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How to Design a Space-Efficient Upload Component for Multiple Document Types with Click and Drag-and-Drop Options?

I'm working on a form that requires users to upload multiple documents of different types. Currently, our upload component is taking up a lot of space, and I'm looking for suggestions on how to design ...
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Are there any guidelines for using the auto focus (programmatic focus) on a webpage by WCAG 2.0?

Regarding ADA compliance and web accessibility guidelines like WCAG and WAI-ARIA, is there a specific requirement recommending the auto-focusing of input fields after service failure error (not a ...
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Redesigning our searchbar

Our users are having trouble with our search bar. They don't realize they need to click the search icon to start searching. To make it clearer, I've come up with three solutions: A. Replace the icon ...
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How to implement a fixed "submit" button on a long form

So I have a configuration menu and I want to add the "submit changes" button fixed to the bottom right corner of the screen. My issue is, my configuration menu options can expand past the ...
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Apply for a card: in a new page or on the same product page? What's the best user flow?

I have to design a product page for a credit card (it's a banking website). The page consists of info regarding the card, the fees, the rewards, security details, etc. My question is: what would be ...
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User's expected behavior when uploading files before submitting

Problem: I have a form that has a couple fields, but also asks for the user to upload files. Potentially, the user might upload multiple files, so we are saving them (kinda like saving drafts), but ...
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Hiding vs showing an error

I have a form that allows internal users to select from a list of subscribers to send emails to. Each subscriber has their own set of preferences as to which emails they want to be subscribed to. For ...
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Field only required during Edit mode

I have a form that allows the user to add a "Location" for a particular entity. Each location should have an "Assignee." In that sense, the "Assignee" is required, ...
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Neckbeard dev seeks answers to form accessibility brief: conditional input zones on ∞ rows

Forgive me for having a bit of difficulty articulating the UI and design goals that I've been handed, but I need to appeal to the hive mind to find out best practice re usability and accessibility for ...
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Position/order for "Low", "Medium", "High" options

Is there any convention about positions/order to display options buttons/radio- buttons/checkboxes for values as: "Very low","Low", "Medium", "High", "Very ...
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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 all options appear on a view screen? [closed]

I'm designing screens for a business web app. I have view and edit modes for records, with each mode having its own screen. Should I display all options on the view screens, but with the widgets ...
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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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"Did you mean" search results

Problem: This UI allows the user to add names of people (with matching User IDs). The problem is that, there has been many instances where users accidentally add people that already exist, resulting ...
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Delete value in a modal

I have a page that contains a section that has a button for the user to assign a contact. This button will bring up a modal that has a field where the user can input the contact's name. Adding a ...
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What is the best way to make sure all casing is uniform for all titles in our platform?

I'm working on an internal app that requires users to input very long titles that almost always includes people's names. These titles are obtained from legal documents where many times, it would ...
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Repeat password field necessary in a signup page? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why should we ask the password twice during registration? When designing a new and simplified signup page I got into an argument with a colleague about the necessity of the "...
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Should hitting the ESC key close a modal that has a form?

Typically, when you hit the ESC key, that closes a modal. But if this modal contains a form that the user needs to fill out, that would mean that hitting ESC (sometimes, inadvertently) closes the ...
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How to make it look like search results have updated?

I have a site with a search bar. When a user enters a query in the input field and clicks the submit button, front-end JavaScript searches some JSON and returns results based on their search. In this ...
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Where to put a Map on the Contact Us page?

I’m working on a Contact Us page and trying to keep it minimal with only 3 sections (in order): Map Contact Us Form Footer Does it matter if it is: Contact Us Form Map Footer? Edit: I have removed ...
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UX/UI Solution for Having an edit on one component be reflected on all components? (Google Forms Study)

I'm currently building a form editor and I've been looking at different editors (Typeform, Google Forms) as inspiration and competitive analysis. There is a specific pain point I'm looking to address. ...
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Exceptions to Enter event in forms

I notice that a lot of modern UI components, specifically chip input fields allow a user to hit enter which adds a new chip. Google’s material framework also has an enter event for adding new chips. ...
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What's the best approach to display a month/year filter?

I'm working on an application that allows you to filter your files by month and year. This is what I have so far. As you can see, the "Apply" button is disabled if fields are empty: But ...
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What is the best practise for a Search button state - should we always keep search button active or make it active after user inputs?

I have seen that in some sites they always keep " Search Button" in active / enabled state even if input fields are empty. Is it a correct way or should we make it enable only when user selects / ...
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Ways and instructions to tell a user to intentionally miss a multiple choice question?

I'm currently brainstorming possible solutions to this UX question. In a multiple choice activity (not a quiz/form), if a user correctly answers a question, before they move on to the next question, I ...
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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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Form fill by viewing document on same UI

What could be the best UI desing if we need to provide a user a single UI where user can view the document uploaded at the backend and fill the form by viewing the details available in the documents. ...
Sophia Wilson's user avatar
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Common input boxes to register and login with separate buttons

While working on the registration/login page for my mobile app, I came up with the idea of combining the two into one. On clicking register, users will be taken to a new page to fill rest of the ...
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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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For chicken-and-egg apps which require a network effect, should I try to delay my user from noticing early on that there aren't many others?

For example, in my user registration, I can let the user pick preferences for other users, similar to a dating app. If those other users get filtered out, this introduces the possibility for the user'...
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Introducing inconsistent controls: is it appropriate for the sake of usability?

We're building a web application based on Material UI. Throughout the app there are select components, which behave like shown in the example below: The default label informs about the functionality ...
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Passwordless flow: What to do when user enters an invalid email when logging in

I'm planning to make my app passwordless and I've seen sites implement things differently when one puts in an email they haven't actually used for an account on the site before when trying to login. ...
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How to inform user that value of form field was removed?

We have some background processing on form and in the result, some of the form fields can become null. So how should information message about this action look like? The best option we have "The value ...
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Designing a mandatory input field with options

Are there any guidelines on how to present a mandatory input field which can either take in user input or be generated for the user? (Example - A mandatory promo code field which can both take in ...
Ashwin Nepal's user avatar
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Asking users how they heard about us

When is the best time to ask the user the question, "How did you hear about us?" We haven't fully decided how to best phrase this question, but how do you bring this up contextually to a user? We'd ...
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Should you show current state or the state it's about to change to for password visibility? [duplicate]

I'm exploring the idea of adding a hide/show icons for password visibility. I understand we can just use the words "hide" and "show", but if we were to use icons, should its current state be shown ...
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How to convey the user that some of the form fields cannot be changed later?

I have a form wizard some input fields. On the first step of the wizard, there are 2 checkboxes which once the form has been submitted, cannot be edited. All other fields can be edited later on if the ...
Ashwin Nepal's user avatar
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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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Best way to indicate usage of 'points' to offset an amount?

I'm having a bit of a dilemma on how to properly do the interface for using points to offset an amount. Let's say I have 5000 points in my wallet. Of course, I need to indicate that I have 5000 ...
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Retaining a value after hiding and un-hiding a field

We have a screen when we hide/disable a comment field based on a value in some dropdown. For some values of the dropdown the comment is shown, for other values it's hidden. For example, imagine a ...
Jaroslav M's user avatar
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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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What's the best way to inform users the results of their UI selections before they make the selection?

For example if a user is going through an online request form and must choose from a long list of industries, forms, job roles, types of jams, whatever but some of the items result in a different UX ...
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How to best inform users that a monthly process includes today

I have a dropdown where a user can select a date they want they want to auto pay their bills every month. For example, if they choose the 12th, every 12th day of the month they will be charged for the ...
Michael Balmes's user avatar
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What is the best way to show two questions in a single screen.

I'm working on a questionnaire, part of a web app. Until now the admin could form a questionnaire with different question types and rearrange them accordingly. Now it is needed to add the following ...
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How to make users feel comfortable signing/authorizing legal documents online?

I'm struggling to find UI/UX examples where the user is prompted to click a button and do something legally binding or something very significant and important - such as sign a contract, agree to loan,...
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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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Personal Details Form - Gender Options

I'm currently looking at a refining our new customer sign up form (ecomm site). Due to all of the recent coverage and greater acceptability of different/none genders - how would it be best to ...
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Most User-Friendly way to show password-protection options

I am currently creating a platform where users can fill-in online forms, one feature is that they can save the form and return to it at a later date, with the previously inputted data pre-filling it. ...
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Feedback about stepper design

Quick disclaimer: I'm not a trained or an experienced UX developer and am still quite new to a lot of the concepts. However on the current web project, I am working pretty much designated on UX and UI ...
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Form behavior when "clicking off" to close a dialog

I have a website where the user will be able to see charts created based on filters that they have chosen. At the top of the page are several filter topics that, when clicked, expand a sort of dialog ...
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