Questions tagged [selection]
All questions involving the selection objects to be acted upon, including contiguous selection (e.g. strings of text), multiple selection (e.g. checkboxes), and single selection (e.g. radio buttons).
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Autoselect lower options - effective design patterns
I have series of options that I currently render as checkboxes. However, the options themselves "stack" in the sense that selecting one, should auto-select all the options below it.
ex. If we have ...
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Best UX practice when grouping items from one list to another
I have been given some rough wireframes for a screen where the user needs to search from items on the right and assign them to a group on the left. Once items from the right have been assigned to a ...
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Multi-select Dropbox
how should I handle this multi-select for luggage selection. if I remove first bag the next step with throw an error. I was thinking should I only allow the user to delete the last item added or if ...
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When performing a bulk edit on a table, how should changing the filter on the table, affect previous selections?
If a user wants to "bulk edit" a table and makes some row selections, then changes the filter during selection, should rows that have been previously selected (but can no longer be seen ...
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Using a single text field with auto type detection in an app
So we want to increase the number of accepted fields in our app of which people use as identifier to transfer to. We currently have mobile number and email , however we intend to increase to add ...
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What could I use instead of these pill drop down selectors
I am looking for a alternative way to display multiple options for a user selection.
The user selects a part and then must select a choice of options which populates a table.
I tried with 'pill' ...
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"Shopping Cart behaviour" for selecting rows in a table?
I'm currently struggling with the design of a table that would allow the user to select rows/items from a filtered/unfiltered table (probably with a standard checkbox column) and then still keep this ...
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2 steps process in side-panel
We are designing an e-commerce website where our client is a marketplace for merchants to offer discounts or great prices on services/products to end users.
Some merchants may give multiple options ...
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Select a lot of items (checkboxes)
I'm working on a game where users can have a lot of items (50-100k). The items are stored in a database, they are all unique because they have metadata (achieved time etc.).
We would like to allow the ...
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Is it permissible to toggle selection of items in a table with a single click?
I am working on an (existing) desktop application UI that has a feature where the selection in one table drives the content of a second table:
Table 1 shows a list of notifications, Table 2 shows a ...
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How to indicate selectability in an information-focused list
My first question, let me know if I should edit!
I'm working on a list-map hybrid, where each item on the list can be selected, to show up on the map (like Yelp).
The list needs to give a fair ...
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Multiple select with filtering and select all
I have an issue regarding UX for a popup that allows selection of multiple items with filtering. This is the current one present in the application :
Users wanted to be able to select all elements (...
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How to show correct and incorrect answers to multiple answer test?
I'm in the process of converting a paper-based test to an online one. One particular test is giving me significant pause for thought. It's a multiple answer, "check all that apply" question ...
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How to best showcase selected state of visually important elements
I'm creating a feature to select profile badge – how might I best showcase the selected state?
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Selection state position after selecting/onload
I'm wondering for a UI element like this, where users can select an option, what should the on-load positioning be? Should the selected item be first? or should I have a divider for selected and the ...
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how should the "select all" select when paginating elements
Suppose I have a list of 100+ pieces of data that I'm displaying in a table that's paginating 40 elements per page.
Each row has a 'select' checkbox enabling the user to select/unselect an item. On ...
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What is the best UI element for selecting OPTION 1, OPTION 2 or NONE? [duplicate]
I am designing a very long form with around 40% of fields being a dropdown with options:
[NOTHING SELECTED]
Enabled (On / True)
Disabled (Off / False)
The [NOTHING SELECTED] option is important, ...
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Microcopy for conditional options
I am designing a chart where users can select a basket of products, and then view the prices for their selected items in a particular country.
Using a dropdown, users can select which country they ...
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Basic question I know but what is the different between this dropdown to select with up/down icons rather than a dropdown with a chevron?
I have seen this a few times and never really gave it much thought. Why does it have an up and down arrows or how does it behave differently than a regular dropdown.
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Is there a specification for OS-default mouse and keyboard text navigation and selection behavior?
On desktop platforms, each OS has a (relatively similar) set of behavior for text input navigation and selection. Some simple things include moving the cursor left, right, up, and down when tapping ...
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Best approach to having a sort, select and set of action buttons on a table row
Okay so I have a bit of an odd table to achieve and I'm unsure on the the best UI/UX approach to go with.
I have a small table of files, usually at most there would be about 10 files, one of the ...
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Are software filters ambigous?
In the physical world filters can filter something and:
A) I'm interested in what goes through, what is not filtered out:
air/water/coffee/oil/..., signals in electronics, light in photography, etc. ...
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UX Pattern to make it easier for the user to fill many different select boxes
We have a web form and the user is required to fill in atleast 5 (maybe more) select boxes. Our current UI layout (see below image) looks like alot of work to the user. Are there different UX Patterns ...
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Sticky button but only after user made a selection
I'm designing a screen where users have to:
Select a day
Select a time slot
Click a "Confirm" button (which is disabled until the user selects day and time).
I didn't want to make the ...
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Best way to make an "easy, medium, hard" picker
I'm trying to create a website where you can get questions based on different settings. One setting is difficulty. For now, let's just assume that I have divided a lot of questions based on difficulty:...
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Modifier keys to use for group selection/panning/magnification
I am developing a desktop web diagramming app in which the user can pan the ('infinite') background to move it relative to the window, drag over boxes ('nodes') to select them as a group, and hold ...
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How to name an option in settings that allows free input in a list (select)
In the settings of a web application, admins can select "custom fields" of different types: number, selector, multi-select, etc.
We added an option that allow user (not admin) to type their ...
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What is the best way to communicate a required selection within in data table?
Currently in our (enterprise) UI, there are tables that have required selections. Typically, these tables have hundreds to thousands of objects. In one case an action is to be performed against these ...
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What are good UI patterns for selecting exactly two items from a list?
In a piece of desktop software, I have a around 20 items.
These items should be shown in a list, which fits on the screen.
The user should be able to select exactly two items in the list, then, a ...
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Best way to show users that they have to select an option
So, let's say you have a user who receives a code for 2FA (BC 12345) on email that starts with 2 letters and is followed by 5 numbers. They will be prompted on the website with 3 options (AB, BC, CD) ...
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How to allow incrementing of multi-select options?
As part of a form field, I want to allow the user to specify 0 or more options. The user should be able to select multiple of the same option if desired.
This can be visualised in a typical multi-...
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Hover vs. selection? Which one should have higher emphasis in a visual editor software?
My team is working on an email design software that features a drag-and-drop interface that offers very sophisticated drag-and-drop experience compared to others.
It enables users to drop elements ...
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What is the best way to show results of a multiple-choice quiz where multiple options may be right?
I'm designing a multiple-choice quiz interface where several options might be the right ones and the user has to check all of them in order to win.
Once the user submits the answer, I want to display ...
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How to keep list of selected items when search / filter / facets change - without taking up too much space?
I'm designing a multi-page/step wizard/flow where one of the pages needs to focus on findability and extensive filtering options - but also selecting (or deselecting them across searches).
Since the ...
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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
The ...
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Is it a good user experience to prevent user from deselecting an item from a dropdown if it is required in a form?
Before I ask my question, I feel like I need to provide some context.
The application that I'm working with has a form for executing queries. This form has the following components:
inputs and ...
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Should selected options be removed from single- and multi-select dropdown lists?
In our application we're working with dropdown lists that may contain many options (sometimes around 200). Usually, these lists allow the user to select multiple entries whereas in other places of our ...
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View state (read only) for checkboxes and radio buttons
Let's say there's a panel with some information in a View state. If the user engages its Edit mode, everything becomes interactive. Some of the interactive components are checkboxes and radio buttons.
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Select menu with only one option
I have a form that contains a select dropdown that requires the user to select from a list of locations.
However, there are instances where there is only ONE location. What is the best way to display ...
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Custom select component with filtering
Custom select components are seen everywhere these days due to the limitations of the native HTML select element. Ignoring the virtues (or lack thereof) of select components (c.f. https://gerireid.com/...
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Enabling fields in general section (at top) based on details selection (at bottom)
Is it bad UX to display/enable or mark mandatory fields in the general section (at top) based on details selection which is placed at the bottom?
If yes, what are the options we have in this situation?...
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Mixed alignment (LTR and RTL) in language selection list?
Most answers to this question say that for instance Arabic text should be aligned right-to-left even if the rest of the page is in a left-to-right script such as English.
So, I was surprised to see ...
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Filter without an "Apply" button behavior
I have a filter that will automatically display the results without having to click on an "Apply" button. This isn't going to be an issue with our system since we're able to display results ...
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Select value A, value B, or both [duplicate]
i'm having this form on a mobile app where i need users to select either: value A, value B or both.
it's bit of a and/or selection issue.
For now I think of the very basic solution, but wondered ...
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Select box "Other" option in dropdown label [closed]
For dropdown options that have an "Other" option that will then display an textbox, what typically is the label for this textbox? Should the label be Other?
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What is the name for those UX paradigms: "multi-selection → action" vs "action toggle on/off → selection"?
Supposing desktop application where multiple elements can be selected, and operations can be applied to them:
Text editor: several characters can be selected, and bold/italic/underline applied.
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Tune the radio or tune in?
I'm in doubt whether I should use buttons or radio buttons combined with a single button.
I could go with the buttons, as shown below, but I think this confusing.
Another option would be the radio ...
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To scroll or not to scroll
In a mobile app that I am currently developing one of the first things I do is secure a shortlist of the user's interests. This kind of input is not unusual - I recall seeing something similar in ...
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One label for multiple fields?
I'm not very familiar with the accessibility and I need help for situation where I have multiple field and every field has same question. Is it ok to put all field under one label? For user who can ...
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Good way to select a few items out of several dozens ones
The company recently sent a survey that featured a view that asked me to select up to 10 attributes out of a list of 60-70 ones. The selection list was displayed as big toggleable buttons, about 10 ...