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How to display ( and work with ) related data without using a table component?
I'm working with an external system where users can create entities and link them bidirectionally. One entity is the source / the parent and the other entity is the target / the child. So one link ...
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Save as "Save and continue" vs Done as "Save and exit"
Current workflow:
User clicks to edit a page
User edits some stuff and clicks "Done"
User automatically navigates to "Changes successfully published"
Our users want to be able to ...
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Terminology for the use of the word "your" in a call to action?
A widely used technique in calls to action is the use of the second person, and specifically the use of the possessive determiner "your" before a noun phrase denoting the good or service ...
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Users are not figuring out that they can use breadcrumb to navigate to go to the previous page
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This is the screenshot of the breadcrumb navigation where users face issue,
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Show checkbox onhovering over a row of a table
My team is working on a Saas product. we have a table design where we displays actions onhover (we use this approach throught the product)
we are adding a new feature where the user can select ...
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Best UX for a dynamic list of actions/operations
Predominantly focused on web-based Desktop use.
When viewing a particular object in our system, let's say its a helpdesk ticket as an example. Our workflow system allows the enrolment of new ...
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What's the universal way to show skipped steps in a flow?
Let's say you have a diagram where steps 1, 2, and 6 are important and shown to the user.
Steps 3-5 are not important, and don't need to be shown. But, the user should know that they exist. It's like ...
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UX Pattern for slider with dynamic minimum and maximum
I'm working on an app where we'd like to use a slider, but it's quite possible that when the user opens the modal that we don't really know what the range of that slider should be. Or, put another way,...
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Reminder for user to save
In the admin of the web app I work on, we never auto-save user input. They are required to press a "Save" button. In certain places I worry the user might forget to save and lose their input....
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How to represent time spent, in Excel, in minutes and seconds?
Our platform has Excel reports with fields like Estimated Time or Actual Time spent on a task. These fields are not standardized - in some reports, time values are represented as 10.8 mins, 0.22mins, ...
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How to name an option in settings that allows free input in a list (select)
In the settings of a web application, admins can select "custom fields" of different types: number, selector, multi-select, etc.
We added an option that allow user (not admin) to type their ...
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Which pricing structure is optimal for inexpensive developer-oriented software?
I have some software that I built that's been around for 14 years. It nearly went extinct for awhile since it was built with Silverlight initially. Now it's been rebuilt from scratch and I'll soon be ...
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How to request future items of a list
I have the following problem going on:
(not going into detailed context as it is extremly complex, and also irrelevant to the point)
in a checkbox table, a user can select which events they want to ...
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CTA to confirm an edit - Save or Update?
I'm working on a web app and noticed that we have different edit actions scattered across the app (such as editing a phone number on your user profile or editing a rule setting) but we use different ...
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Show Help in browser or built-in viewer - desktop application
I'm doing UX on a seasoned Java-desktop application (swing) and we have finaly run-out of tolerance with the JavaHelp feature. We are using it today to display the manual inside the desktop ...
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Typgraphy - hanging punctuation (indent list or not for better readablity)
In a body of text that contains both paragraphs and ordered and unordered list. Does it matter to indent the list items - by default, most browsers indent list items 16px?
The list in the following ...
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What are some best practices on building large forms for data entry?
I am currently building a web application which has large forms (10 - 30 input fields). I am using DevExtreme's DxForm to do this. The users using this form will be on desktop computers 100% of the ...
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How to display a bar chart for users' test scores if you have more than 50 users
For an admin panel I have to present visually the employees' test scores and after lots of searching to decide which data visualization is the best I decided to choose the vertical bar chart but as ...
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How to properly let the user know that there are restrictions for a dropdown menu that are dependent on each other?
Kind of confusing title, but basically I am designing something that allows for the max of 20 total connections. There are two types of connections, main and guest. As you can see, I am using a simple ...
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Appropriate copy that is not offensive to the user
We currently have a marketplace that allows our users to claim job postings. Once the user claims the job, they are automatically assigned to it.
Some users are flagged because of previous bad ...
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pagination vs "load more" for a business applicaiton
I'm looking for usability studies that show the efficacy of Pagination vs Load More specifically for a table/list of data in a business/enterprise application, like a Software as a service (SAAS) app.
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Form Unsaved Changes
Which of the modals shown below is more align with best practices for the following scenario?
Scenario:
A user is filling out a form. There are [Save] & [Cancel] buttons on the form. The user ...
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Card design interaction
I do have a doubt wrt to the card interaction. We are designing this card for reports.
The primary action for this card is to view this report, followed by downloading the report or following this ...
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Control a table column content
Did you ever saw or designed a way to switch column content through its column header?
I've done this before for units or switching between numbers and percentage, but this time its a less obvious ...
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Which services do you use for recruiting specific demographic test participants?
I'm looking for solid resources for recruiting research participants matching very specific criteria for interviews, surveys, and usability testing. Also interested in how quickly those services work....
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Creating a Dark Mode
A lot of my colleagues work in quite large companies and have created some very robust and large Design Systems, however, they always say that they haven't quite determined the Dark Theme color ...
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Where should we place a "New Item" link
Context:
In the "Returns" details page we have a form where we can add Items, that items represent what we want to send back(return) eg. 1pen and 2 notebook.
So I have a list of "n"...
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Date field DD/MM/YYYY entering only 4 digits
I am working on an payroll application in which date input fields are used in different types of user scenarios (for example, entering your date of birth, but also entering the start/end date of a ...
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Visually distinguish cards in a list
I made an LMS webapp which, in the main page, shows a list of courses.
The page looks like this:
The goal of the app, from a graphical interface standpoint, is to keep an elegant material design look....
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How to compare the scores/scales of SUS and SUMI
I have two products that have been evaluated with two different methods. Product A's usability was evaluated with SUMI and Product B's usability was evaluated with SUS. How do I now compare the ...
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Making the 4th item in a row of icons look clickable?
So im creating a dashboard for a device and I'm finding out that only 1 out of the 4 icons are clickable and will link to a new page. I thought about adding text underneath the icon that says "...
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Live content in lightboxes doesn't look live
In my website I'm displaying the websites I built as tiles that when clicked open as lightboxes.
I'm getting feedback that it's unclear that the lightboxes display actual live websites.
It's also ...
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How can I display 1K+ facets/filters on a website
I am struggling to develop a general design that could better handle how to present 4k filters to users on a website, but not looking for e-commerce designs as the filters will also contain many ...
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The Card Height Problem
You have a horizontal row of three cards on a page. There's an image, a header, descriptive text and a button.
How do you ensure all of the cards stay the same height if the content in each card isn't ...
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Categorising alert messages
I'm currently working on digitalizing a dispute form, and throughout filling out this form, the user is most likely going to run into alert messages of some sort. While designing, we realized some of ...
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What icon should Restore (previously deleted file) button have? [closed]
I have a button with a bin icon that deletes a file. What icon should the 'Restore' button have? The restore button simply undoes the file deletion.
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What do you call a search component that filters data inside a data-table?
Sometimes when you have a large data-table you want to narrow down the amount of data.
A common approach is to use filters. But, sometimes you're given the option to use a search bar that pretty much ...
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How to depict different categories on a table?
So the user will have to add a department and choose one of the two categories for the department. What is the best way to depict on a table what category the department belongs to?
Option 1
Option 2
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Which date separator would you say is best for numeric dates? Slashes (/), hyphens (-) or dots (.)?
All numeric dates can be separated with slashes (/), hyphens (-) or dots (.). Which of these would you say is best to use for writing dates as well as displays on your product?
Slashes (2023/01/11)
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Section 508 and "applets and plugins"
Before the Section 508 refresh, 508 had the following provision:
(m) When a web page requires that an applet, plug-in or other application be present on the client system to interpret page content, ...
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Looking for participants for a lo-fi prototype unmoderated usability study [closed]
I'm currently learning and working on a portfolio project, i got a task to do an unmoderated usability study (low fidelity prototype). Would anyone be willing to help me by participating?
The project ...
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How do I show break time in my attendance app?
I've already designed an HR attendance application, given the apps UI below:
When they clock in, the progress fills up. When they take a break the progress stops and the grey part below starts ...
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Statistical breakdown of use of naked vs www and http vs https when users type URLs?
When users type URLs into the browser (i.e. in order to visit a web page), of the 6 possible permutations, what is the percent of the time that each permutation is entered?
example.com
http://example....
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Should authenticated users still see the app's public home page
Let's take two examples:
GitHub → the public page at github.com is a presentation of GitHub's features. Once a user is logged in, he never sees this home page again: github.com become the user's ...
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If decrease in time represents a better score, should I show an up or down arrow?
I've created a Rubik's cube timer web app, and each time a user uses the stopwatch, their time is added to a table on the webpage.
With each attempt, an arrow is shown informing the user whether ...
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What's the difference between third-party surveys and follow-up questionnaires?
I know that if you want to use a follow-up questionnaire you need to use something like google forms, but I have seen in a video someone said if you want to use a third-party survyes use websites like ...
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Which should be the right rule to show two play button in the same interface?
I'm trying to design an app interface.
The app functionalities are:
show a map
start a tour (play button). It starts tracking the route, kms/miles and time
play some audio (another play button). All ...
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User guidance via error messages displayed in the scenarios in which user provides the same Email Address
There is a functionality in the system for inviting users in bulk. For inviting users, the admin has to provide the email addresses of the users.
Case 1: If an existing email address is entered, the ...
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Don't show this again - checkbox hierarchy in a popup
I notice that the 'Don't show this again' checkbox is often placed before the action buttons (e.g. CANCEL and OK) which are placed further down and aligned to the right. Is this some sort of standard ...
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Do punctuation texts (comma, colon, pipe, semi colon, tab) need translation at the UI level?
If users are required to choose one of the punctuations as an input to format CSV files - is it required to translate punctuation names (comma, colon, pipe, semi colon, tab)