Questions tagged [navigation]
For questions about the mechanisms you can use to help people find their way around your application or web site.
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Where to place buttons to customize a navigation list (reorder/add/delete)?
I have a subpage with a navigation list. This list can be changed by the user. The user can reorder, add or delete categories. This function is rarely used by clients, mostly only when they first ...
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If a user is logged out as a result of timing-out, should they return to the homepage or the last page visited
We have a somewhat complex B2B app. If a user is idle for some time, they are auto-logged out and brought to the login screen. If they log back in, would the ideal behavior be to bring them to the ...
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Is it a good idea to have a back button go back if the link is the same as the previous history entry?
Let's say you have a website / app where there are user pages, and on the user page there are additional links for things like that user's awards or posts. Something like this:
The issue I'm having ...
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Quick navigation between courses in an LMS
I have a webapp LMS whose workflow, for students and teachers alike, goes like this:
the home page has a list of cards representing the courses available, with a button to enter the course. When ...
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Too many tabs - different ui layout?
I'm designing a website and I have a problem with too many tabs. The website has information on 18 different box diets (each has its own price list). On the price list subpage, I want to show a price ...
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Two hamburger Menu Bars
The issue is having two hamburger menu bars.
Would burger menu combined with tabs be better suited for this menu section.
Menu bar #1 appears when user logs in.
Menu bar #2 is for all customers (...
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Dropdown in navigation or modal for log in/register?
We've noticed on our website that there's no 'quick access' to users accounts, or to know if they are logged in or not. So I've designed:
A dropdown from the my account header in the navigation with ...
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Is this navigation pattern a good idea?
I have noticed the following navigation pattern recently and am wondering if this is a "good" pattern in your experience. - Can you point to any usability research about the pattern?
It ...
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System for learning without being led off on a tangent
I would like to know, how a software system, could be designed, so that everything you searched and used (chrome, Wikipedia, apps, dictionary, illustrations, images), and so on, were filtered through ...
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Website nivation with below mentioned terms, please give me a detailed suggestion for each navigation
All these terms (Breadcrumbs, Sidebars, Mega menus, Dropdowns, Tabs, and Accordions seem to be an important factor when creating sites and doing SEO, want to know if I am creating a site with ...
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Is there a best practice with nav links going to same page as link in dropdown?
I am doing an audit of a website and there are areas where the label in the navigation goes to the same page as a the link in it's dropdown like the "Banking" going to same page as "...
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Icon or text for "home" in a breadcrumb?
What is a better way to convey the home position in a breadcrumb - "home" as text or an icon representing a home?
An argument for the sake of an icon would be that a picture is easier to ...
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Description of a Tab
Designing an enterprise application with 2 tab options that will render separate tables. I want to add a description to the tab to make it clearer to the users, and provide more context. Here are 3 ...
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msedge - get feedback for horizontal tab groups
Vertical tabs in browser edge
Currently microsoft-edge has vertical tabs
Proposal for horizontal tabs
I would love to have the groups as normal horizontal tabs. Each Group would render one tab. ...
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Any insights for best practise to make app bottom navigation dynamic based on activity?
I am working on this enterprise app, where user who he is an admin after first time login, performs some initial tasks. After completing these initial tasks, his primary role will be to look over the ...
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Advices about the navigation bar at the top of the page? [closed]
I haven't figured out what icon is suitable for the signup button?
Also there's a filter dropdown down there to filter articles, not
sure where to put it, or if this place is fine
I didn't upload ...
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Best way to design a multilevel hamburger menu?
– Do you know about a usability study that has compared how to best present deeper navigation levels inside a hamburger menu used on mobile web sites?
As I see it there are two main patterns:
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Tree - select all child nodes or select only few
I have a multi-level tree structure and the user would want to select only a particular parent node or all child nodes below it.
There can be multiple trees with multiple levels one below another
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Left sidebar vs top bar categories in eCommerce layout
I am working on a big eCommerce website and we are trying to find the best possible option for our layout. A typical layout that I keep seeing is something similar to Aliexpress. A left sidebar with ...
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What is this new insane trend to remove the "order by" feature from websites?
In the last couple of months, two major websites I use have removed the entire basic feature to order the list of items in any way other than by "relevance", if it even mentions what it ...
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Using a dropdown split button for 'Log In'
Something isn't sitting right but I can't tell what it is. I've not seen this pattern before.
Can you spot the UX/UI deficiencies in this proposed pattern? Or are you fine with it? This is found on ...
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Lostness metric
Has anyone used the Lostness metric? I'm trying to use it to benchmark a navigation scheme. One of the variables (R) is the minimum number of screens that must be visited to complete a task. I ...
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How to deal with jumps in a navigation flow?
Say you have features A and B with following pages:
A: List -> Detail -> Edit
B: List -> Detail -> Edit
On page Edit (B) you have a dropdown to select a record of type A. You might want ...
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What is the most popular shortcut used for custom in-page search on a web site?
I am looking to use javascript to trigger focus on a search field inside a web page when a keyboard shortcut is pressed.
People dislike it when ctrl-f is overridden, because it prevents the user from ...
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Hiding and showing menu items in an application based on state
I have an interface with a list of menu items which will take a user to different product features. The features a categorized as follows:
Feature' access is controlled with user role (roles don't ...
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What's the consensus on Top vs Left Navigation logged in vs logged out?
So for my companies website, which is for a finTech product, our logged out view has a classic header with all the key pages spaced along the top. However once logged in, which gives access to our ...
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How can a user tab through content with TAB key if there are no links or buttons?
Okay, I am building a website that is accessible using the keyboard. However there are some pages where there is no focus-able content - no links, forms or buttons. When the users presses the TAB key (...
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Top nav bar with only CTA's?
I've tried Googling, but didn't find anything concrete.
What are your thoughts about the top nav bar of a volunteering platform containing only a sign in and sign up CTA and no other navigation links? ...
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Usability disadvantages to an Opera-style menu as the standard navigation model for web sites?
Premises:
(1) Opera-style menu refers to a navigation menu which shows or hides when you click anywhere on the left edge of the application window. It must have been introduced by the original Opera ...
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Letting user know that button is for picture and update data?
We have a mobile app where the information is updated when the user takes a picture. I'm attaching the screen.
As you can see there's a huge button that says "Update Information (by just taking a ...
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Tab based main navigation - best way to display current page for secondary icon based navigation
What is the best way to show a page is a current page being viewed for a secondary navigation item that is icon based when the main navigation is tabbed-based?
A selected state for the icon, or are ...
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What's the name of a side contents that changes heading as you scroll down the page?
I want to learn more about contents menus like the one on the right of the apple developer guidance that moves as you scroll down, but I can't find the right terms to search for: https://developer....
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Why do many modern web apps keep adding back functionality?
Is it really creating a good experience if we implement the back button inside the app? If yes, then how? I was unable to understand why users wouldn’t like to use the browser back button. Many new ...
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Multiple Navigation Options
I'm facig kind of a problem having to many navigation layers, my next step it's to try to reagroup some tabs but basically my client wants something like that.
What do you think about it? any ideas?
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Can we use the breadcrumbs just like pagination where a user can go back and forth between the pages?
I want the user to be able to go back and forth on any of these pages. And this is all pdf pages, and the important thing is the hierarchy. In the sales order we are informing how much we will charge ...
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Help with naming a certain "tag" on screens
I'm currently working on a no-code platform that has screens with lots of information/data/boards etc.
Some of these screens are visible entirely, and others are only visible through other screens, in ...
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Daily maintenance tasks vs. set-and-forget
The scenario: An enterprise software product has a heavy navigation system and a vast amount of functions. It's important to keep the number of primary-level tabs at a minimum, because the menu is ...
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How is the first 'page' of a tabbed layout represented on a sitemap?
I understand that tabbed navigation is a lateral pattern, but I'm unclear on how this is represented on a sitemap? Is the first tab visualized as a parent screen to the adjacent tabs because it is ...
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Chevron Usage in Menu Items
In a banking mobile app, all menu items have chevrons but some of them open bottom sheet instead of going to a new page. In the example below, Menu Item 1 can open a bottom sheet where as Menu Item 2 ...
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Why not embed payment pages in the same page?
In my experience, when purchasing something online, the checkout page of the vendor usually redirects to a payment gateway of the company handling the payments. I insert my credit card details on the ...
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Rethinking the header - its visual weight and its navigation purposes
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A web site's navigation menus usually get placed at:
a) the top area of a web page - filling the header, that is;
b) the top (the header), on demand - by means of a hamburger menu button;...
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Bad wizard navigation?
I'm working on an installation guide, or "wizard", for a web application. The installation guide will be quite complex, with many different steps, each taking up around a minute or two for ...
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What justifies a full page modal navigation?
What arguments support having a full page modal acting as a hub that takes you to different actions / pages that are linked together?
For instance imagine an app where you manage recipes, you would ...
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Tap takes you to next screen VS Tap enables "Continue" button
I'm designing a flow that contains screens where the user has to select an option among the available ones. For now we will not allow to select more than one, but maybe in the future it will be ...
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Should an app remember its last state after re-opening from background by push notification?
Imagine this scenario:
There's a mobile app. The user navigates between different app pages. The last page the user visits is the Edit profile form. Then the user goes to the iPhone home screen, which ...
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In B2B applications where are the T&C and Privacy policy placed usually?
I'm designing the legal modules for a B2B application that is accessed via a browser. This application mainly shows different kinds of performance reports. When logging in for the 1st time, users need ...
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Having the same form fields in two different places
I'm working on a project for an educational technology platform. Essentially, there's a set of 3 settings that are required to make an assignment a "common assessment":
1.) "Is this ...
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How to show a large amount of values in a vertical bar chart
Designing a dashboard that includes a section with 70-80 temperature readings sorted from high to low. given the limited space in the screen, i can only a show a limited amount of them.
My question is,...
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Are there studies on how the back button is used? [duplicate]
I'm wondering if there is some research on how the back button is used in browsers and what their expectations are.
Personally I've noticed that I don't use the back button that much.
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Should a 'Profile' menu ever contain navigation links specific to the user (e.g. 'My Reports')?
I’m new to the community and fairly new to UX design in general and would really appreciate some input…
I’m designing a new navigation for an eLearning platform. It’s a comprehensive site, with all ...
