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Ideas for A-Z pickers

I've been asked to come up with a 'course picker' that lets a student find a course. One alternative is to have a text box in which the student enters the first three letters of the course and a look-...
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The impact of visual cues on user response

Are there any studies that report the effect of using/not using visual cues to engage users and retain user attention? In my own application I have offer listings with a representative graphical ...
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Should not checked checkboxes bring all results? [duplicate]

Considering I have a filter dialog composed by checkboxes I have a "select all" checkbox above the other checkboxes. When te user comes to the results page, it sees all the results, besides of ...
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How do I design the mobile interface for submitting a new "Conversation title", which is similar to submitting a Reddit post? [closed]

So, each conversation is basically like a Reddit thread, where people can discuss chat in real time. Right now I just have a basic design with a text box and a button right on the bottom of the ...
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Table of Content (TOC) with numbers

The Table of Content at Wikipedia use numbers for an ordered list. But the headline doens't start with this number. Why? It look wrongs for me, maybe because I'm used to the same result as in ...
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Most readable way to display key value pairs

I am designing an app which has lots of data on any given screen, I've search Google and UX stack exchange and can't seem to find anything (perhaps I'm phrasing my search term wrong). Is there any ...
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Best way consistent with Material Design spec to allow user to access multiple supplementary actions for items in a list?

Material Design spec for the List Component states: "Repeating actions Avoid displaying a repeated supplemental action in tiles, such as a share action in every tile. Toggles, such as ...
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How to order user list?

If you observe the follower or following list in twitter; it is not ordered alphabetically. Similarly if you see the list of users who have liked a post in facebook, it is also not ordered ...
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Ecommerce Mobile - List of products: should I show them in cards or divided by lines? [closed]

In a list of products one underneath the other, showing them in cards is the better solution? Imagine there are a lot of situations: a list with one specific category of items; a list with products ...
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Interacting with a dynamically sorted list

I currently have a list that will be populated with song requests. Each song request appears as a list item with a title and artist name, and is accompanied with upvote and downvote buttons (similar ...
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Best way to display a key-value list with material design?

For a "Material design" project, I need to display a key-value list with multiple items, something like that (example with an animal and 4 criteria): Name: Cat Category: Mammal Color: Black Size: ...
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Is it better to display all products or use a carousel on a responsive website?

I have two versions for displaying products in an e-commerce website (responsive): Long version (all shown): Short version (with carousel): I am having a dilemma which to use. On one hand the long ...
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Delay showing updated search results when a user is signalling a potential match

Often a search filter is not hitting a simple local database, but rather a remote server thousands of kilometres away. In addition, if the dataset is of a non-trivial size, then processing the query ...
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Displaying logos without "guiding" UX

In many ways this question is a sequel to many of the others Header/Footer Icon usabilityhttps://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/107505/reducing-button-clutter-and-improving-ux I have asked on this ...
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Should the "refresh" button on a listview be replaced with a "live" indicator, or nothing at all?

I have a mobile app where there is a refresh button at the top of the listview. I also have a built in pull-to-refresh feature. The internals of the app are now always "live", thanks to SignalR and ...
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splitting list on mobile device?

I have a list of 20 items on a website. There are 4 buttons which work as filters. Each items in the list is represented by a picture and a title: Each block is clickable to a description page : ...
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Multiple connected lists UX design [closed]

I am designing a Web Application administrator screen and require these elements and tasks on a single page. Not sure how to design this using panels or any other kind of UX widget. The user's journey ...
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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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search suggestions and other list filter fields

I have a list and filter. Filter contains text field and many checkboxes When user types something into text field, it provides search suggestions The question is should search suggestions depend on ...
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Filter selected items in a list

I am designing a list that is mainly used to compare different items. By default all items are compared, but when the user filters on different attributes, such as name, date or tags, only the ...
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Moving away from using a table to display a list of user profiles

I'm looking for a new inventive way to display a list of users that can be selected and managed. I was thinking about a grid type view with animated drop for more details. Any help with this would be ...
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How to add action buttons to subsections of long lists

When having a potentially long list with different subsections (in this case - Augmented and Unaugmented Targets) how can you add action items to the subsections (like the export button) - which are ...
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My users keep naming things with special characters to thwart alphabetization

In my application, there's a long list of user-created objects in a master-detail setup. All we show in the master list is the name of the object, and the list is alphabetized. I've noticed that my ...
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How to make a long list of settings less overwhelming

We are working on a fairly complex B2B app. It's been in active development for many years and as a result, we've ended up with a bunch of settings that we have to present in the admin panel. It looks ...
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Should return to list after adding new item/product?

I have a dashboard where there are some areas where users can manage items and products. For example: News, Products, Clients, etc... Each area has basically 2 views: List: Contain all the items of ...
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What is the best way to handle listing multiple questions?

I'm working on a form where a user is asked to list various questions. My initial design looks like this: Users can enter multiple questions separated by line breaks. My worry with this interaction ...
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SearchBox that filters a ListView while typing - is there a name for this component/pattern?

In the desktop application I am developing, we have ListViews representing items in repositories, and for each one we have a TextBox at the top which works as a search box that filters elements in ...
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Is there a better way to present lists of bullet point links in responsive design?

I'm being challenged by a concept on a website redesign. It's a technical/medical website and there are some category pages that list subcategories in giant, bulleted lists of links. There are no ...
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presenting a table row in a list

Is there any best practice for converting a row in a table to a list? I want to show a report for a single row in a table, since the row is very wide, and I only want to report a single line at each ...
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Question about indentation on categorized list

wondered if I could get some help with this decision. I currently have a list that gets populated for the user automatically. Within the list, the items will be categorized two ways (again ...
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What's the best way to indicate that certain tracks in a list are instrumental?

I'm creating a music player for a web site. All of the songs have words and music (i.e. you can pull up lyrics or sheet music for a song), but some of the recordings are only the music. How can I ...
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How to list thumbs that have different sizes images

I nee help, your opinions and which options do I have to resolve my problem. Currently I'm working on a website that have a Thumb view and I'm not happy on how the items are displayed, I have ...
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Swipe to delete (but not archive) on Android

My current project includes a list of messages plus a message detail view. Three modes of deletion are requested (no other actions, like "reply", are possible): Detail view: delete icon in the ...
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What would be a good way to visualize potential problems in a system and make users act on them?

I have a system that I am monitoring. The system consists of a master server with multiple smaller servers underneath it. They all communicate with eachother, perform different tasks and so on. ...
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Viewing a list of survey questions

I am creating a survey portal. It has two kinds of users - Admin and User. The admin creates the questions. The questions are multiple choice questions, with description, options, author of the ...
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Display a list of characteristics with something better than a table

I'm designing PDF documents. The context is the assessment of real estate properties. Each PDF needs to give information about the following: The building itself Nature of the property (flat, house ...
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Stacked Master-Detail tables for related lists

I have a use case in which we need to support an analyst to 'peek' into a particular record to see all the related records and entities associated with it. This is within an CRM enterprise space, ...
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What is the best way to signify parallelism and sequentialism in a vertical list?

Let's say we have a system that executes some tasks. You can model your processes by creating task lists. Tasks in a list can be executed either sequentially or in parallel (depending on a list type)...
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Display a group of element containing a varying number of text lines

I have a group of elements of fixed width. Each element has a title and a varying number of child (each child is approximately one line of text). The number of column vary. At the moment I make lines ...
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List selection, the default is all-selected

I have a list of brands to filter some products. Users will check some brands from that list to show products only from those chosen brands. The default (unfiltered) is that the website will show all ...
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Managing a list of addresses/emails of a user

I'm writing one web app using Angular 2 and the Core UI theme, which I downloaded here. Now, there's one situation which I'm not knowing exactly how to build a nice user experience. The view is one ...
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A list of the newly created item should be placed on the top or the bottom?(Allows multiple users to view and operation at the same time)

There are two kinds of schemes. According to the creation time sorting in reverse chronological order(the newly created item at the top).so this creator can easily find the newly created item, but ...
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Select multiple elements with different filterings

Summary: The problem is not on the filters, but on the selected entities list. The user need to do; filtering, then selection, then do another filtering saving the previous selection. There is an ...
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Re-ordering items on a list... Should we use drag & drop or a dropdown with a number list?

What is the most intuitive / easiest way to sort a list of items? Is it through drag and drop (drag and drop the rows in the order you want) or do something like put a dropdown list beside each row / ...
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For desktop, is it a good idea to let users decide between a list or grid view?

I have seen examples on mobile where you have a toggle button to let users switch between grid and list views. For a desktop does it make sense to allow users to take this decision?
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Best way to display a list of items on which the user can take identical actions

I have a list of entities that are being displayed to a Admin user and the Admin can take a set of actions on any single entity. What is the best way to display those options? For example, imagine ...
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What is the Android equivalent of iOS's accessory action?

I'm developing a cross-platform business app for iOS and Android. Among other features, the app allows users to select a project from a large list (hundreds of entries) of available projects. Some ...
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How to manage tree view list and buttons?

I have a UI with tree view which can have unlimited child. And every child will have about 12 buttons in each parent and child list view. Is there any way that this can looks good in terms of UI & ...
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How to handle selection when filtering a list?

I've got a database with persons and selecting a person will show the detail of that person in a screen on the right. The list can be filtered, but i'm not really sure how to handle if the selected ...
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Representation of multifield nested lists?

By multifield I mean a list item having multiple kind of sublists, separated by some indicator like the grey blocks in the example below. The reason behind this may be an IF-THEN relationship between ...
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