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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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
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When user clicks an item of the "index", it'...
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Auto numbering on questions
I'm designing a survey form builder. One proposed feature is to allow administrators to enable automatic numbering for questions and question groups. However, the software's robust logic and rule ...
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How to balance user-led vs. user-centered design when it comes to navigation labels?
We just completed some research with card sorting and tree testing. Two of the categories were consistently labeled the same by a large percentage of participants.
It seems to make sense to name the ...
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iOS App with two states and mostly different content categories
I’m working on a medical iOS app for university.
Our users are usually 55+ years.
I’m currently struggling with the navigation flow of the app.
We basically have two states, pre and post-surgery.
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What are real examples of content-driven navigation?
Reading Apple HIG Guideline I came across an explanation of the content-driven navigation. It says that games, books, and other immersive apps use this navigation type. But what other immersive apps? ...
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Creating an accessible, animated, and responsive navigation system
I've been struggling for the past couple weeks to design the perfect navigation (menu) system for my personal website which I am designing.
First, I need a system that is completely accessible as I am ...
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Best practices/rationale for unified vs separate keyboard/mouse navigation of lists?
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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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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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Shortcut Key for OK Button on Dialog Box with Grid
In a desktop app, I have dialog boxes that contain one or more small grids, various other simple controls, as well as the usual OK/Cancel buttons. Grids pose a problem to the usual use of Enter as a ...
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Tips for my project navigation menu
I am a software developer developing an online rugby union manager game as a side project.
I am not that good at design but I've been reading a lot recently on this subject and I'm trying to improve ...
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Multiple tabs vs multiple menu items
I am in the process of designing a new settings part for a section of our Saas. With my non-ux team, we are discussing wheter we should change the overall navigation of this section by removing the ...
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On a phone, navigating to next item in a list
This is a question for the phone UI.
I have an app where people can store documents. The main page shows users a scrollable list of their documents. They can then tap to view an individual document. ...
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Tabbing into a hidden navigation menu
This is a question about the interaction between navigation via keyboard (tabbing) and initially-hidden navigation items. I’m asking from both a UX and accessibility perspective.
My site has a slide-...
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How do I allow the user to visit the umbrella page in mobile navigation menu?
I have a navigation menu with some of the buttons being hover dropdown menus. So when the user hovers the button, a dropdown opens below where they can select where they want to go.
Front page
Open ...
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How to show a consumer products in a eCommerce Site with only filters?
I have an eCommerce site that sells baby clothes. When i think of the different ways i can arrange/organize the main menu i get frustrated on trying to make sense. I start to think of how a physical ...
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How to do information architecture of a UGC based website/app?
What's the best possible way to make a user-generated website classify its content into categories or topics or tags to make the content searchable and discoverable?
How does one start redesigning ...
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Where do I place the Admin user in the menu? [closed]
I am redesigning a platform with two kinds of users: regular and Admin and the two roles are not separated, meaning the Admin should see the same as the regular user + the Admin button, which takes ...
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Icon-based sidebar navigation + sticky header. Good idea? [closed]
I'm designing a B2B web-app with a lot of tables and dense information.
Each page has a header that can contain:
Page title
Tabs
Action buttons
We're using a sidebar navigation that shows section's ...
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Responsive UI Pattern for selecting from a list of exact values greater than 5?
I'm designing a page where users should be able to sort between exercise videos categorized by "phase." (see image). These phases start with "Pre-Op" then proceed linearly 1, 2, 3, etc. Since these ...
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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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Looking for library of resources on real product's design, Information Architecture, etc
For my current project, I am looking for inspiration related to how different digital products (web applications, mobile apps) are organized:
navigation + menu structure, Information Architecture
So ...
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Search - autocomplete - hover a result to features in dropdown
I am working on a project where a user has to navigate to any feature for any product. So I came up with a search box component. Here the user can search for a product and when a user hovers on a ...
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Is a good user experience to display actions on the top of the screen on the web?
Navigation on the top of the screen is common on the web. To add actions like "Edit", "See details", "Copy" in the navbar is more specific on the desktop.
Fluent UI, ...
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Links in content (ie box and cards) vs Navigation
I see a lot of discussion in UX circles about search VS browse. What I don't see a lot is any kind of testing or research on how soon people reach for the menu of a site, and whether different people ...
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Informative mobile scrolling by tag or category
A designer came to one of our iOS engineers to show us some inspirations she saw with some iOS apps where they allow users to scroll by tag or category Some examples include Snapchat where if you go ...
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Changing a navbar to show 'contact us' only on scroll
My navbar changes on scroll - hiding all links and just showing our contact details.
Docked:
On scroll:
Is this a good idea? Bad idea?
The objective is to drive phone calls and contact form ...
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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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How do you manage creation of a heavy and complex Information Architecture?
Please share your techniques If you have ever been working on a design or redesign of a bigger website or an app that has a complex Information Architecture. While drafting it all manually (and ...
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Show menus that should be contained in each module
I am creating a system that has different modules that need to be shown (in my example: Payroll, Bonus, Loan, Severance, Annual Tax) that each have different processes but all of them (except Annual ...
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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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How to handle side-nav with multiple items?
I have built a dashboard where the user can handle totals for all it's shops, in a side-navbar over the items like 'settings', 'exit' and refs to other pages there are all shops listed as tree view, ...
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Best practice for a sub-menu in mobile
I'm a new UI designer and I'm trying to figure out how to make a sub-menu in mobile for an employer profile.
So basically the company/employer profile is like a LinkedIn approach but I'm having a hard ...
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iOS and Android app - data download or page navigation first
What is the best perceived UX for mobile applications which require data downloaded midway through the journey. I cannot find this information online in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (or I am ...
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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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How many navigation options is "too many"?
My website's main navigation bar looks like this:
I counted, and there are 7 navigation items in total. Most websites have one navigation item on the left side of the bar with their logo on it that ...
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How to reconcile a core keyboard action with accessibility's need for that key?
I'm building a simple word game on the web (for the sake of example, think Wordle) and the Enter key has a role in this, submitting the letters you've typed in.
The trouble is that if a user is ...
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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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Accommodating list view and map view of geographical locations on the same page
On a web page, where users must select geographical location so as to proceed with the next step, I'd like to provide both options of list view and map view. I'd like to cater to both preference ...
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After navigating from page A to page B, if a user goes back is it better to send them to the top of page A or scroll to where they were?
This is of course a very general question and circumstances will vary. But in general, which annoys most users least when they hit their browser's back button - to go to the top of the page they were ...
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What's the best practice for placement of settings menu in a webapp or website?
I was wondering is there any reason behind placing "settings" alongside other menu items and placing it inside profile or some other menu? Can anyone tell me what's the difference?
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Is it good practice to place tabs at the same level when search is the main feature? How to deal with spacing?
I'm building a dashboard I'm stuck at one level whether keeping the title on the same line as the search bar (as highlighted below)? For example, I select Option1 from the list of drop-down (check the ...
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How to showcase additional menu level items within the current menu UI without breaking it
We have an app that lets users modify their face as they are taking selfies.
Under the Beauty option, users have the option to Smooth their skin, add Lipstick, edit Eyes, etc. The user can see in real ...
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Browse and select from a list at the same time
We're looking for a way to cut down on pogosticking - users popping back and forth between a summary view and various detail views. One pattern we're experimenting with is pager arrows, for when users ...
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Book a demo conversion rate
My employer would like to delete navigation on book a demo and retarget landing pages. What do you think about this practice? He believes that the landing page should convert the user and he shouldn't ...
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What can you fit into a single burger menu on mobile documentation website?
I am looking at this Vercel page:
They put the table of contents in a select box at the top of the post, and then the burger menu is more global links.
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What are the pros/cons of merging ...
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Navigation menu with 2 links in drop-down only opens the menu. It is not directed link?
I have a navigation where one of the items has 2 sub-links. Clicking on property it would open the menu only. I know many people feel the parent should direct you to a page, but in this scenario I don'...
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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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Modular tabs or long page scroll
A content heavy real estate website is deciding whether to switch the navigation to using modular tabs, where content opens in the same pane. Currently, the site uses a long page scroll where all ...
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Using fullscreen to view elements without slowing navigation
First question on this stack exchange.
I'm designing a web portal for managing computers in a company. Note: This is only made to be used on desktop at the moment.
I am having a hard time finding a ...
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Alternative to scroll bar
I work on a desktop application which has a sidebar with different workplaces. Most of the time there are around 4 workplaces but there can be use-cases with more workplaces that don't fit on a screen ...