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Progressive disclosure on hover - Best approach?
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I'm the sole product designer for a company with a product built around selling "knowledge packages" for getting your company on a better spot financially, fiscally, or productively....
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Workflow steps with configuration setup UI
I have an application where users can setup workflow steps. The workflow setup is a editable table with a field for configuration. The issue I have is with this field. This field has some JSON snippet....
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Card Interaction to open side panel
I am designing a responsive UI of a web app which has information displayed in cards. So is it advisable to display additional information in a side panel/side bar on clicking on the card in desktop ...
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Should I issue a toast when something is copied to clipboard?
I'm working on a web-app with a button that copies some text to the users clipboard when clicked. I currently don't throw up a toast since I feel it would be excess noise (it's quite a simple copy ...
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Right way to show hours spent on project - with or without h:m
I'm currently involved in a project that focuses on tracking the time spent by team members on various projects. We are facing a dilemma regarding whether to include the 'h' notation in the 'Work ...
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Arrangement of info on overview view vs detailed / edit view
My client's site is essentially a collection of forms. When fully expanded, it is very dense. They have broken the info into categories (for simplicity's sake, let's say there's a "personal info" ...
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Multiple Navigation Options
I'm facig kind of a problem having to many navigation layers, my next step it's to try to reagroup some tabs but basically my client wants something like that.
What do you think about it? any ideas?
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What is the term for large photo modals? Is there anything better than "lightbox"?
What is the best term for a UI showing large image or image gallery in a modal?
Two common use cases are e-commerce sites and photo galleries.
The first term that comes to mind is lightbox as the ...
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Alternative UI design to provide access to multiple users
Problem: Part of the application has access to only specific users. Eg View only, Add item, and edit. Only admin can give access.
I have already tried toggle buttons and check boxes. Wondering if ...
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Can a visual concept hinder an understandable navigation?
Anyone who has read anything about graphic design will know the strength of blank space as a compositional element, whether as a design itself, as a concept, or as a style, such is the case of the ...
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Hiding layer of player controls automatically after audio playback ends
For our app (media guide app for museums), we are implementing an "inline audio player", which should look like this:
When the user clicks or touches the gray field, the control bar below ...
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Autoselect lower options - effective design patterns
I have series of options that I currently render as checkboxes. However, the options themselves "stack" in the sense that selecting one, should auto-select all the options below it.
ex. If we have ...
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Summarising a multi-value row and multi-value column comparison data table? (best practice for data table clarity)
I'm looking to create a table that is elegant (visually intuitive), logical and comprehensive.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Rfc6vopO1pNv1BX6eS5X6ergBzX4HnSnj9B2P2tu0ZA/edit?usp=sharing
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Are numeric "steppers" or "spinners" on text fields simply bad UX?
Call them "steppers" or "spinners" or "spin boxes," but we've all seen and used these things:
Now, in a touchscreen environment this type of control might be useful, if ...
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Multiple tabs vs multiple menu items
I am in the process of designing a new settings part for a section of our Saas. With my non-ux team, we are discussing wheter we should change the overall navigation of this section by removing the ...
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Rationale behind the Material Design (M3) color system of interaction states
According to the documentation here, interaction states (hover, focus, pressed etc) are represented by overlaying an additional state layer on top of the container:
The state layer is an overlay with ...
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Best way to have user choose between units of measurement
What's the best and most intuitive way to have a user choose what units of measurements to use throughout the fields he is filling out ?
I have a form with several steps. And I was thinking somewhere ...
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How do I know which measurement units to use for which elements in CSS?
My question why would I ever NOT use percentage for sizes? got some good feedback, some good comments and some good answers.
They told my why not to always use percentages, and even when certain ...
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Hiding or showing upcoming functionalities
We are developing a data-heavy site and I was wondering, how should we present (or hide) upcoming functionalities. Let's say in a form an option which will only be available later. Or a button that ...
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Choosing between two UI variations
Assumption: I assume no user testing could be done, and implementation decisions should be made based on the logic and available data.
Let's assume there are two possible implementations of how UI ...
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How to conduct remote unmoderated user testing on living room devices such as FireTV, Playstation, and Roku?
I'm wondering if there is a better way other than asking users to point a camera at their TV screen and try out some tasks while recording. Maybe mirror the TV screen to a computer and capture the ...
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iOS bar button - How do you place your only cancel (close) bar button?
If we have 2 bar buttons, we follow the common UX pattern, by placing the cancel button on left, and done button on right (img#1).
Img#1
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Cancel button on left
X" icon button on the ...
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On a phone, navigating to next item in a list
This is a question for the phone UI.
I have an app where people can store documents. The main page shows users a scrollable list of their documents. They can then tap to view an individual document. ...
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Good way to present wireframes to stakeholder for application concept?
For a lesson-making application, I have designed wireframes with multiple user flows to help illustrate the important features within the application (i.e user creates a lesson , user clicks and drags ...
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Tabbing into a hidden navigation menu
This is a question about the interaction between navigation via keyboard (tabbing) and initially-hidden navigation items. I’m asking from both a UX and accessibility perspective.
My site has a slide-...
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What is the best UI for allowing the repeated selection of the same item from a list?
In my project, I have two lists of items: on the left, all the possible items for selection, and on the right, those that have been chosen.
Unlike typical scenarios, in my case, the same item can be ...
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Microinteraction language — drilldown, link, action
I'm currently building a new SaaS product, and am revisiting a few of my old decisions about certain patterns. In this specific case it's the design language for three types of ineractions that happen ...
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Cart Accessibility - Ecommerce Shop
i have a question regarding defining the accessibility for prices and the cart summary for an ecommerce shopping-cart.
As a visual impaired user i can navigate through the cart page with the TAB key ...
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What is the term for an actual UI specialist?
The currently omnipresent term for someone involved in designing, prototyping, testing and refining the usability of online and desktop interfaces is "UX/UI designer".
Alas, that term is ...
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Does a user need an account to post comments?
I'm working on a blog website and I doubt about forcing users to create accounts to post comments under my blog posts. What is your opinion about this? Is it good from User Experience Aspect?
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Improve experience when using anchor link from different touchpoints
My detail page on mobile app is setting with different sections and have a tab menu fixed on top when scrolling. The issue that I have right now is, each section can be a separate touchpoint on other ...
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Is a loader useful in a complex multi-step authentication process if the app is fast and the waiting time is less than a second?
Is a loader useful in a complex multi-step authentication process if the app is fast and the waiting time is less than a second?
Some pro arguments I have in mind:
It’s an opportunity to create a bit ...
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Distinguishing aria-live speech from UI accessible names
We just ran our first user test of an accessible UI prototype with blind and partially-sighted testers. In spite of my efforts to follow the various recommendations and WCAG specifications, there were ...
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Alignment of "view all" button in a list
I'm designing a dashboard to allow users get a quick overview of updates and usage. So on the dashboard, there would be different widgets;
Some of these widgets would be a short summary in a list ...
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Short sentence headlines text wrapping on mobile
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I'm the only one at this company who has a UX background, and there are no content writers on staff who have experience in digital spheres. They are used to print media, which doesn't ...
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Problem statement in design thinking
I am new to learning the design thinking approach and currently, I gathered insights from the empathy map and want to set a problem statement but the thing is I found out that I have 4 main problems ...
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Filter all the data - big data load
I'm creating a platform that has a lot of company data, around 200,000 companies with 1000 branches each, so it's a lot.
When we load the platform we usually don't show anything until we have loaded ...
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Best Practice for Product Filtering Menus
I have implemented a horizontal Filtering bar based on articles posted by Baymard. Link Here
I revised my original concept to be a more standard dropdown however the Client has come back and requested ...
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How to expose statistics like a filter buttons
Basically I have a pane with some basic statistic. It shows how many elements have been added, removed or changed and I would like to use it also a buttons to turn on and off filters. But ...
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Browser shortcuts statistics
Im looking for some statistical data about using shortcuts in Chrome or any other browser. What users use the most and the least? haven't found anything on the web, anyone got an idea where can I get ...
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p2p web application, terms and icons to distinguish caller from callee?
I'm working on a web application which uses web rtc. Peers can connect to other peers. The interface will change quite a bit depending on who is the caller vs. callee.
What are appropriate terms ...
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Is there any specific icon to use for a 'New Tab' button? [closed]
I have a button on my web page, this button once clicked will open a new tab and take the user there.
I'm just wondering is there any convention on what icon I should use for this button? At the ...
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Do you get differentiated data from Google Optimize A/B test with multiple user targeting variables?
If you target test variations for your users with Google Optimize will you get differentiated values for those variations such as mobile, tablet, location and so on in one single A/B test, or we just ...
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Best practises for tables with header titles in both axis (vertical/horizontal)
For tables/matrix in printed paper is very common to see the 2 axis/header titles separated by a diagonal bar
Also common to see in printed probability/impact matrix
However, HTML or excel(AFAIK) ...
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Adding items to categories defined on the spot
I'm having issues wrapping my head around an interaction.
I have 5 possible tags that can be combined as follows:
Tag1,Tag2
Tag3
Tag4,Tag5
For these combined tags I can add items that get associated ...
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UX Benchmarking: How much detail should be collected from a user within an enterprise product?
There's a lot of value collecting benchmark data about a user's experience over time. The problem that we are running into is how much information should we ask from our user to help us make informed ...
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Has there been any research on one-handed Dvorak layout and smartphone (swipe) keyboard travel distance?
The Dvorak simplified keyboard is optimised for low finger travel distance, leading to faster typing and less wrist pain compared to the Qwerty layout. On a smartphone, most people effectively only ...
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What character can I use to represent the space bar?
I provide the user with a list of key sequences that lets the user type only with ASCII characters and generate various Unicode characters. This is what they see in the sequence list window:
My ...
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Prototyping - User Testing & Limited Functionality
Newbie UX designer here. I'm currently preparing a prototype for some user testing. How do you decide the acceptable limitations to the functionality of your prototypes? Obviously we want to get as ...
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Seeking UI design advice for implementing trash function in a list of sections
First time poster here, and seeking UI design advice. Feel free to ask me any follow up questions for clarification.
This is for a web-application. Requirements for this UI component are that the user ...
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