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Are there easier names for Ripple Editing?
When editing with timelines (ie, mostly audio/video), there exists a very useful but also very obscure concept of Ripple Editing. The idea being that edits you make (primarily: Cut, Paste, Delete) &...
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How to design an interface to apply many teachers to students
I have a web app that created report cards. A teacher who logs in sees a list of their students (no matter the subject) and when they click a student, they are brought to a page with all the subjects ...
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What is the best way to represent two categories of filters for a task list?
Looking to design a simple to-do list (mobile) that can be filtered first by person then by topic. There are anywhere from 2-6 people that tasks could be assigned to, and then 1-14 topics within each ...
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Are two buttons with similar appearance and text an accessibility concern?
I'm inspired by this answer: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/386770/175002 but I've come across this elsewhere as well.
The two buttons read:
Accept all cookies
Accept only necessary
I'm straining ...
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Pros and Cons of using a local search for the Filter column in an e-commerce website
Couldn't find sources for this, so asking the community.
Large e-commerce websites tend to have a long list of filter categories with multiple options under each. So much so that users can find it ...
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Most user friendly way to select a time slot when booking a table
I'm designing the table reservation process for a website with multiple restaurants.
After selecting the day, the user has to select the time of the reservation. The restaurants have multiple shifts (...
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Should my headline be conversational, or stick to the numbers?
which of these two options is easier and clearer for the user to understand and consume?
Option 1:
Option 2:
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How to represent multiple dropdowns and search bar to get details?
I am building an interface where users will type certain things and they will get details on them. To get details users will have to select from three types of dropdowns or they can even choose from ...
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How to design a rating scale for only positive entries?
Would love to get some thoughts on this: I am working on an app that will allow users to rate their entries, e.g., on a scale from 1 to 5. The UX challenge, however, is that all entries are positive (...
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Displaying caller ID verification data to landline users: what's the best way to show it?
What is STIR/SHAKEN?
STIR/SHAKEN is a set of telephony technologies. These technologies can help with authentication and verification of caller ID data. Eventually, STIR/SHAKEN may be available to ...
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How should you handle snackbars when you have several messages popping up?
How should you handle snackbars when you have several messages popping up? Material says that you shouldn't stack them up, so should you put them in a queue and show them one at a time, or something ...
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Should filtering and sorting be combined?
I'm working on an application where it requires filtering and sorting. Typically, these two functionalities, albeit similar, are always separated.
However, I came across this article today where they ...
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Help me identify a formal name for the "workspace pattern"
I'm trying to find if there is a formal description of what I've tried to call the "workspace pattern", seen in apps like Figma, Canva, Notion, etc.
In this pattern, users to start out on ...
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Does the toggle button need to be near the item that it affects?
I am designing a dashboard/homepage where there is a toggle button that users will use somewhat frequently and affects the object detection feature of our app. I have two versions currently, one with ...
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Heuristic evaluation definition
I'm having an issue within my company.
We are building a UX playbook within the guild to keep consistency.
We are dealing right now with heuristic evaluation.
My leader wants do analyse only the 10 ...
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What are low-tech mock-ups? and how they can be designed? [duplicate]
In app development what are low-tech mock-ups? How they look exactly? and what tools are used to design them? Is it the same tools used in app development? or are there specific ones?
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Is this navigation pattern a good idea?
I have noticed the following navigation pattern recently and am wondering if this is a "good" pattern in your experience. - Can you point to any usability research about the pattern?
It ...
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Redemption table - select all
Here is a little UX problem I am working on. I am posting here because our UX testing indicated a user understanding issue, and research has not helped me greatly.
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Online redemption table
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Can I use yellow text on a white background to indicate warning? (Contrast checker)
I am designing an app targeted towards an older audience (age 65+) so my app needs to have high contrast to be visible. I am using a contrast checker and according to WCAG standards, any yellow does ...
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Research to show how difficult is it to blindly enter a string?
Is there some scientific way to prove that say entering a masked 12 character password accurately is XXX times harder than entering an 8 character password?
And that with symbol, punctuation, numbers ...
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Suggestions, isporations and ideas for report page for an ERP
I am designing a reports page where users come and fill in the required fields and get the report. They can then choose to download or view the report. Considering that our users are not very tech-...
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How to improve the UX/UI for multiple buttons that are now spread out
I am working on a web application where we have detail pages for applications that were submitted by the user and certificates that were issued for them.These pages have multiple buttons and are ...
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Patterns for handling concurrent modifications to resources in web app
While making an LMS web app, I was looking for a way to provide a nice UX while communicating the user that a resource they were trying to edit was already being worked on by another user. For example,...
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Refresh list in Material 3
I have an Android app that displays a list or grid of cards, depending on the screen size, that is loaded from the backend. I migrated it to the Material 3 spec recently.
The app currently does ...
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Show selection at the top of a table
I am designing a table that contains a series of items, each item has a series of associated details (name, number, group, etc) that are displayed in several columns; each column has a filter in the ...
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Is there a best practice for what each Easing Functions should be used for?
How do I find the ideal easing function for specific scenarios like shape expanding and text appearing, etc.
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"Non-exclusive categorical organization" (of files, database entries, etc.)
Hopefully this question fits here. I had it posted on another stackexchange site and it was deleted for being off topic--but the problem is this doesn't fit neatly into a topic. It lies on the border ...
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Can modern personal computer users do without a tab key?
I am sketching designs for a prospective minimalist personal computer keyboard.
I am considering omitting a TAB key. In this case, a user needing a tab would press some function key together with one ...
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How to position a "add to list" button?
Following picture shows a list of notes in a tab-layout. Each list has a + button at the bottom to create a new note.
As the list grows the user has to scroll down (a lot) to see, that there is ...
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Landing page explianer video embedded vs modal
We are looking at putting an explainer video on our home/landing page above the fold next to our main CTA's to sign up or request a call.
I've seen two main ways to do this:
Embedded - the video is ...
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How to update stale page content without interrupting user
I have a mobile application that supports offline usage, but can also work online. There are several pages of content (mostly long lists of items) that are loaded from server when user visits specific ...
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System for learning without being led off on a tangent
I would like to know, how a software system, could be designed, so that everything you searched and used (chrome, Wikipedia, apps, dictionary, illustrations, images), and so on, were filtered through ...
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Too much content for an accordion?
I'm working on an interface with a product list. I'm wondering what is the best way to show these label value pairs. I know the label should be emphasized since, the users will be looking for that and ...
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Proper way to align list with colon separated values
I am creating a very small list of data for a device which will be displayed on an overlay. The following format is as follows:
There are many different ways these items can be aligned and I've ...
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Website nivation with below mentioned terms, please give me a detailed suggestion for each navigation
All these terms (Breadcrumbs, Sidebars, Mega menus, Dropdowns, Tabs, and Accordions seem to be an important factor when creating sites and doing SEO, want to know if I am creating a site with ...
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Should users be allowed to add new users on a user management screen while the screen is still loading
Designing an access management module. Sometimes there will be a delay in the list of existing users loading. During this time the add user button will be active. in this case users will be able to ...
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Accounting too much for user error?
So I am redesigning a configuration page and I feel that our current flow is overcompensating for user error too much. Basically, when you want to make a change on a device there are four steps:
Make ...
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Cross or left arrow to return to the previous page?
I am developing a phone app with Material UI (using Flutter).
To return to the previous route ("cancel" the current route), when should I use Icon.close (cross):
...and when Icon....
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What is an example of false/ bad affordance?
So I'm learning Norman's design priciples but I haven't quite understood affordance. I know the defenition now. If we take a square box, it affords to be sit on, stand on, it afford to be picked up ...
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How do I plan for errors in the product that I'm redesigning?
So I'm working on an internal data product that's used mainly by two users (analysts) within the data team.
I've created a user flow, but haven't mapped out the potential errors on the flow during ...
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Is input element changing height on focus acceptable?
I have built a multi-select dropdown with a search field that becomes visible on focus. However, when an element is already selected in the multi-select input, the search field has to be render on a ...
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Representation of transparent color in a color picker without confusion with white color
I have a color picker to choose the background color of a rectangle in a Figma-like editor.
One of the colors is white rgba(255,255,255,1), and another one is transparent rgba(0,0,0,0).
On the image ...
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What is the design system of gumroad?
I am learning web development, and in the process of taking inspiration for UI online, I came across gumroad.com. Its design is bright, colorful, blocky, doodly, etc.
I want to learn about this design,...
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Ag-Grid filter across pages or current page
When using the Ag-Grid with multiple pages, is it a good practice to filter records across pages or should it be just the current page ?
Also for sorting, is it a good practice to retain the current ...
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Modifier keys to use for group selection/panning/magnification
I am developing a desktop web diagramming app in which the user can pan the ('infinite') background to move it relative to the window, drag over boxes ('nodes') to select them as a group, and hold ...
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Order of elements
I am designing a platform where the user can create items that are grouped into different categories.
Each category has an order for the items it contains.
During the process of creating an item, the ...
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APCA (WCAG 3.0) does not allow for 14px font to be used as a regular base
According to APCA (WCAG 3.0), we are not able to use 14px font as a regular base, but when it comes to SaaS application design, 14px is commonly used as the base font size. Despite my attempt to use ...
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Should newly added card be displayed above default card on list?
This question is regarding payment during checkout.
Say user already has 2 cards (Card A, Card B) in his wallet, and Card A is the default card.
During checkout he decided he wants to use Card C ...
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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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How to design for a table which has two different header options depending on the model
So I have a large table with lots of different column headers, lets say there are 10. Currently, under this table, there are two different model types, model A and model B. Model A uses all 10 column ...
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