Questions tagged [structure]
a fundamental notion referring to the recognition of patterns and relationships of entities
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Header Alignment on centered page layout
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Current page layout stretches across the screen, as this was overlooked in the past due to a small team. I'm looking to fix content width and stretch first and last column of the grid system ...
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Can you have a visual hierarchy and a semantic hierarchy within the same design?
I have headings of different sizes for components that are the same hierarchical level to emphasise certain components. The font sizes that I have got do not match the semantic hierarchy. Is this ...
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What do you refer to the feature for creating a category tree as?
I'm designing a module for managers to perform administrative operations on fleets of buses they are assigned to. This includes the following parts,
Manage buses: add, remove, update bus details
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Signaling an update in a tree structure
I have a tree structure that can periodically update ( meaning adding new elements inside the tree structure ). These updates can be performed at leaf level so I'm not sure where to signal that there ...
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Folder Structure vs Filter Parameters for Accessing Historical Documents
Do we need folders or a paginated list with filter parameters (Time-range, file type, etc.) to easily access the historical data such as invoices in a cloud repository application?
With a folder ...
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Single or multiple form field(s)
Consider an application where a user can make a list of people to meet during the day, and share that with a colleague/secretary/etc. It is something between a todo list and an actual calendar.
So ...
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Is there any research on the behavior of lists in rich text editors?
Lists involve a number of behaviors which seem inconsistent among most popular rich text editors in the market (Medium, Word, Google Docs, CKEditor, Froala, Wordpress classic, Wordpress Gutenberg, etc)...
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Structure / blocks order on a shopping cart page
I'm working on a shopping cart page. I designed it following the idea of a progression (order > delivery > payment) so already entered informations are summarized on the left, and new ...
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Multilingual sign boards for public and private structures in USA [closed]
As there are many languages spoken in the USA, do you recommend to have multilingual sign boards created for parks, zoos, museums, restaurants, stores, libraries, offices etc?
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How to manage many level navigation before the main operation
I am designing web application which needs 4 levels to manage the flow charts which is the main purpose of the application .
The structure is something like this:
Company names - folder
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Separating vs Bringing Together - Software Project Knowledge Base
I am building a website with Atlassian's Confluence to fulfill these goals:
Document a complex project with multiple websites (Product Management)
Train non-technical staff to use it Store APIs, ...
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What's a good way to design a menu in which some menu items are dependent on others?
My company likes to design interfaces with side menus that look like this:
The problem with this design is that it allows the user to click on links like "Profile" before they've selected which ...
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Duplicate links in a navigation structure
Does anyone know of any research or studies regarding usability concerns of duplicating links within a navigation structure? When I say "duplicating links" I mean repeating a menu item within the ...
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UX and UI in different teams
I am looking to get some advice. My company are looking to split the UX designers and UI designers up. The UX designers would be sitting in their own team while the UI designers would be sitting in ...
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iPad walkthrough screens have too much whitespace
I am designing a walkthrough right now for a iPad app, but I ran into the issue that the page has too much whitespace. The page will have a large header text, an icon/illustration and a button. There ...
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How would you explain the difference between layout and structure to business people?
I'm working on an article to help email marketers understand how email templates should be built-up. I would like to clarify the difference between layout and structure as clearly as possible.
How ...
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Good usage of top AND left hand navigation?
I am trying to build a page that has search, a profile, a few pages and many sub-navigational pages within those pages. I was thinking of doing drop-down menus along the top, but felt a left side ...
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Web UX: what are the practices of content segmentation without sub-menus?
I am thinking on the following task:
I have a document with the content for the web-site.
Document is structured with Level 1 headers. Under each header there is relevant content.
One of the top ...
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How to tell a user about an option to move file out of a folder?
In my web app, I have a file/folder tree structure.
I want to give a user ability to move a file out of a folder into the 'root' of the file/folder tree. So the file won't be inside of a folder.
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Is a tag based system a better UX than traditional folder structure?
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We are a manufacturing company that deal with mainly aerospace, automotive, and assembly type customers. Our users have been using a network folder structure for as long as I have been ...
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Configuring a hierarchical structure with inherited attributes
The information model of my application consists of a hierarchy of objects (one to many), each has its own specific attributes and inherited attributes. For each inherited attribute in an object, user ...
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Subpages or single page [duplicate]
What are pros and cons of using single page with anchors vs section with subpages in menu?
I'm asking in context of "About us" section where we have such information as: basic facts, offices, team and ...
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Restaurant daily menu - days to show
I'm currently working on a minor redesign for a restaurant/pub website. This restaurant serves a daily menu, which means that it changes for every day.
On their current website, the menu is always ...
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How to allow two actions per list item?
I'm developing a mobile application which function is basically to let the user fill in forms. What forms and how many different forms varies per user.
Obviously, the primary function of the app is ...
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two dimensional list with multiple values
We are developing a web applications for e-commerce use when for a list of countries we have different vendors list sort by priority of that vendor.
the maximum lists of country is undefined, it can ...
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Pretend a structure to write guides?
I am creating a website, where users are able to create guides for a video game. Since there is/could be a strict structure for the writing of the guide, I am not really sure if I actually should ...
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Is the folder structure dying?
In our digital world we have previously been forced to know the location of digital content. The obvious one being the local hard drive or a shared file server where sometimes extreme structures have ...
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Online courses: Open structure versus Closed structure
I'm building a simple course platform that uses content like articles and videos as the building blocks of the course. You have to learn the content in a chronological order to make sure you ...
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Improve Design for Master/Detail View
I'm trying to put together a design draft for a UI in a business application that will allow a user to view a list of documents that will be published to recipients in one or more departments in a ...
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Displaying N levels of organisational hierarchy intuitively
I need to display top-down hierarchical data in a web browser that represents the geography of a large organisation. The data looks like this (except the actual list is enormous with 8000 staff across ...
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Click *Show More* to get one more option
Lately, several companies that I have seen have a show more button which simply shows just one option. An example of this can be found here:
https://getadblock.com/pay/
Would it not be simpler to ...
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How do I handle duplicate content in the site structure?
I'm working on the information architecture of a new website and have an issue about duplicate content.
I'm looking at having 3 main sections where users would go into 1 of the 3 sections depending ...
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Solutions for changing user habits from a tree to a flat forum thread structure
I am trying to change the habits of forum users who are familiar with a really messy tree structure to the more common flat structure.
The forum is to get a relaunch but without shutting the old ...
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New website restructuring, deleted resources on other sites [closed]
We are doing a complete overhaul of our website a fresh install of wordpress and new theme. In the process we will be removing everything from our root web directory and starting fresh. Over the past ...
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Do people really read parallax scrolling homepages?
First, let me define what I mean by parallax scrolling homepage with a few examples:
Google's Nexus 5: http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
Sony USA: http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/
Koa Water: ...
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What's the difference between [website.com/directory] and [domain.website.com]?
And when is it better to structure your website's content one way or the other?
Note that I have seen there's already a related question, Domain Strategy From a UX Perspective, which has some great ...
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How to help a client evaluate a sitemap
I'm currently working on a redesign of a very large/complex website with tens of thousands of pages and hundreds of contributors. The new design requires a significant departure from the current site ...
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Web App Sidebar - Under Page Header vs Next to Page Header
My current sidebar setup looks like this:
The sidebar is present on multiple pages and can include:
section ('employees' is a section) specific information (lists that section pages have in common)
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How do you arrive at a information architecture from a mental model?
We have created a mental model for a large website redesign project. We are in the process of mapping content and functionality to task towers.
While I understand how it gives an indication of what ...
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Does an "Other" category on a Help page have any value?
When designing a Help page or FAQ that is broken down into categories, is a category titled "Other" useful, or does it indicate a poor information architecture?
Sometimes there are truly items that ...
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Massive menu on website, how to solve it?
I must change the following menu in some web site.
This menu contain almost 30 items!
Screenshot:
Any idea?
Categories:
Home, Games, Leisure Children, Openly Software, Recipes, Study Lessons, ...
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Issues with Tabbed Layout
Larger View
Here's a screenshot of something I'm currently working on. I decided to use tabs at the top because filling in the "Office Details" is just as important as the list of employees ...
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At which point do you have the sitemap fully worked out?
Reviewed the project plan for a redesign I'm working on which was put together by a project manager and not informed by a UX'er. The project plan asks for the site map deliverable to be documented ...
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Working out the site navigation
I've been tasked with a corporate website re-design. The first thing I did was a content audit. A column in my audit was 'content type' I went through every page of the website and recorded the ...
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Website redesign how do you know how to organize the navigation structure?
I know this question is extremely broad but I would like to know the steps a UX'er would take in order to understand what content there is on a site and then how to organize this content in terms of ...
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Why do we always need to integrate search with structure?
Jakob Nielsen posted in May 2009 an article called “Top 10 Information Architecture Mistakes” where he states that mistake no 2 is not having an integrated search with the structure of the site. I’ve ...
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Alternative to 2 tab bars in iPhone app
I am working on an iPhone app. I am in the early stages of designing the structure.
I will be using word department as a node in the information architecture structure of an app.
I encountered a ...
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Whare are the best structures for defining different levels of products or services
What types of product (or loyalty) structures provide the best user experience when choosing between different options or prices for a product / service?
The types of typical structures, rankings and ...
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What's the best way to present multiple many to many options in a form?
I'm working on a web app where the data is structured as follows:
CLIENTS may have one or more CONTRACTS
CONTRACTS may have one or more CASES
CASES may have one or more CLIENTS
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How should a small team approach the redesign and relaunch a large, complex intranet? [closed]
I'm embarking on a redesign of a corporate intranet. The project will likely result in a complete structural overhaul of the site. However, the project team will be relatively small.
This poses a ...
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