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How to communicate that an item can no longer be deleted
Scenario: Imagine a kanban system and some tickets in it (Like Jira, Trello, etc.)
The user can add various information to a ticket, such as assignment, description, checklists, etc.
There is a time ...
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Is a series of GO buttons, at each step of iphone user interaction, easier for user to understand than different title each button?
Anyone see any problem with a series of GO buttons for each step of a mobile diagnostic app?
That is, when user starts iPhone app, user sees titling, a couple of optional config controls,
and a big ...
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Designing a home screen for a mobile app
I'd like to show the current day's load-shedding schedule on the home screen, but the design I have looks too empty to me. Any suggestions for things I can add to the screen ?
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Search should show a warning when writing less than X numbers of characters in order to display result?
does a search functionality should show a warning when writing less than X numbers of characters in order to display result?
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Whats a good UI pattern to create multiple nested categories to classify an entity
I'm designing a form for managing representatives for a MNC platform. but 1st there needs to be a structure set up that mimics their org structure.
the structure of levels needed would be something ...
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What HTML should I use for a rated theatre review? [closed]
I'm authoring a reusable widget, in HTML, that reflects a common pattern often seen in theatre reviews. The widget is quite simple, with minimal components, namely:
A star rating,
The review itself
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Is there a better pattern for 'nested' UI select controls [Users can use THEESE or THIS]
Is there a good UI pattern for this sort of specific select case?
There is a search field for labels/tags. The user has 3 options they can select from to refine their search. These options are grouped ...
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Why not embed payment pages in the same page?
In my experience, when purchasing something online, the checkout page of the vendor usually redirects to a payment gateway of the company handling the payments. I insert my credit card details on the ...
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Using a Google Spreadsheet to feed input to a web application
I am building a mathematical web application, that gets as input a large matrix of numbers, and does some mathematical calculations on it. The common ways to feed input into such an application are:
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Allow user to select between 1 minute and 1 year, best ux
For one of my inputs I want the user to be able to select a duration, which can be between 1 minute and 1 year
If they're working in the minute area it should be easy to select 1 vs 10 minutes. Easy ...
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Web app having all commands available in more than one menu usability? Same commands are replicated in the main menu / context menus / setting panels
Any insight or recent supporting research for or against having menu commands accessible in more than one menu?
This applies to a web app that would allow you to design items similar to Keynote or ...
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How to make important unhighlighted tab more visible without conflicting with current layout and color scheme?
An email is sent out to users informing that the reviewers' comments for talk proposals are now available. The top of the page (with identifiable information blocked out) is shown below.
Next to the ...
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Can I break consistency in behalf of UX?
I'm working on a big platform. It has many tables with consistent design.
Now, I'm designing a new page, and I think it's better for these tables if the rows will be smaller than across all platform ...
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Should a dropdown be marked required in it has a default value?
I'm designing a form to create violations of employees from various departments. For quicker choosing the employee, I have a field for users to filter the department that the employee is from.
Value ...
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Usability of Chat Icons in Bottom Right of Websites
Thoughts on the usability of chat icons in the bottom right of web pages. This seems to be the norm.
Should they always be present?
Or if you have a support page, have a link for live chat and then ...
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Multiple time periods in a survey
I am working on a medical application which helps therapists to determine whether patients meet the criteria to be diagnosed with certain illnesses and disorders. For the most part, it works as a ...
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Abandon Checkout Tackling the problem
A little bit of context my boss has asked to look into why abandon cart rate is so high.I’m not a Ux designer so I’m a little overwhelmed with where to start. What is the best way to tackle this ...
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Should there be any input restrictions on first/last name such as numbers?
I'm building a sign up form and I noticed that a lot of companies allow me to put in a number when I enter my first name, such as "alks82734" being a valid first or last name.
How should I ...
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What to report when conducting a usability testing with a small sample (5 participants)?
We are going to conduct a usability testing with a small sample (5 participants) as part of an iterative design process meaning we understand that the whole idea of 5 participants is to gather ...
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Bad practice for dropdowns to cover buttons?
I have a text field that shows matches in a dropdown when the user starts typing. Below the field are buttons. When the dropdown is activated it covers the buttons. However the dropdown will go away ...
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Actions as icons on card
I'm looking for a way to properly display actions on my application's card without cluttering the interface too much, while still correctly emphasizing them.
My application allows teachers of a school ...
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A good design of adding lots of numbers?
I am breaking down a large number such as 1022056271142522954 into adding the individual digits, and want to show the process of adding the digits. What I have now is this, which overflows onto ...
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A design to show the main items and related items of main
At present, my project display the main and related items separately in multiple interfaces, and use the combobox in the related item interface to filter the sub items of the main.
However, such an ...
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After submitting a form and moving to a new page, should the back button take you back to a blank form?
Imagine a web app page which shows all your recently submitted expenses (Page A). You then click the primary action button "Add a new expense" which takes you to a form to complete (Page B).
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How to display failed records on a table
I’m designing a screen that contains a table which displays files that have been imported into the system automatically. There is a possibility that the entire file will fail (for various reasons) ...
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Stats on percentage of desktop and laptop computers with high resolution monitors
Mobile phones and tablets nowadays all come with high-resolution (pixel density) screens. New Apple computers come with at least 218 pixels/inch.
– Does anyone know the percentage of desktop and ...
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How do you find inspiration without copying someone's work [closed]
Say you want to design a mobile app and the like a few stuff about some design choices and decisions on similar apps designed... You'd like that in your app design wouldn't that be copying
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Should I update an items slug after renaming item
So we are currently using slugs in URLS as identifers, like website.com/item/my-nice-item where to slug is generated from the item name "My nice item!"
Now the user will be able to rename ...
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Did you ever had a feeling that two "Kebab" menu icons could not be next to each other?
So... I am building a shopping app and I have a slight concern about placing two "Kebab" menu icons this close to each other.
Explanation:
This is a wishlist page and user can manipulate ...
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Should one button do 2 actions (GitHub Case Study)?
Case in point - GitHub's "Fork" button. This button used to show all the forks that exist for the current repository but now it doesn't do that anymore. GitHub suddenly changed it to act as ...
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When does a contact list get too long for a review?
I am designing a workflow for sending reminders to parties(vendors) in bulk. The idea is to allow users to select which party they want to send a reminder to (all or some). After selecting on parties, ...
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What action should the user take when permission to access a page has been removed?
I'm designing the flow for permission management. In this case, while a user is on a certain screen, their access to that section that screen belongs to is removed. then when the user performs an ...
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How do we make our users notice there is a second page to the PDF
I work for a non-for-profit whereby our supporters write letters to their children and receive replies. The replies come back in the form of a PDF that has 2 pages:
the first is the reply in the ...
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Traditional Radio Buttons vs Bootstrap Styled Primary-Secondary Toggle Buttons
For a responsive web form I am considering two options for radio buttons with three or fewer selections.
I personally like the bootstrap css style format because it seems easier for the user on mobile ...
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UX for picking tags and then quantities related to them
I'm making an app in which students can select topics/tags they're interested in, and get a randomly-generated quiz containing questions that have those tags/belong to those topics. For each selected ...
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What is the best text option for warning messages?
I want to make three alerts for the platform that I work, when a user uploads.
One: Success
Error:
Alert:
Since my alert space is small and my PO wants large text.
I had thought of it this way: file ...
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Competitive audit
I am trying to conduct a competitive audit for a project I am working on.
I would like to find competitors for a bus seat reservation app, but the country where the app will be shipped doesn't have ...
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Best idea to convert table content for smaller screen
I have this design and now I am trying to figure out how to make this to work well for mobile screen as well.
Since there might be more List, I figure that I can convert it to scrollable tabs so it ...
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What is correct style for displaying dollar figures in a column in a table?
I have a table of two columns. One is list of expenses (or revenue). The other is dollar figures.
Should the dollar sign ($) appear with every figure? Or should I put it only with the figure on the ...
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How should I design a text field that doubles as text view in a form?
Suppose you have a list of data that also doubles as an editable form like this:
The problem with this is that I cannot show any obtrusive indicator (like text field border) to give the user a visual ...
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should i show action button in table header while designing for Webapp
I am going to design a table view but I have a problem that I wanted to show the action button. I am confused it is okay to show the action button in the Table header.
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Should I click on a dashboard graph and what should happen?
I have been wondering about a simple behavior around a dashboard graph:
Should I click on the graph?
If so, what should be the most effective action to take:
a) Open a table with graph data
b) Drill ...
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How do I show deeper processes in my portfolio?
After working for a number of years as a graphic designer, I moved into a "UI /UX role" about 4 years ago creating interfaces for large format touchscreens at an agency.
I’ve attempted to ...
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Can there be 3CTAs at one place with equal weightage?
On the checkout screen there are 3 CTAs,
simple checkout
Payment with debit card
Buy now pay later
All three with equal weightage of primary CTA.
Is it the right way?
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Stepper Next button text - Name of next step vs. simply "Next"
I have a multi-step form with five steps.
At the bottom of each page there is a button to go to the previous step and the next step.
Should the text inside the button have the name of the next / ...
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Inline edit icon vs Go to edit page edit icon
I have two pages with a table list of data. In page A, each row contains a lot of extra information, so clicking the edit icon directs the user to a full page info for editing.
On the other hand, ...
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Accessibility of Icon Buttons?
I have a challenge: I'm working on a project and I used icon buttons. Someone said icon buttons are not accessible because they don't have labels.
ARIA and some HTML techniques can achieve ...
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Using audio files with Figma for mobile app, trying Protopie
We are building a mobile app in the mental health space.
When we started we chose Figma without realising that it doesn’t have audio support. We have a lot of storytelling in our lessons where we want ...
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Are tips of the day, like in 90s Microsoft products, on application start an effective and non-deleterious way of improving discoverability?
I remember from using 90s and I think also 2000s versions of software, mostly from Microsoft that there would often be a window (like the screenshotted one, although with non-joke advice), that would ...
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Is it OK if normal users can see and access "staff login" page in a website?
My website has 2 types of users: Customers and Staff. I want each type of user to be able to login in a separate page. Is it OK if I show a "staff login" link next to the normal users (...
