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How to redirect viewer's attention to a certain card among similar cards?
I am a product designer but I also work on illustrations and web designs on the side. On my portfolio, I would like to motivate viewers to click the first card (UX/UI card) rather than the other two.
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Order of arrangement controls for Back/Front Backward/Forward
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A discussion came up in my organization where we're looking at the conventions for ordering the Forward/Backward and Front/Back buttons for our desktop application, which runs on Mac, ...
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How to display products from various menu's in a smart way? [closed]
for an application in the restaurant business I am thinking of a smart way to display ALL menu items, both foods and drinks, from various menus. Now a restaurant may have several menu cards, so a ...
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Why do most interfaces rely on sticky top bars instead of sidebars?
Most web interfaces have the classic sticky topbar + 2-3 columns layout (just like StackExchange).
Some but few websites use a different approach and, instead, have a collapsable sidebar (i.e. ...
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How to visualize versioned data?
I work at a SaaS company that has a product for entering accounting transaction data. We are building out a new feature for visualizing versioned data, and I am needing some help on how this could be ...
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Categories in a list: Empty state or hide?
Hoping for some feedback on these two list displays for empty states. The list is categorised by Month, Year and based on data, we can expect to have about 40 reservations over a 6 month period.
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Better way to show books in a row
I need to set area on site with most downloaded books and I'm facing the following problem:
Book covers can have different width and height ratio, meaning not all books have proportional edges.
There ...
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Complex forms with many variables
I'm really striggling to simplify this data set. I need all the information as chosen inputs so the system is able to read the input and spit out a rate at any request. I'm really not sure on how ...
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Identifying comment area as a place to comment, and only comment
I run a site where users can submit code to algorithmic programming problems, which is then evaluated for correctness. The site has a commenting system, and the comment area looks something like this:
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Comments and Attachments UX
I'm trying to find examples of sites which have the ability to make a comment and add multiple attachments to said comment. So far, the only example I have found of this is teamgantt.com which is kind ...
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Best way to display a list of information for an object such as a recipe in an Android App?
Currently, I have this:
However, it doesn't seem like a proper way to display it (I censored two lines to hide the main idea of my application).
What would be a proper way to display it?
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When To Vertically or Horizontally Align Independent Checkboxes
Given a form and a series of sequential checkboxes whose values and context are independent of each other, how should they be aligned on the form; vertically or horizontally?
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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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Name for vertically sliced interfaces?
I'm wondering if there's already a commonly used name for these types of interfaces.
The idea is that the content is sliced in to several columns, with very little in the way of horizontal menus ...
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How to group common (to a list and other input groups) input fields
Here's my scenario - I have the following three input fields:
Type
Remarks
Uploads (Popup which allows users to drop files)
Now, these three fields are associated to a person object. The user has ...
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How to show row related information
I have a grid of selectable rows.
Each time a user selects a row a new panel will come from the botton of the page to show its related "Events" and "Comments".
This way they'll be able to access ...
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Help on placing controls
I need some help on placing usercontrols for a financial app I'm working on (It's WPF but it's not relevant)
I've created this wireframe
I thinks this approach is an old style... and I need some help ...
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Where to put a search button with auto-complete suggestions (usually at the top of the screen) to a more suitable location for mobile platforms
I am implementing a search bar on a mobile device (smartphone) in which I start with only a search icon button, but when the user presses it a text field becomes notice-able next to this icon and a ...
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Deal making interface from a menu
I have an interface where a restaurant owner can create deals from their menu. The way deals are created is as follows:
Restaurants can add any number of deal items.
Each deal item can offer multiple ...
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Multi shapes buttons damage User Experience / User Interface?
This is a question I have been thinking about in the past few days. I'm making a social app(Similar to Facebook or Instagram etc). As I started working on the design and I though of a question.
The ...
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Average rating score vs number reviews
I am designing a list, and under the name of each product, there is a rating based in 5 stars.
Next to it we want to display average rating in numbers (i.e., 4.3/5) and/or total number or reviews (i....
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Improve form design for more efficient editing/browsing through data
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I am asking for advice to properly redesign the GUI so user can have the best possible user experience.
Although I am generally satisfied how things turned out for entering data into ...
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Can not design window to be used both for inserting and reading data from database
I am working on a financial software which has a lot of data to be entered into database.
I have managed to design user interface for entering data on my own, and my employers are satisfied.
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UI customisation principles and guidelines
I am working on a project that requires catering for a large number of personas and scenarios. Key to meeting these needs is a UI that provides a customised experience. I was wondering if there is ...
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Using the logo as the About button
This is obviously something that the user doesn't need to see very often, but something that management or sales might have strong opinions about.
In a desktop application the user is probably ...
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Settings button at the top or bottom of the screen?
If the settings don't need to be changed very often, but need to be very accessible when they need to be, is there any reason for putting them at the top instead of the bottom of the screen (or vice ...
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Why did browsers get rid of the standard menu across the top and now have one button in the top left corner?
It used to be typical of most computer programs to have File, View, Options etc. across the top of the application window. I have noticed that, starting with browsers, many programs have gotten rid of ...
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Better paradigm for a Blender-style interface; lots of control panels and property panels
I am designing an editing application in html/js. After a while, I end up with a lot of different "panels", and I am having trouble displaying them all to the user in an efficient way. Sometimes it ...
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Improving a 'page layout' editor's user interface
Below you can see a screenshot of a web-based page layout editor.
It is basically a drag and drop WYSIWYG editor for interactive apps, and allows the user to use a page backdrop and add a "layer" of ...
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How to show comment at top level, without using a popup?
If user clicks on add comment, what are other options to show 'comment area' (no popup).
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