Questions tagged [scrolling]
in kinetic displays, scrolling is sliding text, images or video across a monitor or display
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Improve experience when using anchor link from different touchpoints
My detail page on mobile app is setting with different sections and have a tab menu fixed on top when scrolling. The issue that I have right now is, each section can be a separate touchpoint on other ...
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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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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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Usability testing: what can be the best questions to ask a user to understand if they prefer infinite scroll vs pagination?
For example, unsplash.com has an infinite scroll. Let's say we want to change it to pagination. What can be the best questions to ask a user for a usability test?
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Sticky tab menu that actually scrolls the page vertically?
Not sure if the title is clear enough but i'm looking for examples and thoughts on this type of components. I looked through some single page websites but couldn't find what I was looking for right ...
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Is it common to have both horizontal and vertical scrolling for tables with fixed height?
I am working on a table of fixed height and due to the large data, I need both vertical and horizontal scrolling. Although, I am thinking that users might get confused.
If it is ok to use them both, ...
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2 columns of a list, 1 scrollbar - is there a better solution?
This section is part of a larger form. Image shows a list. The reason I have 2 columns, is simply because I think it would be a waste of space, to just show 1 column. Most people have wide screens. I ...
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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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Sorting/filtering on infinite scrolling data table
I'm creating an application where search results are being shown in a table and I want to implement infinite scrolling with fixed header and footer of the table.
But I'm curious to know if sorting ...
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Carousel with focusable items
I have a carousel with partial display of the items on the far left/right. Every item has a button to open additional information under the carousel (the item then becomes "active" with some ...
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Scrolling Checkerboard Background for Transparent Images
Almost all image editors have the following checkerboard background for showing transparent images:
My app lets users view transparent images (only view, not edit) with a background of their choice. ...
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good place to add recommendation section
We are designing an insight section where user can see all the critical status products or campaigns.
we are providing a "recommended section" at bottom of the vertical scroll page.
i have a ...
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Is it good UX to display web pages in a narrow, fixed-size column?
Nowadays most screens are wide and high-resolution, but when a typical web page loads it leaves on the sides huge empty areas. I understand that designers don't want their content to be messed up on ...
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iOS Mobile Scrolling Best Practice
My designer came up with this design which I like but the top part, what is a best practice to scroll here. Should the table cells go behind the searchbox, should we have a divider of some sort? What ...
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Data table horizontal scroll best practice
I've seen some similar questions on this subject and I want to ask anyways. In my case, a web platform I'm designing for desktop has a data table that has both vertical and horizontal scroll, and yes, ...
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Is it true, that Android vertical scroll is for information only? But how to scroll grid, that is full with actionable content?
Vertical Scroll on Android is rare. https://www.tutlane.com/tutorial/android/android-scrollview-horizontal-vertical-with-examples has animation of one such scroll and Microsoft Outlook web application ...
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Is it right to use horizontal scroll to show information related to the same content in details page
I have a Mobile app for recipes, the user can click on recipe to see its details, in details page we have image, title, tags, ingredients, and steps for preparation.
So my question is, is it right to ...
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Design patterns to indicate status on infinite scroll pages
There are several questions regarding design patterns that apply to infinite scroll such as What's the design pattern at the end of infinite scroll? and also What are best mobile navigation ...
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Drawing attention to rows below the fold on a list
I'm designing a feature that highlights certain users on a list. For this i'm considering using an (!) icon.
However, the list is long and requires scrolling. there will be users below the fold that ...
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Your thoughts on double scroll and double column form when needed
Hello, I have a problem with this wireframe display.
On this screen, the admin must answer a request (the form in the left) on the app. His response is also a form (the form in the right), where the ...
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How to display long cell names with large amounts of data in a table
I am currently working on a web page which has large amounts of data.
The main issue is the Agents on the left, have really long strings, and so do the User Queues at the top, going across the page. ...
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Have the attitude changed the last ten years on horizontal scrolling on web sites?
Often cited usability guru Jakob Nielsen wrote the article “Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes in 2002” and placed on no 3 Horizontal Scrolling as a Web Design mistake with the motivation:
Users hate ...
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Should vertical scrolling be always enabled in iOS screens?
Two of my colleagues think, in iOS apps, vertical scrolling (irrespective of whether the screen has UI elements or content like pictures etc..) should always be enabled on iOS screens. Even when there ...
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Horizontal scrolling or show more?
I'm working for a company and I have to make a section of a webpage that includes projects. They have 72 active projects and they want to show all of them in cards. The functionalities that include ...
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UX Patterns for Horizontal Scrolling wide tables [duplicate]
I'm working on a web app that functions more or less like a kanban with rows extending off-screen to the bottom and columns extending offscreen to the right. The solution requested is to add a "...
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Combining a variable size scrollable list, a fixed size scrollable form and a small fixed size non-scrollable form
I'm trying to design a desktop app and I have an Entity that has three "sections" for its settings/parameters:
a short section of 5 fields (text fields, checkboxes...) - probably doesn't ...
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On a board view with long columns, scroll by column, or whole board?
In a board view such as shown below, what is the best practice regarding vertical scroll?
By column
The whole board
And why?
Scroll vertically column by column: Trello, Asana, Airtable works with ...
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Browse a menu with scroll down [duplicate]
I would like your UX advices about a browse menu proposition :
Each entry of the top bar have many sub-entries placed at the left side menu. In this example, we have the "Publish" entry.
I ...
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Best practice for scroll bars in a browser on iPad
We have a web application which will be used also on iPads.
In some parts content is long and users need to scroll.
On a pc it looks good, however on iPad scroll bars disappear after a few seconds. (...
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Scrollbar on the left
Is there a deep study that suggests to place a scrollbar on the right? Personally I move it to the left whenever possible (Firefox allow this, as well as xterm and emacs).
I know that placing a ...
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Are there any natural/reverse scrolling usability studies?
I am wondering whether there are any usability studies out there regarding natural vs. reverse (traditional) scrolling. I tried to google the matter a bit and it seems natural scrolling took off with ...
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How usable are bars that disappear / reappear on scroll?
From http://usabilitypost.com/2014/05/24/the-scroll-up-bar/:
A design pattern that is currently growing more popular is the fixed
position bar at the top of the page. Sometimes the bar stays the ...
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Navbars that hide when scrolldown and show when scrolling up
I've noticed this trend on several popular websites (linkedin, Google+) and personally really dislike it. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are.
Basically, there's a navbar on the top of ...
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How can I prompt my site's users to scroll a table of data using (for instance) two-finger drag on their touchpad, rather than clicking the scrollbar?
I initially started off asking this question, on StackOverflow:
I want to know if a user's touchpad has multi-touch capability.
I think it's fairly trivial to detect WHEN multi touch is happening
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Are Scroll Bars Dead?
I recently heard a designer say something to the effect that modern web designs don't use visual scrollbars - or at least they're only visible when scrolling. I'm a front-end developer and hadn't ...
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Submit button placement on a form with long columns
This question is related to the Sticky submit button at the top and bottom of the form?, and Submit button on top of the long form but I consider has other nuances.
I have a form that is made only ...
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Ensuring user knows scrolling is an option
I have a div that sometimes contains too much text to view at once, and I need the user to be able to scroll.
My concern is that it's not particularly obvious that they need to scroll, especially if ...
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A better way to deal with scrolling inside iframes? [closed]
I have site A, a dashsboarding site, that we are embedding in site B. Site A is built as a single page application that cannot be auto height. It's intended to be 100vh height. I embed it in Site B, ...
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Carousel view vs scroll view
I'm working on a mobile app that allows a user to take a photo, add information about it, and then share it.
Would it be better to provide one scrolling view that contains all the information, or ...
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How would a designer describe the 'scrolling carousel' type behaviour on this homepage?
I see some interesting UI behaviour on this landing page which I've not seen before, I'm trying to do some research on similar implementations but I'm unsure of the appropriate UI terms that designers ...
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Smooth transition of site divider [closed]
On the https://gif.com.ai/ splash page there is a site divider on the left half of the page that when scrolled abruptly disappears and reveals a full-page navigation. To me and others this feels ...
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Horizontal scroll combined with infinite scrolling page
I'm designing blocks of content that scroll left-to-right on a page that uses infinite scrolling. If the user has scrolled through a section all the way to the right, what should happen when they ...
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Thin vertical scrollbars such as those in the Steam client are a usability nightmare. Why do designers still use them? [closed]
As an example I detest using the Steam client on a PC and have realized one of the biggest reasons is that scrolling the commonly very 'tall' pages is utterly painful.
Scrolling by clicking and ...
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Choosing a "Post Type" from a Grid and move to next step
When a user wants to create a new post, my app has a Grid with "Post Types" as the first step, and below the Grid, it has the rest of the form where users can type a Title and a Body.
When ...
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What should I use in a calendar: horizontal scroll or pagination?
I am working on a calendar in the system to be used on a tablet, and have a question:
Imagine that you are a store manager and you want to view the calendar (in this case by week) for 2 or more ...
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Favoring consistency over elegance?
This is a bit of a difficult question to explain in the title but hopefully it will make more sense after reading the question.
I'm in the process of designing a web app with a basic design ...
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how to reduce content scrolling without reducing a story?
This is what I came up with: (summarized version)
After finishing the page I got user feedback (design leaders from the UX community). The feedback that I got was that it lacked storytelling and ...
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What are the pros and cons with an overflowing horizontal scrollable nav bar?
On the team with designers and coders at my office, we're currently having a discussion about horizontal navigation bars when they overflow on mobile. This is not a discussion about using cards that ...
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Data entry template tricks user into thinking they are done entering all data
Background: Entity I'm working for uses a large number of data entry forms, somewhere along 800-900 range--partially due to regulation and partially self-inflected due to current process. The usage ...
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One scrollbar or two for content + sidebar?
I'm working on a website design and trying to decide whether to have the sidebar scroll independently of the page content, or have just one scrollbar control both divs. What principle should I use to ...
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