Questions tagged [menu]
A menu is a list of commands presented to an operator by a computer system
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Why there are 3 lines in all types of menu icons?
I have noticed that all types of menu icons are using three lines or dots.
From a UI/UX perspective, does it matter the number of lines/dots?
For example if someone decides to use only one or six ...
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Should menu item text include the context it applies to? (e.g. “Delete” vs “Delete Comment”)
Example: When opening a menu on a user page, one can encounter the following menu items:
Ban
Delete
Report
Is it better practice if the menu items are as followed:
Ban User
Delete User
Report User
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Is there a technical term for “display-during-click-only”-menu bars?
Some old Linux programs like xfig, xfontsel, xditview expand a menu bar only while
the left mouse button is down (pretty unusual) and
the mouse is above the menu bar of the program (pretty normal)
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Collapsible navigation sidebar and Bootstrap Dropdown, are these similar?
This is a control panel for administrators. The collapsible sidebar you see below contains links to other pages related to administration.
This image shows me navigating with the TAB key, ...
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How to display products from various menu's in a smart way?
for an application in the restaurant business I am thinking of a smart way to display ALL menu items, both foods and drinks, from various menus. Now a restaurant may have several menu cards, so a ...
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Should buttons appear on a menu bar?
I am reviewing a design change in a desktop application. The proposed change is implemented with standard clickable buttons in a menu bar, appearing to the right of the normal menu items. These are ...
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category name for grouping: videos, podcast, blog [closed]
I need to find a category name for a top menu on a website
for grouping:
videos, podcast episodes, blog.
I'm thinking "content"
Is there a better category to group all of those options? Content ...
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Left Sidebar Menu design with hierarchy
Current scenario:
I've a webapp, in which there is a left sidebar. There are some menuItems and subMenuItems in sidebar. This hierarchy can go to N level.
New Requirement:
Now There can be multiple ...
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What is the name for component of menu board in front of home slider app
What's the name / the called for the component of menus board in front of home slider app. Usually it's contains of several feature services/action of the app. I mark with red frame on this image ...
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Expandable/Collapsible menu
dear community members!
I'm currently working on the solution and have a need to make a blue menu expandable and collapsible. Probably someone has good examples on this pattern? Here is how this is ...
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multi selection dropdown - with or without checkbox
I am working on a the design system of a large system for users that use it on a daily basis, and I want to define the multi select dropdown.
on one hand you can know in advance that you have multi ...
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About Commanding in UWP apps. What commanding approach is best? office like?, UWP? or classic win32?
I'm writing an app with platform UWP-Windows 10-1903(Universal Windows), for making electric circuits, designs and simulations. User makes a design on screen with resistors, generators, etc, and run ...
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Sequential Menu (Drill down) or Accordion
I have 3 levels in my information architecture for my desktop dashboard. In the vertical navigation which measures H:500px W:200px I have;
Top level: 8 items
Second level: 9 items in total (one of my ...
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Separate subsection for outreach materials?
I'm creating website with the following things:
Blog
Programs / activities / events
Podcast
Newsletter
All of these things seem like they could be classified as "outreach". However, I really dont ...
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What is the difference between a 9 dots menu icon and a 7 dots? [closed]
What does it possibly mean? Can it be used as 'go back to menu'?
https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/social-media-vol-3/24/_dots-512.png
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Based on what criteria do you add/not add icons to labels within a toolbar?
Some toolbars have icons for each label, and some toolbars do not have icons for any label. There is enough discussion about that.
However, some toolbars will attach icons to label selectively, and ...
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Desktop app status bar: Notification vs error message
I'm working on a particular feature that requires messages to be shown in the context menu when user clicks on it.
Option 1
Display different icons for different events (Upgrades and errors for ...
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Language switcher menu
I want to design Language selection menu and the requirement is,
on the right side menu should appear (which shows the selected language)
on selection, it should list all the languages available
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How to decide to what should go in more options menu?
I was deciding what should go in menu of the app I am developing.
Here menu: means more option menu at bottom nav with ... icon.
I looked in other apps out there I notice something strange. That some ...
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Hover vs click on mega menu
Now implementing a new mega-menu. The current mega-menu's submenu options are shown on user cursor hover. Would a more explicit action like mouse click be more appropriate for this (like the example ...
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Possible ways to show some multilevel choices for a multiplatform application
I have an application running on 3 platforms: Windows, Android, Linux. While the native part is practically the same, the UI part is obviously different - WPF on Windows, xml/layout based UI on ...
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How to add in new items that don't fit in existing menus?
I have a mobile app with the general layout of having a menu menu, a queue that needs to be easily accessible and show a list of items in or previously in queue and any statuses, and a submit button ...
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If you know a submenu is going to open to the left, which way should the arrow point?
I have a menu dropdown with submenus. I know based on screen sizes that about 70% of the time the submenu will show up to the left of the main menu (as the edge of the screen prevents it opening to ...
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Considerations regarding hamburger menu in HP and traditional menu in subpages, for desktop
I know hamburger menus in desktop are not optimal but our team is stuck with it. Therefore, we wanted implement a normal main nav for subpages, which will result in a inconsistent experience.
Wanted ...
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How to indicate actions on an expandable list?
TL;DR
I need an expandable/collapsable list where each item indicates that some actions are available and each category may
be expanded/collapsed
allow more actions on that category
Material ...
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Main page VS Side menu for long flat list of items on mobile
I am looking to implement a mobile / tablet application. It currently has two views: an items list view that shows all the items, and an item detail view which shows more detail about a single item. ...
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Ellipse-shape arrangement of menu items
I have stumbled sometimes upon web pages with an ellipse-shape arrangement of menu items and I have found them to feel somehow more comfortable over the standard orthogonal arrangement:
Is there any ...
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What's this kind of menu called?
When you click a link, it opens another tab and puts a link to the previous one on it's top.
It solves my problem, but I can't find what it's named (english is not my 1st language).
Here's an ...
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Large Hover Menu/Navigation Menu - Categorically Bad UX?
Due to feedback from a handful of customers that did not understand what our menu icons meant, a hamburger icon was removed from our navigation menu, this hamburger icon was used to expand the ...
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How to improve 3rd level navigation selection
I have a responsive dashboard web app, as shown in screenshots. The left navigation menu has two levels of navigation, and then there is a blue tab strip running along the top for the third level. ...
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Gaps between active areas of menu items [duplicate]
What is a better solution to make gaps between active areas of menu items or place them close to each other? I'm asking just about active areas of links not about visual styles.
For example, maybe ...
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Top level Nav Dropdowns and/or Pages
my challenge is to have top-level navigation items that have subnavigation and are also clickable as they are the parent pages to the sub nav
So let's say top navigation items; One, Two and Three. ...
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One page website menu too long
My one page website has too long menu (many items). I want to remove one of the items - named as "services" and stay only with "about" item instead. Is it OK to remove this item from menu? Sorry, if ...
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Right menu links
My company website has a main page (header images, our services, testimonials, contacts) and few store pages: an all products page, single product page (only catalog, no buying function).
My headache ...
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Form in menu ux design query
So I have a use case where we have a button that is to trigger the "reassign" flow
this obviously needs a list of people to reassign to (1 or many)
I have a multiselect typeahead creating the list. ...
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Design patterns for navigation of menus on mobile devices/views
I have noticed that many web applications displayed in mobile devices or views seem to be simply moving or displaying the same content in a different viewport rather than trying to tailoring content ...
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Search filter menu: Optimize for choosing one or multiple search filters
My site has a vertical search menu on the left side of the page, similar to Amazon and Etsy desktop versions, with checkboxes and search filter terms. Like these sites, my site automatically performs ...
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How to make a dialog appear less busy?
The right-hand configuration side of my current connection dialog looks reasonable enough at the moment:
However, with the addition of several (very handy!) options, it is starting to look too busy:
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Best solution for an admin with few elements
I'm working on a user panel for the customers of my online store. For now I'm going to launch it with 4 sections, but in the future there will be more sections.
In mobile it looks very good:
But in ...
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Footer menu same as Menu
The links which are in the menu are replicated in the footer menu. Is placing same menu links in the footer redundant or is it a bad practice in web design or development?
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Mobile – Does a close button need to be on the same x-axis as the hamburger icon?
I have a mobile menu using traditional mobile menu. Due to a long logo, we've placed menu items below. Is it inconsistent that the hamburger icon does not sit on the same level as the close button? ...
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Is there a use case for overriding/overpainting the OS-provided system menu?
An app developed by another team here at Acme Software overrides - in fact, erases - the operating system-provided system menu (it also custom paints the minimize, maximize, and close button, but that'...
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What's a good shorthand for “save and exit” in a text based software
I've made a script/software of sorts that is used to analyse test results of our patients.
Currently, to save your results, you have to enter 27, which was due to me having a brilliant idea at the ...
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Tabs VS Menu hierarchy . Material design VS informational architecture
There are two levels of menu. Tabs and usual sub menu.
The problem is when tabs are under home/manage/analytics menu - it doesn't make sense because hierarchy is actually backwards.
Because ...
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Is Displaying Restaurant Menu Prices A UX/Accessibility Matter?
I am working with a high-class hotel that owns a number of restaurant venues. I have been trying to do some research, but am coming up short with results to back the idea that exposed restaurant menu ...
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Best alternative to on click menus in product design
Current situation
I am currently working on a product where the users can modify text, image, logo and shape elements by clicking on them. On click, a small menu opens that allows the user to view ...
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User-friendliness vs. conformity (with an app)
I have two apps:
App #2 reads text files to display 3D objects with specific coordinates (e.g. a sphere, a cube, a pyramide and a cylinder) in a VR environment with each file having its own unique ...
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Better suggestion for name “Closed Loop Automation”
I am adding a new feature that enables closed-loop-automation. This involves creating an object that has a trigger and an action. Whenever the trigger happens, the associated action will be taken. ...
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Can I use the same share icon for different functions?
So, in a nutshell, our platform gives people the chance to edit maps and data. These maps can be shared through a link with other people (or embedded) with the use of some templates we created.
We ...
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What's a good way to design a menu in which some menu items are dependent on others?
My company likes to design interfaces with side menus that look like this:
The problem with this design is that it allows the user to click on links like "Profile" before they've selected which ...
