Questions tagged [labels]
Usually non-interactive text on in UI used to guide the user as to what information is needed or presented.
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OK/Cancel on left/right?
Should OK button be on left of Cancel button or vice versa?
Are there any studies suggesting either of the solutions?
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Should I use Yes/No or Ok/Cancel on my message box?
Semantically, the Yes/No buttons are roughly equivalent to the Ok/Cancel buttons, but in general what would you recommend to use? Should I always use Yes/No or always use Ok/Cancel? Or does it depend ...
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'My Account' or 'Your Account'?
I want to put a link to an account page in a toolbar. What person should I use to refer to the user's settings? Should I call it 'My Account' or 'Your Account'? I've seen both is use, and I'm not sure ...
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Files size units: "KiB" vs "KB" vs "kB"
I'm working on a web app that will show the size of certain files, and I'm wondering if there's any consensus about how to report the units of bytes. Technically the IEC has weighed in with an ...
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"New" vs. "Create"
For buttons that initiate some content creation interaction, which label is better:
"New X" or "Create X"? Are there specific uses that in which one is better than the other?
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Can the "$" symbol be safely considered as universal when making a graphic depicting money?
Want to get a sense of any best practices of using the "$" dollar sign in the context of an image in order to depict a universal idea of money.
UPDATE:
My task was to create an icon/graphic used in ...
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Should a pie chart show the legend for a wedge with 0%?
I and my colleague have a difference of opinion.
We are creating a chart of, lets say, fruits. Like this one:
But what if the value of oranges is 0%? Do we show the legend anyway? Like this:
Or ...
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On forms, is inline placeholder text better than a label outside each field?
I am familiar with research on label placement to the left or above. I tend to go with right justified with the label to the left of the field for my form designs.
However, inline placeholder text ...
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Users entering the wrong decimal separators for US$ amounts
I have an application that accepts a dollar amount in $USD. Unfortunately, some people are foreign/visitors to the US and type in amounts with commas instead of periods: they format the number as XXX....
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When the username is an email address should the field be called 'username' or 'email'?
When the username for a service is an email address should the field be called 'username' or 'email'?
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Which direction indicates newer/older?
So I'm reading some blogs and I get to the bottom of the page when I see a graphic similar to this:
<< Newer Posts Older Posts >>
This makes sense to me. But then, quite often, ...
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How to clearly state to the User what characters are valid
I'm trying to determine the best way to inform the User that an input accepts certain special characters. Alphanumerics are simple enough, but I feel like I'm losing clarity when I get to characters ...
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Dealing with long-title buttons
I have buttons for very specific actions. That ends up with button labels like "Send/Receive all data from sources" or "Create predefined calculated channels".
Each button has also an icon that goes ...
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How to phrase button labels?
How should I phrase the following button labels:
"Import image" or "Import an image"?
"Create app" or "Create an app"?
"Add description" or "Add a description"?
If you could also supply the grammar ...
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HTML label association with inputs; bad UX?
I'm a web developer having a weird UX issue. When I build HTML forms, I ensure that every input's label is implemented through a <label></label> tag and that each label uses the for ...
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Input form label alignment top or left?
Although I have researched on input form label alignment, I need solid suggestion on when to use form label alignment top and when to use left and why?
For example in the below form username and ...
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Placeholders with the same text as the label - good practice?
I have a form such as the following, in which the placeholders have the same exact text as their corresponding labels:
The alternative being leaving each input without any placeholder. I'm not ...
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Best pattern for international address forms?
I've noticed an emerging pattern in web-based forms is to put the country field before city/state. This is contrary to how we would normally fill out an address on paper, but it allows us to have ...
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Is the Windows Start button an example of poor mapping?
In my recent course on HCI, I've been told that start button on Windows systems is an example of poor mapping. The reason for that, as explained in materials, is that it doesn't start anything, but ...
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Which phrase is better: "Sort chronologically" or "Sort by date"?
I'm adding on to an advanced search screen, the standard few sort orders: by date, by name, etc.
I'm just wondering what the more commonly used/accepted way of phrasing it would be. "Chronologically" ...
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Toggle Buttons "Turn On" vs "Enable" [duplicate]
For about a year now, we've used toggle buttons on a couple of segments of our site. We try to be very consistent in our user interfaces, always using the same blue button styles for every clickable ...
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Is it okay to name submit button as "Select"
I am on creation form and want to add video to this form. I press + and the video gallery is opened in a popup. I need to select video and submit.
Is it okay to name submit button as Select? Or are ...
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Are grayscale buttons with icons usable and effective?
The image here is
old gmail
new gmail, when no mail is selected
new gmail, when mail is selected
new delicious
To me, the buttons are unlabeled and tough to discover.
I don't believe the icons do a ...
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Isn’t the FAQ label obsolete by now?
Don’t get me wrong in the beginning of reading this. I really mean the label and not the content of FAQ. The content is very useful if its’ made the right way (as here on ux.se), but there are plenty ...
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Are verbs necessary on field labels for a survey?
This is slightly different than this question regarding a small form. I have a multi-page survey that can take up to 10 minutes to complete.
Right now, all of our prompts start with verbs, but I feel ...
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Should the cursor change to pointer over radio buttons, checkboxes, their labels and selects?
I always do so because to me it feels nicer; it implies an action will happen on click. Especially for radio/checkbox labels, where the for attribute is correctly used.
This is not the default ...
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Should form labels be placed inside of input boxes and slide out of the way?
Is it good idea to put form labels inside input boxes? In this case, the labels slide out of the way when the user clicks on the box.
See here live example of form
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Which is more likely to be read and processed: (related) text placed above or below an image/video?
I'm thinking about layout on pages where the main asset is visual — for instance, a photo of an item from the collection on a museum website, or embedded video as on YouTube and many news sites. ...
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How to indicate right click functionality?
I am developing a Windows application where there is a lot of configuration and settings applied to multiple objects. There is a right click menu that is used to apply a predetermined group of ...
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"Expiry date" or "Expiration date" label
What is the best form label to use for the credit card expiry date (during a checkout process on an eCommerce website)?
I've done some research and noticed that some sites use 'Expiration date' and ...
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What are the rules of using ellipsis on buttons
I read about the rules of using ellipsis (three dots ...) in a menu command:
Indicate a command that needs additional information (including a
confirmation) by adding an ellipsis at the end of ...
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Best empirical method(s) for determining how to name something?
I'm a UX/UI designer leading the redesign of a web application that serves a primarily technical audience (DevOps professionals).
A primary goal of our redesign is to make the UI more accessible to ...
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What's a better label for the traditional "Browse..." button for selecting files to upload?
I've been working on an advanced file uploader, complete with folders and animated progress bars, and wanted to improve the vague "browse" button generally used for launching a file selector window. ...
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What are good rules for naming menu items? [closed]
I'm establishing some style guidance for naming items which are accessed from my application's menu bar.
What are the commonly accepted rules for naming menu items?
When should the names of the ...
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How do you deal with unusually long labels?
A piece of software that I'm updating uses some incredibly long labels, but due to the nature of the software (taxes and payroll) this seems unavoidable at times. On some pages, maybe 50% of the ...
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How can I say "there is a possibility, up to 30 mins delay in the time you booked for calling you" shorter?
I have a reservation web form. There is a field named "time". It's a select option like:
# Select a time:
<select>
<option>09:00 AM</option>
<option>10:00 ...
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What to do when customers search for "Cheap" when you want to convey "Quality"?
An ecom client that I am working with has an interesting SEO challenge. They sell products that they want to convey quality and value; however, the #1 thing searched for on Google, Bing, and their ...
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Is it a good idea to add tooltip to some text that says exactly the same?
Having tooltips on icons and images is understandable and the same goes for small pieces of links where tooltips may elaborate to the user what that particular link would do. Sometimes, however, ...
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Truncating long text labels - Best Practices?
I was wondering whether there are any studies around truncated labels, in case if they ever get too long and layouts can't fix it? Does it confuse users if a label is truncated with an ellipsis ...
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Which label text is good for "Enter email address"?
I'm about to place one text field in the log in area where user can enter email address and password for logging in, but I'm confused which text should I use for label and placeholder text?
Here are ...
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Is there a term/name for these labels?
Are there any conventional names for these informational labels?
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Have usability studies been conducted on the use of alphanumeric characters as labels for controller buttons?
Controller Question
Over the years there have been a wide variety of home consoles each with their own (mostly) unique controller designs1. One thing that most consoles have in common is their use of ...
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Checkbox label negating
When labeling Checkboxes is it bad to use "negative" or "opposite" descriptions? Should a checked Checkbox always mean "do something", or is it OK for it to mean "don't do something"?
For example:
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What is the best way to deal with very long form labels?
I have very long labels in some forms, including forms in modal windows. There are some cases we have labels with more than 80 chars, which is bad because:
Users need to read/track all the labels to ...
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Can I use "Prev" instead of "Previous" on a button?
We use Next/Previous buttons as controls in our image gallery. I'm in the process of implementing responsive design, so there is a limited amount of space that I can be used for these buttons. I'm ...
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Should images be given alt text if they contain no information?
Example: a biography page with a picture of the person. The image contains no useful information, yet it adds enough emotional value to the page that simply removing it is not the solution.
If you ...
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Align text left or right Next to textBox?
I have a Label and a Textbox next to it. I am trying to find out which layout is the best for usability?
Right-Aligned Labels
Left-Alignment Labels
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What do you think is a better label "New" or "Add"
At the moment I am building a web application that stores a lot of data inside of tables. In each of the pages containing the tables the users have many actions; they can add, delete, or edit the data....
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