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A way for users to put information into a computer system.

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Best Web UI for Large Amounts of Data Input

How about a UI to upload the spreadsheet file to be automatically processed by a database importing routine?
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
12 votes

Credit Card input format

Certainly there are enough of us UXers complaining about intolerant credit card entry. In addition to Norman 2009: Steve Friedl 2003 Bruce Tognazzini 2007 Yakov Fain 2009 Me 2009 Luke Wroblewski …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
5 votes
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What is the best way to indicate to the user to type/select production numbers

And, of course, you need to handle input of letters in an effective manner. … Text boxes require keyboard input (unless the user is pasting), so you may need to consider mouse-to-keyboard transitions when comparing input efficiency. …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
2 votes
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Separate console input field?

By typing an input directly below a response, the users feel they’re providing direct input, and therefore having a “conversation,” (literally, if it’s a chat box) rather than working through an intermediary … However, if it were, users typically had to just live with split commands because it was difficult to put any input anywhere but where the cursor is. …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
42 votes
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Better way for users to select a date range

The default has a single text box labeled “Month, Quarter, or Year;” which accepts input like “Sep” (defaults to most recent September), “6/09,” “3Q06”, and “1933.” …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
14 votes

UI Lag: What's considered "smooth"?

US Department of Defense Design Criteria Standard - Human Engineering MIL-STD 1472F Section 5.14.9 and Table XXII requires that "Sketching" have a response time of 0.2 seconds "from input of point to display …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
4 votes

Input Value Dependencies

Go with the flow Seems to me your users are telling you the solution: make right motion increase the annuity proportion. You see the slider as some kind of horizontal stacked bar chart, but your us …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
4 votes

Display of disabled input fields

The most important clue to provide is a dimmed label for the input field (in addition to, obviously, dimming any default text in the field). … A dimmed label or prompt in the field could simply mean “this is not really input.” …
Michael Zuschlag's user avatar
4 votes

Checkbox alternative?

The rule that radio buttons require a single selection applies to a list of radio buttons, not the whole form. Your form has multiple lists (some as short as two items), so each list is a group of mut …
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3 votes

"Modernizing" legacy applications and legacy users

With simple point and click input and on-screen descriptions and hints for the user, a user can get through the app on their first time without once typing “man.” … Weaknesses to avoid in the new system, such as absence of defaults or lack of preserved input, or text input when a menu can be used. …
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