New answers tagged gui-design
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Chevron / drop down to activate keypad
When adding things to cart, usually the input is a number. Hence using a - (minus) and + (plus) helps in getting what the user wants.
A few advantages:
We can control the max (and min) values that ...
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How can I make dropdowns more tied to the graphs that they control?
You mentioned the fact that this design concept applies to this page (hinting that there could be many other pages with different layout), so the first thing I would consider is whether this design ...
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Should I include ... at the end of input placeholders?
No I would not do that. There is no benefit for the user.
We decided that "..." at the end of the caption indicates a follow-up action.
Example: a modal dialogue for advanced search:
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Design suggestion for a register page via smartcard
Things you might try:
You should give the form a reasonable title, suitable for the process. Like “Users creation” or “Smart-card users initialization” (those are my speculations, make it clear and ...
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Is the standard notification badge color always red, or can it be something else?
Notification badges tend to be red because red is the color that most attracts the human eye at a pre-attentive level (we are hard-wired to respond to red). Red things and motion will draw the eye in ...
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Is the standard notification badge color always red, or can it be something else?
Depending on how important the notifications are and how prominent you want to let users know there's a notification. Spotify uses a blue color as a notification badge. In my opinion, blue is less ...
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Is the standard notification badge color always red, or can it be something else?
According to material.design yes:
Anyway, I think the color is more related to the type of notification it carries.
As an example, if the notification is a simple call (not alert, not warning), it ...
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How to best showcase selected state of visually important elements
Due to the diversity of colors and similar shapes, I would opt for a detail with contrasting shape and style (outlined):
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Components in graph based UI with more complex interactions
Seeing your question got me thinking if I have used any graph based UI other than the one in Blender.
Blender has a thing called geometry nodes which are used
for procedurally and non-destructively ...
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Segmented control vs toggle switch
Carbon Design System lists this logic for choosing between Toggles and Content Switchers:
For binary actions or choices, such as “yes/no” or “on/off” use a toggle instead of a content switcher. A ...
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Blinking cursor on input fields and blinking time/timeout
The vertical blinking bar in input fields, or "cursor" (also "caret" but less common, although it's used in CSS) indicates where the next characters will be inserted. Its blinking ...
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Buttons with icon. Possible problems
It depends. Without knowing more details and without testing, your client is right by default. You don't need icons for buttons, but you do need labels.
However, as you say, it's true that icons can ...
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