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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Labels for general personal information. Essential or not?
Is it necessary to provide labels mentioned in the picture. I mean for user these are quite self-explanatory. Any suggestions?
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Should labels in forms follow the same grammar rules as titles
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/capitalization/rules-for-capitalization-in-titles.html
At the company I work at, we follow certain rules for capitalization in titles.
But currently, we're having a ...
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Should I add "(s)" to labels for fields that can have 1 or many options selected?
Are there any best practices for adding "(s)" to a label on a field that can have more than 1 option selected?
I think it looks cleaner without the "(s)", but having the "(s)" seems to help with ...
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How to call the text which is adjacent to a text field? [closed]
I am having a currency field similar to the below one. What is the UX terminology for the portion which holds the text "INR" and non-interactive. I have to decide the SCSS variable name (should be ...
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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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Form fields as sentence [duplicate]
I assume this is a big no-go for user experience but I wasn't able to find a question covering this (common) issue.
We are rewriting our desktop GUI and we have to deal with lots of settings / form ...
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What is the best way to label options that can be true / false or both?
Below is an example of a workflow process where a user will be updating certain accounts based on their settings.
What is the best way to label options that can be true / false or both? (Seen in the "...
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Labels blocking eachother when close together
I am writing an IOS app where there are labels in the mid point of each line segments. When the line are short the labels become clumped they block eachother.
The reason that I'm putting it in the ...
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Best UI behavior for done actions in a list [closed]
I'm developing a task app that has a dashboard task list.
The user can change a task's status to done. What is the best solution for the done state?
Tks!
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Plural or Singular Navigational Menu Options?
In our system we have what you would call a List Screen, where a user can view a list of objects. For example Phone Numbers. A user can add as many Phone Numbers as they want. Right now to get to ...
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Labels for a multi-(multi-function)-button wall switch
I bought a ZWave wall switch that looks like this :
Classy eh? EDIT thanks to @Darryl it has 4 independant buttons!
This wall switch responds to 4 actions for each of its buttons :
single press
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Date range terminology [closed]
I'm putting together canned date range options for a date range picker in an analytics app. I see commonly ranges like Last 30 Days and Last Month - the difference in including current time period or ...
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Have different size of cells on a UItableview to solve too long labels is a good idea?
I have an UITableView with cells that contains title and subtitle. Sometimes the title or subtile is cropped because too big.
What is the best choice:
let label cropped ?
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Labeling of binders
I am in the middle of a labeling project. We are setting up an indexing system (similar to a library) for our parts manuals, catalogs, etc. I am printing up the index number labels for the binders, ...
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What to do with button that have long labels
Do you have any best practice on how to handle buttons with long label?
Few options:
truncate the label
button in 2 lines and keep the width but might be ugly
button in 2 lines, keep the width and ...
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Game with multiple stages that can be locked/unlocked/finished
I am working on a learning platform, that offers users a number of games. Users take games one by one, and for each game they can see their current status in overview.
A game has multiple stages ...
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Evaluate vs Save
In my Web-App the user can save data, which is automatically evaluated and some feedback will be provided in the next step.
A user enters some Data, hits a button to save that data and is redirected ...
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How to label filters that filter on overlapping date ranges
I am looking for the appropropriate labeling for filters that search an event that is active within the provided date range.
Filters:
Ends after <date input>
Starts before <date input>
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How to display a label-field with multiple pieces of data
Let's say I have a details page that lists various pieces of information taken from a form. This works fine when I have a single attachment (link) per field.
However, let's say the user can attach ...
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Do top, or left aligned field labels perform better at form completion?
I have designed these two forms and would like to know which would be more effective at conversion i.e form filling up.
Here's the first one which I feel is more effective reason being the separate ...
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Is there any distinction between badges, labels and tags?
We are looking at a set of design patterns for helping classification of projects on a list – there seem to be some strong discussions around what the difference is between badges, labels and tags.
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How to create a custom textbox with a label and value
I am not a designer but I am dealing with a task to implement a functionality.
I have to develop a working UI where a user can enter values into text-boxes inside a grid. While entering these values ...
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Labeling buttons
How do you think buttons/actions should be labeled.
Let's say we have an entity called "Review".
On this review there are many actions. You can Cancel, Stop, Reassign, etc..
There will be many ...
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Introducing navigation icons with labels, then removing them
In Meng To's Design+Code book, he says the following while referring to icons with labels in navigations:
"Pro tip: If you don't want to always have text next to the icon,
introduce it first and ...
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Text placed below or beside an image in web design?
I have noticed in many pictures of websites (theme demo pages) that generally text is below picture not beside. Is there any reason why many websites are using that kind of design?
Examples of wp ...
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What's the best way to label weekly periods?
I'm dealing with a very complex layout for a big data app where user may choose different time periods to display different data. The periods apply to different sources of data, but in the end the ...
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mobile screen game: 2 list of options
We have mobile game which includes 3 levels (training, public, expert), this game has 4 modes.
now we have added new modes for training mode, these new modes are related to Training level only, what ...
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Which is better to show "Label (optional)" vs "Label (not required)"?
I prefer to write optional aligned with Form Label. Does writing "not required"? sounds more clear to user
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Alternative wordings for a "Skip" button?
The product owner for a survey app I've been working on wants the "Skip" buttons we've implemented for each question to use "less harsh" language. What other labels can I use? I've considered "Not ...
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"Pay with PayPal" including card payments label
I'd love to have some opinions on how to best label a the payment option "PayPal" to ensure it is clear that you can pay using your debit/credit card without having a PayPal account.
For background: ...
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When showing label with button, which of the two needs a "bolder" font? [closed]
Hope you have a wonderfall day!
Is it a personal preferences? a UI concern? or there is some known facts about this topic that i'm not aware of?
I'm curious about this 2 related topics :
1) When ...
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How to differentiate between button and label
I've had difficulty phrasing this question.
Basically, at my current design i have a "scrubbing" slider, moving the slider will affect the video preview.
I've added another component. There is a ...
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When to use Add, Insert or New
In the application i am looking at, you can create objects of different types by a corresponding context menu. Which entry (or which of these keywords) will be used is depending on the context of the ...
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Where should I put a label on a form?
I have a questionnaire that has loads of questions and multiple answers for one question. I've read many studies that support labels going on top and wanted to see your thoughts on the matter.
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Should I label every row in a table of inputs?
I find myself with some frequency creating a grid of inputs using a table where each cell consists of just an input field and the column headers define what the field is for. PHPStorm complains with ...
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What's an alternative to placeholder text in forms?
I'm designing a form for elderly (65+) and I'm focussing on good readability and high contrast.
I want to let them know which format they have to use while typing their birthdate (e.g. dd-mm-yyyy), ...
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Why does Google add o's to their name to signify result pages? [closed]
Why have the word Google spelled with ten o's? Why have it there at all?
The red letter o signifies the page you are on in correlation to the page number below it, but why have that connection in the ...
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Word suggestion - "empty" vs "blank"
Have a question as to what makes more sense... we have a "visual search" component which allows users to type in a category (column header) and then type in what they are looking for (e.g. First Name: ...
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Should checkbox label be styled like an anchor link?
I've struggled to find any sort of argument that supports either of my theories so i wanted to see what the UX community at large thinks about this.
Scenario
I have an online shop. When you view a ...
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Should I use "Search" or "Find” on my buttons?
Working on a travel website UI. When I referred to some websites they use “Find Flights” on buttons used to lookup flights.
In general, would you recommend I use "Search Flights" or "Find Flights” ...
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Changing a button label dynamically or having multiple buttons?
I've read a couple similar questions and answers but haven't been able to piece together a good answer on my issue. I have a form where based on the input given in the form, back-end decision modeling ...
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Using buttons with no icons or text
The Google Chrome "New tab" button is not labeled (see the top image). It contains no icon and no text (besides hovertext). There seems to be extensive discussion on using text vs. icon, but I can't ...
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Pinch to Zoom. Would it be necessary to label or indicate interaction with image
I have an app that allows for pinch to zoom in mobile version. This is a nice feature.
Do you believe it is good practice to label or put instructions on
the image to indicate it can be zoomed on by ...
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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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Placement of buttons
I am designing a pop up which will come up after the user has set of a chain of commands.
We have a group of 10 items and the first one that can be picked by the client gets processed automatically ...
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Why do app icons on force touch popups not appear consistently in the same left or right spot
On the iOS home screen, if I force touch on the second icon the popup icon stays on the left side of label. If I force touch on the fourth icon the popup icon stays on the right side of label.
Why ...
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Should I use labels for geographic locations?
I have a website similar to craigslist for online classified media. I redesigned a list of items now using semantic-ui and labels for the geography. Would it be better to use breadcrumbs e g Georgia &...
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Alignment of the labels in view/read only mode
I have a question regarding displaying the forms in the read only mode or a view mode. For example after one users inserts all the data (I use infield top aligned form labels) and then another user ...
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Best way to display start time and duration (since the start time)?
Some context:
I'm trying to display the start time, and the duration since that time, in a single label. These timestamps are for urgent issues that need to be dealt with immediately.
I'm leaving ...
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UI label type prefix/suffixing consistency
We are having a small debate between QA and programmers on the best consistency for labels.
On a form with about 40 data entry controls we have around 6 date fields. A small example of these fields ...
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