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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Best Practice: even tab width or dynamic tab width
So this tab width is dynamic, the benefit is being able to say that perhaps all tabs will have 20px padding on either side of the label. Avoids wide tabs with small labels ( if that is a terrible ...
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Should axis label change depending on time on line graphs?
I have a line graph showing number of items in queue from right now and 24 hours back in time.
I have a range of different options to chose from.
First, there are two different ways of showing the ...
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UI button labeling in touch/mobile web and native apps
The concerns are based on my own end-user experience with touch applications (both native and web SPA). Even slim and clean UIs may be prone to the same problem - the learning curve is gradual than ...
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Has anyone come up with a Match Case icon? [closed]
I have noticed that many major applications, such as Firefox, use the literal text Match Case (in English) on UI buttons in order to allow the user to specify that the Find function should match the ...
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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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Should I label a date as UTC or GMT
I have a site that will be used by people in various time zones. On this site, there is a table of information, with one column containing a date and time. To circumvent time zone confusion, I'm going ...
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How to distinguish between fields with similar values and no labels?
I have two date fields next to each other on a form in my app.
I am not using labels for any of the fields. Rather I have put a help text inside each of them. When the user taps on a field, native ...
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Counter in a corner of a button
I'm creating a user control which is essentially a wide tile-like button (think Windows 8 "wide" start menu tiles), but in the upper-right corner there's a darkened area which contains a counter. This ...
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What is enough to convey a Show / Hide link information?
Usage context: I have a voucher, which has conditions of use.
I can see conditions of use in a collapsible panel.
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Should I use ...
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How to clearly differentiate sort by creation vs sort by comments
Scenario
I have a page that shows a list of items to which users can post comments. The user can choose to sort by the item's creation date the last time a comment was posted.
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I'm ...
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When is it appropriate to use masking on an input field?
I am having some difficulty convincing myself that users will like masking applied to input fields (Web form). I personally hate it when forms manipulate my input while I'm typing it. I'd rather have ...
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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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How should text blocks be labelled?
Given the three below text blocks, how should I label the first one "Continent", the second "Country", and the third "City"? The three text blocks are meant to be read as one continuous narrative in ...
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Should I inform the user a slider actually has a margin?
I have a configuration dialog that contains a percentage slider:
The user can set a range of 10% to 90% on this slider (don't ask why). In reality, the user is actually configuring a range with a 5% ...
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Is it preferable to have a plain "Save" button vs. "Save ___" (noun) button?
I know that it is preferable to have buttons labeled with verbs, but
I'm wondering if there is a benefit of also having a noun following the verb. The specific case I'm looking for is a Save button.
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Accessibility of in-field labels and help text labels in input forms
Many newer UI interfaces have a preference for input field labels or help texts to be contained within the UI component itself instead of implementing them as separate labels. I was wondering if ...
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Is it necessary to have headers?
Can we go even without headers by including simple placeholders inside the input box? any other suggestions?
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Better labels than "Date 1" and "Date 2"
I'm working on a web application which has a feature to compare the price of products at different dates to see if they went up or down.
Basically the user select two dates and click search.
At the ...
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Should one put labels on Previous / Next buttons?
We have several pages of case studies (about 10) and we want to put "Next" and "Previous" buttons at the bottom to go to the next / previous case studies.
What is the best practice... should we just ...
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Copy for a checkbox - Positive or negative? [duplicate]
I have a checkbox that is intended to allow the user to send email notifications or not. We'd prefer the email notifications to be sent, so email notifications are sent by default, giving the user an ...
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Names for filters that show 1) all non-blank values vs. 2) blank values specifically vs. 3) all values including blanks
I have a basic reporting system when you can choose filters from a collection of SELECT fields.
An example of this might be to filter the report by Country. The SELECT field would obviously include ...
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Should a delete button actually delete?
I asked this question about file deletion on Security.SE and got a lot of bamboozle about how technically, blah blah blah. One person said that this is really a UX issue, so I decided to ask here:
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How do you deal with long labels using material design text fields?
I need to convert a form to material design guidelines but I don't think MD has considered how to deal with long labels on narrow forms. As you can see in my example I have 3 pairs of dropdowns that ...
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Good design for grouping labels on a form?
I have the following area on a form:
I don't like the repeated words "Open" and "Date". To me repeated words just add clutter.
I would like to have a way to group these together in some way. ...
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Common reason to use italic font style in select places of GUI?
I am typically using it to indicate that specific portion of textual information is different or less important (auxilliary) than the rest:
Order Rejected (No money left)
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Appropriate label for a button that takes a user to an item?
I have a simple setup for this scenario...
A page that lists all "playing seasons".
Each season in the list has two buttons on the far right, an "Open" and a "Delete" button
The "Open" button takes ...
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What's the best way to show form labels that are longer than the corresponding fields (which require a short input)?
I'm having trouble with labeling of short input fields. Some labels have standard 280px width approximately, but others are quite small in order to offer clues on the expected input (characters).
I'...
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Million Abbreviation
What would the correct abbreviation be for million when abbreviating 2,000,000.
I've heard M and MM.
2M or 2MM ?
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Deciding about labels (Taxonomy in User Interface)
I work for a delivery company and we are creating a new section for our mobile app, which has the following features:
Pending reviews of restaurants
Order Status
Order History
Favorite restaurants
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How to categorize users based on day-to-day using
I want to ask for the right terminology for user categories based on their day-to-day use?
for example app:
User use the app everyday to get the job done
User use the app day after day to get ...
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Variable highlighting in formulas
I have an application in which there is a filter bar. These filters are clickable labels. After clicking one, this label becomes a editable.
Recently, we added functionality to use variable names in ...
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how to indicate mandatory group in IOS -UPDATED
I have a form where fields are marked (*) to indicated they are required. But there is a strange use case where Level and Space have a dependency on each other such that either space or level or both ...
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How to indicate that one of a group of fields is required
I have a form where there are multiple fields. Some fields are required, and I have an asterisk next to them in red color. There are some fields where one of them is required. For those fields, I have ...
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Terse or chatty field labels?
Field labels generally fall into one of 2 camps, either terse or chatty, such as 'Name' versus 'What is your name?'. Typically there is a broad correlation between the expertise or focus of the user: ...
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Facets Categories: singular or plurals?
In labeling facets should the categories be plural or singular? Examples: years, authors, model, etc.?
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Media layout best practices
I have a website which I maintain for my brother in law who is a pianist. I made the website a long time ago when I was a lot less experienced in web design and development, and recently he requested ...
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Improving "Please Note: Names In Red Are Junior Staff"
I'm replicating some old reports and making various improvements, including to general layout. One thing that grinds my gears a bit with them is long, wordy info labels above the body of the report ...
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Should I put the label before or after the input element?
For visually impaired users using a screen reader does it matter if the label for an input control be placed before or after the input?
For example, is there a difference (as far as the screen reader ...
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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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Why do USB flash drives never provide for labels?
Floppy disks had stick-on labels. Optical discs can be written on with a Sharpie, or printed with special ink-jet printers, or round stick-on labels applied.
USB sticks have zero affordances for ...
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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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"Floating labels" vs "Fixed small labels" on the the web?
On devices with small screens floating labels can improve readability, since the size of the placeholder's text tends to be considerably bigger than the one in the small labels and the latter just ...
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What's the best label for an 'occurrences' field?
I have a field where the user needs to enter the number of times they want to send out a document but need a better label.
Firstly, they select the frequency (weekly, monthly, yearly) and then there ...
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How can I show long titles in a short drop-down list button? [duplicate]
I have a dropdown button which will display under it a list of sections for an online e-learning course.
The button works fine for short titles but this website is known for having titles that can go ...
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should I use singular or just default plural in labeling the 'followers'
I have this feature in my app, whereby I display the number of followers.
I created the logic so when there are no followers or zero, it's labeled as 'follower'. Currently it also does this when ...
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Should I label (before) or subtitle (after) a number in dataviz/widget?
Discussing about donut chart in Is multistability a good thing on a donut?, a question arise.
Discarding the pertinence of donut chart, do you have arguments/studies that would favor one of the ...
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Localization-friendly label for "Products ordered in last [ ] orders"
We're working on a feature for our B2B web app that makes it easier for users to place orders with their (B2B) suppliers. An initial design has a dropdown box embedded in the label of one of the radio ...
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Which is clearer - cog/spanner/wrench icon for desktop website settings, or a text label?
Building a web-based tool which will really only be viewed on a desktop web browser (due to a restricted corporate environment).
Trying to keep it as minimal as possible with no superfluous features. ...
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How long to display a "New!" corner ribbon label?
New services added to a drop down menu are labeled "New!" with a colorful ribbon label on the corner of that new service's button. But how long should that "New!" label stay there? Is there any ...
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Verbosity of labels
Is it better for labels to have a more conversational, verbose tone such as
"Chose a type"
or should they be more succinct like:
"Type"
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