Questions tagged [web]
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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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'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 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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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 does *data* show to be the best way to write hyperlinks in article text?
Here are some possible ways to embed a link in a sentence within an article. (The intended link text is just bolded here, rather than actually linked to something.)
"A good first step is to perform a ...
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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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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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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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Does it ever make sense to use curved shadows on flat objects?
What's the rationale behind styling flat/straight boxes to cast curved shadows on flat/straight surfaces?
Image credit: http://cjwainwright.co.uk/webdev/liftedcorners/
Sure it makes the object ...
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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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Subject field in Contact form
Should the Subject field be required in a contact form? When I design a UI for a contact page on a web site, I have a form for emailing. I always have 3 fields on this page: Name, email, message. Some ...
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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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Navigate web menus with keyboard on small screen?
I'm tasked with finding accessibility concerns on a webpage. The site has a main menu at the top of the page:
When the user's screen is wide, all top level menu items are shown in
a single row. When ...
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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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Does adding a click count next to a hyperlink enhance the user experience?
What is the main purpose behind Discourse's link click count?
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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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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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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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What is the usage rate for users navigating form input fields via the 'tab' key vs. mouse clicks?
On my current project, we are debating the usage of replacing input fields (checkboxes, radio buttons, and select dropdowns) with styled choices via javascript. However, it breaks the support of ...
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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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What would make screen readers better at browsing the web?
I recently built a browser extension like Vimium that lets you browse the web with just your keyboard shortcuts. While building it, I came to realize that it has great potential for helping the ...
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Is it acceptable to open a modal popup on top of another modal popup? [duplicate]
On the web, is it wise to allow a modal popup (B) to be opened from another modal popup (A)?
If modal popup B were to be closed, the user would again be viewing modal popup A.
I am asking as I can ...
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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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Does a URL fragment identifier have a bad effect on user experience?
In this link from CSS-Tricks, it's claimed that using the hash sign in a URL for linkablity purposes is not a good idea, because browsers will scroll to the item which has its id mentioned in the ...
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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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Make user aware that he cannot enter arbitrary values into textbox?
In my current web project I have a textbox where the user can enter a bid for an auction. However, to prevent bidding of arbitrary sums, only certain values that match predetermined intervals are ...
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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 ...
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Hiding header, navigation, footer when printing
When printing the informational content on a web page, I do not want to print the navigation, menu, header, or footer. I would want to include the URL of the page so that I can find it again (and ...
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User needs to paste clipboard data into website with CTRL+V, but the data they paste will not be shown to them. How can I make this intuitive?
I am changing a form where we have users paste some data from clipboard (copied from excel) and fill out a few metadata fields about the data.
Previously in the design we were able to have a button ...
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Best practices for keyboard navigation for web based data grids
Can some one please tell me Keyboard navigation of Web based Grids?
My aim is to know how to work with Keyboard while working on any web based grid control.
For example:
Tabing, up and down arrow ...
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Is it ok to change column width upon paging?
I have an issue with a table with pagination that doesn't have fixed column widths. I've been discussing with a colleague whether we should put fixed widths or not. So the approaches are:
- Columns ...
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Grid: Generic filters Vs column level filters
I had a case where there is a view and on that user can apply any filter.
Once filter is applied > it affects all the tabs present in that view.
Is this approach right.
Check this image
Or should ...
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Improving the UX of my "Hire Me" card [closed]
I've created a "Hire Me" card to display on my website and am looking for some feedback.
Live Demo
What I want to know:
Is this a place where I can use a 'ghost button'?
Is the font readable ...
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File Browser Download
We provide a service to synchronize devices with our server.
Every device has a file browser which is accessible through HTTP.
Possible actions are: Download, Delete and Rename.
Delete and Rename ...
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Is there a better suggestion for web design container width?
So we know the majority screen sizes research already,
But what are the optimal max-width suggestion for the container in each of screen sizes?
I can only find a suggestion report like this,
from ...
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How to enable users to insert an infinity number
I am designing a web page which give admin users the opportunity to manage the users below them. in one section of this admin page, the admin user is required to fill out how many queries he permits ...
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A word which contains the concept of both Tags and Category?
I have a page which represents all posts based on filtering in category and tag(s).
As you know, each post has one category and multiple (or one) tag(s). Now I'm talking about a page which lists all ...
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Nested Dropdown alternative for User Skills in web
I have a searchable dropdown from in which user can add their skills like below :
In the example, "Office Software" is main category and items below this are subcategories that user selects to as her ...
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How should "Refresh Data in Dropdownlist" look and behave (not for mobile)?
I have a dropdown list with data in it, and I want to give to the user the option to refresh the data in the dropdown list after he adds or deletes data from the database.
How should "Refresh data in ...
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How can I make a mobile app responsive for desktop? [closed]
I am trying to make a desktop version of a mobile app. But not sure how to fill those full width cards to a desktop app.
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Design range (sensitivity) bar intuitively
I am building a website that includes a page that has a search input and a sensitivity bar near him that allows the users to control over the amount of results returned and their accuracy.
The site ...
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Is there evidence to suggest that designing tabs within tabs creates a bad user experience?
I'm designing a complex web application and my colleague believes that using a tab panel is a bad idea. I'm more ambivalent.
Can anyone point to any evidence (anecdotal or research-based) that could ...
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Menus under Menus
how do people feel about menus within other menus? I have the top menu which distinguishes between Individual Students and Groups, then the group name.
And THEN two sections which how the students in ...
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Allow a user to like a post without having to log in?
I got into an argument with two people who insisted that users do not have to log in to like a blog post. Is this okay? I'm sorry if it seems a silly question, but I was really concerned with the ...
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Expandable grid interaction
I am designing a grid and need to accomplish two actions when clicking on a row:
1) navigate to a detail page for that row information
2) open an accordion "drawer" with more information.
I am a ...
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