Patrick McElhaney

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Don't hide or disable menu items?

Oct 7 '14 at 13:45 Hans Fast 31

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Tab Overflow: What to do when I run out of space for yearly tabs?

tabs pagination overflow

Jun 27 '12 at 17:27 CommunityBot 1

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Why does the Redbox machine have barriers around the credit card swipe reader?

affordance physical

Jun 10 '15 at 3:39 emeralddove 237

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How long should the delay be before a tooltip pops up?

response-time hover tooltips

Mar 6 '19 at 13:50 Remy 111

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Should an interface ever say "thank you"?

feedback copywriting

Aug 2 '14 at 2:47 CommunityBot 1

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Is it a bad idea to have input fields after password on a login form?

Nov 4 '10 at 21:43 DJClayworth 684

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Is a decimal comma used in data entry?

input localization numbers data-entry

Apr 14 '15 at 3:15 David Ongaro 141

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How to show negative values in a pie chart

info-visualisation charts

Apr 6 '17 at 10:32 Patrick McElhaney 13.9k

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How to mark cells in a spreadsheet that are meant to be edited?

user-behavior design input affordance data-tables

May 16 '13 at 1:32 JohnGB♦ 67.2k

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Forgiving Format: Rewrite on blur or ASAP?

forms input feedback

Apr 26 '12 at 16:14 Myrddin Emrys 5,747

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Live search response time

search response-time

Jun 29 '18 at 20:02 CommunityBot 1

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to silence JAWS? [closed]

accessibility tools jaws

Nov 1 '18 at 15:12 Jack Luo 1

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