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Nav Menu - Navigation & features exposure - which is it?
I have worked on both Webapps and application software for last few years now. Whenever I look up to strategize the menu for the application, there is a subtle difference and a confusion that I see ...
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"Not finding what you're looking for" UI component on every page - where should I position it?
I'd like to add a "Not finding what you're looking for" section to each page on a commercial web site, with guidance what the user should do, if they had not found whatever the had been ...
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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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When to use segmented tab and tabs?
Question here is when do we segmented tabs in the design vs when do you use horizontal tabs in design?
Segmented tabs
Horizontal navigation
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Is it a good idea to have a back button go back if the link is the same as the previous history entry?
Let's say you have a website / app where there are user pages, and on the user page there are additional links for things like that user's awards or posts. Something like this:
The issue I'm having ...
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What is this new insane trend to remove the "order by" feature from websites?
In the last couple of months, two major websites I use have removed the entire basic feature to order the list of items in any way other than by "relevance", if it even mentions what it ...
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What is the most popular shortcut used for custom in-page search on a web site?
I am looking to use javascript to trigger focus on a search field inside a web page when a keyboard shortcut is pressed.
People dislike it when ctrl-f is overridden, because it prevents the user from ...
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Why do many modern web apps keep adding back functionality?
Is it really creating a good experience if we implement the back button inside the app? If yes, then how? I was unable to understand why users wouldn’t like to use the browser back button. Many new ...
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Nested sidebar behavior
I have a nested sidebar that goes 3 levels deep. I would like the interaction to slide left/right:
So in this example, if you click on "Jobs" in (1), (2) would then slide in. My question is,...
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How to battle for UX over Marketing with regards to product navigation?
We just completed some card sort and tree test exercises.
One of our main nav labels was clearly more successful when using the label most commonly suggested by our study participants (which were ...
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How to balance user-led vs. user-centered design when it comes to navigation labels?
We just completed some research with card sorting and tree testing. Two of the categories were consistently labeled the same by a large percentage of participants.
It seems to make sense to name the ...
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Labeling and using links that have alternate Spanish translation
I need to convey to the user that a link presented in English to a site or doc is also offered in Spanish. What's the best way to show this? Visualization through parenthetical (Espagnol), a flag?
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What's the best practice for screen navigation after invalid user input? [duplicate]
Consider an Angular app with many user inputs over screens A, B and C. Screen C needs valid inputs from A and B; B from A only; and A is independent. Suppose while on screen B the user enters invalid ...
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Breadcrumb and search behavior
How should the breadcrumb menu behave when entering the sub-page via search autosuggest?
We have a global search and this kind of breadcrumb structure: Overview > Company > Group > Person. How should ...
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An icon to tell users that a button opens a modal or popup
When a link on a page directs to an external link, we use an external link icon
Ref: Should we tell users that a link or button will open in a new tab or window & how to do so?
Is there a ...
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Dynamic home screen, looking for a better solution
I really didn't know how to name this question.
The problem is that our app should show a different home/start screen depending on the state the user is (Searching for a job/ inside of a recruitment ...
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Display logo twice in Material design menu
Is it a bad design to have a logo twice in Material Design menu, One with collapsible mode and the one when the menu is expanded as below?
Since I make the logo two places here, our marketing team ...
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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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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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Should the tab bar be accessible on sub pages in a mobile app?
I've just joined a team as an UX / graphic designer developing an app for iOS and Android. The app is already in production, and I'm working on implementing new functionality and tweaking the current ...
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Is it alright to combine Profile and Settings?
What do you guys think? Is it alright to combine Profile and Settings in web application? This is quite common approach in mobile apps. Reason to combine these two is to keep the header simple. Not to ...
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Better word for contributing content
I'm working on website that heavily features user-contributed content.
I currently have a link titled "Contribute" that leads to a page explaining how a user can help, in the form of adding new ...
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Task Completion Status: x/y versus "In Progress" "To Do" etc?
We are creating an UI element to show task completion and are leaning more towards showing a number of tasks completed as compared to the words.
e.g.
"0/3" v/s "To Do"
"1/3" v/s "In Progress"
"✔" ...
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More intuitive navigation solution
I'm doing redesign concept of iTunes and decided to display primary navigation option in the center. But when device is connected navigation gets more complicated so I have two options, the first one ...
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Sidebar navigation for a website section - OK to include redirects to other sections?
I am adding content to a website that has the following hierarchy:
channel > section > page
When you view any page, there is a lefthand sidebar that lists all the other pages in the same section.
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What is the best way to point the user to another page within the app?
For example, after paying for an item, there's a receipt or a QR code that the user would need to access in the near future (imagine booking a cinema ticket and receiving the ticket with QR code).
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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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Another word for "History/Comments"
We have an application that shows the routing history (for a workflow) of a document, as well as comments that a user might have made at any point of that documents workflow.
For example, a workflow ...
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Why was the "Airport" icon chosen to mean: "radio emissions on your device are disabled"?
I am amused as I drive around nowadays and see "Airport" icons on blue informational signs and I have cause to think: "Well, no WiFi or Bluetooth there!" That is probably what children are thinking. ...
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How to structure the contents of this view so that it is intuitive? [closed]
I have a circle tab implemented which looks like this.
By default, it lists the circles that I'm a member of. When I search, it lists all public/private circles matching the search pattern. Removing ...
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Hamburger Menus [duplicate]
I was developing a personal website i wanna know this
or simply Hamburger is better
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What are the best practices regarding the usage of both horizontal and vertical navigation that duplicate the same menu items?
The reason I ask this is I am in the process of doing a competitive analysis of four websites and two of the sites duplicate the same menu items on both their top navigation (drop downs) and left-hand ...
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Communicating to user that content is associated with a specific record?
Lets say a main page provides navigation to two sections: Doing X and Doing Y. Doing X is associated with a single record, however, Doing Y is associated with zero to many records. Upon clicking Do ...
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Breadcrumbs and Page Titles
Keep in mind that there is a GLOBAL navigation that sits above the top of this page. The screenshot you see is the top left of the page. Below it is where the page's content sits.
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What do you expect to happen when you click, Reset All? [closed]
Above we have a Date Picker, Filter, Reset All, Export, Email and Sort option.
The function of Reset All applies to the Date Picker, Filter and the sort arrows below.
So what do you expect to happen ...
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Do I need to show a selected state in main navigation?
I'm working on a large, content-heavy website with multiple levels of navigation and was having a discussion with the designer about selected states in navigation. She said that since we have ...
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Contest-List: Separate site or simply scroll down on homepage
My webapplication concept is all about some kinds of contests in which users can participate. Each contest has a minimal amount of information that will be displayed while viewing the list. As for now,...
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Female Lifestyle website
A SITUATION - I am making women's lifestyle website & there are several categories. For example, Beauty, Style, Health etc. Users can browse content related to that topic. Content will be of 3 ...
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Linking a parent section link straight to child section
I have a parent section titled "Campaigns" with two children sections titled "Rules" and "Results". When the parent section is clicked in the drop down on the right (please forgive the rough ...
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Should you use hamburger / hidden navigation on larger desktop sized screens? [duplicate]
I've seen a lot of sites hiding their nav on desktop and simply showing a hamburger-esque menu. Obviously this looks more "minimal" But I can't help to think this isn't the best approach from a UX ...
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Is a list of records page needed?
I will be building an application to create simple websites. The backend user will be able to add, delete, and modify the following:
Users
Pages
Menus (can be added to pages)
Widgets (can be added ...
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How do I indicate that clicking a button will remove their search results?
This is about a complicated application that holds 50 years of archived data. Some things are illogical and we can't change it because it's stuck in 50 years of rusted customs. But slowly I'll try and ...
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Help with chat feature
I'm building the chat feature for a web project. We have a couple of specifications:
Support for general messages that will be broadcasted to all users subscribed to the room chat, and for that I ...
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Menu link in a users perspective
This is probably a silly question but I'm going to design and develop a site for a bakery and me and my partner are having doubts about a link's text.
The page About Us, at first I thought of ...
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Navigation / Information Architecture
In the application I am designing, I have 4 entities, customers, contact, employees and organizations.
Each of these entities has their own profile.
Within each of their profile's there is an ...
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How to hide main navigation?
I'm designing an application where the main nav is on the left. This is because there isn't enough space if I put the main nav on top (to fit both the main nav and the utility nav).
So this is how ...
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Should I adopt infinite scrolling or classical pagination?
I own a Single page application (web) displaying a list of items.
Each item represents an announcement, imagine for example some bids.
A user can list the current bids, and click on one of them ...
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How to balance navigation menu hovering lagginess and usability?
I'm building a navigation menu with many icons.
Hovering one icon, will expand a different sub-bar while hiding the others.
The delay I've choosed of 180ms is to avoid the users to accidentally change ...
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Is the back button in Windows 8 apps purely chronological?
The back button is ubiquitous in Windows 8 ("Metro") apps.
What exactly is its meaning? The Microsoft apps I have seen and the Visual Studio page templates use the button in a chronological manner (...
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Use of Mouse-Over Paragraph Marker in Headlines for Permalink
I haven't really noticed this before, but it seems there's some fad where a headline on a web page would include a mouse over paragraph marker (¶) that links to a named anchor for the headline. If ...
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