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Is combining filter and search a good idea?
I’ve been struggling to design a history log. My goal is to include a search button for quickly finding specific entries and a filter option to narrow down data based on specific criteria. My main ...
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Indicating scrollable overflowing content - dark ui
As one can't indicate that an overflowing container is scrollable with a (dark) shadow gradient at the bottom of the element, what are desirable options to do so?
We are looking for options without ...
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How to initiate designing a iPaas Product from scratch? [closed]
As a Product designer working in an iPaas company, I have worked on various features of the product. On both the scenarios like designing a new feature and also improving the existing features. The ...
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Seeking Help with a UI Pattern for Segment Selection in Analytical System
My team and I are currently working on developing an analytical system that employs a segment-based filtering mechanism. In essence, this system shares similarities with Google Analytics, where ...
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Stepper - max. item count
I currently have an annoying discussion with one of the business guys as he wants to turn a freely configurable tool into a stepper. First of all the tool don't have mandatory steps, it's more like a ...
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Show included dates in a matrix/table
I’m stuck on that problem since last friday.
I work for a white-label company. My task here is to display multiple date ranges concerning cancellation fees based on the number of days before the ...
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Confirm Dialog after swipe to delete
I am building an application where I have a vertical list with cards and I want to delete a single item from the list by swiping left. Nothing wrong with this, right?
Well, these items are "...
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What is the best method to choose between two options in UI?
What is the best method to choose between two options - toggle, dropdown, radio or segmented button?
For example, the two options I have are 1. horizontal 2. vertical They are mutually exclusive.
Eg:
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Should a feature be made available as a toggle button (related: Feature Flags)?
I'm designing a new feature.
It's been proposed that we make this feature a toggle that the merchant can turn on/off at their discretion.
I’m curious to know if features should be made as a toggle.
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What is the repeated, blurred image background called?
I have a card component with a photo. I don't want any portion of photos to be cut off, but this means narrow/vertical photos will have empty space to the sides.
I want to use that blur tiling often ...
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Where should I redirect after filling a "creation" form?
HI hope y'all doing well
I have an app where users need to create different items.
There's a page that displays all the items created that as a "Create new..." button.
The user's path:
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Should user simply be able to upload a PDF?
I'm working on an application where a user can submit an important document that contains information we need from them. The information contains details such as - event name, event location, duration,...
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Should the "open new window" icon ever be the only way to click a link?
I have a request from a user to remove the link from the text and ONLY have the "open new window" icon be what is clickable for that link.
The reason is that the text is something he wants ...
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CTA on mobile screen that prompts another CTA
I'm currently designing a mobile screen that has a floating CTA bar at the bottom of the screen (see picture below).
The issue that I have run into is that the "Inspect" CTA at the bottom of ...
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Apply theme customization on a financial app [closed]
I am designing a UI design for a financial app, can a user apply different themes to change between colors of the UI, so what themes are best suited for this feature?
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How do I best show the format that's allowed for an input?
I can restrict the input on the front-end to certain values or make it match a regex pattern, but the user might be confused about why they can't input certain values unless it's communicated to them ...
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Standard style for text that opens hover tool tip?
Is there a standard style for text that opens a tool tip upon hover?
E.g. "Learn more" text where the user hovers over it and it opens a tool tip.
Someone on my team had mentioned displaying the "...
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Order of arrangement controls for Back/Front Backward/Forward
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A discussion came up in my organization where we're looking at the conventions for ordering the Forward/Backward and Front/Back buttons for our desktop application, which runs on Mac, ...
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How to ask for user's birth date with OAuth?
I'm developing a site that requires a user's birthday (both to validate they are over 18 and for use by other users).
Asking for a birthday with an email registration form is trivial. Simply just add ...
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Making the user pay attention to what's on the screen instead of having him press next next next
I work on a fitness and recovery app which has an on-boarding process which requires the user to position 2 sensors on his body and pay attention to some small tasks on the screen (like put the ...
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Multiple steps each with a tasks vs one step with multiple tasks (for the user)
I am sketching the user flow for a new feature of a fitness/medical recovery application that is using hardware sensors to monitor the way the user is performing certain fitness exercises.
In order ...
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Prepare a user to perform an action before proceeding to the next step
I am designing an application that allows the users to train at home.
I have a step (let's call it step 1) in which the user must be in a position in order to "sync" (step 2) with the app for the ...
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Multiselect dropdown where selected values cannot be deselected on edit?
I'm trying to find examples of a multi-select dropdown where once the form is saved/submitted, the selected values cannot be removed but, new values can be added.
Currently, I've designed it to work ...
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Change main screen/section of product depending on user progression with product
Is it possible to create a product where the main section (where users land after login) changes depending on the progresses made by the users with the product?
I'm currently working on a career ...
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What is the best color to differentiate male and female?
In my app, when a user doesn't provide his / her avatar, I would like to display a colorful circle with the capitalized first character of his / her name. Let us assume, that if an avatar (face ...
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Why do users misunderstand the recycle bin as archive?
Today I faced yet another user misusing the application's recycle bin as archive. When I offered him to empty it he went angry because he "always did so" and didn't want to lose his mails. The first ...
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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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How long can a loading screen be before it starts creating a negative user experience?
Loading screen originally were intended to distract the user from the fact that they have to wait for technical requirements to be fulfilled.
Sometimes we see them used as a tactic by apps and ...
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What's the best way to display sentiment options?
I have a sentiment rate functionality. What is the best way to display the options? Start with the positive or negative one?
I have a star rating as well from 1 to 5, if it matters. Is it strange if ...
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Does the location of "main buttons" affect usability?
Here we have Meta Stack Exchange:
The "Ask Question" button is part of the "search results" group. Could this possible confuse users? Should site-wide "main" buttons always be placed on the header ...
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Should we anticipate when the user is asking for the menu when we hide the navigation on scroll?
A lot of websites nowadays, admittedly more so in desktop view, (which is now seen by fewer thanks to the world of mobile) hide the navigation bar when you scroll down. This is a good thing as it ...
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When should an inherited design pattern be avoided?
I'm currently working on a fairly old product that has been partially reworked 2 or 3 times by different teams. This has left the interface somewhat fragmented with different design patterns used in ...
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Primary/Secondary button placement pattern
Button placement has been a debated topic at within my UX team recently and I am for feedback or direction to research that states a solution. The problem I am trying to solve is where to place ...
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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 type of pattern is this called?
Recently I've across some website and they were using this pattern. What is this pattern called? PFA image.
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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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Image Compression, Server or Phone?
Say a user wants to change his profile picture and uploads his 1920*1080 1mb picture.
That picture I want to process into 2 new ones
One "HD" Version, which is still quite good, but file size ...
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Is it possible to use a Card component also for edit
On our UI, we are presenting the user his saved credit cards as a list of Card components, each saved card represented as a card.
The user can save up to 5 cards which will be presented in two rows, ...
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Best way to show a subset of fields base on use case
I am rewriting a user interface for an application that generates licenses. Currently the interface is one page with all possible fields and check boxes for licences/license combinations. The goal is ...
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Redirect screen and good UX?
Yesterday when buying some cinema tickets I got this kind of redirect screen, which I have seen other times before (specially when trying to reserve seats in a theater):
Leaving aside what could be ...
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What is the purpose of zippers with double sliders in cases?
I noticed in most cases from medium to big size there are usually double zippers. These don't normally appear in small cases. What is the benefit of double zippers in contrast to single ones?
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Are there best practices on using rolling vs. historic timeframe in generating business reports?
I'm working on a reports dashboard for IT Admin users. I need to make a UX recommendation on date range for the reports, and am trying to understand what is best for these expert users: Rolling data (...
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How to make text look *not* clickable
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I am currently building a textbook exchange website as pictured below. During beta testing users kept trying to click the three snippets of text under the logo ("6 books listed," &...
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Are checkboxes with crosses (instead of ticks) safe to use?
Would you consider checkboxes using crosses instead of the standard ticks OK to be used in UIs?
There are several CONs (being easily confused with close or delete crosses and wrongly implying there ...
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Is there any research on the usability of the pull-to-refresh gesture?
While the original thought behind pull-to-refresh was to take advantage of the scroll motion, which a user would use to see if any new messages appeared at the top or bottom of the list, to refresh a ...
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Sharing link to software installer
When sharing a link to a software installer what is the preferred UX pattern, to share a link to a download page or a direct link to the downloadable executable?
Using GIMP as an example...
GIMP ...
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Should there be a preview screen after uploading excel?
If user is uploading an excel
which is containing 100s of records,
and each record may have 35-45 attributes
we would like to show them a preview of data which they are uploading before they ...
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Backgrounds Color For Primary Menu and Secondry Menu [closed]
I am designing the statistics tools which will have it's Dashboard filled with multiple floating tiles showing accurate data as per user's need.
Apart from that we have primary and secondary menu,
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Research behind current design patterns? [closed]
Recently I have found that so many websites are starting to look the same (logo left, menu right, nav floats, big large cover image (blurred e.g.), flat light design.
Outside of these just being ...
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