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Is it okay to combine Log-in and Sign-up for passwordless/magic-link logins?
Adding to Michael's answer, if we were to keep the flows separate, you can always ask the user to enter a Display Name as well as add an avatar for a new registration.
If it is a paid subscription, ...
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Font selection UI
That's a good observation.
When I was designing an outcome for a project I always hate the moment when I had to select a font. I think that with the time Adobe did a good job how to reduce frustration ...
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Font selection UI
Since users often have a general idea of the style they’re looking for, allow them to filter fonts based on these major categories:
Sans-Serif
Serif
Slab Serif
Handwriting
Display
These styles help ...
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How to best respect safe area of 16px left/right: Inset design (16px to container) vs full width design (16px to content)
This depends pretty much on two things mainly:
The nature of the real contents
taste, preference or applied style guide
The lorem ipsum does not really convey something to judge about the coherency ...
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Beta has minimal functionality - how to direct users to fully functional version?
If you can provide a well visible banner somewhere:
"This panel is in beta stadium and is not fully functional yet. Please use the functionality of the old system instead [Button: Start Old ...
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How to inform users on Scan gun functionality
One very simple solution would be to add icons inside the input field at the far right end for example indicating a "scan gun" and a "camera".
Alternatively add a prompt text (the ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
Yea, I typically like to assume the worst. It doesn't hurt to have the pagination indicator there.
Another benefit of having the pagination is to instantly show the user how many cards they have on ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
From an accessibilty POV: Some users can not "clearly see" your intentions here.
Based on your mockup and your post, I suggest you address how you want to present the information represented ...
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Page indicator dots - necessary, useful or redundant?
I did a quick research and there are two different options vertical stacks and horizontal stacks. What I saw is that digital wallets are more often presented as vertical stacks like apple wallet, ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
Web app vs Web site
There is a strong consensus in other answers that for web sites ctrl+f should not be hijacked.
However there is some leeway for content editing applications as webapps (not ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
Ctrl + K is also a commonly used alternative to Ctrl + F. Examples:
https://laravel.com/docs/11.x
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/
https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/
https://nodejs.org/en
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
I am merely a dev and user and this is merely a personal opinion. I have no experience as a designer whatsoever.
There are times when I am on a website which uses some form of lazy loading, combined ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
I agree with the other answers here but wanted to add a small addition. In certain web apps like Azure DevOps the default ctrl+f is used everywhere but if you use ctrl+f while focused in a code view ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
Depends on your definition of "acceptable", but if it means "done by a major web app vendor"; you should note that Google Sheets (Googles web spreadsheet app, which is extremely ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
In general I agree with other answers here that CTRL+F should not be redefined. However, you mentioned that this is specifically for infinite scrolling content. In that specific case, redefining CTRL+...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
What does CTRL+F (usually) do? Thus what do user expect it to do?
It searches for the entered string on the currently open page, jumping to the first occurrence and perhaps even showing all ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
When you use shortcut keys, you need to make sure they don't interfere
with screenreader shortcut combinations.
Also, as it's been pointed out several times already, Ctrl+F is already in use.
But if ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
No.
People are used to their existing search that works across all websites.
Stripe API documentation overrides CTRL+F behavior and I hate it
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
While I agree with GWv's answer, you may want to consider this alternative. I recall using a site that hijacked the CTRL+F feature by showing their own search dialog, but at the same time had a ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
CTRL+F has an important feature by default in that it does not change page content: No elements of the page appear, disappear, or change content when typing and submitting find queries.
Focusing a ...
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Can it be acceptable to take over CTRL + F shortcut in web app?
I would always tell people in my team (and remind myself) to be very very careful overriding any default browser behavior and only go for it if you are certain its an improvement. Through testing and ...
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Is scrolling inside a modal bad when it doesn't look like there is more information to view?
I once worked on a project for a banking client where the PO wanted to make the application process smoother. For him, that signified that you could feel that you didn't need to open a page to apply ...
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Can we transfer insights about user expectations from physical world UIs to online UIs?
The problem here is what you correlate between the real world and the computer GUI world.
I think a door handle and a button are not the same things among those worlds.
A door handle might not have an ...
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Tray Icon application with pops up alerts
There are some well-defined patterns for this, like MacOS stacks more than one notification upon each other with the total number of notifications mentioned in it.
Clicking the stack should expand it ...
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