Questions tagged [lists]
a list is collection of elements (or items) that may or may not be ordered in a particular way.
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Building multiple embedded lists
Hope you can help.
My team is developing an internal form building tool that simplifies the creation of complex HTML forms by providing pre-made sections and standard form fields that can be combined ...
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How to add an empty option to a list?
I have a form with some fields with optional data that comes from a list of options.
I've build a modal with a list of options the user needs to choose that is opened once the user clicks on the ...
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What is the preferred way of displaying interactive information in a small space, eg table cell?
I have a list of athletes that have competed in a race. For each athlete, I want to be able to do a couple actions for each athlete, like
View Time Online
View Team of Athlete
View Time Splits
View ...
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Is there a better and quick way of processing requests from a list of requests?
I am making an mobile app where there is a list of requests for points towards a client and the client assigns a desired number of points to each request.
The client sees all the requests in ...
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How to implement list filter functionality for mobile use case
I have a list of vehicles in a mobile application. The user needs to be able to filter the list of vehicles with a few rules/requirements:
User must be able to filter the list of vehicles i.e search ...
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Should non-existant files in a recently used files list be deleted without user prompt?
Say, you have this common thing of "recently used files" or "frequently used files" in your application.
It may easily happen the user moves or deletes a file they had opened recently/frequently. So ...
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How to deal with a very long Table List [duplicate]
I have here a very long table list and the client is telling me that all the data are important and they wanted to see it. Is there any way to make this a user friendly?
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Primary contact indicator in table
Let's suppose we have a table that shows a list of users and their basic contact information.
First Last 1 | Phone 1 | Address 1
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First Last 2 | Phone 2 | Address 2
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Improving CRUD operations on list UI
Thus far, our pages for operations to be done on a collection of things (tasks, pricing groups, permission groups, ...) have this general structure:
If the things getting modified in bulk have "only ...
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Best way to display list of options
There's a page that has a list of options like below
002-12345
002-16516
003-21565
008-15168
001-86841
Currently, we display it inside a box and user has to scroll up or down to select whichever ...
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Best approach to update all entries in a list that is paginated?
I have a list which is paginated in a webpage. It also has a function to select the number of entries per page.
A bulk update on all is required.
What would be the best approach to this? My concern ...
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How to remove lines while keeping individual rows visible on a tablet
I have created a simple view which is a list of items and each item is seperated by a line. Shown below:
I would like to remove the lines as I think they add clutter to the screen but when I do I ...
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Add items to a collection from the item or from the collection?
I am building a song & playlist manager. Where should I put my join interface, in the song view or in the playlist view?
Is it better to:
enter a song's detail view
select "add this song to a ...
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Concise points: how to offer extra information [closed]
A friend of mine made a site which lists pointers for teachers at regular schools who have one or more deaf children in their class. These are clear, concise, one-sentence "Do's" with regard to ...
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FinTech mobile and customer account lists [closed]
I am looking for best practice recommendations on how to categorize and display customer accounts (DDAs) in selection lists. Considering active and inactive, internal and external, and giving ...
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Best way to show old value vs new value in a list of items
I am working on a screen with a list of diagnostics data on the right side of the screen (1/3 of the width).
The customer requested to be able to see the current and previous values close together so ...
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What is the de facto method for indicating price graphically?
I've seen the "$" sign used to indicate price range from $ (for low) to $$$ (for high) like below at TripAdvisor:
But is this well-understood by customers? What alternatives exist for indicating ...
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Filtering Best Practices
What are the best practices for filtering out a big list?
Keep all filters wide open all the time
OR
Narrow filter values down as I add a Filters somewhere else?
For example let's say I have a ...
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Accept/Reject CTA buttons on cards
I have to design a dashboard to help sellers to manage invoices addressed to them during the month. The invoices will arrive in "To do" tab. For each invoice we have two choices : "Accept" or "Reject" ...
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How best to display a rankable list with a heading and submit button?
I'm designing an app where users can vote on a list of choices by ranking them in order. The voting screen needs to have:
The title of the vote
The list of choices
a button to submit the user's ...
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Appropriate UI pattern for Expandable List Item in Data table?
I'm currently looking to find a solution for expanding a list item in a data table to display more information. One of the best solutions I've found thus far is done on reddit (see screenshot).
Any ...
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Is it wrong to automatically switch between Grid and List view
At the moment, I have a Material based app where I automatically change between List view and Grid view depending on device's viewport size, should I do that?
I already read here that they are ...
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Improving dynamic list selection
I have the problem related in this link for a desktop app:
Suggestion for list selection and populating related lists dynamically
but instead of 3 list I have 7 and some lists have more than 20 ...
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Syncronize vertical list using tags and connections
My goal is to create a three vertical lists where user can filter them using tags and a search bar, move elements between them using drag and drop (similar to trello) and display explicit connections ...
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Content not viewable due to page scroll
Context
We deal with a lot of data in our product. Mostly we design list views in such a way that when you click on any row in the list view you get to see the detail view on the right side of the ...
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Show multiple statuses/state on a list item
Currently, I am working on a feature for a mobile forms application where users can send data via SMS and Internet. What I need to accomplish is a way to display both the internet and sms submission ...
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Confused with what to use - List vs Table
So, I've been browsing for an hour now regarding what the best practice is for this and the majority of what I read is to use e table for tabular data and a list for lists, which makes sense. However, ...
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Swipe to refresh leaderboard
Our mobile game has a leaderboard widget with names and scores:
This is a scrollable list with 50 to 100 elements in it, sorted by score. One entry is for the current user, others are for his ...
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Mixed alignment (LTR and RTL) in language selection list?
Most answers to this question say that for instance Arabic text should be aligned right-to-left even if the rest of the page is in a left-to-right script such as English.
So, I was surprised to see ...
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Designing trees out of lists?
On a web tool that I'm working on, I need to allow the user to navigate through a flat list of data and create a tree out of it. The user is a backend admin who is trained to use the tool.
Example
I ...
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What's the best way to inform users the results of their UI selections before they make the selection?
For example if a user is going through an online request form and must choose from a long list of industries, forms, job roles, types of jams, whatever but some of the items result in a different UX ...
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Allowing users to select all items except few
I have a list of country names (eg below)
I want the user to be able to either select a few countries or, select all countries except a few.
Now, this can be done using a select all button by ...
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How to add a list item of different type
I'm working on a list containing expandable items that have properties and actions.
Every list item can have 6 different types.
Currently, at the bottom of the list there are 6 different add new ...
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Representing relationships/hierarchy within an otherwise flat table view
I have a standard table view which is used in a number of places in an online cloud portal. It's used to list servers, products, firewalls and more.
As I begin to build views for the firewall listing ...
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In-line editing, display at the top or the bottom of a list?
I'm working with a nested list view. In order to add data to the list, the user initially sees an "add" button. Clicking this add button prompts a search bar where the user can then search for the ...
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How to visually configure dependency between data
I need to set the relationship between two sets of data. The sets can be big, with hundreds of records. After some research, I found that some applications use a dependency matrix, like in this ...
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How to represent a list with one item?
I have an application which generates a table of information. One of the columns may contain more than one business name but often only contains one business name. Semantically, the column contains a ...
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Long List and details in same panel
I'm Using bootstrap collapsable panel to display a list of items (revisions) in table format, I want to display the details of each item in the panel next to the table, this looks cluttered now, ...
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Publicly edited categorization
I want users of my site to be able to classify their projects by categories.
Both extremes:
a fixed set of categories
and
a set of categories arbitrarily edited by users
are not quite good for ...
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Looking to use a dropdown and checkbox in the same search field
I am attempting to create a search based off multiple categories. The user should be able to select all that apply. They do not need to select one from every category.
One of the issues I am having ...
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Android - What is the approach to use to let the user choose from a small list of time-related options?
I'm working on an app and I want to show the user how much he's paying for services he's got enabled.
I want the user to be able to choose to display the cost per day, week, month and year.
To let ...
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Expandable List Empty Space Mobile Device
I am a developer trying to make an information page for an application in development. What this uses is an expandable list, that looks as follows when not expanded:
This is the generic android ...
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List width changes dynamically on the basis of some input fields
I have an add services screen, where I can add a service by giving some basic information and then add combinations of variants of that service.
The problem is the width of the combinations list ...
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Displaying limit for selectable options
Case
In our software, we have a list of modules/options that the user can enable or disable.
Each enabled module has a severe performance impact on the CPU, so to avoid crashes, we decided to hard-...
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Nested Folders selection
I'm working on a selection in which I have a list of folders. This is the structure:
Let's say I want to select a folder. The folder, its children, and future children will be selected.
First ...
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What is the optimal way to display a multiple choice list?
I'm looking for suggestions for displaying multiple choice lists.
My first (and naive) solution. Obviously, 90° vertical text is unnecessarily hard to read and takes up a lot of vertical screen real ...
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Dashboard: how to navigate the sidebar through a lot of items
I'm working on an analytical dashboard to help an owner of a restaurant chain to analyse performances of his restaurants. Restaurants could be filtered in groups, depending on places (ie "Show me all ...
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Checkbox list click behaviour
We're talking about a dialog in a Windows desktop application:
The user types in one of the text fields, then grabs the mouse and clicks on an item in the checkbox list.
What should happen? Should ...
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When designing a list of items with associated actions what is the better approach?
I am designing a mobile app using Xamarin. In my app's main page I have a list of few items (1 to 4 items perhaps). And then there are other items in the page.
There is a few actions that user can do ...
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Indicate no time limit
I am displaying a To Do list that has time limits involved. However an item doesn't have to have a due date/time.
Users are finding my current UI confusing, as they believe a blank time limit, means "...
