issue envolving the use of placeholders as labels. My question is: with the use of an icon ...
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Change Password Control
My idea of manage password section is to enable only Current password field at first. If the user enters correct password in the field only then the fields beneath it would go in enable state. Would ...
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Forms: Use visible input hint next to field or hidden hint behind info icon?
In case a label doesn't provide sufficient information for an input field and an additional hint is helpful, when should the hint be available next to (or below) the input field and when should it be ...
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Element to input Duration
I'm looking for a good way to build an element for inserting Duration. In the end the user's input would be converted to something like P23DT23H it's ISO 8601, you can read more bout it on wikipedia - ...
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Should one redefined (or cancel) default layout for autofilled inputs?
The yellow background of the input we see on the screenshot below is due the way Chrome renders autofilled inputs by default. Technically, I can got rid of this by introducing a bunch of cumbersome ...
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Placeholder for unknown number of digits
I would like to add placeholder on a HTML input type which could hold number between 1 and n (unknown large number of digits, for practical reasons it will be limited to some number, let say 10).
This ...
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Is there a valid reason to allow leading or trailing spaces in user input?
I want to propose a new guideline in our company to disallow leading or trailing spaces in any user input (web forms).
Is there any valid scenario where you want to allow leading or trailing spaces ...
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How to enable users to insert an infinity number
I am designing a web page which give admin users the opportunity to manage the users below them. in one section of this admin page, the admin user is required to fill out how many queries he permits ...
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Should nationalities in an input be listed in country name or adjective form?
When designing a data entry form for entering information about a person or an organization (e.g. customer info, international business partners, etc.), there arises a question about the best way to ...
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Handling when the GUI changes right before a user clicks or taps
How should I handle the GUI changing just before the user clicks or taps, causing an erroneous input?
I had the idea of ignoring input for 300ms before the input appears, but I'm not sure if this is ...
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How to convey interaction between two cells
I am working on a project that includes designing some behaviour for a web data grid. I run into a question described in the title. Below is a screenshot.
The editable input cell is the one with ...
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Representing nesting, inheritance, and overrides in a key-value pair editor (JSON)
The requirements
My application has hierarchical contexts which are configured via JSON properties.
Those are overlaid to create a single JSON properties file.
Properties can be inherited or ...
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Should capitalization of names be normalized for printing?
There are a couple of existing questions on this, such as,
When collecting first and last name from users, should the name be formatted if it will be shown to the user again?
However, my situation ...
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How did Twitter choose their character limit? [duplicate]
Twitter posts are limited to 140 "characters", which turns out to mean code points in UTF8 (not the only or even most intuitive measure). Was this determined by a (likely outdated) technical ...
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What are the downsides of <input type=“radio”>-based tabs and carousels?
I have seen a lot of examples of usage of <input type="radio"> and <input type="checkbox"> along with some css like
input:checked + div.tab-content {display:block;}
div.tab-content {...
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How to represent an abstract data type in a form?
I'm building a graphical tool for programmers to ease the use of a library. The library has a data type which I will call AbstractType that all types inherit from - Image, File, etc. The list of ...
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Do users understand when a title is a button
I have a filter and sort feature on a particular website, and the current layout is as follows:
Of course, I want to reduce elements to as few as possible, so my question is should a layout like this ...
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Position of a bar near a search input
I am building a website that includes a page that has a search input and a sensitivity bar near him that allows the users to control over the amount of results returned and their accuracy.
This is ...
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UI for Inputting Numbers Efficiently
I am developing a web app that requires a lot of numeric adjustments to be done very quickly by a user.
Here is an example:
Possible Solution
The only reasonable suggestion I could come up with is ...
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Distinguish between read only and disabled state of an input
I'm trying to implement a time picker in which I'm using a read only text-box initially to indicate that user cannot enter input rather he should click on the input to select time from drop-down.
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What is the best way to handle listing multiple questions?
I'm working on a form where a user is asked to list various questions. My initial design looks like this:
Users can enter multiple questions separated by line breaks. My worry with this interaction ...
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How can I improve a invoice capture and upload?
I'm creating the UX for an Invoice capture/upload to translate to text feature in a mobile application.
The journey that I have for now is:
User taps on "Invoice Upload"
Pop up with "Application ...
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Form input to accept array of strings
For a form, I want to accept a list of text inputs (e.g. "what baby names do you like?"). It's not a multi-select situation because there is not list of default values (the user could make up unknown ...
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Material Design : Space between inline inputs [closed]
Material Design doesn't specify any space between inline text inputs.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Do I assume the 9dp spacing would apply?
