Questions tagged [web]
Web often refers to content on the internet accessed by a web browser.
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Users want to create tables with many columns and infinite scrolling rows - how do we handle this?
I have a situation where users are capable of creating their own searches on extensive data sets, using a query-like user interface. Our users come from a strong Excel background and are used to ...
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Designing for Healthcare website, what do you guys think it is the limit of clinic cards to show for each page? [closed]
So, I am working on a clinic search website where people can look for the clinics/hospitals to book the treatments they need.
I was wondering how many clinic cards would be best to show per page. ...
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Date picker showing by week, is showing the month necessary?
I am trying to design a date picker for booking an appointment, and I think that, the most natural way of choosing a date is not by a calendar (showing full month) but by showing by week. Currently my ...
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Examples needed: a toggle that shows a higher-contrast version of a site [closed]
Can someone give me examples of a feature that toggles to a high-contrast version of the website?
I am only able to find 2 live website examples:
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/?source=post_page-...
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What's the standard way to show downloading notification to user for file downloads that require authorization in web applications?
Our web application needs to enable secured file download by requiring HTTP requests to have authorization token.
Due to this, when user clicks download the file will be retrieved using AJAX GET ...
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What is the point of hiding a webpage until load? [closed]
I have noticed that whenever I go to namecheap.com, the page loads abnormally. Instead of the gradual loading like most websites, namecheap stays completely blank for a few seconds, and then suddenly ...
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Should I guide the user in their account set up? Designing for web
So, I know that when designing for mobile dividing processes into steps makes the user feel not so overwhelmed by the amount of options/fields that are required. Does this hold for web development?
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How to structure dashboard with schedule
So, in my current design I have something like this:
I have a dashboard that has a menu with a couple different options. In the 'home' option the user can see a schedule with their appointments if ...
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Does the 980px screen width rule still stand?
I work with a graphic designer, she was asked to create a full width slider images, she asked me about the screen width, I said I don't know it varies, she wanted a number to use when designing I ...
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Need explanation how Clear input button accessibility works
I've a text input with a clear button (looks like "x"). When clicked, this button will remove all the text from the input:
The markup for this looks like:
<label for="first-name">First name&...
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Sidebar with letters
I saw this today on Dribbble.
I would like to know what the technical name is for that sidebar with letters? If one was searching Google for that, what would one type?
Also, can this be implemented ...
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Is there a specific name for these graphics?
I have been tumbling the internet for some time now. I cannot do web design even to save my life, and I was thinking to change that. I have seen a lot of these simply looking web graphics, that seems ...
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Is it common to have multiple apps open, on one web portal?
Is it common to have multiple apps open, on one web portal?
And is this anyhow different if it's not apps, but models (machine learning models)?
Models run within the portal container.
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Is it common practice to use separate identical images of different resolutions for different screen sizes? [closed]
From a design perspective is it more common to use different size images for say desktop and mobile or is it more common to use the same image for each and display them in different size using css or ...
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Is it a problem if my form takes up twice as much space in web form than it does in the desktop application?
I am trying to migrate some forms from a desktop implementation to a web implementation, which should still primarily be used by desktop users.
Currently, we have a generic out-of-the-box theme (the ...
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How long should I wait before animating the navigation bar in/out when the user scrolls?
I'm currently working on a new design for a site and I've encountered a problem I've never found before.
I want to collapse the navigation bar up when the user scrolls down to increase available real ...
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Whitespace versus content
Given a larger amount of content (e.g. a table of data or a list of fields and options in a form) that absolutely need to be on a website, would it be better to space it out so that scrolling is ...
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Responsive Scheduler
I'm designing a simple scheduler in which I don't need any information except days/hours, no calendar information, no titles, no description, just days/hours.
The scheduler consist in a selection of ...
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Why are different border radiuses used for elements on same site?
I've noticed that a lot of websites use border radiuses differently for different elements. I've noticed some patterns, but I'm not sure of them.
I noticed a lot of them use completely rounded ...
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How would I convey the information that multiple options can be selected, and just one can be selected as well?
So, this is what my scene looks like:
How would I show the users that they can book only one service, or more than one? I wouldn't want to make a clickable '+' instead of a book button that adds it ...
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How to drive users to allow pop ups on browsers
We're having issues with Popup blockers; preventing some paying clients from seeing the expected dialog.
To combat this issue we either want to add a small line of text near the checkout button that ...
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Help text for pressing buttons on the web
I am reviewing some help text on a web page that says...
Press Submit button to submit the form [blah blah] or press
Cancel to return to the previous screen.
Although they're using the <...
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Select elements in the sidebar, which is better?
So, my friend and I are building a web app and we were having a little argument. We need to have two select elements in the sidebar and one of them is not relevant to a few pages. Which of the ...
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What's the tradeoff for using an icon driven navigation?
It seems a common theme these days for the UI design of many web applications to use icon driven navigation (so fixed sidebar on the left consisting of only icons for navigation)
Wondering why this ...
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Get the user to accept Terms & Conditions when signing up with OAuth
The register form I'm working on allows the user to sign up using their Facebook account or to create a new account by typing their email and password. Here a mockup:
Currently, clicking on the ...
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Mobile – Does a close button need to be on the same x-axis as the hamburger icon?
I have a mobile menu using traditional mobile menu. Due to a long logo, we've placed menu items below. Is it inconsistent that the hamburger icon does not sit on the same level as the close button? ...
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'Yes to all' or 'No to any' with multiple individual questions - The best way to present to the user
I have list of approximately eight questions that need to be answered on a form (yes/no). If the answer to any of these questions is 'no' then the user is taken to page x, while if the answer to all ...
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Why do coupon/deal sites open the merchant's homepage after revealing a coupon code?
This is something which has always annoyed me a lot and also confused me from a UX standpoint. It stands out to me as an example of a very poor UX decision that I see constantly.
When I'm browsing an ...
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How Do I Encourage Users Best to Download An Application from a Landing Page? [closed]
I do consider about the best experience about the getting more conversion rate from a webpage of ours. Is putting phone number field to send the app is best or putting app store buttons? Which one do ...
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Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting purple banner?
I'm part of a MediaWiki site called D&D Wiki. Among others, one of our longstanding issues in the public eye was our failure to label clearly enough that certain pages are categorised 'Homebrew', ...
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Reasons for seemingly inefficient design of Evernote login process
Evernote's login form works like this:
When you go to their website, there is no login form. There only is a form for registering. If you enter your login credentials into that form, it won't log you ...
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Black & White Web Design (UI/UX Wise)
One of my client(He has a SEO agency)need to design a website with blog. He want 100% black and white design. That means text, images everything are 100% black and white.
Is there any UI/UX research ...
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Why do web browsers keep showing the old page when they load a new page [closed]
I was wondering why web browsers keep showing old content once a user has clicked a link. It's confusing if one doesn't look at the loader(which is generally at one corner and thus can easily be ...
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Override browser shortcuts
The company that I work for is suggesting that we override browser shortcut CTRL + S in our single page app to apply changes (save). It's a complex editor so autosave would not work for this ...
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How can I replace 3 cascading dropdown menus?
I have a big form where the user must select a category and a location, each have 3 levels, user must select the first option that enables the 2nd and then the 3rd one. Each dropdown have at least 5 ...
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Phone number click to call on desktop?
I'm designing a web flow in which one of the outcomes is to call our support team. On mobile, this is simple enough as pressing on a phone number triggers the alert below.
However, I'm not sure what ...
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Should we provide form navigation in 2 step forms?
It is said that multi-step forms should have form navigation in them. But is it also needed in 2-step forms?
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Best way to ask a question about how users got to the webpage?
This would be in the form on a short online survey where users will see it pop up some time after they land on the page.
I want to know the exact traffic source from which a user lands on a specific ...
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where to use secondary color in web design while applying 60-30-10 rule [closed]
I have searched a lot but not getting the idea of
using secondary color
as per 60-30-10 rule in web design...
Where to use secondary color in website???
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Multiple prices for multiple countries
I'm working on a multiple countries project. Until now, we only sold to one country, but we're working on letting users from its neighbour country (speaking the same language) buy our products.
For ...
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Are there any good web accessibility training courses/tutorials (online)?
I'm looking for recommendations for online courses on web accessibility. I know the actual guidelines are out there, but my aim is to find a survey of guidelines and best practices in an easy-to-parse ...
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How come there's no standard way to submit a web form with the keyboard?
I know that in general you can hit Enter while focused on a form field to submit a form. However certain elements like selects and textareas break this behavior. How come we don't have a web standard ...
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Should a button or link translate on hover?
Sometimes I see websites using a pattern, where a button or link translates (for example 5px to the top) when hovering it.
See an example in that SO answer
Is this a good or bad thing to do, UX-...
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Indicator for a context action menu on gantt bar
Current Situation:
In our SaaS solution for portfolio management we have several actions that are context dependent, e.g. delete a project. Those actions can be found on the element itself, e.g. the ...
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What is the best way to tell users to scroll down in browsers?
what is the best way to tell users to scroll down in browsers?
Tests showed, that users do not scroll to the original message (which they need to answer questions):
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Why is sites i18n often based on the users country and not the preferred language in the browser?
Often when I visit corporate websites they obviously have i18n. Often the chosen language they will display is based on the country I am in, NOT what I have set as preferred language in my browser.
I'...
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Search panel in condensed area or listed
I have a web form where I show filters and result pane.
For the moment (1st picture), all filters are grouped into an area, like in 2 vertical columns. I use chosen for select lists.
The suggestion (...
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Can we use “Continue with Email” instead of signup/login?
I was working on a product and while making the signup/login buttons I thought of providing the Continue with email/social instead of login and signup buttons separately.
Will it affect the cognitive ...
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buttons and tags treatment affect UX of product? [closed]
I have seen so many treatments of the buttons and the tags capsules using the soft radius, sharp corners and sometimes with a full radius like in this image.
so these treatments are brand dependent ...
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Multiple scrolling, dragging in modal/popup window. Good UX?
Had a discussion with the stakeholders regarding the things they require and they suggested to convert the product's modal window in the similar form the WRAP is doing(Open any image just after one ...
