Questions tagged [lists]
Use only for questions regarding to ordered or unordered lists
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iOS grouped or normal tableview for categories
So I have tableview where I got different categories for huge amount of items. Would it make more sense to put the categories in grouped tableview or in a normal, or does it matter at all?
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The listing in web pages, how it can solve ?
I have more than 50 links in Medicine Category and I need to list them but don't want to show them all at once. because the main content of the page become under the fold .
Initially I display 6 ...
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Better way to build a list
I've got an app in production where the user builds a list of beer prices to later on make into a PDF of shelf tags (it's for the beverage industry). The user picks a brand, then a package, types in a ...
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Item list - where should a new item go? [duplicate]
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Location of new items in list
Let's say you have a list of item you can order. When you add a new item should it go on top or to bottom? Did you read any studies about this? ...
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For large hierarchies - checkbox tree or 'guided tree construction'
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In my Web based application I have a hierarchy of musical genres. There are around 1.5k genres in the tree, and the depth of the tree is at most about four levels.
My application allows you ...
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Refreshing Android List
I have an activity in Android that contains a list. I want the user to be able to refresh the list, so they can see the latest information.
Using a Twitter-like approach of slide-up to refresh doesn'...
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Best way to show a form field group with multiple values?
Something like these:
The button below adds a new group where the user can fill each of the fields. I think that isn't best way to show because the list could be one-to-infinite and the usability ...
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Indicating selection in a list with sub-levels not always visible
Suppose we perform a search on an object name and get this results list:
From this list exactly one element can be selected in order to perform an action on that element. An element can be either:
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Models of user interaction when dealing with selections from a looong list?
I'm a programmer working on a web project.
We need the user to select one item from a given list of universities. It's a list of 100+ elements, and the frontend is XHTML/css/js.
Here are the options ...
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How to represent a quoter and a quotee for a webapp
For my own personal project while I learn PHP, I am creating a web app where friends can quote each other. So a user will come and post what their friend said and their friends can like it and comment ...
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what are ways to offer sorting on a list of items by a property?
I have a list of divs that contain various pieces of data (name, type, date, etc). I want to offer the user the ability to sort this list by a list of possible properties (the name, type, date, etc.)....
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Best design for displaying list under a list of items ?
I have a list of items in a database and i display 10 items with some additional details at a time(as table rows). I use next & previous buttons to fetch the remaining items.
This part has been ...
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Most intuitive way to offer manual sorting? [duplicate]
all. I'm designing an online form builder (think Forms in Google Docs / Spreadsheets). The functionality is complete, but I'm not happy with the sorting capabilities. Everyone that I have done ...
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Multiple lists on one screen -- best approach?
Let's say I have a profile screen with two lists: one for Friends and another for Hobbies. This is just an example. It could as well be a Customer screen with Suppliers and Orders. I'm looking to ...
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What is the best way to highlight an exact match found in a long list of search results ?
The situation is as follows: the user types in their search term (e.g. "pneumonia") in a text box and hits enter. The matching results of this search are presented in a vertically scrollable results ...
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What's the best web design pattern for a list of people?
I have a list of people. Totally around 200.
I need to display the people's name, pictures and some other information in one page. Users could sort those people by name, country and other attributes.
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Is there a way to display a hierarchical file tree-view in a fixed horizontal space?
This is more of a musing, but in Windows Explorer, and IDEs like Eclipse, I often end up with a file tree that is expanded so many levels deep, I cannot see both the root and the files I'm working on ...
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Location of new items in list
I have a medium-sized list (about a few dozen items, the container is very likely to have internal vertical scrolling). There is no sorting, so items are displayed in the order of their addition to ...
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When should stepping through a list wrap around?
Given a list of items (messages in an email reader, tracks in a music library, options in a menu) that can be stepped through with arrow keys, when is it appropriate for scrolling to wrap around when ...
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How to display many different kinds of video material on one page?
Best examples and practices of displaying different video types (series, single program, short clip, trailer etc.) on one page.
How to indicate the differences between them?
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Top list of the most down-voted items. How to avoid user confusion?
Context: web application.
I have a list of items, each one with up and down arrows (a la reddit) but my list doesn't shows the most up-voted items, but the most down-voted (technically it's ordered ...
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Listing of all videos in one category on a VideoOnDemand service
What is the best way to list all videos in one category?
thumbnails grid with minimal info (fex. Name and duration)
list with thumbnails and more info or
something completely different?
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Master-detail and tabs
I have a master-detail view. Which is the best practice to add new items to the list? Now I think when user clicks the new button a new tab item can appear with close button, so the user can navigate ...
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Select item from a list to be added to another list
I have an application implemented with Java Swing. The main view of the applications is divided in a left side and a right side. The top of the right side contains a SearchField, and a list of search ...
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Android list layout for search results
I'm making an android app that queries an http endpoint and displays the results with a list. Currently the results appear 10 at a time which the user navigates with next/prev. buttons. The other day ...
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What is the best UI for multi-selecting from a list?
We have a web form and one of the fields is a multi-select list. Our options are:
List of checkboxes
Listview (select box but allowing multi-select)
Both seem to be a bit ugly and unwieldy when the ...
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Two step selection in windows phone 7
How to display this two step selection dialog in a native way in WP7:
States (in my case approximately 40 entries)
Cities (in my case 1-15 entries)
Here are my thoughts I want to discuss with you ...
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Multiple or Single Checkbox for ToDo List?
Would you suggest for a To-Do List section of a project management app I am working on have multiple checkboxes?
Or keep things simple and "common" using single checkbox?
I think that multiple ...
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Best way to add items to a paginated list
I have a long list of items sorted by date that is pageable. When a user adds an item it is shown and highlighted in the list. The problem I have is that the date entered affects where it ends up in ...
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How to display a list of videos like YouTube?
I'm trying to find a nice way to display a list of video's in a way that'll allow the user at a quick glance get insight to the video's and easily let them navigate through the list of video's without ...
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How to best display a long list of check boxes
In my application users are required to select from a drop down, a list of projects they wish to include in their custom search. The easy part is that users can select one project to filter on or ...
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How to indicate a table is missing rows that have been filtered out?
Do you know of any aesthetically-pleasing and effective ways of indicating that a table's contents have been filtered, without the filter information getting in the way?
Some background on my ...
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In a grid, how to manually reorder rows?
I wish to let my users reorder elements in a grid - not do automatic sorting on a column. They select which element is the first, which one comes after the other, etc.
I thought of and saw some ...
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Making it clear which items in a long list are selected
I'm trying to design a portion of a web interface that allows users to tag items and view all items with a tag or set of tags on them - think gmail, if gmail allowed you to easily select multiple tags ...
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Alternatives to a dual list for selecting a bunch of items from a long list?
What alternatives and examples are there for selecting a bunch of items from a long list of items instead of a dual list?
This question has some nice enhancements on the traditional dual list, but I'...
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Is custom manufacturer order confusing for users ?
I have an eshop that has in the menu a list of manufacturers available on the website. The default order for them is alphabetical, but due to marketing reasons the owner asked that several ...
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Best way to select a subset of items in a long list
One of our clients wants us to build a web application to share information about the magazines he publishes. Each edition of a magazine contains a variable amount of advertisers. These advertisers ...
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Does this design have a good usability? [closed]
I asked this question on Stackoverflow and has been redirected here. Sorry about cross-posting.
I am writing a financial application and I need to write a specialized file open dialog for the user to ...
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Bulk actions: what to do when not all items support an action [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bulk actions: what to do when not all items support an action
Picture the following scenario: user selects a bunch of items, and the 'bulk actions' box appears; user selects ...
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UI design for ordering items in list
What component/UI design would you use for ordering items in a list (a table with move up/down buttons)?
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Select All & Clear All vs. Invert
I met with situation when I have to use the long multiply check list. I have to add some usable buttons Select All, Clear All or Revert Invert. I know that the common practice is using "Select All" ...
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In a long list of customers, how can I efficiently mark which have been edited?
There exists a narrow table listing about 250 customers in alphabetical order. Each row contains the customer's name, account code, city and state.
I need to indicate in each row if the customer ...
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Adding USA at the top of dropdown list of countries. OK practice or not?
Some web sites have a country dropdownlist where USA and Canada are listed at the top of the list (as well in their normal positions). I read once that this was insulting to non US/Canada users. The ...
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How to optimise the space used by tags in the right column of StackExchange sites?
In this meta question about what the StackExchange UI site should look like, I'm working on (read: messing around with) a design for the site. I'm using a web-based tool to edit the page's CSS, which ...
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Unambiguous way to display timezone information in a compact manner
When displaying a listing of events, each with their own date, time, and timezone, I'd like to present the timezone that the given event has been assigned. However, there is potentially a lot of ...
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How to visualize the possibility of drag'n'drop?
My web application contains a list of elements, which can be sorted by drag'n'drop. How should this feature be visually represented to users?
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Android List View - delete row button, delete selected button or delete from item click menu?
Android List view activity with item rows. User needs to be able delete some rows.
I know standard way in Android is to use item click menu. But it's 2 clicks. Is it best way?
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Choose Your Country: Best Usability approach
I'm looking at potentially designing a site which will have 'mirrors' in multiple sites around the world. I am experimenting with the best method to help users change both their country and language ...
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