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Progressive disclosure on multi-selection interaction
I have a screen where the user can select between 3 options. These are multi-selectable. However, each option has specific settings (minimum 3, maximum 8) for it. How should this be displayed?
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Animations and complex graphics required?
Hey guys I need some suggestions, I am developing a domain website on health care where specialists surgeons doctors who treats specific health problem. Is having animations,sliders, gradients makes ...
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What is recommended spacing between controls for a fat finger friendly interface?
I have tried searching anything related to fat finger friendly sized controls and spacing between. I could only find that it is a common rule to make controls at least 44 pixels big (from what I ...
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Sidebar positioning on mobile - review form
I'm updating a review page where users are asked to leave feedback on their recent course purchase.
Students who purchase courses on our site don't instantly get access to their course.
Some users ...
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Is it more common, or best practice, to design several web pages to fill out user profile data or one page divided into sections? [closed]
I notice that a site like LinkedIn feels overwhelming and clumsy to me when I'm trying to update my profile. I would guess that LinkedIn would hire some of the best developers in the world, yet it ...
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How to display a user’s score overview when values often tend towards the maximum?
At the end of the day, my users get a score ranging from 0 to 100 depending on how healthy their meals were. 100 being the perfect score, most users following a healthy diet get more than 80 every day....
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Can a contact form be too short?
So we all know how much users dislike completing forms... even when it's to get to something they see value in. We're told that, in a general sense, the shorter the form, the better the chance of ...
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How to overcome feature blindness
I work on a product called AwesomeAds, a marketing platform that specializes in kid industry where users can create an ad campaign and monitor the performance of their campaign (engagements, budget ...
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Best way to ask frequently used infromation?
I have a requirement for a web form (desktop) where user is asked to enter "Three Frequently Dialed Numbers (Last 30 days)". What would be the best way to handle this? Three different input fields or ...
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Allowing users to select all items except few
I have a list of country names (eg below)
I want the user to be able to either select a few countries or, select all countries except a few.
Now, this can be done using a select all button by ...
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Should I use bulk action or allow individual actions on the Dashboard?
On the dashboard, I have an "Actions Required" section. I would like some feedback about user behaviour when being affected by length of time and number of items to manage.
In the "Actions Required" ...
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Having a preview next to text editor, should it be on the left or right side?
I'm trying to design an email text editor that has a preview window next to it. Should the preview be on the right or left side of the editor? My reasoning is that the preview should be on the left ...
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Tabbed form - horizontally stacked sections
I have a product edit form that i've broken into tabs.
General information about the screen:
This is product edit screen; creation is handled in other place. When on this screen, all products will, ...
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Master/Detail ux logic with update/create [closed]
I am trying to wrap my mind around optimal ux logic and cant get to something i would be satisfied with.
I have thousands of entities which will never all be shown on the screen at once but there ...
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Facial recognition - Given the context, should the user be made aware of the process?
We are designing an application for iPads that are stationed in tech support areas. We have implemented a facial recognition capability, so that when you tap a button it begins analysing your face and ...
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Should we lock UI?
Traditionally, a rule of thumb for designing a responsive UI is that the UI should never lock up. However, with some record editing patterns, allowing the user to edit what's on screen is pointless ...
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How to prepare a high level plan for a 1 week Design Engagement
I am trying to prepare a high-level plan and approach for leading a 1-week Design Engagement for a Healthcare company, with a use case focused on improving the experience and outcomes of patients who ...
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Showing (binary) availability on date picker
I'm working on a system which uses a date picker to reserve a date in the system. The specs are:
Dates have two states: Available for booking, or not available.
You can only book one date at a time.
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Type of control for a non-interactive widget
I have a set of inputs whose type can be changed, and one of the input types is read-only. What's the best way to represent this in a cross-platform manner?
Right now I went with a disabled button ...
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What's a good way to show a slider that also has on/off toogle in an app?
I am working on an app where a user can dim the lights in a room. However, it is also possible to turn them on and off.
I have three different concepts:
just one slider where the left is off too. ...
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How to represent small data on a progress bar?
Say I have a file scan and after it has complete we want to display the files infected vs non. How could I go about representing this without the data seeming so minuscule within large file quantities?...
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View time range selection on datagrid with limited space
I have a datagrid that shows realtime data. How ever, Users should select to see if they want 'Last 5 minutes' data or 'Real time' Data. I did this using radio buttons, however it doesn't fit and is ...
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Multiple selections field for touchscreen device
i'm trying to find an intuitive way to display a multiple products selector.
The user has the possibility to select multiple product in the following screenshot.
The problem is that most of the ...
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0 in count field for number of rows to display per page in a table view
I have a count field in my page whose screenshot is attached.
When I enter 0 it lists all the records and doesn't show the 0 in the count field.
What is the standard way or user satisfactory way to ...
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Cross reference between tabs, a bad practice?
It is known that in-page links can be confusing, but also are helpful to easily navigate through page content.
For tabs, there are some design guidelines too. A good article is this: "Tabs, Used ...
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Correct way to associate user with tags, and ways to properly add them?
Context: An environment where users have a suite of various products at their hands, containing information about hospital patients. The people using these tags tend to be physicians or technicians ...
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Nesting checkboxes inside a radio button: Is there a better way?
I'm building an application that allows users to fill out a self assessment of their business. We'd like to give users the ability to print their work with a few options:
Print all questions/...
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Show/hide actions when the user doesn't have permission
I'm working on an App where users can see or edit an image.
My question is about user permissions and what to show to the user.
Users can have view only or view and edit permissions.
I have 3 options ...
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How to mark dependent fields while updating rest of the fields?
I'm working on a B2B application where huge numbers of fields (up to 100) are divided into ten categories.
Please note, fields are grouped into different categories but impact each other.
like:
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Defined used for the icon: three vertical dots
Is there a defined use(s) for the icon
I have seen various uses for it, but I would like to know if there is a standard purpose for it - or if it can be used as a shortcut for any function needed ...
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Where to place my summary row
I am currently working on a event scheduling page and I am not sure where to show the summary of the event scheduled.
I have shown it on the top right corner but I feel it can be shown in some other ...
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Why my chats are shown in right side? [duplicate]
Here you can see my today chat history:
Yeah, the blue colored are mine.
Why these are right aligned?
Is it because of most people are right handed or earlier chat app implemented this way?
I'm ...
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How should one handle Register/Login when they are both identical flows?
I am building a website where the only login option is Stack Exchange. As a result, it doesn't matter if the user is registered or not, it's easy enough for me to create the same workflow for both, ...
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Where should I put the Options button? [duplicate]
I've noticed that almost every Windows application has it's Options dialog accessed from a different menu and item name.
Here is an example of some of the programs on my computer, showing where the ...
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Is it okay to generate popup from toggle switch?
For one of my page, I am going to use a switch for a yes or no question. However, that particular question requires a confirmation popup if it the switch 'turned on'. Is it appropriate in UX view?
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What's the best way to let users adjust values that must sum to a certain number?
I have four values that are a percentage of a whole, and I want the user to be able to edit these values. These four numbers must sum to 100.00 (any precision after that is unimportant) and the values ...
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How can I design these badges so they are associated with quantity and not "todos"?
Background
In the image above you see my sub header which has a few links. The header is shown when you're on a customer profile.
I want the user of the site to instantly get feedback regarding ...
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At this point, placebo buttons are still helpful for users in web design?
I had this question related to the redirect buttons. Some apps or websites need time to save data before making a redirect or load some content. Usually, action from the user can't help. In these ...
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"Customer" or someting else?
Now designing an app for two sided market - for interpreters and their customers. So there would be two sections - for interpreters and for customers. I have stucked a little bit with the titles in ...
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How to optimize user onboarding for an app without a login
Designed an app to help users quickly create printable user personas. The app doesn't require a login, but rather a unique url is created which allows users to to view and edit their personas later.
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Android app filtering UX problem - How to combine tab filters with date filters?
I hope to get some help for the following problem..
I have a following ux:
It's pretty standard Android Material Design style toolbar.
User can search entities, and also filter it by swiping ...
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Is it a "Natural language" form a good practice?
A good UX for a form is one that makes it easy and fast to use.
An experimental form like this, that uses natural language instead of the usual form display seems to be simple to use and creative, but ...
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tabbed navigation is too nested
I do not like the nested 'tabs' although my requirment is to put the 3 tabs in the administration tab as it belongs there. I have also thought about a vertical schoolclasses/weightedtests/...
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Asterisk * is used for required. Is there any symbol used for optional?
It is common the use of asterisk (*) to indicate required elements. I understand the use of explicit text is better than relying on symbols. So writing "required" or "optional" is more understandable ...
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Should I hide action buttons or let the user press them and then show a message
I have this user interface where the user can batch edit/add/delete Test Types and their weights related to a subject/schooclass combination.
Each test type belongs to a test.
There are actions on ...
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Complex form: Accordion + vertical navigation menu + back/next
I have seen some wireframes from some colleagues asking the user to fill out some very complex forms.
They have seperated the forms in "sections" (which is a good idea). Further they introduced a ...
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Should Design Always Be New? [closed]
Whenever I design something, I keep in mind that it should be easy to access,
but I feel that I am not creating something new.
So is this normal or should I always design something which is new or ...
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What is the use of Google’s "Google Search" Button?
I'm sure whenever we used to type a keyword in the search bar of Google, the Google changes its search bar UI and the search button become useless in the home page.
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Have clickable elements been a default cursor?
We often get a confusion whether to use hand cursor or default cursors for buttons and other clickable elements.
If you consider iCloud and Onedrive both are having their native and web Interfaces, In ...
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Label for input type email in a form
Is there any UX consideration for the label for an email,some labels that i could think of are:
Email ID
Email Address
Email
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