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loading states for individual items in a list

I'm a frontend developer and wondering from a UX perspective, whether it is a bad idea to fetch individual list items in a large list (with multiple columns). See an example here: This example is how ...
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Studies demonstrating efficacy of a top-to-bottom sort order in a multi-column list

I'm working on a UI that has a list of items (a dozen years) in a multi-column list. I know from past research that users will read list of items across columns top-to-bottom rather than left-to-right....
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How to indicate selectability in an information-focused list

My first question, let me know if I should edit! I'm working on a list-map hybrid, where each item on the list can be selected, to show up on the map (like Yelp). The list needs to give a fair ...
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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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Best practices/rationale for unified vs separate keyboard/mouse navigation of lists?

Context I'm in the process of designing/implementing a filterable object creation palette with categorized results for a visual content creation application. I'm trying to decide how to handle ...
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Split pane vs Action for multilple selection

I'm bulding a User interface that the user has a split pane with a list and the detail of the selected item in the right. I chose to use these approach because the user could see the important ...
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Selectable (flat) columns from tree structure

I have source fields in tree structure and target fields in list structure (target is for grid columns). Now when I move parent node to right, what should be ideal way to handle it? should that be ...
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Is it okay to display list of members/users in a modal?

I'm currently designing an interface similar to Slack/Discord. Is it possible to display the list of members in a modal? I've already checked multiple platforms (Discord, Slack, Quora, FB) but they ...
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Editing an ordered list of short strings

I need to provide a means for our marketing team to add/remove/edit an ordered list of short descriptive strings (0 - 8 strings total). The strings are typically less than 50 characters but we need ...
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Redesigning product blocks in search results / listings

What are some good practices when it comes to presenting a product on a listing / search result page when they contain a lot of information? Currently the product block for our website looks like this:...
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Is there a way to communicate both "End of list" and "No items in list" with the same verbiage?

I'm trying to figure out good verbiage to simplify list rendering. There are two cases I'm trying to solve within a scrollable list: Case #1 would be communicating that the user has reached the end of ...
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Maximum number of elements per item in acordion collapsed list

I try to show a list of 3,000 businesses of a city, within an acordion collapsed list, sorted alphabetically + Aa-At + Au-Bo + Bu-Ci + Co-Du ... When user clicks an item of the "index", it'...
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2 columns of a list, 1 scrollbar - is there a better solution?

This section is part of a larger form. Image shows a list. The reason I have 2 columns, is simply because I think it would be a waste of space, to just show 1 column. Most people have wide screens. I ...
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How to efficiently show several very long alphabetical lists of 5,000 names

I've got a website that include information about 100,000 names, with 100,000 different URLs. 90% of my visitors come from Google, who search the "specific name" and reach the different ...
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How to fill a list with information without making it messy?

I am working on a website for a horse breeder. I created a page to show an overview of their horses, like this: The idea is that if you click on a horse, you will see a detailed site with the ...
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Table column labels combined with subheaders

I am currently working on a digital form, and at one stage the user has to select one or more elements from a list of transactions. Each list element has multiple columns with different information. ...
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Best way to select a city from a list of cities unevenly distributed among countries

I'm working for a company that owns restaurants in 28 cities distributed in 10 countries. The restaurants are distributed unevenly in the countries: in some countries they are present in many cities ...
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Too much content for an accordion?

I'm working on an interface with a product list. I'm wondering what is the best way to show these label value pairs. I know the label should be emphasized since, the users will be looking for that and ...
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How to differ two different items on the same list (base of contents)

I've content bases that can be exported and imported into other environments. **A content base is a set of specific files. When I import a content base from another environment, my source files are ...
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should i show action button in table header while designing for Webapp

I am going to design a table view but I have a problem that I wanted to show the action button. I am confused it is okay to show the action button in the Table header.
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How to display Serial Number for items in Table with Expanded Rows?

I have a generic table with a list of items and columns. Some items can be expanded via an 'expand row' icon located at the leftmost side of the table, which displays a list of subitems underneath the ...
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Show attached files in mobile app: Screen vs Pop-up

We has a section in our mobile app that designed as user feedback service. And faced with question - how the best way to show user their attached files on screen with new form creation? User can ...
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Best way to select a number of items from a list, and then rearrange those items into an order

So I'm trying to create a menu that prompts the user to prepare a message that would soon be sent. I'm also using mostly WPF and C# if that helps. This message will possibly contain a number of ...
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Is the Outlook bar still a reasonable container for a list of lists?

(This assumes that it ever was, so please feel free to comment if you disagree!) For years, our development team have designed data-centric desktop applications where the main window has an Outlook ...
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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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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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is it better to keep the layout of the lists?

I have an application that manages several entities, each entity has a list page, each entity can have a child entity with its own list page. Are you using different types of lists? table, cards, ...
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What's the best method to group/ungroup rows in a data table?

I've been struggling with a good solution to group/ungroup rows in a data table. We've initially implemented drag-n-drop but that was a nightmare to implement due to 3rd-party library restrictions, &...
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