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Complex table design based on diagram selection
enter image description hereI am building a web based tool to manage car repairs. The user would select an area of the car and a part from a list of supplied parts. They would then select what they ...
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How can I improve the UX of the following time picker. This should allow the users to set their weekly availability
Availability is Set
Availability is Not Set
I am looking to improve the UI and UX of the following page where users can set their weekly availability for a meeting. I have attached 2 screenshots, ...
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How do I design "Show all Dupicate items"? [closed]
There is an input field we need user to input a name in, and as they enter the name, system checks if there is a duplicate name and if there is, it will be shown under the input box.
Currently, we ...
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How do you find inspiration without copying someone's work [closed]
Say you want to design a mobile app and the like a few stuff about some design choices and decisions on similar apps designed... You'd like that in your app design wouldn't that be copying
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Should a web-app page title appear on every page, even with the current page highlighted in navigation?
I'm facing a dilemma with other designers within our team about whether the main page frame of our web app should iterate the title of the page itself at the top left corner or if it should not exist.....
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How to correctly position data that has additional formatting for context
I'm currently working on standardising how read only form data is displayed. Right now, it can be stacked labels and values OR label left, value right. My preference is to go for the stacked view and ...
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What layout for a nearly empty web app? [closed]
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I am designing an ad hoc enterprise web app that is very simple: given two parameters (year, month), click a button that generates and let you download a file (an Excel spreadsheet). Users ...
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Requesting break down data for an amount or number
I am developing a page that allows managers to select teams and individuals needed for a project. When selecting a team, each employee within that team is shown with their known skills. Once an ...
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Space is not available for Text Area and Date Cell
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I'm Creating one dashboard page which required one table which dynamically adds Row when user clicks Add Row Button.
Each Row Contains key Information like Item Name,Code, Item Description, ...
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I made a minimalist webapp for public-key encryption. How can these problems with its UI/UX be addressed? [closed]
chausies.xyz/encrypt
I probably don't know the first thing about UI design, so I wanted to get some more expert input. Forgive me if this is an inappropriate question to ask here.
Half of my ...
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List of item damage checkboxes with severity input
I have this web-app that is being used for intake and conditioning items. One of the pages currently has a list of 30+ damage type checkboxes that you check if the item has that damage.
This is what ...
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Why would users prefer to use a diluted layout when given the choice?
Some web apps from Google such as Gmail and Drive offer a "comfortable" option with lots of wasted white-space, which I'll refer to as being diluted for lack of a better term.
I'm creating a web app, ...
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Better design to displaying a lot of data within tables
This is the current design
There could be hundreds of the 'panels' with tables that expand underneath when clicked. The tables could contain thousands of rows.
What would be a better way of ...
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How to connect items together that have hundreds of inputs and outputs?
We are working on a product that has to connect inputs and outputs together of different items. There can be hundreds of I/Os for each item and 1 O can go to many Is, but each I can only accept 1 O. ...
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How to show linked entity inside another entity
I need to show some way to indicate that the green colour entity is linked and not owned by the parent (blue) entity you were currently in.
Currently i'm using colour variation like here and wrapped ...
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How to display nested categories of data without using nested menus
I've been put in charge of making a simple website. I'm also new to front-end web design and just design in general (I've always been a back-end programmer).
I was given a document by my superior ...
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Active/selected members of group on the left? or right?
Given a web page with the classic "move items from a list on one side to the other", does it make more sense to have "active" on the left hand side of the screen? or the right?
While Submit Buttons ...
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Sticky header positioning
The page below is a detail page of a certain Patient, in this case: "Mevr adasfad..."
When end-users scroll down they'd like some additional feedback on what page exactly they are, the name of the ...
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Layout options for document review, form data entry on web application. Monitor(s) resolution not known
We have a need to allow the users to open a document from the web application and enter data from the document to web forms. We don't know the monitor setup for the users (dual vs single / monitor ...
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Why use 'fixed width' or boxed layout rather than fluid?
I've noticed many sites (including stackexchange) use the 'fixed width' or 'boxed' layout where 50% of my screen is white space, kind of like watching a standard definition TV show on an HD screen.
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The main user action on my page is importing files, does it matter that my import button isn't next to my select files button?
Please consider the admin screen below:
One of the tasks on this screen is to import a file. However, the import button is located on the toolbar rather than next to the form. Would it be clearer to ...
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Web Form With About 350 Fields Layout
We are developing web app for managing employee's salary.
Each employee entity has about 350 fields of data.
Currently layout uses tabs and fields grouping inside each tab with multiply columns.
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Where to place secondary table
I have a 'primary table' of let's say, 'Suppliers'. Each supplier supplies certain parts which are displayed in a 'secondary table' called 'Parts'. When the users clicks on a row in the supplier table,...
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Data listed horizontally or vertically?
I am currently building a data entry application and a lot of our data is contained in Div's on a page. Right now all of our data is listed horizontally because I feel that it is more readable and is ...
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How to properly layout multiple interactive controls using best UX pattern?
I'm working to redesign an existing page that generates reports, based on user selections. Currently, this is a rough draft of the page layout:
The user must always begin at 1 and that selection ...
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Should the search box be on the left or the right side
In a web app with a search box in the header - where should the search go, on the left or the right side of the header? What considerations should be taken into account when making this decision?
In ...
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Where to put a global "add item" button?
We're adding a global "Add new X" button to our application (it will show a CRUD form for an activity, the fundamental "thing" in our app). We want it to be clickable from anywhere in the application ...
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Is grid the right layout for mobile web applications?
Suppose you are creating a web application which supposed to work on mobile platforms like Android or iPhone, and one of the features of your app is to give the user an interface for adding, viewing, ...
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How do I represent null values in a line chart?
I am building a web-based analytics platform. I am looking to plot a line chart that represents the number of seconds it took for me to reach a live service agent via phone on a given day.
In the y-...
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Will combining fixed and flexible layouts on the same page confuse people?
I've recently put a limit on the maximum width of my web app (similar to the Stack Exchange sites) to avoid looking ridiculous at very high resolutions and large monitors.
Most pages are limited to ...
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Multi-pane code editor with preview: help me find a good compromise between usability and complexity
I am creating a simple web site/app for testing JavScript code in the browser, similar to jsbin.com, jsfiddle.net, and tinkerbin.com.
The usual approach is to have 3 code editors (for JS, CSS, and ...
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Why is the new Twitter menu bar on the bottom on iPhone?
Twitter recently released a complete redesign for all major platforms, in part the redesign has been made to unify the experience across platforms.
But, because of this goal I couldn't help noticing ...
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Where should I put a sub-menu on the screen?
This might seem like an odd question, but where should I put a sub-menu on the screen, assuming the main menu is horizontal - similar to the Questions/Tags/Users/Badges menu on this site.
The sub-...
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Best practice for single-level parent-child control groupings
I have a data relationship like Teachers -> Children. The goal is to select a Teacher in order to manipulate the more user-relevant Child data. You can add a new Teacher, but you can also add a new ...
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I'm looking for good examples of Welcome pages, and any good theory on how to go about it [closed]
Kind of a discussion based question, but bare with me anyway.
I am working on a web app that provides reporting. It makes reporting fun, honest!
I am struggling to design the Welcome page. It's a ...
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Is the left or right side of the screen "more clickable"?
I'm in the second year of fine-tuning a homebrew CMS, and I've been going with this theory (which I imagined) that it's best to have interactive elements like submit buttons, back buttons, and links ...
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How to present Actions (eg. CRUD) buttons without taking focus away from main content?
I am looking for a way to present Actions (eg. CRUD) buttons while not taking focus away from main content. It'll be great to see examples of good application design (I am doing a web app (probably ...
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fixed-width vs full-browser for web app
I'm in the early stages of designing a web application (a network management application). And I can't really decide if to go with a fixed width layout (say 960px) or a variable (full browser width) ...
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