Questions tagged [layout]
The way in which the elements of an interface are laid out.
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Visitor's reactions on web development agency's page?
I need to step-up of the freelance side and step into a more business side of web agencies and I need your opinions about how people react on your philosophy and decide to go or leave you.
The way I ...
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Which side of the screen should a user HUD be on?
I'm trying to come up with the UI for a game I'm creating for the iPhone/iPad. The game is based off another online game form years ago, and they had their HUD on the left side of the screen.
I'm ...
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What research, patterns or techniques will help me choose the correct colors (or saturations) to the various UI elements of a page?
I am building a tool that will be used by call center agents. It is to help them support products on behalf of the customers who call up. It acts as a portal to many different types of product ...
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Should I redesign my desktop application so it looks and acts like a website?
I'm in the process of redesigning one of my older desktop applications. The original design I did was based on a 640 X 480 screen. Times have changed and there several different screen resolutions ...
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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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How to improve my layout [closed]
I have a couple of questions here:
1) What if I have two news stories posted for a day should I bullet the titles or how should I format them so that it stands out more that they are separate news ...
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Displaying/presenting options neatly
I have a Windows application which has some options regarding notifications. Each type of message can be turned on and off for the statusbar and for pop-up messages. Here is what it looks like now:
I ...
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Alternative to "Hover For More Information" Controls
I don't like modal popups, because they force you to close them before you resume normal input -- and because they tend to dominate the screen.
When I made Valence, I had a dilemma: where do I put ...
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Website Alignment - is it just looking good or anything else
Now most of the major websites are centre aligned. Example Google, Yahoo, Rediff, CNN, BBC etc. Some old websites are still left aligned. What is the role of the website alignment? Is it just about ...
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Can ugly be good UX?
It's heresy I know, but look at DrudgeReport.com. It's raw, hand written HTML, it's plain, boring typography, it's something any UX or Graphic designer would scoff at if you handed it across their ...
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Allow list box to expand to browser height?
I'm designing a web app that includes a list builder. I've proposed that the height of the list box containing the available items should grow depending upon the available browser height. However, I ...
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UI for audio synced with text
I'm working on an outlining application that syncs items in the outline to recorded audio. The ideas is that you can play the audio from a specific place in your document, or get to an item from a ...
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Default input labels and text sizes
Looking to get community feedback on a few small related form questions:
For standard forms:
How long should a standard text box input be? These text boxes would be for first and last name?
Should ...
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How should I design a small help system for a Windows application?
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I've written a simple, business application which generates a report from information in a database. The only user input required are two file paths--one to a list of items to report on and ...
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What knowledge about GUI standards/design a test analyst should have?
I am a software tester who works on a newly developing software product. Sometimes I feel the GUIs are not very user friendly but could not justify as I do not have enough facts/knowledge on GUI ...
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Responsive web design technique in desktop application?
What do you think about using responsive web design techniques in a desktop application?
We need more space for large data and since all monitors today are widescreen, it could be good practice I ...
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How to let the user add and edit items in a ComboBox? (WinForms)
In my WinForms application there is a ComboBox with default values. The user should be able to add items to the ComboBox or rename existing items.
I want the design to be simplistic. This was my ...
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Least obstructive text input boxes within text
I have some text with many text input boxes. I have been told (more than once) that the input boxes make the text hard to read.
What I have done is available at wikilearner.net/wiki
Do you think ...
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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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The use of tabs
I am working on redoing a clients application, which needs to be done for other reason, but one of the changes is to remove tabs.
The application is, in essence, fronting data records, very basic. ...
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What's the best way to display and navigate about a list of 2000+ items?
I've recently decided to update the look of a site and was confronted with a page that is a list of 2,000+ items sorted into a table and a blob of links that go with it.
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Should Website "Container" elements reach the bottom of the screen?
I've got a fixed width layout site much like SE and Twitter and it personally bugs me when my "short" pages don't reach the bottom of the page. I've been wondering if this is a purely stylistic issue ...
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Date picker button placement: inside or outside the right bounds?
Which of these is a better approach for placement of the date picker button:
Having the button outside the right bounds of the other textboxes:
Or having the picker inside:
I'm also thinking of ...
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Button placement while others ones are invisible/disabled
I have a tool bar of buttons. The state changes every time user interact with it (fig. 1).
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Sometimes application allows user to refresh view only, so other buttons are invisible (fig. 2).
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Advice on layout/presentation of information to user in web page
I'm developing a website that helps connect nightlife promotion companies with consumers. Each night life company hosts events and various venues and on various nights. I want to give users/consumers ...
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Designing an Advanced Search Control for iOS?
I'm working on iOS app and part of what I'm making is an advanced search interface. The default iOS search components allow for text entry and for a "scope bar". That is, a bar which allows you to ...
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Optimal placement of share on Twitter/Facebook/social media widget on web page to encourage use
Like most every site out there, I develop a site where we encourage people to share the content through Twitter and Facebook.
Also, like most other sites, the placement of the widgets is in a fixed ...
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What is a good web page resolution to design for? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Common screen resolution in 2011?
What would be a good web page resolution to design for?
I currently work according to 1024px wide resolution screens. and create UIs which ...
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Too many tabs - use buttons instead?
We have an admin page in our application that has toomanytab-itus (see the second set of tabs are stacking):
I've been tasked with solving this issue. Reorganising/grouping the content to reduce the ...
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What is the value of interface layout and its impact on the overall user experience?
I often have difficulty convincing people that the layout/design/visual-styling of an interface has impact on how the user feels about the product as whole. All to often the argument is that the user ...
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Grid dimensions on Android
I'm starting a mobile app on Android that displays nearby restaurants and outing places, but I'm so confused! There are lots of devices and sizes; I want the smart phones, no tablets or non-touch. ...
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Furnishing the sidebar the honest way
I'm developing yet another website (non-blog, static), and yet again I'm stumbling upon the same problem with inner (non-home) pages design. The layout is conventional:
960px wrapper
header with ...
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How to prevent grey/black lines after effect?
I have made some new design for my private blog (a black design).
However, If I now read a blog piece and then look around I see around me all kinds of black/grey horizontals bars as after effect, ...
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Chrome Options UI Pattern Name
I've been looking for a way to organize hierarchical data. I came across the UI in Chrome Options. I really like it and think will work well for what I need. Is there a name to this pattern?
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Are there any examples of well designed applications on iPad with 3 column layouts?
I'm designing an iPad application and had an interest in a 3 column interface with 3 tableviews across the screen horizontally and I was wondering if this interface has been done anywhere well.
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What is the best way to allow users to navigate through a large amount of information on a website that is categorised in numerous ways?
As a web developer, I'm often given designs that look good from the web designer, but don't necessarily function as well as they should. This is especially true for navigation elements, increasingly ...
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Which version of this upcoming beer app UI do you think is more effective and why? [closed]
I am trying to decide which version of my layout to go with from a color and post layout perspective. Any reasoning for your choice would be really helpful!
http://forrst-production.s3.amazonaws.com/...
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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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Does Usability/design matter in admin(client) sites?
I worked at many organization, few of my old employers developed old system for clients which is running from more than 5 years and work perfect.
They do not care about any user experience(design, ...
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horizontal vs vertical tabs
I was wondering, in which case are horizontal tabs better, and in which case are vertical tabs better?
There is one answer I can already give, but I'd like to see if there are more.
Because you ...
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Which is more important, less mouse distance to travel or visual consistency?
I have an interface that I am currently working on that asks the user to make a choice of a single item. These items are divided into 3 separate categories and the client has insisted that each ...
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Is there a preferred manner of laying out a few radio buttons?
If I have a requirement to display three radio buttons, is there some UX standard that says they should be laid out vertically and not horizontally? i.e. is:
o High
Temperature: o ...
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What ways can I present an addtional field to combobox when user can't find item they looking for?
I have ComboBox and it has item inside user can select item they want, if they can't find item they can select first item (Not in this list) and input data in textbox (textbox will show if user select ...
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When displaying statistics to a user, is it better to bold the data or the label?
The following picture shows some statistics. Here they bold the data, not the label.
Which is better? Does it depend on the information being shown?
What if you have a header on a report with some ...
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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 lay out a list of lot of checkboxes that may vary in length?
I have a list of checkboxes under header titles (at least three, one of them has sub headers, all in one page), something like this:
Problem is, these checkboxes may end up with 10 elements per group,...
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Making contact detail form more friendly
I have a windows based form in my project for adding contact details.
Here's a screenshot
I have added textbox for First name, Last name , var and cst (vat and cst are numbers related to registered ...
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Is it a bad idea to put the logo in the top-right corner and the navigation in the top-left?
Firstly I would like to say that I don't think there is a concrete rule about where the logo on a website should be – but intuitively I think it should be in the top left at least for continuities ...
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Does moving the secondary navigation impact a users experience?
I'm in the process of designing the navigation for a web application.
I have a few different types of views. One is a map, the others are all fairly similar and are like a standard web page.
Mapping ...
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Should we provide "back" button for mobile website?
In mobile website for all smartphones (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows phone 7), should I provide a "Back" button inside the webpage even when the browser has functionality to go to back?
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