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28,950 | <p>Is it acceptable to change the appearance of global site navigation elements based on where you are in the site? Let me give you an example. (This example is completely made up, but accurately represents the amount/depth of content -- and pretend your "market" here is people who typically are interested in one anima... | [
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"text": "<p>I think breadcrumbs, while showing less information and navigation, would show more useful information. For instance ... | 2012/11/09 | [
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>
>
> ```
> Animals > Mammals > Rodents > Squirrels
>
> Habitat Diet Lifespan Predators
>
> ```
>
>
The previous menus ("Mammals Reptiles Fish") would be ... |
29,183 | <p>We have a system that has a few maintenance activities that run very quickly (less than a second). Problem is, when users look at the log file for the system, seeing an activity that ran for 0 seconds could look like an activity that failed to launch entirely. Mind you, when an error does occur, the log will clearly... | [
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"text": "<p>I'd recommend running a quick test to actually prove if this is the case. A <a href=\"http://www.uie.com/articles/five_s... | 2012/11/16 | [
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29,324 | <p>I couldn't think of a better title for this question, but <strong>please don't jump to conclusions - I don't really want to point a gun at my users heads!</strong></p>
<p>I have a site that works well with the modern browsers like IE9+, FF12+, or Chrome.
Due to the lack of HTML5 support (specifically some canvas re... | [
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I have a site that works well with the modern browsers like IE9+, FF12+, or Chrome.
Due to the lack of HTML5 support (specifically some canvas related issues) the site ... | **Updated Answer - March 2013**
Since this answer was posted on November 2012, Google has discontinued this plugin. While it might still work as of today (March, 2014) there is no guarantee of it working in the future. As of January 2014, support for Chrome Frame is discontinued:
<http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2... |
29,337 | <p>I'm building a Metro App that lists all your Facebook and twitter likes on a per URL basis.</p>
<p>So it's basically just a list. But I think the usual Metro Tiles/Grid style is really not very helpful here. This is how the App looks right now, just to give you an idea about the data:</p>
<p><a href="http://apptiv... | [
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So it's basically just a list. But I think the usual Metro Tiles/Grid style is really not very helpful here. This is how the App looks right now, just to give you an idea about the data:
[Super Social Media Tracker](http://app... | **Updated Answer - March 2013**
Since this answer was posted on November 2012, Google has discontinued this plugin. While it might still work as of today (March, 2014) there is no guarantee of it working in the future. As of January 2014, support for Chrome Frame is discontinued:
<http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2... |
29,373 | <p>In a form with several input fields, is it better to define the same width for all fields (in order to maintain alignment), or to have different sizes for fields that are intended for less data?</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>Option 1:</p>
<pre><code> Last Name: [______________]
First Name: [______________]
Ag... | [
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For example:
Option 1:
```
Last Name: [______________]
First Name: [______________]
Age: [______________] <- this ... | Fields should generally be an appropriate size for their expected input, which may well mean that one field in a form has a different width to another field. The size of a field provides a useful clue about the information that should be entered into it. For example, if you're asking a user to input a postcode/zip, a f... |
29,375 | <p>I maintain a reporting app and currently we're trying to come up with a new way to organize our settings page.</p>
<p>We display our settings in a table, this is used for displaying the setting/values only.</p>
<p>e.g.</p>
<pre><code>Setting Value
Name Bob
Age 45
Pets 5
Fb Friends 80
Mood ... | [
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We display our settings in a table, this is used for displaying the setting/values only.
e.g.
```
Setting Value
Name Bob
Age 45
Pets 5
Fb Friends 80
Mood Happy
Health Fit
``... | Since the main thing you want the user to do is to simply check and validate the information (they may not need to make any changes) I would suggest you present it as non-editable blocks with "edit" buttons which either take the user off to a page to edit that section or, preferably, switch to the editable form view on... |
29,508 | <p>The typical webcomic navigation is usually:</p>
<pre><code>First | Previous | Next | Last
</code></pre>
<p>Which is about how <a href="http://www.lastres0rt.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">my comic</a>'s current navigation looks, give or take some wingding icons for good measure:</p>
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```
First | Previous | Next | Last
```
Which is about how [my comic](http://www.lastres0rt.com)'s current navigation looks, give or take some wingding icons for good measure:
 - even though you may use more than one link to get there. It then presents a common point... |
29,564 | <p>Currently unix text editor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">vi</a> has the following keys for navigation. </p>
<pre><code>h move left
j move down
k move up
l move right
</code></pre>
<p>On keyboard they aligned: Left, Down, Up, Right</p>
<p>But while typing... | [
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```
h move left
j move down
k move up
l move right
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On keyboard they aligned: Left, Down, Up, Right
But while typing normally we move from top-left to bottom-right, so `Left, Up, Down, Rig... | The answer is more trivial than you probably think - it's because h, j, k, l were respectively left, down, up, right arrows on the ADM-3A terminal which Bill Joy used when creating the original Vi [1].
[1] <http://www.catonmat.net/blog/why-vim-uses-hjkl-as-arrow-keys/> |
29,594 | <p>we have an iPhone app Design with an designed icon tab bar at the bottom.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/sokvU.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
<p>For adoption to Android I have a few questions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Is there a need to put the tabs to the top? Or is it okay to break with Android UI... | [
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For adoption to Android I have a few questions:
1. Is there a need to put the tabs to the top? Or is it okay to break with Android UI standards sometimes?
2. Is it okay to st... | Your example could easily converted to ActionBar. I strongly advise anyone porting an iOS app to stick with Android guidelines; it gives better integration to the overall platform.
On iOS, it is very common to use tabs as there is a persistent tab bar at the bottom. On Android, we use tabs a little less and hierarchize... |
29,677 | <p>Considering following site architecture, where each category has multiple products inside it:</p>
<pre><code>/Home
/About
/Products/Category 1
/Products/Category 2
/Products/Category 3
/Products/Category 4
/Services
/Blog
/Contact
</code></pre>
<p>What is the optimal way to display this as horizontal-navigation wi... | [
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```
/Home
/About
/Products/Category 1
/Products/Category 2
/Products/Category 3
/Products/Category 4
/Services
/Blog
/Contact
```
What is the optimal way to display this as horizontal-navigation with user behavior in mind?
... | Seems to me your question is about whether or not to actually have a landing page for Products, or whether users should be forced to select a category before viewing a listing of products.
The optimal solution would then depend greatly on
1. how logically distinct the categories are (do any products belong to more t... |
29,761 | <p>I'm trying to come up with a good disposition of UI elements to help depict Function Speed vs Quality.</p>
<p>Can anyone point me in the right direction?</p>
<ul>
<li>Are the Labels Right / Informative Enough?</li>
<li>Is the Slider the Right Control?</li>
</ul>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JFjFm.png"... | [
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Can anyone point me in the right direction?
* Are the Labels Right / Informative Enough?
* Is the Slider the Right Control?
[download bmml source](/plugins/mockups/do... | I think the slider's acceptable, but you should lead with the benefits, so it looks something like:
```
Faster Running Time |-----X---|---------| Better Quality
```
People are smart enough to understand they're sacrificing one for the other, or at least not dumb enough to think they're going to get both. |
30,206 | <p>I am creating a UI that has to deal with the distribution of prizes. The prizes can be distributed as follows:</p>
<p><strong>A total number of prizes per location</strong><br/>
I have 10 prizes that can be claimed in total. So if a location has 10 children, I have 10 prizes total that can be won. So 10 total prize... | [
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"text": "<p>If I understand your question correctly, you are dealing with a taxonomy of locations. Beyond the examples you provide... | 2012/12/07 | [
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**A total number of prizes per location**
I have 10 prizes that can be claimed in total. So if a location has 10 children, I have 10 prizes total that can be won. So 10 total prizes.
**A set number of pri... | If I understand your question correctly, you are dealing with a taxonomy of locations. Beyond the examples you provided in your comments, I can imagine a hierarchy like this:
```
Earth
- North America
-- United States
--- New York
---- New York City MSA
----- Yonkers
----- Brooklyn
----- Queens
```
This is a taxonom... |
30,245 | <p>From an SEO perspective, it may be negligible if you include a trailing slash for directories or not, as long as you <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html" rel="nofollow">set redirects to the chosen one</a> (to avoid duplicate content) and <a href="http://www.sea... | [
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A slash indicates a directory. The lack of a slash indicates a file. Obvious cases:
* <http://example.com/files/public/presentations/> - the user is expecting a directory listing with the presentations.
* <http://example.com/files/public/presentations/2012-12-08-monads> - the user is expecting a specific ... |
30,345 | <p>Consider the administration part of a web application.
I want to display the list of all users, with a hierarchical structure like this:</p>
<pre><code>admin 1
- sub admin 1
- sub admin 2
- simple user 1
- simple user 2
- sub admin 3
- simple user 3
...
</code></pre>
<p>The application is organized as... | [
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I want to display the list of all users, with a hierarchical structure like this:
```
admin 1
- sub admin 1
- sub admin 2
- simple user 1
- simple user 2
- sub admin 3
- simple user 3
...
```
The application is organized as follows; There are admins... | I would actually advice you to reconsider including an icon for every singe item in the tree.
Now, why do I say that? Well, as you already mention, you already communicate clearly in the tree which role a user has depending on how indented the item is in the tree. Adding more content, showing the exact same informatio... |
30,382 | <p>I am working on a video sharing application. Would it be best if I allow the user to organize the menu items: e.g.</p>
<pre><code>Home Videos Users Account
</code></pre>
<p>User would be able to organize them as:</p>
<pre><code>Account Users Videos Home
</code></pre>
<p>Or even cancel out items from t... | [
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```
Home Videos Users Account
```
User would be able to organize them as:
```
Account Users Videos Home
```
Or even cancel out items from the menu:
```
Account Users Home
```
This i... | I don't think enabling rearranging the menu items is worthwhile. There are many reasons why (I think) this isn't a good idea but 2 main ones are:
1) It's a feature that's not really necessary, so it enlarges the UI for not much return on investment (investment in design, implementation, documentation, and user learnin... |
30,549 | <p>I have a text editor with several tools on a page. and I want to add cascading dropdowns to the tool list. For example, I have two comboboxes:<br>
1st is filter with values: </p>
<pre><code>All -selected by default
Animals
Plants
Etc... (Up to 10 items usually)
</code></pre>
<p>So, on change of items ... | [
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1st is filter with values:
```
All -selected by default
Animals
Plants
Etc... (Up to 10 items usually)
```
So, on change of items in the first combobox the sec... | Indicate the hierarchical nature of the comboboxes by inserting a symbol between the two:
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30,958 | <p>I have a very old private messaging system that either needs to be redone or removed. It currently accounts for about 20% of the activity on the site.</p>
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We already have a system in place for @mentioning users in status updates that works very much like Twitter. We also allow users to add a URL to their profile.
Should... | ```
It currently accounts for about 20% of the activity on the site.
```
The fact that 20% of the activity on your site is private messaging indicates that your users consider private messaging to be of high value. So, you should be hesitant to remove it. Even if private messaging is not directly of benefit to your c... |
31,098 | <p>What do you think are the most bold reasons for using a unique user panel URL for each customer?</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>customer1.serviceprovider.com<br>
customer2.serviceprovider.com</p>
</blockquote>
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For example:
>
> customer1.serviceprovider.com
>
> customer2.serviceprovider.com
>
>
>
In what cases should this scenario be used instead of `panel.serviceprovider.com` | The purpose of the 3rd-level domain (username.company.tld) is **to give users their own URL context**.
By *own URL context* I mean not only public profile (as it was already mentioned here), but rather a way of keeping semantic-only information in path part of the URLs and moving owner information to the 3rd-level dom... |
31,116 | <p>Below you can see a screenshot of a web-based page layout editor.</p>
<p>It is basically a drag and drop WYSIWYG editor for interactive apps, and allows the user to use a page backdrop and add a "layer" of interactive elements to it, such as image galleries, videos, etc.</p>
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It is basically a drag and drop WYSIWYG editor for interactive apps, and allows the user to use a page backdrop and add a "layer" of interactive elements to it, such as image galleries, videos, etc.
New objects can be created by dragging one of the sma... | The purpose of the 3rd-level domain (username.company.tld) is **to give users their own URL context**.
By *own URL context* I mean not only public profile (as it was already mentioned here), but rather a way of keeping semantic-only information in path part of the URLs and moving owner information to the 3rd-level dom... |
31,119 | <p>I recently specified the wrong deadline for an assignment, for a "dropbox" in the D2L course management application. I was trying to choose 12:00 noon, and the time entry field showed 12:00 right below 11:00 AM, as shown here:</p>
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But of course, wha... | There is some interesting pedantic information on the weirdness of midnight: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight>
Specifically, technically, at midnight, it's neither am nor pm. But merely the instant of transition between the two.
Some ideas:
* Use a 24 hour clock. Perhaps with 12 hour correlations in parenthes... |
31,141 | <p>Sometime ago I found an article about making buttons, or what is written on the buttons more readable. Not so much by design but by what was written on them. For example.</p>
<pre><code> Not so good
+-------------------------------------------+
| |
| Dele... | [
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```
Not so good
+-------------------------------------------+
| |
| Delete this item? ... | For even quicker usage of such dialogs you can try to change the button in a way the user don't even has to read to actual question above.
Instead of "Delete this item?" I would write "Do you **really** want to delete this item? (it can't be reverted)"
And the buttons would be "Delete it!" and "Cancel" where the dele... |
31,177 | <p>I want to ask a question of my website that has users match items up. </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre><code>Match the animal with its sound:
Cow Bark
Dog Neigh
Horse Moo
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For example:
```
Match the animal with its sound:
Cow Bark
Dog Neigh
Horse Moo
```
If this were a question on paper I would ask the user to draw lines from one to the other. How should the interface to answer this question look on a websi... | For a simpler implementation, use colors.
They are just buttons. You click one, and then click another one from the other side to pair them up, sort of like that puzzle game.
 |
31,285 | <p>For a list that allows the user to control the order of items, where should new items be inserted? </p>
<pre><code> Hamlet
**Ophelia**
Polonius
</code></pre>
<p>After hitting "New Item", where should it go?</p>
<p>Before the current selection:</p>
<pre><code> Hamlet
**New Victim**
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Poloniu... | [
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```
Hamlet
**Ophelia**
Polonius
```
After hitting "New Item", where should it go?
Before the current selection:
```
Hamlet
**New Victim**
Ophelia
Polonius
```
Or after?
```
Hamlet
Ophelia ... | And if it has maximum of 30 items and all of them are visible why you just not place an action at the end of the list and add an ability to quickly reorder the list?
So, position of the new item will be obvious. And you can keep the selection untouched in this case. |
31,445 | <p>I have n-items (n being somewhere between 5 and 9) that I would like participants to sort in relative order of importance. </p>
<p>Although I have used visual 'drag and drop' approaches before, I found that this is quite hard to do with 9 items. People need to compare each one to all others etc.</p>
<p>There is a ... | [
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Although I have used visual 'drag and drop' approaches before, I found that this is quite hard to do with 9 items. People need to compare each one to all others etc.
There is a way that a perfec... | I would call it "[pairwise comparison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise_comparison)".
I recall that [IBM Rational Focal Point](http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/focalpoint/) uses this method to rank requirements.
The purpose is to get a list ordered by priority, even though the list of requirements could ... |
31,653 | <p>We are working on an point of sale app, and need to figure out how to format the numbers on the screen for when a client is entering a credit card number.</p>
<p>The two options are:</p>
<p>1) The way a phone usually formats numbers:</p>
<pre><code>1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
0
</code></pre>
<p>2) The way a keyboard is ... | [
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The two options are:
1) The way a phone usually formats numbers:
```
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
0
```
2) The way a keyboard is formatted (a tool clients may be familia... | Use an input field which [triggers the numeric keyboard](http://blog.pamelafox.org/2012/05/triggering-numeric-keyboards-with-html5.html). Users will be familiar to this as it is a UI that is native to their device.
```
<input type="number">
```
When using this method don't forget that the chrome desktop browser will... |
31,884 | <p>I need to design a page to get user inputs in below format:</p>
<pre><code>1. Item A (text)
a. Sub-item (text)
b. Upload photo for Sub-item (Browse and upload)
c. Description for Sub-item (text)
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a. Sub-item (text)
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```
1. Item A (text)
a. Sub-item (text)
b. Upload photo for Sub-item (Browse and upload)
c. Description for Sub-item (text)
2. Item B (text)
a. Sub-item (text)
b. Upload photo for Sub-item (Browse and upload)
c. Description for Sub-item (text)
`... | I would suggest not to use jQuery and display the form fully. Imagine if you are a user and you come to the form where there is 1 field. Great only 1 field to fill out that's easy! But every time you fill it in the new filed comes up. AAAAArgh! It would drive me crazy, especially if you have more than 1 of these.
Othe... |
33,107 | <p>In our application we have a number of views that display financial numbers. I am just trying to figure out what is the best way to display zero or no value. Is there a standard format. </p>
<pre><code>Quote Number Quote Date Quote Amount Taxes Total Amount
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Quote Number Quote Date Quote Amount Taxes Total Amount
1000 01-10-2012 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00
1001 ... | It isn't inherently bad, necessarily, but you could opt to make things easier to use. Consider the following:
* Above the table headers, or between the first and second headers, put checkboxes that allow you to check or uncheck the entire column. If the user changes anything in said column, the master checkbox for tha... |
33,666 | <p>I need to build a table which is populated over time.
The same behaviour you have on flight comparison websites like skyscanner where the flights appear progressively in the page.
I also need to provide an alternative page which would be accessible and which would work without Javascript.
Do you have any recommendat... | [
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The same behaviour you have on flight comparison websites like skyscanner where the flights appear progressively in the page.
I also need to provide an alternative page which would be accessible and which would work without Javascript.
Do you have any recommendation... | You can refresh/redirect a page using META-tags, and go from there. Make sure caching is off if this turns out to be a problem; on the other hand: for a smoother experience, turn it *on* to create a more seamless refresh. Test if the updated data is properly represented, though.
```
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT=... |
33,739 | <p>We have a framework with multiple plugins (for different functionality). Each plugin has it's own configuration/information pages. These pages also have sub levels; sometimes up to four level. If we consider each plugin as a tab in an application, each tab has been divided to sub level tabs again and so on. Also we ... | [
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```
Home > Plugin > Page > Subpage > Page settings > Confirm page
```
If, for example, you hover over "Plugin", you would get a drop-down... |
33,986 | <p>I have a web application where the user will need to fill many addresses (a few users entering the addresses of <strong>other people</strong>). It uses autocomplete to speed things up and to reduce duplication (the database contains nearly all streets in the city). Most often than not, the street the user is enterin... | [
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>
> The "street" field starts focused; if the user selects something in
> the drop down then the "street number" is focused ("type" is
> aut... |
34,199 | <p>A typical application like ERP, I always need keep look and feel of prototypes consistency every-time I release the prototype while requirements change all the time. Useful tools have these characteristics:</p>
<pre><code>A. Must have
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```
A. Must have
1. Create Master Page/Page template with editable region: Keep page outline consistency.
... | Check out Axure. I've been evaluating it for a few projects that I've been scoping out and it is working pretty well. It's a little pricey, but well built. The only "Must have" that I think it will be weak on is #1. Although, I can think of a few ways to make it do what you want. It also covers several of your "Nice to... |
34,245 | <p>We have a responsive menu that on mobile just shows the top-level menu items (x8), but on desktop also shows hover dropdowns with service areas within the parent menu item.</p>
<p>The problem is we need the ability to show another level of navigation with the actual services within that area.</p>
<p>Here is the li... | [
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The problem is we need the ability to show another level of navigation with the actual services within that area.
Here is the link: <http://www.i... | As others have pointed out, you have a huge menu, and no matter how you style it you're probably losing customers who don't want the hassle of reading through 20 menu items to work out which one is best suited for them.
Assuming you *have* to have a 3 level menu though:
On **mobile** you can have a Menu link which op... |
34,297 | <p>Imagine an app that presents a number of questions and answers to a user. After each question the user can rate the answer (easy/medium/hard).</p>
<p>Based on the rating, the question is either:</p>
<ul>
<li>Not shown again ("easy")</li>
<li>Shown again in a while ("medium")</li>
<li>Shown again soon ("hard")</li>... | [
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Based on the rating, the question is either:
* Not shown again ("easy")
* Shown again in a while ("medium")
* Shown again soon ("hard")
I'm debating if the wording for asking... | Assuming this app is some kind of flash-card learning tool, I'd be hesitant about making the connection explicit between the rating and seeing the question again. I think about it like this: the user just had a really hard question, and didn't enjoy it. Then, right away, you give them an opportunity to not see that que... |
34,407 | <p>I want to offer the users a way to select a range of months within a year. The selected months are used to display a table of data. The control should be placed above the table and since vertical space is limited, it shouldn't take up much vertical space.</p>
<p>I thought about a list of checkboxes:</p>
<pre><code... | [
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I thought about a list of checkboxes:
```
[] January [] Febru... | I think if you are selecting a single range within a single year you can keep it super simple (and easy to use) with a pair of select boxes.
Advantages:
1. Minimal Vertical Space
2. Easy to select the month (the user can just tab and type the first letter of the ... |
34,462 | <p>I have created a gift website where I want users to find gift suggestions based on a series of questions. To display the questions and search results I have two panels on the screen:</p>
<p>Panel 1: Search criteria (number of questions on rotating slider) with a <code>Find More</code> button. Initially, I'm showing... | [
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Panel 1: Search criteria (number of questions on rotating slider) with a `Find More` button. Initially, I'm showing only 2 questions/sli... | Michael Lai's second point touches on something I think is quite important. You want to order your questions/filters so that the user gets to the relevant products quickly. You want to have questions which split the data as evenly as possible.
I think the best way to think about this is using decision trees:
```
... |
34,493 | <p>Up to now we use the following ascii art to show the difference in our mail/ticket system:</p>
<pre><code>--> means "incoming"
<-- means "outgoing"
</code></pre>
<p>But some users complain, that it is not immediately clear what this means.</p>
<p>But some how I don't like this. "i" like incoming ....</p>
<... | [
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--> means "incoming"
<-- means "outgoing"
```
But some users complain, that it is not immediately clear what this means.
But some how I don't like this. "i" like incoming ....
```
i>>
<<o
```
The icon (or ascii art) is... | "IN"
&
"OUT"
Same/fewer characters, instant understanding (assuming your users are native English speakers...if they're not then adding "i" and "o" won't help anyway). |
34,588 | <p>I have a page listing the latest blog posts in a pretty standard format, you'd expect to see on any typical blog. At the foot of each post, I have a list showing 'views', 'comments' and 'shares'.</p>
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34,772 | <p>Problem: Develop an easy to use school calendar for web + print.<br>
Prerequisites: </p>
<pre><code>1. School has several teachers. Currently 7 but grows.
2. Each teacher can have multiple groups (average 1-5).
3. Each group contains multiple students. (average 3-8).
4. Groups usually have no meaningful name... | [
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Prerequisites:
```
1. School has several teachers. Currently 7 but grows.
2. Each teacher can have multiple groups (average 1-5).
3. Each group contains multiple students. (average 3-8).
4. Groups usually have no meaningful name at this point. (... | I think part of the problem is that you are trying to cram three dimensions of data (Day, Time, Teacher/Classroom) into two dimensions of the view.
The way around this is to only show two dimensions per view.
So for example, you can show:
1. All teachers and their assigned classes for a single day, or:
2. All classe... |
35,281 | <p>I've seen some anecdotal evidence that design differs between cultures - such as <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2010/07/25/the-puzzle-of-japanese-web-design/">THE PUZZLE OF JAPANESE WEB DESIGN</a> </p>
<p>But are there any case studies or quantitative data in this area? </p>
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But are there any case studies or quantitative data in this area?
Aside from curiosity, I'm facing one main issue: **internationa... | I actually wrote a [really long blog post](http://uxthoughtsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/how-to-design-a-site-for-international-audiences/#more-83) about designing for international audiences where I heavily referenced the use case of How Macdonalds provides customized sites for each country depending upon the design ... |
35,289 | <p>I usually tend to wrap my checkboxes and radio button inside their respective labels and was wondering whether this is considered a good UX practice. </p>
<p>Pros/cons ?</p>
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Pros/cons ?
One of my main reasons is that it helps with element alignment as we are mainly using only one element for positioning, whilst having checkboxes/radiobutto... | **Wrap the label around the checkbox**. This makes it much **easier to click** the button.
If the label is separate from the control, then there is often a non-clickable gap between them.
```
<input id="click-me" name="click-me" type="checkbox"/>
<label for="click-me">
Click me
</label>
```
![mockup](https://i.... |
35,307 | <p>Suppose I have a settings screen where I have a table with a bunch of rows with checkboxes.
For example the default settings are:</p>
<pre><code>| Name | Setting |
| A | on |
| B | off |
</code></pre>
<p>Then the user comes and toggles the setting A</p>
<pre><code>| Name | Setting |
| A | off ... | [
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For example the default settings are:
```
| Name | Setting |
| A | on |
| B | off |
```
Then the user comes and toggles the setting A
```
| Name | Setting |
| A | off |
| B | off |
```
What's a... | I would suggest not to use asterisk since it is used to mark required fields. Instead let's compare several possible solutions:
(3),(4) are the most noticeable, but (4) seems to be more natural and easy to understand.
**Color**
Red and green are u... |
35,415 | <p>I have an application that converts the following <em>invalid</em> dates, with only two-character years into a <em>valid</em> date format automatically while the user's filling out the form:</p>
<p>(NOTE: The application is only in-use by UK organisations, so the dates are all UK format only)</p>
<pre><code>01/01/... | [
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(NOTE: The application is only in-use by UK organisations, so the dates are all UK format only)
```
01/01/01 to 01/01/2001
14/05/58 to 14/05/... | What is the context of your application? Context really matters for dates. Consider the two following situations.
1. A budgeting application where users plan spending for future years
2. A college reunion signup where users enter their graduation date
Clearly if people are *planning*, they would be annoyed to get a d... |
35,422 | <p>For example, I have a numbered list, what is easier for an average user to read ?</p>
<p><em>Vertically</em></p>
<pre><code>[1] [5]
[2] [6]
[3] [7]
[4] [8]
</code></pre>
<p>OR</p>
<p><em>Horizontally</em></p>
<pre><code>[1] [2]
[3] [4]
[5] [6]
[7] [8]
</code></pre>
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*Vertically*
```
[1] [5]
[2] [6]
[3] [7]
[4] [8]
```
OR
*Horizontally*
```
[1] [2]
[3] [4]
[5] [6]
[7] [8]
```
...assuming columns and rows count matters, how do I make the choice between the two ways of displaying... | Vertical lists are better because they are easier to scan. If you draw a line from 1 -> 2 -> 3 in your examples, you will see how much work the eye has to zig-zag through your second example.
See [this related question about alphabetical lists](https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/17176/alphabetical-lists-horizontal... |
35,530 | <p>I am making the registration page for a website. How should the different components be laid out relative to each other? For example should the heading be on level or above the text input field?</p>
<pre><code>Username:____________
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code>Username:
____________
</code></pre>
<p>Also s... | [
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```
Username:____________
```
or
```
Username:
____________
```
Also sometimes I need to explain things to the user, fo... | As with many UI issues, the best way for you depends on how your users will be using the form. In your case since the registration form is likely simple, I'd agree with the other answers here about field names above the input boxes.
For longer, more complicated forms, you need to evaluate if the form will be scanned f... |
35,720 | <p>Should the ampersand be on the first or the second line of a title?</p>
<p>Or does it depend on the length of each line?</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nZyaY.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
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Or does it depend on the length of each line?
 | There is a very similar question on Graphic Design - StackExchange, [Is ampersand allowed at the beginning of line?](https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/15783/is-ampersand-allowed-at-the-beginning-of-line), and here is the best answer:
>
> There is a typographic recommendation to place connector words l... |
35,812 | <p>I'm developing an engineering application which stores data in C arrays. When a user edits data representing one of the items of the array, I want to be able to show the item number they're editing.</p>
<pre><code>Item 16 of 72 (maximum 5000), last modified one hour ago
</code></pre>
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```
Item 16 of 72 (maximum 5000), last modified one hour ago
```
The problem is, we have an accompanying programming l... | Here we have 2 entities - 'index' (0...71) and 'number' (1...72). It's obvious that usually we use numbering, but using indexes is implied. Also, 'number' is item's property but 'index' is array property, i.e. property of some storage. You should abstract from storage and reference your main entity - item. What referen... |
35,837 | <p>Apart from the ui being neat and simple, Is there any other reason why every major website uses a white background with very few colors?</p>
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This answer is more general, instead of just white I'll focus on light backgrounds.
```
There are two main factors that influence the fact that most websites use a light background, the first is the power of **defaults** and the second is **readability**.
Defaults and standards
----------------------
* **HTML a... |
36,009 | <p>I have a related <a href="https://superuser.com/q/562342/98199">question on SU</a> that is asking for any tools which apply this concept: </p>
<p>Suppose that I've got a perfectly reasonable set of two terminal windows, two web browsers, and one email client open, all visible at the same time, on my computer which ... | [
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Suppose that I've got a perfectly reasonable set of two terminal windows, two web browsers, and one email client open, all visible at the same time, on my computer which is driving three disp... | Your idea immediately made me question, why keyboard shortcuts? If all windows are visible, why not the mouse? What you are doing is **shifting focus**, for *input* and maybe output (as the window is visible, I'm assuming you are getting partial to complete results of what you want to see).
The main reason for using ... |
36,110 | <p>I have little design experience.</p>
<p>Here is what my site looks like. </p>
<p>Favicons and user images are added dynamically but the site looks sparse otherwise.</p>
<p>How can I add content. I don't want to grab random images off the web b.c. this would look patchy?</p>
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Here is what my site looks like.
Favicons and user images are added dynamically but the site looks sparse otherwise.
How can I add content. I don't want to grab random images off the web b.c. this would look patchy?
Any ideas on how to fill all the whitespace?
Note that the image ... | **Whitespace is a design element**, not something that you need to try and fill.
>
> When looking at a design, one client might say “oh, there is so much wasted space!” or some might say, “the colors are great but I think we need to put something to make it look lighter for the eye”. Both of them are referring to one... |
36,127 | <p>The application I'm working on has a number of cases where the simple and most common use-case involves configuring a single object, but in some cases requires breaking the base object into sub-objects and then configuring each sub-object.</p>
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A concrete case of this would be job scheduling. The simple case involves creat... | The real problem your facing is trying to remove shifts, where there are only one shift available. By shift you mean working hours, which makes it easier to consume, since the default shift isn't a scheduled working shift per se. The default shift is (most likely) a daytime schedule just as much as [Dolly Partons Nine ... |
36,597 | <p>I have information in short sentences (bullet list) and each bullet could be pros/cons or plus/minus toward a product. What is the best way to display it nicely?</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre><code>+ Price is cheap
+ Many people bought this and found out that it is very easy to use
- It's somewhat ugly in design
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For example:
```
+ Price is cheap
+ Many people bought this and found out that it is very easy to use
- It's somewhat ugly in design
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36,633 | <p>For <code><select></code> elements that require the user to select at least one option, basic wording for the "blank" option is fairly easy: "Select..." or something similar.</p>
<p>However, for <code><select></code> elements that do <em>not</em> require a selection (i.e., "blank" option is perfectly ac... | [
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However, for `<select>` elements that do *not* require a selection (i.e., "blank" option is perfectly acceptable), what is the most user-friendly or common... | The language for this default option would be entirely dependent upon the context.
In general, however, **the copy you do use should be unambiguous**. It should clearly inform the user what the result of their non-selection will be upon the state of the system.
For example, eBay allows a seller to choose whether they... |
36,675 | <p>I'm displaying both Sets (which contain Cards) and Folders (which contain Sets) on the same page. Ideally they'll both be tiles. I'm not sure how to make it easy for the user to tell the difference though, other than putting "SET" or "FOLDER" in the corner of the tile, which doesn't feel right. </p>
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Here's what I'm workin... | You have a couple of conventional patterns at your disposal for folders and set.
The tabbed top edge universally means "folder", and while it's not quite so universal, multiple or stacked items are readily recognizable as a set.
Here, "Thai" is a folder, and "History" is a set.
![Folders and Sets](https://i.stack.... |
36,774 | <p><strong>Background.</strong> "Bidi" refers to the <em>bidirectional</em> text, that is a text where traditional left-to-right scripts are intermixed with right-to-left ones, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Thaana, etc. Such text may look like this: "Hello އުސެރް އެކްސްޕެރިއްނެސެ". Since most readers of this board do ... | [
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### 1. Use a double cursor
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36,783 | <p>I have seen content from various style guides and UX guidelines about this, and was wondering if there is a much more simple system to create a consistent and easy to implement design for various types of communication that occurs between users and systems. My initial idea is to use a Importance/Urgency matrix and a... | [
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Re-reading your question, it seems you are more after a way to classify messages in categories like **Status, Warning and Error.** To me those **cannot be classified automatically**, because **knowledge of the business case is necessary to do so**. You can maintain a matri... |
37,197 | <p>I'm working on some retail software, for trade use. It lists a catalogue of items and the prices that the retailer should be selling them for.</p>
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Occasionally, however, the retail price in the system turns out to be lower than the cost price for an item. So if the retailer used that price, they'd be making a loss. In thi... | I would suggest using the strikethrough plus an indication of change:
Oranges: 20p ▲ 32p
Bananas: 27p ▼ 23p
Arrows should be red and green, depending on the price change direction. You don't need graphics for the arrows, as these are UTF-8 characters. |
37,219 | <p>I am trying to find an intuitive way to show the Log/History information of the users actions on the application. The actions may include the following:</p>
<pre><code>Type | Date & Time | User | Details
------------------------------------------------------------------------------... | [
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```
Type | Date & Time | User | Details
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Prof... | In your mentioned problem, you have 3 columns which may be used to search for a particular record. Date and Time column may be vertically scanned to find a particular event, Names Column can be scanned to find name of a person and then there comes Description and you might want to scan that column to find a particular ... |
37,305 | <p>Say we have a list of records displayed like this:</p>
<pre><code>Date Description Payer Amount
---------------------------------------
01/01 Rent Maxi $1000
12/01 Lunch with clients Bob $80
23/01 Cleaning Alice $60
</code></pre>
<p>Clicking (anywhere on) a row replaces t... | [
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```
Date Description Payer Amount
---------------------------------------
01/01 Rent Maxi $1000
12/01 Lunch with clients Bob $80
23/01 Cleaning Alice $60
```
Clicking (anywhere on) a row replaces the row with a form to edit... | When the description has a hashtag, automatically add a corresponding number of tag buttons to the right of the row. Those will take the user to the results of the search query for "#Lunch" or "#clients" for example.
As soon as the user adds/removes the hashtag to or from the description, the tag button gets added to... |
37,410 | <p>I'm currently developing a game, and one of the features involves breeding the creatures you collect.</p>
<p>Since it's a game, a large amount of promiscuity is to be expected, and individuals could potentially have hundreds of siblings.</p>
<p>How exactly can I go about presenting this information?</p>
<p>My cur... | [
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Since it's a game, a large amount of promiscuity is to be expected, and individuals could potentially have hundreds of siblings.
How exactly can I go about presenting this information?
My current setup is along thes... | Look into the [sunburst visualization](http://www.daisydiskapp.com/manual/en.lproj/Topics/SunburstHistory.html). The video is about navigating through a hierarchy of files and folders and can be translated to a lineage hierarchy easily.
Something like the following image. Imagine it colored to represented different h... |
37,564 | <p>To represent "sort ascending" (a -> b -> c -> ...) , my first sense told me that, I should use ↓ to represent it. This is because if I lay my data</p>
<pre><code>a
b
c
</code></pre>
<p>It seems like thing is moving naturally toward downwards.</p>
<p>However, for the table header under Windows, the thing I saw is,... | [
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```
a
b
c
```
It seems like thing is moving naturally toward downwards.
However, for the table header under Windows, the thing I saw is, they are mostly using up arrow.
... | >
> as·cend (-snd)
>
>
> v. as·cend·ed, as·cend·ing, as·cends
> v.intr.
>
>
> 1. To go or move upward; rise. See Synonyms at rise.
> 2. To slope upward.
> 3. To rise from a lower level or station; advance: ascended from poverty to great wealth; ascend to the throne.
> 4. To go back in time or upward in genealogic... |
37,599 | <p>I have to create a form to track activity start and end time. Which format is more appropriate. While filing the form the time passes by and it gives a warning - "Start time should be greater than current time."</p>
<pre><code>Start time-1:45:20 (hr:min:sec)
Start time-1:45 (hr:min)
Start time-1 (hr)
</cod... | [
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```
Start time-1:45:20 (hr:min:sec)
Start time-1:45 (hr:min)
Start time-1 (hr)
```
Start time ma... | It seems to me to depend on the use of your Duration.
If the Duration is of any importance, you will have to keep the same detail level in Start and End Times. It will also be less confusing to the user, if two controls that look the same, also work the same way.
If the Duration needs seconds, then Start and End Time... |
37,650 | <p>We have a screen that has a form that gathers a lot of input.</p>
<p>Many of the terms and questions are confusing so we have help for them.</p>
<p>We are trying to put a little (?) help icon for each line.</p>
<p>We are struggling to find the best place to put it.</p>
<p>This is 'neat' but the icon can get far ... | [
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Many of the terms and questions are confusing so we have help for them.
We are trying to put a little (?) help icon for each line.
We are struggling to find the best place to put it.
This is 'neat' but the icon can get far away from the content:
```
ter... | You can use tooltips and subtle help icons, however... If you need to explain each of the objects your labels are not doing their job.
The input field labels should intuitively represent the field. If this is not the case you should think about updating the labels instead of overloading the page with help icons. |
38,231 | <p>I have a website where factories are stored in different categories, but now i was wondering how to call the factories in my urls.</p>
<p>I have an url for showing factories in a category:</p>
<pre><code>http://mydomain.com/factories
</code></pre>
<p>I also have a page where all my factories from the database are... | [
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I have an url for showing factories in a category:
```
http://mydomain.com/factories
```
I also have a page where all my factories from the database are displayed
i don't know how to ca... | A quite common pattern for showing all of something is to extend the category with a filter, which in your case would be something like:
```
http://mydomain.com/factories/all
```
That way you can use the filter in your URL to select factories in let's say Europe:
```
http://mydomain.com/factories/europe
```
And m... |
38,409 | <p>I'm having some issues when the user types extensive text in a small input field.</p>
<p>I need some good way to display data that will be cut off.</p>
<p>I tried to use a Bootstrap based Tooltip or Popover on hover but I'm already using this kind of component for validation.</p>
<p>Here's an example of what I'm ... | [
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I need some good way to display data that will be cut off.
I tried to use a Bootstrap based Tooltip or Popover on hover but I'm already using this kind of component for validation.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about.
```
<inp... | I had came across this issue a few months back and I tried to find its solution. To me the best and most inexpensive solution is to place the text underneath the input field and only do so if entered text gets longer than the width of input text. This shouldn't be done unless entered or displayed information is importa... |
38,469 | <p>I work on a form, in which there are questions allowing either multiple choices or selecting just one. An example:</p>
<p>Which of the sweeties do you like:</p>
<ul>
<li>[ ] chocolate</li>
<li>[ ] lollipops</li>
<li>[ ] cookies</li>
<li>( ) none</li>
</ul>
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Which of the sweeties do you like:
* [ ] chocolate
* [ ] lollipops
* [ ] cookies
* ( ) none
In the above, [ ] represent checkboxes and ( ) represents radiobuttons. User can select multiple sweeties, but... | There should never be just one radio button, as it breaks the user's expectations on how they work. Radio buttons are meant to allow selection of one and only one item from a set of several radio buttons.
If you really want to use radio buttons, you could either go with this approach:
```
() I like the following swee... |
38,870 | <p>I have a numeric input box, as part of a form. I'm implementing delimited splitting, to make large numbers easier to read. ie, 1000000 would become 1,000,000.</p>
<p>Would it be a good idea to automatically update the input with commas as the number is typed? So that typing 1,000,000 would show:</p>
<pre><code>1
1... | [
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Would it be a good idea to automatically update the input with commas as the number is typed? So that typing 1,000,000 would show:
```
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10
100
1,000
10,000
10... | Do not update what users enter when they're still typing. It fuddles up their ability to edit as they type, and it makes the field a moving target. If you were to type 25000 straight, no typo's, no backspacing, it might make sense to format it right when you're done. However, what happens when you enter a 0 between the... |
38,963 | <p>The general consensus is that zebra striping a table makes it a little easier for people to keep track of which row they're on...but is this reduction of cognitive taxes only for table rows? I at least sometimes backtrack when I'm reading to a previous line of text.</p>
<p>I've zebra striped <a href="http://Jonatha... | [
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I've zebra striped [an article page](http://Jonathan... | The purpose of zebra striping is (with arguable success) to connect items in a row that are a distance apart...often as you'd see in a table and where scanning (rather than reading line-by-line) is often a goal.
```
Item Item Item
```
But a paragraph of text has no such... |
39,113 | <p>we are designing a checkout page and in the subtotals area we have a breakout for tax, shipping and discounts.</p>
<p>We use the term 'free' rather than '0.00'.</p>
<p>So, for example:</p>
<pre><code>Subtotal: $140.00
Tax: FREE
Shipping: FREE
Savings: ($4.50)
Total: $135.50
</code></p... | [
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We use the term 'free' rather than '0.00'.
So, for example:
```
Subtotal: $140.00
Tax: FREE
Shipping: FREE
Savings: ($4.50)
Total: $135.50
```
**QUESTION: is it goofy to use t... | It makes perfect sense for shipping, as that's a benefit you are providing your customer.
But also listing it for taxes seems to dilute the benefit of the term for shipping--after all, not charging taxes is not a benefit you are directly providing the customer (it's something the customer's local government is doing)... |
39,134 | <p>I'm developing a website called <a href="http://fablelane.com" rel="nofollow">Fablelane</a> which allows you to write your own stories and have others contribute outcomes or "chunks" to that story.</p>
<p>Right now (if you go to the website), there's an experience bar that advances as the user progresses and stays ... | [
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Right now (if you go to the website), there's an experience bar that advances as the user progresses and stays active. (It works for anonymous user... | Is the shaking and rumbling a direct co-relation to the user's progress? If yes, the that is instant feedback for the user and can be considered a game element leading to a gamified site.
[Mark LeBlanc's MDA framework](http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~hunicke/MDA.pdf) (Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics) is something you ... |
39,148 | <p>I've recently piloted an open card sort, and have had some feedback suggesting that respondents should be told that they can add a 'Don't know' group if they're not sure where to put cards. I'm reluctant to do so as I feel this would encourage respondents to put more cards into the 'Don't know' group than they would... | [
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Eyeballing some of the instructions messages suggests that most studies are not prompting the use of a "don't know" group. So I've counted the number of participants who did anyway using the following criteria:
```
... where label R... |
39,246 | <p>We have two pages. One is a landing page, given by the route <code>/region</code>. The other is a detail page for a particular region, given by the route <code>/region/summary/{id}</code>. The landing page is the normal way by which a user would navigate to a detail page.</p>
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Suppose a user visits the intermediate route `region/summary`. Shoul... | This was originally a comment, because I had assumed it was considered and not used prior to this question being posted..
At the moment, these are your URLs (with "summary" being a type of action, presumably):
```
/region
/region/{action}/{id}
```
Your question is, what should you do if someone tries to access it w... |
39,315 | <p>I have a table with information about all loans a client had. This table looks like this</p>
<pre><code> Book_Id | BookType_Title | StartDate | EndDate |
---------+----------------+-----------+---------------+
1234 | Test1 | 01.01.2013 | 01.02.2013 |
1337 | Test1 | 01.01.2013 | 01... | [
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```
Book_Id | BookType_Title | StartDate | EndDate |
---------+----------------+-----------+---------------+
1234 | Test1 | 01.01.2013 | 01.02.2013 |
1337 | Test1 | 01.01.2013 | 01.02.2013 |
... | >
> It's not very clear that "Review & Publish" is for this page or for all of the pages. When the link is clicked, a list of all of the changed pages is displayed and then the user can click the "Publish" button.
>
>
>
The hierarchy of pages and their state isn't communicated in your GUI. Simply reshuffling some ... |
39,491 | <p>I have the following table which I created as follows: </p>
<pre><code><html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
background-color: #fff;
}
body{
text-align:center;
}
table{
border-collapse:collapse;
}
table,th, td{
border: 4px, solid;
} ... | [
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```
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
html {
background-color: #fff;
}
body{
text-align:center;
}
table{
border-collapse:collapse;
}
table,th, td{
border: 4px, solid;
}
th{
text-transform:upperc... | **Wrap the data with an elipsis at the end**. What this does is, it uses **known vocabulary** to show there is more than what is visible.
```
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
```
becomes
```
AAAAAA...
```
then you can **use a tooltip to show the entire content**, use hyperlink or the column can be expanded, depending on y... |
39,546 | <p>In almost every chat window I open, there's this fairly obvious statement:</p>
<pre>Never tell your [password/credit card/social security/etc] to anyone.</pre>
<p>Are there some <strong>standards for chat functionality</strong> that require this statement be put in place? Is it there to prevent liability when thei... | [
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```
Never tell your [password/credit card/social security/etc] to anyone.
```
Are there some **standards for chat functionality** that require this statement be put in place? Is it there to prevent liability when their account is inevitably ha... | A better modification of such a statment which I see being used is:
```
'A company_name employee will never ask for your password'
```
This message alerts the user that if the person is asking for a password, there is something fishy and he should alert the concerned authorities immediately. With all the live chat f... |
39,937 | <p>In Live Mail, and I believe Google Mail too, you can specify multiple recipients within the same input box and separate them with either a tab, a space or a comma in some cases. This is also the same for the tags box on this website to allow you to specify multiple tags and you can remove them.</p>
<p>What I wonder... | [
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What I wondered was whe... | There's no particular name for it. [Inputs in HTML5](http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.email.html) can have a value of multiple email addresses separated by a comma:
```
<input type="email" value="foo@example.com, bar@example.com">
```
For what it's worth, the newer gmail compose UI uses a 1 row textarea inside... |
40,018 | <p>My client wants users to reach single product pages with one click from the home page. They also want to display products' images already in home page. </p>
<p>The problem is that the product list is huge and single product might be at second or third level of navigation. </p>
<p>This is the products'hierachy:</p>... | [
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The problem is that the product list is huge and single product might be at second or third level of navigation.
This is the products'hierachy:
```
-> Category
-... | How about proposing a compromise like a featured or popular product feed? You could offer users visually striking deep links to a few products instead of every product. Those featured items could also include labelling that hints at the category structure and educates the first time visitors. |
40,326 | <p>I have a list that contains long, in terms of character count, links and I am wondering if my solution is a good solution in terms of UX.</p>
<p>My solution is that if the link is over 80 characters, then truncate it and after the 80 characters add a '...'. Clicking on the link still navigates to the full, original... | [
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My solution is that if the link is over 80 characters, then truncate it and after the 80 characters add a '...'. Clicking on the link still navigates to the full, original link.
Wh... | This is a good approach, however I would recommend putting the ellipses in the middle of the shortened string rather than at the end. It is commonly the last portion of the URL that distinguishes it from others, so by putting the ellipses in the middle you are not truncating the useful part of the URL.
Example:
```
w... |
40,529 | <p>Is there any reason not to programmatically put the cursor in the search box by deafult instead of forcing the user to click before writing the search? Google for instance does this but not always. </p>
<p>I do it like this</p>
<pre><code>var elem = document.getElementById('searchtext');
setCursor(elem,elem.value.... | [
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I do it like this
```
var elem = document.getElementById('searchtext');
setCursor(elem,elem.value.length);
function se... | forcing focus to search could have negative usability implications towards screen readers and other accessibility tools. I would suggest against it - the only caveat being if a user navigates to the page from another link which is explicitly designed to "take the user to the search page" (like an "advanced search" link... |
40,536 | <p>The words that appear on the alert boxes are sometimes ambiguous. For example, if the task is to quit the application, then an alert box with the pair of choices "Quit" and "OK", or with "Cancel" and "Continue" are ambiguous, and can be taken either way. Are there better words that can be used unambiguously in wide ... | [
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"Do you really want to get answer to the question?"
```
so action buttons are either:
```
OK/Yes/Proceed/Continue
```
or
```
No/Not now/Cancel/Quit/Later sometime/Continue what I was doing
```
My point is that it depends on context also. So you need to choose right pair of positive and negative action label... |
40,621 | <p>Autofill is a good option for users who don't have an account. But it seems that how browsers determine how they'll implement autofill information varies. I'm not surprised of course. In Chrome, it's kept track of by <code>name</code>, <code>class</code>, <code>id</code> values. You must submit an HTML form in the t... | [
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] | Autofill is a good option for users who don't have an account. But it seems that how browsers determine how they'll implement autofill information varies. I'm not surprised of course. In Chrome, it's kept track of by `name`, `class`, `id` values. You must submit an HTML form in the traditional `method="post"` way (no a... | I would avoid interrupting someone once they have switched from 'clicking mode' to 'typing mode'.
* Some people don't touch-type, would keep on typing for some amount of time before noticing the box, and would be rightfully annoyed.
* Whether you don't touch-type or whether you just touch-type quickly, might you be ru... |
40,632 | <p>We have a webapp that lets users to create their own tags and assign them data rows for identification purposes.</p>
<p>Currently design looks something like this like this:</p>
<pre><code>--------------------
Created tags:
tag1, tag2, tag3,
tag4, tag5...
--------------------
Table of items:
item | tag2, tag5
item... | [
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Currently design looks something like this like this:
```
--------------------
Created tags:
tag1, tag2, tag3,
tag4, tag5...
--------------------
Table of items:
item | tag2, tag5
item | tag1
item | ...
--... | You can **display reasonably number of tags and hide others**. Then display them in popup window on user click, see picture.
Initially displayed tags could be choosen by they importance or weight or frequency. |
40,740 | <p>I am building out an e-commerce site for a screen printing ink manufacturer. They have around 300 SKUs and warehouses in two locations - one on the east coast, one on the west.</p>
<p>Generally when customers order, there is a time sensitivity. Additionally, the product can be heavy and incur large shipping costs... | [
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Generally when customers order, there is a time sensitivity. Additionally, the product can be heavy and incur large shipping costs. For these ... | Do you collect their data before they order? You could potentially use some of it to make it easier to give them directions. If they look for a product, you could show them how many are available in the warehouse closest to their address, with a secondary box showing how many in the other one if they really need it (or... |
40,743 | <p><a href="http://www.scic.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.scic.com</a> is the site.</p>
<p>We have a menu structure similar to this on our site using jQuery Simplemenu.</p>
<pre><code>-----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| MENU 1 | MENU 2 | MENU 3 | ME... | [
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We have a menu structure similar to this on our site using jQuery Simplemenu.
```
-----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
| MENU 1 | MENU 2 | MENU 3 | MENU 4 |
-----------------|----------------|-----------------|----... | In my opinion, your menus are way too complicated already. Some problems I see:
* It is not intuitive to find things if one is not sure what one wants.
* It encourages users to jump directly to the lowest level, but the intermediate levels appear to be the ones that really "sell" the product and provide important cont... |
41,071 | <p>I'm developing a distributed project management tool with a command line interface. I have two commands relating to initially copying a project to/from a hub. The export command looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>prog export PROJECT HUB
</code></pre>
<p>This reads well when compared with the English "export this PROJ... | [
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```
prog export PROJECT HUB
```
This reads well when compared with the English "export this PROJECT to the HUB".
The impo... | Unless you're going to actually write the entire sentence, you can't rely on the language to clarify the directionality of your command. Like you already found out, a sentence could be constructed to support either direction.
In stead, the directionality we're used to in the left-to-right part of the world is much str... |
41,073 | <p>I write an import software. I want to display values that can be imported, right next to the current values. I thought about a datagrid like this</p>
<pre><code>+------+----------------+--------------------+------------------+-----------+
| Name | Attribute Name | Existing Attribute | Import Attribute | Do Import |... | [
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```
+------+----------------+--------------------+------------------+-----------+
| Name | Attribute Name | Existing Attribute | Import Attribute | Do Import |
+------+-----... | There are some usability drawbacks in your approach.
1. There are **too many points of eye fixation** while taking decision, see
red dots and dotted pathes on the image.
2. According to [Fitts's law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law), it's **not th... |
41,409 | <p>I've got a tree structure where the relationship between the parent and the child can be marked as either mandatory, recommended, or optional. This structure can be up to 3 levels deep. For example:</p>
<pre><code>Parent 1
Child 1-1 (Optional)
Child 1-1-1 (Mandatory)
(Course 1
an... | [
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```
Parent 1
Child 1-1 (Optional)
Child 1-1-1 (Mandatory)
(Course 1
and
... | I guess we'll all have to chip in with our ideas, but I fail to see anyone giving a 'right' answer to this.
The problem is that it is hard to associate icons with these words, without requiring users to know what the icons actually stand for (if such is the case I'd go for the last option).
You may wish to consider t... |
41,419 | <p>I'm creating a UI that allows a client to review the individual (and global, but that is for another time) results of a survey once it has been completed by another user. The question types are pretty standard, and can be boiled down to multiple choice and free text.</p>
<p>My first approach would be to show the fo... | [
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My first approach would be to show the form to the ... | I guess we'll all have to chip in with our ideas, but I fail to see anyone giving a 'right' answer to this.
The problem is that it is hard to associate icons with these words, without requiring users to know what the icons actually stand for (if such is the case I'd go for the last option).
You may wish to consider t... |
41,595 | <p>Is using a URL like <a href="http://coolsite.com/doSomething" rel="noreferrer">http://coolsite.com/doSomething</a> common?</p>
<p>Or should such a page have a URL like <a href="http://coolsite.com/dosomething" rel="noreferrer">http://coolsite.com/dosomething</a> or <a href="http://coolsite.com/do-something" rel="no... | [
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Or should such a page have a URL like <http://coolsite.com/dosomething> or <http://coolsite.com/do-something> ? | **Go with the hyphenated option.** It will be easier to read for the user and if you have longer names, make it easier to recall too.
eg: look at the URL for this question:
```
questions/41595/what-is-the-casing-convention-for-url-routes
```
Also, avoid capitalization if possible, just to remain consistent. eg: Was... |
41,611 | <p>Below is a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" type game show parody used as a practice quiz at the end of an online course, before the student takes their final exam.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/TkS0P.jpg" alt="screen shot of game parody with question text, four spots for answers and a list of winnings ... | [
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![screen shot of game parody with question text, four spots for answers and a list of winnings on the right with dollar signs next to each number](https://... | **Go with the hyphenated option.** It will be easier to read for the user and if you have longer names, make it easier to recall too.
eg: look at the URL for this question:
```
questions/41595/what-is-the-casing-convention-for-url-routes
```
Also, avoid capitalization if possible, just to remain consistent. eg: Was... |
41,748 | <p>I have table with 5 columns that looks like this.</p>
<pre>
|Seller | ArticleID | Count | Period | Site
--------------------------------------------
|User1 | BV1 | 3 | 2013-3 | Site1
|User1 | BV12 | 1 | 2013-3 | Site2
|User2 | BV3 | 2 | 2013-2 | Site1
+ 100 more rows
</pre>
<p... | [
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```
|Seller | ArticleID | Count | Period | Site
--------------------------------------------
|User1 | BV1 | 3 | 2013-3 | Site1
|User1 | BV12 | 1 | 2013-3 | Site2
|User2 | BV3 | 2 | 2013-2 | Site1
+ 100 more rows
```
**Seller**: O... | As a Business Intelligence developer myself, this is same question in my line of work, every time there are more dimensions than the graph can handle. As in your example, a line-chart is a two dimensional graph -- the common practice is to put the **measure** on the Y-axis, and one **dimension** each on the X-axis and ... |
41,846 | <p>We have a table and on each of the rows, there's a set of actions possible. </p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre><code>Name | Date | Actions
Mike 1-Jul-13 View Add Detail Delete
</code></pre>
<p>Do we still need to put a "View" button as an action or is it understandable if we just make the name a... | [
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For example:
```
Name | Date | Actions
Mike 1-Jul-13 View Add Detail Delete
```
Do we still need to put a "View" button as an action or is it understandable if we just make the name a link (e.g. Mike)? If they click,... | How can you `Add Detail` if there is displayed short version of record? User don't see which details are already entered and which could be added. So `Add Detail` should be inside full record view.
`View` in your case is not necessary. And `Delete` could be group operation, like in email clients. So you can simplify y... |
41,897 | <p>Please suggest me how I would able to simplify selection of vehicle by <em>six</em> parameters: Manufacturer, Year, Model, Transmission, Engine, Drive.</p>
<p>Currently we are using six cascading dropdowns aligned into two rows and three columns.</p>
<pre>
[ Manufacturers ] [ Year ] [ Model ]
[ Transmission] [ En... | [
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Currently we are using six cascading dropdowns aligned into two rows and three columns.
```
[ Manufacturers ] [ Year ] [ Model ]
[ Transmission] [ Engine ] [ Drive ]
```
... | As more of your users are students (hence they make more errors) it's could be good to have default login form for them. To stress this fact it's better to replace label `Username` to `Student name` in the form.
Educators' login form should be separated, it could be on the same place, turning on with command link.
... |
42,043 | <p>We have a table with data and actions on each row like so:</p>
<pre><code>Name Email Description Actions
James james@gmail.com Desc 1 Edit Export Delete
Carl carl@gmail.com Desc 2 Edit Export Delete
Mike mi... | [
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```
Name Email Description Actions
James james@gmail.com Desc 1 Edit Export Delete
Carl carl@gmail.com Desc 2 Edit Export Delete
Mike mike@gmail.com ... | Another way of doing this is by placing check boxes in front of every row and adding actions (Edit, Export, Delete) on single or multiple selection at the bottom but it really depends on the case.
You can also have a top check box for selecting all rows in the table or on the current page (if you have pagination.)
!... |
42,058 | <p>Accessibility settings include manual adjustments a user can make to alter the appearance of a website to make it more easy for them to consume. Some examples are font size and colour contrast.</p>
<p>Particularly in the light of the more semantic mark-up afforded by HTML5, and given that each user has different re... | [
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Particularly in the light of the more semantic mark-up afforded by HTML5, and given that each user has different requirements... | In many cases, yes, the use will set up their own browser for the font size / zoom state / custom styles that work best for them. I'm sure you do this too - just because you come to sit at a PC that has the mouse on the left and the browser zoom set to 150% doesn't mean you will just use it as you find it - you'll chan... |
42,093 | <p>We are using 4 fields for phone number entry. We are supposed to support international phone numbers.
Country_code1, Area_code1, Main_Phone, Extension1</p>
<p>We default and hide the country code field when the selected country is US.
We also have an area code field, a phone number field and an extension field.</p... | [
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"text": "<p>As you had given the explanation here, the same you can specify besides the phone number fields so that the u... | 2013/07/11 | [
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Country\_code1, Area\_code1, Main\_Phone, Extension1
We default and hide the country code field when the selected country is US.
We also have an area code field, a phone number field and an extension field.
We remove... | I would give your user clear visual cues about what belongs in each field:
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The advan... |
42,299 | <p>I've got a tree structure equivalent to folders and files: you can save items and arrange them into folders. The current design is:</p>
<pre><code>Folder
- Item
- Item
Folder
- Folder
- Item
</code></pre>
<p>When the user is asked to save an item, they can select a specific folder to save in that folder.... | [
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```
Folder
- Item
- Item
Folder
- Folder
- Item
```
When the user is asked to save an item, they can select a specific folder to save in that folder. However, the question is:... | I'd choose `Show root item, which can be selected` option.
* it is **visible and obvious** to user. You can also label it as `/(root)` etc. to increase visibility
* root selection is **consistent** with selection of other foolders, while the second option is a tricky
* expand the clicking area to whole the row, not th... |
42,420 | <p>Our business-focused web app helps small vendors manage food deliveries to small or large companies. I'm looking for UX ideas for the part of the app where users enter contact information for delivery locations. Some delivery locations have multiple contacts. If all contacts were equivalent, then a good UX solution ... | [
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"text": "<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/6PhnI.png\" alt=\"enter image description here\"></p>\n\n<p>You might want to c... | 2013/07/19 | [
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For each secondary contacts user defines the roles *explicitly*. Finally system define... |
42,522 | <p>I was wondering if the use of sliders would make it harder for people with disabilities to select values. How hard is it to drag and drop for them? How easy is it for them to see values changing while moving a different element, or to select a specific value?</p>
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The markup should produce an ... |
42,592 | <p>I'm providing the user with the option to rate news articles 1-5 stars. I'm trying to determine the quality and interest of articles based on the user ratings. My first thought was:</p>
<ul>
<li>Interest = total number of ratings </li>
<li>Quality = average rating</li>
</ul>
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"text": "<p>TL;DR version: Don't do it. A simple rating works and gives you some limited data of good quality. If you want more da... | 2013/07/23 | [
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* Interest = total number of ratings
* Quality = average rating
I.e. a user rates articles that it is interested in and gives higher rat... | TL;DR version: Don't do it. A simple rating works and gives you some limited data of good quality. If you want more data, there are approaches which work, but are vastly more complex than adding a second question. Homebrew methods like a second question will give you a large amount of bad quality data which looks misle... |
42,623 | <p>I have to make a help documentation in windows help file format. The amount of time I have got for this is ~ 5 hours and I have got about 50 pages (slides) that need to be added to this document.
So far I have tried using</p>
<pre><code>Windows Help Workshop
</code></pre>
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"text": "<p>Yes, people do use them now. But the 4th point you specified is correct one. There is a risk of dragging and d... | 2013/07/24 | [
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So far I have tried using
```
Windows Help Workshop
```
Is there any other program that would help me compile chm in a qu... | Drag & drop is absolutely an expected behavior to support. It's like asking "Should we support keyboard shortcuts?".
While the feature may not be used by the majority of users, the ones that do use it really rely on it. |