Questions tagged [options]
Alternatives for different actions
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How to allow the user to state 'No preference'
We have a situation where we have a list of choices (e.g Beers) from which a maximum of one may be chosen to associate with another item (e.g. My favourite beer).
It's also possible that the user may ...
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Best way to pick a calendar week + year
I have sub-navigation underneath my main website navigationbar. I want to display a set with calendar weeks (1-52/53) and the years (2019 - 2021) where use can pick.
Because 52 week options are a lot ...
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What would be a descriptive name for this UI element?
I'm looking for a descriptive and relatively intuitive name for this UI element you very often find in game's settings screens. It's a list of options (labels) that you can horizontally run through ...
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How to display choices from multiple options on mobile
Here's my scenario:
Customer books a hotel room for 4 guests for a week.
He/she can then add meals to their booking of which there are 4 mutually exclusive options (Let's say Full English Breakfast,...
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Alternative actions: nested submenu or interactive question?
I have a user interface that provides two alternatives for one action. The alternatives describe how the chosen action should be performed by the computer (different goal functions or heuristics of an ...
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How do users perceives the difference between horizontal and vertical ellipsis specifically in data tables?
I am creating a data table where the last actions has multiple actions needed, I stumble to the concept of using either vertical and horizontal ellipses, but what is mainly the differences in terms of ...
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Sorting & Reverse Sorting: How to name options?
We are working on an app that contains a library. this is sortable by different criteria. The user can select the sorting via an action sheet. If a criterion is selected again, the sorting is reverted....
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How to show prices that are not yet included?
In our cart we have optional products (like gift wrapping) that the user can add. We also have options for selected items that might impact the cost (like choosing a hardback book vs a paperback).
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How to present a lot of choices and options, where each case is important?
Can't show app interface but here is the concept. 1st image situation and a short description of the person. The Second image is Cases and options for how to help. (First, you choose case then option)....
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Research and guidelines for settings, menus and control panels
I'm currently redesigning a System Settings page, which is a mix of preferences/configuration, functions, control panel and settings menus.
So far I've taken layout inspiration from various control ...
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Can reducing options improve your conversion rate?
Whilst most websites (debatable) concentrate on adding new features and functionality, I would like to question whether reducing the amount of options you are providing to a user would aid their user ...
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What is the best way to display properties on an editor?
A little bit of context to make my self more clear. I am working on software tool that is meant for designing UIs. My next step is to create a properties area, where you edit the width/height, x/y, ...
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Improve selection (from 2 options) more Intuitive
NOTE : Feel free to edit the question title to something more accurate, if you feel it fits more.
Hey all. I'm trying to solve pretty interesting scenario.
I have an app, which creates output from (...
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Best way to display list of options
There's a page that has a list of options like below
002-12345
002-16516
003-21565
008-15168
001-86841
Currently, we display it inside a box and user has to scroll up or down to select whichever ...
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Best Practices on toggle switches and defaults in forms?
In many cases, when creating an A/B choice for a user, there is a clear option that should be the default; if not, the debates can rage... and if the choices are not clearly boolean (Yes or No), it ...
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Should we communicate the shipping *progress* here, or will it be redundant?
We're a small e-commerce business. A few weeks after we've shipped an order, we'll be checking in with customers to see if everything's okay. The e-mail will have three clickable options for them to ...
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How to display an 'either or' option in a setup page?
Hye guys, we are currently designing a setup process for a web app.
At this stage, user has to select a type for the system where user needs to switch on either 'Type A' or 'Type B'. It is compulsory ...
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Show/Hide Toggle for a Toggle
We have a toggle available in our main screen, to enable/disable an important functionality. Since, only 30% of our users use this functionality at least once per month, we are considering to (...
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Why is Apple using the settings icon for showing more options?
What could be the reason for Apple to use a gear-wheel in its Finder to show more options when everybody else seems to use this icon for "Settings"? Even Apple uses it again for the System Preferences....
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Drop down configurable(can add options) on the go or in settings?
I have more than 20 dropdown(select) menus in my Rails application.
For example see the below image,
The plus button next to Contact Type drop down will help the admin(and other users with the ...
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How to design configurable scripts for non-programmers [closed]
I have a python script that allows users to parse addresses when batch-editing a table.
The script allows the user to choose whether to return the house number or the street name to the field (by ...
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Elegant and simple nested tabs UI?
I have case in which user can choose location of service clicking on tabs.
In second, step if user choose to use option on right, he can choose managed type of VPS service or unmanaged VPS service. ...
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How can I pictorially show an option is unavailable for a time?
I have an option (a single button) in the settings, that won't be avaliable for the user for about 2 weeks.
I have considered a number of options:
Leave it out - make it suddenly appear
Keep it ...
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How to present users with multiple service options?
We currently have a marketplace that allows users to create a project, enter specs and service providers fulfill the service.
We want to show a new option on our website which is to provide a ...
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Grouping a 2x2 set of options
I'm am not sure what kind of grouping to use to present the following four options:
Block something permanently
Allow something permanently
Block something once
Allow something once
Initially I had ...
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Apply All option after selection option of combox
I have a table with a set of rows. Each rows contains a dropdown box to perform an action over the row (see this example). But I want to give a possibility to user to chose if this action will be ...
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User options - selecting the right control based on the number of options available
I have a user interface that allows the user to select the view they want to see their data by.
At first there were only 2 options so I used radio buttons. But the client has been adding options and ...
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Generic picker for FMCG analysis site?
As it says in the title I'm working on a site that analyses FMCG market (basically anything you can find in supermarket). I need to redesign our current "picker". There are a number of pickers across ...
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How to Handle Selecting options?
is their any alternative to tab? I'am currently handling a design that requires too many options per tab in a page. so lets say for example:
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Best name for the option of adding item to multiple lists or a newly created list
I have a book that can be added to multiple reading lists or to a newly created one. The name of the option that does it is “Add to Reading List”. What would be the best name for such an option so it ...
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How to present multiple options
I have a very simple application. It has three different options
to explore some data, then it displays those data on a different view, which is a level deeper in navigation.
It has some breadcrumb ...
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Unavailable item in multiselect after one is chosen
I have to display several options in a multiselect dropdown, and some of them are related, like: year (two digit) and year (four digit). These are related options, and after one is picked, the other ...
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How to facilitate multiple options whilst emphasizing 1 option in particular?
In this screen we have six options which can be toggled to suit the users preferences. All of these preference options are necessary to the product.
However, in 90% of use cases the users will only ...
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Tap, Tap, Tap or Keyboard Entry
We are doing an internal makeover to our existing Timesheet Mac app. In that I ran into a situation where I have to decide either of the below options.
Option A : Tap, Tap, Tap
Like the smartphone ...
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How to represent 5 different options for user while doing signup?
I am developing a website for mobile and desktop. Users can register through signup form, where they have to select one out of 5 user types. Each type will have a help text for explanation. After ...
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How do I present lots of options, few of which are required?
I have a flow in an iPad app that takes the user through the process of creating a fairly complex object. For the sake of simplicity, lets say they are scheduling a meeting. There are actually a lot ...
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Present user with configuration before use?
I have a graph which can render both surf height or swell height up the Y-AXIS. The users have the ability to toggle the display value, but there must be a default value, which ever way I default the ...
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Display a list where only some options have sub options
I'm trying to come up with a way to display a list of options to the user, where they have to pick one option. However, some of the options have compulsory sub options which also need to be selected.
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Two options, and a third, which renders the first two redundant
I am in a predicament, so I would appreciate any help that you experts can provide.
I have two options, A and B, which say either is required and a third option, C which says either A or B is needed....
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How to provide navigation on Responsive sites
I have a UX designed for "responsive" web application with most of its content arranged under 5 tabs. So the site navigation is very clear to the user where ever they are even on mobile. But now I ...
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Inline checkbox that excludes previoius possible input, how do I combine this elegantly?
I'm designing a mobile web form where a user will fill in various personal information and finally add a signature, where users with touch capable devices will be presented with a full screen view ...
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Icon Placement within a row
I have a table with template names and the actions available will be shown in the form of icons next to the names. There are two options.
Option 1 Icons next to the name(left aligned) appearing on ...
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How to best to describe a user preference option to play all videos in succession?
I've created a program that contains eight chapters (they are actually videos) and I have a user preference that when checked will play all eight chapters in succession one right after the other.
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Best UI for setting multiple options
I've got a web app that uses canvas drawings. I'm now adding a feature that lets users choose their preferences for the drawings' style. This necessitates a separate UI.
At this point, I've got to ...
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Pre-define bulk upload settings or prompt the user to choose their settings each time they upload
The scenario is a user has organised a bunch of folders and files which will be stitched together to form a book online. The idea is users will be able to drag & drop / click to upload all of ...
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Multiple options and open search in the same field
for a webapp I would like a 'speed' search field in which users could search by concrete speeds in kilometers per hour km/h, and at the same time they should have the possibility to make a less ...
