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85,591 | <p>I have a combox box showing the possible roles that a user can have in an organisation.</p>
<p>There is a rank to these roles such that:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Super User > Administrator > Manager > Cashier</p>
</blockquote>
<p>When creating a new user you choose which role that user has. Is it better to present t... | [
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There is a rank to these roles such that:
>
> Super User > Administrator > Manager > Cashier
>
>
>
When creating a new user you choose which role that user has. Is it better to present the list in alphabetical order:
```
Adm... | I would definitely keep the rank order, as you will probably never have thousands of roles and users need to clearly understand.
Ideally I would put a kind of gauge beside the role name to indicate that the order is linked to a rank in terms of access rights. |
85,690 | <p>The scrollbar thumb has two purposes. </p>
<ol>
<li>To grab hold of to scroll down the content.</li>
<li>To give a visual indication of how much content is contained.</li>
</ol>
<p>However, this raises the theoretical possibility that there is so much content in the container than the scrollbar could get down as s... | [
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"text": "<blockquote>\n <p>So, to combat this - should we set a minimum height that a scrollbar thumb can become?</p>\n</bl... | 2015/10/12 | [
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1. To grab hold of to scroll down the content.
2. To give a visual indication of how much content is contained.
However, this raises the theoretical possibility that there is so much content in the container than the scrollbar could get down as small as 1px in height.
So, to co... | Yes, you should.
While there are parts of your scenario that we don't know, there are some generalities than can and should be applied based on known formulas and user expectations. One of those is the *thumb minimum size*.
Take a look at the image below:
[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XG... |
85,696 | <p>I've come across a few loosely related questions on UX stack exchange, but nothing quite like my scenario. I'm building a mobile phone app that allows one segment of our users fill out surveys that have been made by another segment of our user base. The following parameters apply:</p>
<ul>
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* Users can create surveys of any siz... | Yes, you should.
While there are parts of your scenario that we don't know, there are some generalities than can and should be applied based on known formulas and user expectations. One of those is the *thumb minimum size*.
Take a look at the image below:
[. I cant make list box which look very big.</p>
<p>For all sentence I have can use some code(Say for 'Sentence1' I can use short-form as "A") </p>
<p>What is best way to show list box in such condition.</p>
<p><strong>List box</str... | [
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"text": "<p>You'd have to ask the designers and developers of SO for the definitive answer.</p>\n\n<p>My guesses:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>the... | 2015/10/15 | [
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] | I have list box to show the select box data which is long(almost one line sentence). I cant make list box which look very big.
For all sentence I have can use some code(Say for 'Sentence1' I can use short-form as "A")
What is best way to show list box in such condition.
**List box**
```
<select>
<option>Long Sent... | You'd have to ask the designers and developers of SO for the definitive answer.
My guesses:
* the overall framework of this site isn't terribly new. It was built prior to the era of responsive web design. I think we could safely assume a future redesign may accommodate that.
* while full-screen can be great for readi... |
86,024 | <p>I'm working on a Statistical Analysis project and I have to draw a bar or column graph to show data that has both very large and very small values. Like for example:</p>
<pre><code>Number | Count
----------------------------
1 | 12
2 | 100
3 | 1
4 ... | [
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"text": "<p>Thing is there is no type of data vis that works well for data that is dispersed too much. Hence the solution will depe... | 2015/10/20 | [
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```
Number | Count
----------------------------
1 | 12
2 | 100
3 | 1
4 | 610
5 ... | Thing is there is no type of data vis that works well for data that is dispersed too much. Hence the solution will depend not on the type of graph but on the application of the logarithmic scale to the data (not the original data you display, but the data you feed to the datavis component). Log scale will eliminate the... |
86,078 | <p>I am designing a web application for 10-13 year olds that will be used in schools. When the kids create their account, they will be asked to create a password.</p>
<p>I am struggling to come up with a way to guide the kids into inventing a good password. That is, I want an interactive step-by-step process that make... | [
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"text": "<p>I would lean to the xkcd.com \"correct horse battery staple\" example. You will bring in the concept of entropy; of calc... | 2015/10/21 | [
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I am struggling to come up with a way to guide the kids into inventing a good password. That is, I want an interactive step-by-step process that makes it more ... | Instead of a password, how about a passphrase? Kind of like needing to know the secret phrase to enter the club house.
Passphrases tend to be less hackable by the nature of its length.
<http://xkcd.com/936/>
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/0RfHH.png) |
86,190 | <p>I am developing an iOS app, now it's time to do the login screen. Keep It Simple Stupid is the main principle. In line with that, what should I do? What are the pro's and con's of these two designs, in terms of user experience?</p>
<h3>Login button</h3>
<pre><code>[ Logo ]
[ E-mail input ]
[ Password input ]
[ Log... | [
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"text": "<p>I would have <strong>both</strong> - but prototype and <strong>test</strong> the models - we might be surprised. </p>\... | 2015/10/24 | [
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### Login button
```
[ Logo ]
[ E-mail input ]
[ Password input ]
[ Login button ]
```
O... | I would have **both** - but prototype and **test** the models - we might be surprised.
* Users will not notice the duplication.
* But they will notice if their preferred pattern is not there. Many will be made uncomfortable if the spot that there is no action button (even if they don't eventually need it).
Expert re... |
86,761 | <p>My site has a lot of fields that accept a certain format of input only. Do I need to show users that this is the case, or can I rely on them inferring it?</p>
<p>For example, is it better to do this:</p>
<pre><code> First Name: [_____]
Last Name: [_____]
Mobile Phone (Number): [__... | [
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For example, is it better to do this:
```
First Name: [_____]
Last Name: [_____]
Mobile Phone (Number): [_____]
Date of Birth (D... | Users should be made aware of any data formatting constraints *before* they start typing.
The best way to solve this is by visually and programatically incorporating these constraints into forms directly so:
1. Users can 'see' the constraints so that they make correct entries in the first place
2. System makes it nea... |
86,975 | <p>Many survey questions ask the respondent to choose one option from 10 (e.g. the Net Promoter Score).</p>
<p>However Apple's HIG recommend that touch targets on mobile have a minimum of 44x44pts.</p>
<p>So we have 44x10 = 440, which is greater than, e.g. the iPhone6 Plus which has a width of 414 points.</p>
<p>Any... | [
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However Apple's HIG recommend that touch targets on mobile have a minimum of 44x44pts.
So we have 44x10 = 440, which is greater than, e.g. the iPhone6 Plus which has a width of 414 points.
Any design recommendations ... | My solution for our survey was drop-down:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9g6W6.jpg) |
87,079 | <p>It is common on login forms to see "Email or password is incorrect" when the user types in their account details incorrectly instead of just "password is incorrect". This is, for among other reasons, because it is a security vulnerability to inform users that the Email is indeed registered to that site. You can read... | [
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"text": "<p>You could implement a security question(or two) into the \"forgot password\" process, which would basically act as a pas... | 2015/11/17 | [
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```
If a matching account was found an email was sent to user@email.com to allow you to reset your password.
```
I've seen this on a few sites lately, though at the moment they are all escaping me. It struck me as a great way around this issue.
It confirms to them if they... |
87,137 | <p>I have an application which edits Heirarchial data.</p>
<p>Consider Level 1 items of <em>Projects, Users, etc.</em></p>
<p>Now lets just consider Project for the sake of simplicity, and Projects are really driving this conundrum.</p>
<pre><code>Project
+-Job
| +-Tool Assemblies
| | +-Edit Assembly
|... | [
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Consider Level 1 items of *Projects, Users, etc.*
Now lets just consider Project for the sake of simplicity, and Projects are really driving this conundrum.
```
Project
+-Job
| +-Tool Assemblies
| | +-Edit Assembly
| +-Activities
| +-Invoices
... | First of all you can choose from more UI options to show and navigate through hierarchies. Additionally to breadcrumbs and tree view there are e.g.:
* menus and submenus navigation (traditional and ring menus)
* nested labels (allowing more hierarchies)
* column navigation (like in OSX Navigator)
* path navigation (li... |
87,276 | <p>If I use <code><</code> to represent the setting "align left" and <code>></code> to represent the setting "align right" what symbol should I use for "align center"? Is there any <em>de facto</em> standard for this? The symbol has to be an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII" rel="nofollow noreferrer"... | [
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87,277 | <p>I'm calculating the value of a website that helps the client sell their services. I know how to calculate the conversion rate for sales: </p>
<pre><code>conversion rate = sales ÷ visitors × 100%
</code></pre>
<p>But I need to know what the conversion rate <em>should</em> be assuming the site and marketing are reas... | [
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```
conversion rate = sales ÷ visitors × 100%
```
But I need to know what the conversion rate *should* be assuming the site and marketing are reasonably optimized. Is there a form... | To answer your direct question: **"whichever rate where benefit > costs"**.
I don't think it's possible to determine a formula *a priori*, because conversion rate is influenced by many factors, like traffic, design, targeting, funneling, geo location, time of the day, day of the week, month of the year, price (absolut... |
87,278 | <p>I'm working on a very large form, which is an adaptation of an excel file my client was using.</p>
<p>I need to find a way to group elements, align the fields, and manage several input types, keeping the form simple, compact and quick to fill.</p>
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I need to find a way to group elements, align the fields, and manage several input types, keeping the form simple, compact and quick to fill.
The form is going to be used on a daily basis, by company staff, used to work wit... | To answer your direct question: **"whichever rate where benefit > costs"**.
I don't think it's possible to determine a formula *a priori*, because conversion rate is influenced by many factors, like traffic, design, targeting, funneling, geo location, time of the day, day of the week, month of the year, price (absolut... |
87,435 | <p>I have several labels that are associated with text, e.g.</p>
<pre><code>Default : Text
Label1 : 123
Label2 : 456
Label3 : 789
</code></pre>
<p>The UI for this is currently structured as follows:</p>
<pre><code>[Default ▾] [Save] [Save as] [Delete]
[ Text
]
</code></pre>
... | [
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```
Default : Text
Label1 : 123
Label2 : 456
Label3 : 789
```
The UI for this is currently structured as follows:
```
[Default ▾] [Save] [Save as] [Delete]
[ Text
]
```
where [Default ▾] is a list of all labels and ... | Having related dropdowns placed side by side is probably one of the more confusing UI pattern. You can never predict how a user would interact with 2 dropdowns and never assume the user will always select the first dropdown follow by the second. What if the user chooses the 2nd dropdown, would it affect the result? 2 d... |
87,500 | <p>My question is just about titles. I have been working at a company that uses fairly traditional titles for designers such as Senior and Lead. I am now talking to a new company that utilizes many different terms such as Designer II and Designer III. Within the new company there are also titles such as Senior and Lead... | [
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--------
In my experience, the difference is an organization that's bogged down with bureaucracy and title fatigue and lacks an understanding of "fuzzy" roles. They aren't sure what it means to promote a designer, so they just use numbers to make the designers feel appreciated.
If you could draw a parallel b... |
87,505 | <p>When UX designer works with visual designer, often times it happens, after providing wireframe with clear annotation/explanation, visual designer tends to leverage the concept (may be want to make edge over UX designer )and it may cause wireframe to get deviated from its initial thoughtful concept.
Now, how far ... | [
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Now, how far UX de... | Red tape
--------
In my experience, the difference is an organization that's bogged down with bureaucracy and title fatigue and lacks an understanding of "fuzzy" roles. They aren't sure what it means to promote a designer, so they just use numbers to make the designers feel appreciated.
If you could draw a parallel b... |
87,564 | <p>I have this major UX issue, I have a set of locations with hierarchy</p>
<pre><code>Country>
State> (Optional, to be placed if it makes the UX better)
City>
Neighbourhood>
</code></pre>
<p>I don't know what is the best way to design this, few options which I have are:</p>
<ol>
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```
Country>
State> (Optional, to be placed if it makes the UX better)
City>
Neighbourhood>
```
I don't know what is the best way to design this, few options which I have are:
1. Have a multi level dropdown in which when you click on ... | Break it up
-----------
Sometimes trying to do everything in one control is just too much. Think of how you select a car when shopping online: You choose at the highest level (year or manufacturer) which filters down the choices that follow.
In your case,
Select country to filter the state chooser
Select state ... |
87,785 | <p>In my mobile app, I have a "Profile" section that the user has to fill in. It looks like something like this</p>
<pre><code>PERSONAL INFO SECTION HEADER (label)
FIRST NAME (textfield)
LAST NAME (textfield)
CONTACT INFO SECTION HEADER (label)
PHONE NUMBER (textfield)
LOCATION INFO SECTION HEADER (label)
COUNTRY ... | [
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```
PERSONAL INFO SECTION HEADER (label)
FIRST NAME (textfield)
LAST NAME (textfield)
CONTACT INFO SECTION HEADER (label)
PHONE NUMBER (textfield)
LOCATION INFO SECTION HEADER (label)
COUNTRY (drop down)
S... | Too many screens
----------------
I feel your pain. With the madness of device proliferation, it's exceedingly difficult to know if an edge of content will be visible to encourage scrolling.
Enter the evocative shadow
--------------------------
I'm a big fan of shadows to indicate "more this way". It's a subtle devi... |
87,975 | <p>The larger the organisation (for example a company or educational institution), the more likely that there will be two people with the same name.</p>
<p>Typically, email addresses are formatted <code>firstname.lastname@company.com</code></p>
<p><strong>What should the email address format be to minimise the risk o... | [
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Typically, email addresses are formatted `firstname.lastname@company.com`
**What should the email address format be to minimise the risk of emailing the wrong person when y... | Your question seems to assume that email senders have to either remember the email address of the intended recipient, or will have to accurately reverse-engineer the email address of the intended recipient. You also seem to assume that email addresses must be of a single form company-wide.
I think that the answers ov... |
88,003 | <p>I am looking for examples or guidelines how to design <strong>tree navigation</strong> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Design" rel="noreferrer">material design</a>. The style guide covers data tables and lists but trees are not mentioned. The only reference are nested submenus which don't scale we... | [
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When you finally ... |
88,018 | <p>We have a page where you can search through roughly 100 products. Since it's not that much products, I want to show all of them when the page load for the first time but a colleague argue that we should make the page empty with just a search box on the first load.</p>
<p>Option 1</p>
<pre><code>< --------------... | [
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Option 1
```
< ---------------- search box ----------... | For questions like this, especially around customer experience in e-commerce, I sometimes try to imagine the situation as it might occur in the brick-and-mortar world.
In an actual shop, would you ask your customers to stare at a wall until they told you what they were looking for? Of course not.
Customers want to b... |
88,025 | <p>Our application is very heavy on data entry and must display pertinent data quickly and in an easy to peruse format. We have been moving towards an inline edit functionality wherein forms are by default in read only mode and become editable on click. </p>
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This has been fine for regular text fields and drop downs etc., but... | Hmm... good question. Personally I would find it intuitive as all other elements worked the same way. I'm assuming on hover you also show the word "**EDIT**", if not , you should.
One thing to try is in the read only view, add a last line to the view in smaller font
```
[V] option 1
[V] option 2
+3 more unselected o... |
88,459 | <p>I am writing a simple, declarative programming language, intended to be used by complete beginners and experienced programmers alike. The beginners have a simpler interface for writing the code, but they should be able to read what the more experienced programmers have written. This is for a small service, similar t... | [
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```
When [event occurs]
If [condition is true]
Do [action]
```
Though, for a technical audience, perhaps "Given, When, Then" (borrowed from test design/user story creation) is worth a thought!
```
Given [a context]
When [condition is true or actions are performed]
Then [perform ac... |
88,705 | <p>My user wants to access personal content from her Spotify, Soundcloud and other third-party accounts through one native mobile application. Imagine a music player for any personal library.</p>
<p>The challenge I face is having our user link all of her accounts. Some may be linked using a Facebook login while others... | [
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The challenge I face is having our user link all of her accounts. Some may be linked using a Facebook login while others may not. ... | I have a web-application that requires the same thing. I present the multiple social-networks in a list of buttons. First two buttons are to select one (of two) primary social networks:
```
[ Use Facebook ]
[ Use Twitter ]
```
Once the user has connected one of these two primary (or both) I then present the rest of ... |
88,764 | <p>I have 7 step wizard. The first step contains 3 subsections that i organized in vertical tabs:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1761o.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/1761o.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a>
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1761o.jpg)
Right now when you go to 1.1. you will have a "Next" button that will take you to 1.2. When you are at 1.3 you have ... | If question is - user needs to know what "Next" or "Previous" buttons take the action to ? then you can explicitly put a label in the button as shown or show a tool tip. You can use highlighting button or section/tab to display what tab or step is active currently. [![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur... |
89,103 | <p>I'm designing a website, and I need to allow the user to change the color of some elements. I will have to implement a color slider. I've got 2 different kinds, and I would like to know which is most user-friendly. Also, do they have a name to them? How can I refer to them?</p>
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[ indicating the minimum intensity. The settings of the three colors are converted to a single integer value by using this formula:
```
RGB v... |
89,504 | <p>I have data like this which represents the recent form (win/loss record) of a player:</p>
<pre><code>★★★☆★★☆★☆☆★★★★★★
</code></pre>
<p>Now, I want to visualize this data. What would be a good way to do so? The purpose is to develop a companion app for a game which shows all statistics of that game.</p>
<p>Now the... | [
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```
★★★☆★★☆★☆☆★★★★★★
```
Now, I want to visualize this data. What would be a good way to do so? The purpose is to develop a companion app for a game which shows all statistics of that game.
Now the important thing is that this dat... | If you want to visualize just the total wins and losses any simple chart or table will do. If you want to visualize the progress throughout the season though, what you have is similar to Edward Tufte's [sparklines](http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR) visualizing wins and losses using simp... |
89,723 | <p><sub>There have been some comments asking for specific details on the system I am trying to build, which are now at the bottom of the question.</sub></p>
<hr />
<p>I am designing a system that allows users to enter content to describe certain physical objects. Objects can attributes such as a height, weight, a name ... | [
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---
I am designing a system that allows users to enter content to describe certain physical objects. Objects can attributes such as a height, weight, a name and a description, and... | I'd suggest not using a progress bar or any explicit measure, instead give candy. The first step is to get your users to enter an acceptable level of data, once this is done show them a green light.
Next encourage them with messages to enter more data. If they enter any data give them a star or other token (design in... |
89,744 | <p>Consider a typical video-editing style timeline:</p>
<p>There's the usual Play button: a right arrow.</p>
<p>There's the usual Pause button: two bars.</p>
<pre>
-----------------|-----------
> ||
</pre>
<p>However, I want to have a <strong>"Play, but from beginnning"</strong> button.</p>
<p>When you w... | [
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There's the usual Play button: a right arrow.
There's the usual Pause button: two bars.
```
-----------------|-----------
> ||
```
However, I want to have a **"Play, but from beginnning"** button.
When you want to "play, but from the beginning" you have ... | I agree with many around here that it is possibly best to stick with the icons that are so common for media players.
However I understand the problem you try to solve. Mixing both icons could be a nice solution. But as always; testing is knowing!
My attempt for a possible mix:
[![enter image description here](http... |
89,819 | <p>I have a checkbox that is intended to allow the user to send email notifications or not. We'd prefer the email notifications to be sent, so email notifications are sent by default, giving the user an option to not send them.</p>
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What I'm wondering, is it better to start with the checkbox checked, and the label saying: "Se... | I would always use a positive statement because it is easier to understand, especially in the context of a checkbox.
Mentally replace the checkbox with simply YES or NO. Then your statements are:
```
YES: Send email notifications
NO: Send email notifications
YES: Don't send email notifications
NO: Don't sen... |
90,140 | <p>I have a web page with a menu on the left. Each choice can bring to either:</p>
<ul>
<li>A single page</li>
<li>A wizard</li>
<li><p>Or a hierarchical series of pages, where I can drill down.</p>
<pre><code> Left panel Right side
Item 1 ---------> single page
Item 2 ---------> wizard
Item 3 ------... | [
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* A single page
* A wizard
* Or a hierarchical series of pages, where I can drill down.
```
Left panel Right side
Item 1 ---------> single page
Item 2 ---------> wizard
Item 3 ---------> hierarchical
Item 4 ---------> wizard
```... | For wizards, you could use a step navigation system (like [Google's "steppers"](https://www.google.com/design/spec/components/steppers.html#steppers-usage)). A component like that would serve many purposes: give users the right affordances to move throughout the process, tell them where they are and how many steps they... |
90,199 | <p>Sample code:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Another Website Name</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Fruits</h1>
<h2>Apples</h2>
<h2 id="target">Bananas</h2>
</body>
</html>
</code></pre... | [
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```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Another Website Name</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Fruits</h1>
<h2>Apples</h2>
<h2 id="target">Bananas</h2>
</body>
</html>
```
What is the right text link to target the bookmark on another website? Is it enough:
```
<a href="http://www.... | >
> Always alert the user when opening new windows
>
>
>
As mentioned in rule 8 on this article:
Example 1:
[**15 rules making accessible links** *(opens in new window)*](http://www.sitepoint.com/15-rules-making-accessible-links/)
Or you can add an icon with an appropriate ALT attribute.
Example 2:
[**15 rule... |
90,459 | <p>I'm designing a form that requires me to collect a user's region using the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS_of_the_United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow">NUTS 1</a> standard for the options. </p>
<p>At the moment I'm ordering by the NUTS 1 Code which gives this:<br>
<strong>NUTS 1 Regions</strong><br>
North East... | [
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At the moment I'm ordering by the NUTS 1 Code which gives this:
**NUTS 1 Regions**
North East
North West
Yorkshire and the Humber
East ... | There obviously is a standard listing, as evidenced by the coding (illustrated on the map in [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS_of_the_United_Kingdom)):
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LzVGu.png)
What you could do, to illustrate the order... |
90,463 | <p>We are designing a price calculation tool, for which every property adds a percentage increase/decrease in value of the object. Properties in combination with each other can have shared impact on the percentage increase/decrease.</p>
<p><strong>An example:</strong></p>
<p>our object is a laptop,it has a make, a ty... | [
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**An example:**
our object is a laptop,it has a make, a type, memory, cpu, hard-disc (we... | Perhaps I'm just not getting it, but your two options sound confusing. My approach would be something different.
Using computers as the example, let's say you have three different main models of computer, all of which are configurable at the point of ordering. We'll call them A, B, C. Let's also assume that each mode... |
90,559 | <p>We are working on an app that contains a library. this is sortable by different criteria. The user can select the sorting via an action sheet. If a criterion is selected again, the sorting is reverted.<br>
And here the problems start:</p>
<p>Basically we found two options to name the criteria</p>
<p>Either we chan... | [
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And here the problems start:
Basically we found two options to name the criteria
Either we change the naming
```... | Imagine that someone picks an option to sort and isn't satisfied with the sorting direction. Would he/she expect to see different options the next time in that menu? I think that people will leave it as it is because they didn't see a better option in the menu last time, why would it be there now?
In the menu, you can... |
90,642 | <p>Are there any accessibility implications for disabling a placeholder option in a required dropdown field?</p>
<pre><code><select required>
<option value='' disabled>Select an option...</option>
<option>Foo</option>
<option>Bar</option>
<option>Baz<... | [
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```
<select required>
<option value='' disabled>Select an option...</option>
<option>Foo</option>
<option>Bar</option>
<option>Baz</option>
</select>
```
Or is it better to leave it as:
```
<sel... | >
> Important Note:
> ===============
>
>
> This was tested using Google Chrome as a browser and NVDA as a screen reader, results may (and likely will) vary between products
>
>
>
When a visually disabled user accesses a dropdown menu they are going to do so using the keyboard. More specifically they are going t... |
90,776 | <p>Not sure why I'm struggling so much with this :). We're using horizontal pills navigation on a site I'm working on (like this: <a href="http://getbootstrap.com/components/#nav-pills" rel="noreferrer">http://getbootstrap.com/components/#nav-pills</a> )</p>
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] | Not sure why I'm struggling so much with this :). We're using horizontal pills navigation on a site I'm working on (like this: <http://getbootstrap.com/components/#nav-pills> )
I need to add a second level of navigation within one of the navs. A second layer of pills doesn't seem like a good idea because it won't be c... | A good way to solve a horizontal sub-menu is as @Sheryl proposes with a second level of horizontal elements. In that case the menu header elements work like tabs. If this is not an option as you say in the question, I can think of **including the sub-menu in the same line as the header menu**, which opens/closes on [cl... |
90,812 | <h1>The Problem:</h1>
<p>Users need to have an undo control over changes they have made. However, these changes might be really big, so, while we have some contingency plan just in case something goes wrong, we need the user to be really sure they want to undo an action.</p>
<h1>The Current Approaches:</h1>
<p>Based... | [
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============
Users need to have an undo control over changes they have made. However, these changes might be really big, so, while we have some contingency plan just in case something goes wrong, we need the user to be really sure they want to undo an action.
The Current Approaches:
=====================... | I'd try **abandon**.
```
Are you sure you want to abandon the changes you made today?
[ Abandon changes ] [ Keep changes ]
```
I don't know what the back-out option does (does it commit the changes, or just close the dialog without taking any action), but the other button could be `Keep changes`, `Commit changes`,... |
90,886 | <p>I have a database which got about 50 000 records. all is information of business partners.</p>
<p>I currently using</p>
<pre><code><select name="selection">
-- some while loop
<option></option> (repeat about 50,000 times)
-- end while loop
</select>
</code></pre>
<p>The issue is whenever I... | [
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I currently using
```
<select name="selection">
-- some while loop
<option></option> (repeat about 50,000 times)
-- end while loop
</select>
```
The issue is whenever I click on my dropdown, my browser will hang and crash. I ... | You need to be able to filter the data before you present it. Either have them select a category before a drop-down is populated, have an [autocompelte](https://jqueryui.com/autocomplete/) that submits a query after a certain number of characters are entered in, or both.
Also, consider paging the information.
Too muc... |
91,011 | <p>I'm looking for a nice way to present a timeline with something seemingly simple; whether a machine is (was) on/off (up/down).</p>
<p>My dataset has 1 entry per minute with TRUE/FALSE for up/down. </p>
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My dataset has 1 entry per minute with TRUE/FALSE for up/down.
Most chart scripts are able to handle serious complicated datasets in multiple flavours, but not simple on/off stuff.
I'm alre... | How about using [`step`](http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#plotOptions.line.step) line, where TRUE/FALSE will be represented 1/0 ? For example: <http://jsfiddle.net/emmpmca5/>
```
series: [{
data: [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1],
step: 'center' // or right/left
}]
``` |
91,016 | <p>I'm helping a team member redesign the purchasing flow for one of our main products</p>
<p>Right now (for a new user) the typical flow is: 1) land on pricing page --> 2) click "Buy now" --> 3) signup or signin --> 4) configure your purchase --> 5) enter billing details --> 6) review purchase --> 7) confirm purchase... | [
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Right now (for a new user) the typical flow is: 1) land on pricing page --> 2) click "Buy now" --> 3) signup or signin --> 4) configure your purchase --> 5) enter billing details --> 6) review purchase --> 7) confirm purchase
my cowor... | How about using [`step`](http://api.highcharts.com/highcharts#plotOptions.line.step) line, where TRUE/FALSE will be represented 1/0 ? For example: <http://jsfiddle.net/emmpmca5/>
```
series: [{
data: [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1],
step: 'center' // or right/left
}]
``` |
91,030 | <p>I have a UI that allows admins to manage what groups a user is in. Currently the list of groups are listed as columns in a grid, stacked horizontally, and the list of users are stacked vertically.</p>
<p>For example -</p>
<pre><code> Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D
User A | X | X | ... | [
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For example -
```
Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D
User A | X | X | |
User B | | ... | Consider the use of typeahead suggestions for the groups. Select a user, then have a field where you can enter a few words and a group is presented you can click on. Power users could add groups directly using commas.
Check out this example from WordPress. These are tags, but when it comes down to it aren't your group... |
91,049 | <p>I have this hierarchical structure. For simplicity & understanding's sake, let's call it a postal address:</p>
<p>country</p>
<p>--city</p>
<p>----street</p>
<p>------address #</p>
<p>--------apartment #</p>
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country
--city
----street
------address #
--------apartment #
I need to provide settings to each apartment, but the data design allows a setting to be defined at the country level and will then "propagate" d... | It sounds like you're offering an affordance that the users would benefit from, but you're explaining it in the terms that make sense to you. Rather than using the concepts of propagation and hierarchy, I'd set it up to use the more familiar "apply to everything like this" pattern, which commonly shows up in applicatio... |
91,108 | <p>Couple of us arguing about this and none of us can remember what this is or would be called. Commonly seen on forms where you are moving an option from one box on the left to a box on the right and commonly has buttons in between the two boxes to move a singular option or all options. Crude visual example below (sin... | [
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========
While these particular elements are often referred to as "Multi-select menus" that term is ambiguous because it is just as commonly used to refer to standard select menus where you can select multiple options using checkboxes.
Picklist, on the other hand, I have only seen used to refer to this type ... |
91,260 | <p>If I have list and each item has an expand button, should the expand button be on the right or left of the text?</p>
<p>If it's to the left of the text, then all the buttons will align, but if it's to the right of the text, and one item is long and another short, will it be difficult for the user to locate the butt... | [
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If it's to the left of the text, then all the buttons will align, but if it's to the right of the text, and one item is long and another short, will it be difficult for the user to locate the button?
To th... | to the right
============
users won't know what to expand until they read it, so the logical option is to add the button AFTER the text (hence, to the right). To avoid having rows with very short text and then rows with heaps of text, you can limit it in columns so you'll have all buttons aligned.
however...
========... |
91,315 | <p>In web presentation, I have those table cells which contain no data.</p>
<p>How to represent such an information?</p>
<p>Notes about the table:</p>
<ul>
<li>its basic dimensions are roughly 10 × 20, but can grow to 15 × 50;</li>
<li>about half the cells contain data, so about half doesn't contain data... | [
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How to represent such an information?
Notes about the table:
* its basic dimensions are roughly 10 × 20, but can grow to 15 × 50;
* about half the cells contain data, so about half doesn't contain data;
* when present, the data is either a number o... | The need for a dash depends more on the styling of table rather than the actual spareness of the contents. If your table has cell borders or alternating background colors, leave the cells blank, as it's quite obvious that data is missing for that position, and the dashes do little more than add cognitive load, reducing... |
91,349 | <p>Any ideas for a dropdown to choose a topic? The problem, there are 20 or so fixed (predefined) topics, but the user should also be able to choose from a (separate) custom list to which he can add/rename/delete topics?</p>
<p>What I currently have is a dropdown that , when clicked, shows:</p>
<pre><code>Topics ... | [
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What I currently have is a dropdown that , when clicked, shows:
```
Topics Custom Topics ... | Do you expect the user to add many custom topics? In other words, do you fear the list would be too long if you concatenate both lists?
If not, I'd make it a single dropdown.
```
[ pick a topic ▼ ]
|----------------|
|Create new topic|
|----------------|
|Custom topic 1 |
|Custom topic 2 |
... |
91,484 | <p>I am designing desktop application. In that application user can edit name of model or component.</p>
<p>The question is do I prevent user from entering garbage text (such as paragraphs of text) that will cause application to look ugly on some occasions or do I somehow edit the text by removing new lines and reduci... | [
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The question is do I prevent user from entering garbage text (such as paragraphs of text) that will cause application to look ugly on some occasions or do I somehow edit the text by removing new lines and reducing number ... | *This feels related to [ellipsing labels](https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/90966/forced-to-ellipse-label-how-many-characters-do-i-allow-before-ellipsing/90969#90969). (not a duplicate of) You've got user-generated text of unknown length, and you don't want to display more than a certain amount.*
---
The possibl... |
91,882 | <p>Here's a question that pertains to UI design, but for an application geared at a more technical audience.</p>
<p>In my application, <strong>users can assign an object properties</strong> of several types. These types include various numerical types and vectors/matrices thereof.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.img... | [
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In my application, **users can assign an object properties** of several types. These types include various numerical types and vectors/matrices thereof.
[](https://i.stack.... | MATLAB uses commas to delimit columns and semicolons to delimit rows. Thus, a matrix can be displayed and edited in a single string using a combination of these delimiters.
String Format:
```
[1,2,3; 4,5,6; 7,8,9]
```
Matrix Format:
```
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
``` |
92,046 | <p>I am working on an Android app (we also have an iOS and a web version) and I am currently adding validation to a view where the user can select a time range. I am wondering if there are any conventions (or tips) on how the validation should work. I guess this question is applicable to other types of ranges as well.<... | [
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Th... | The best solution is to prevent users from entering an invalid range. You can use date pickers that disable all invalid dates.
Alternatively if the above solution is not possible, I suggest the following:
* Keep the date the user entered, do not modify it in any way. Any automatic change on the date will be confusing... |
92,125 | <p>I have an application that accepts a dollar amount in $USD. Unfortunately, some people are foreign/visitors to the US and type in amounts with commas instead of periods: they format the number as XXX.XXX,00 instead of the US format of XXX,XXX.00. The different expected formats are causing issues. Even though the tex... | [
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A user comes to your tool with certain expectations, and not every user's expectations are the same. You're seeing this first-hand. Culture, up-bringing and life experience all shape how a user will interact with a tool, opening a vast array of expectations t... |
92,258 | <p>I understand it is generally a best quality practice to have title tags for hyperlinks and alt tags for images. This is good for several reasons: additional information for low bandwidth users, additional information for assistive technologies, better display of search results from search engines, etc.</p>
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My question is ... | **Both of them**
================
However, **the *alt* description in the image should be for the link description**, not for the image itself
From [**Accessibility and Usability at Penn State: Image ALT Tag Tips for HTML**](http://accessibility.psu.edu/images/imageshtml/)
>
> term "ALT tag" is a common shorthand t... |
92,298 | <p>Date formatting in the U.S.A. is usually shown as Month / Day / Year, while international users expect dates to be shown as Day / Month / Year. </p>
<p>What is the best way to avoid confusion for a date like 04/05/2016 being interpreted as April 5th or May 4th? </p>
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What is the best way to avoid confusion for a date like 04/05/2016 being interpreted as April 5th or May 4th?
This is being used on a form collecting dates along with a cal... | We have faced the similar issue recently. We deal with client from multiple timezones & everyone wants date to be displayed in their own formats in reports. So we ask for default date display format on creation step & display date accordingly on every report.
For a date which is meant to be consumed by a user only, I ... |
92,356 | <p>I am trying to do the best for usability and accessibility</p>
<p>I use <code>fieldset</code> to group <code>input</code> radio-button and checkbox elements.</p>
<p>When I have a date input that is actually 3 select dropdown fields, one for day, one for month and one for year, should I use fieldset to group them?<... | [
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I use `fieldset` to group `input` radio-button and checkbox elements.
When I have a date input that is actually 3 select dropdown fields, one for day, one for month and one for year, should I use fieldset to group them? | Well, tag is used to group related elements in a form - so yes.
You can also take usage of legend and label inside your fieldset, i.e.:
```
<fieldset>
<legend>Date</legend>
<label><select><option value=".....</select> Day</label>
<label><select><option value=".....</select> Month</label>
...
```
Se... |
92,390 | <p>This is a backslash <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash">\</a>.</p>
<p>If you read the slash from left to right it starts at the top and goes down - hence it is a downslash. </p>
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If you read the slash from left to right it starts at the top and goes down - hence it is a downslash.
If you read the slash from top to bottom it starts on the left - which in our culture represents back direction - and continues to the right - which... | Ancient *slash* → new *back-slash* → disambiguating retronym *forward slash*
============================================================================
---
Ancient Roman coins - Solidus and Denarius.
-------------------------------------------
The *slash* character came first, with a different formal name *solidus... |
92,410 | <p>I'm trying to make up a listing of events that needs to fit in a small space, and I'm struggling with the right way to present the data.</p>
<p>There are four events that recur in this system. On any given day, there could be anywhere from none of the events to all four of the events.</p>
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There are four events that recur in this system. On any given day, there could be anywhere from none of the events to all four of the events.
The end user is going to use this in tw... | Showing just the day and the next-soonest event.
------------------------------------------------
This is just showing 8 datapoints, which could be shown with 4 relatively small elements:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T6VCz.png)
---
Showing each day/... |
92,440 | <p>In the backend of the company-intranet there is an area where you validate the rights of an user. Since the intranet comes with a forum, you can set rights for users to moderate a specific forum. </p>
<p>The problem is that there are pretty deep nested and long-titled forum names, like this one:</p>
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The problem is that there are pretty deep nested and long-titled forum names, like this one:
Technikforum WasserStrom > 0... | I think that the actual problem is that there is no naming convention in the Forum names and thus you can't create an effective abbreviation or short code for the whole forum name route ( unless there is and I can't see it ). If there was, you could just use those abbreviations.
Supposing that phrases like "01 Artbeit... |
92,452 | <p>I have seen this work well both ways, and users accept both ways. Is there a general standard though? What is the Principle of Least Astonishment here? Does it have to do with how things are grouped visually? </p>
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With screens being wide these days, ticking down through columns is easier, for the same reason that "newspap... | I think that the actual problem is that there is no naming convention in the Forum names and thus you can't create an effective abbreviation or short code for the whole forum name route ( unless there is and I can't see it ). If there was, you could just use those abbreviations.
Supposing that phrases like "01 Artbeit... |
92,575 | <p>A non-profit organization is selling tickets to an event. I suggested they add an opportunity to make a tax-deductible donation line along with the ticket purchase, like:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>2 Tickets .... $45</p>
<p>Make a donation!</p>
<p>Your tax deductible donation blah blah</p>
<p>Suggested do... | [
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>
> 2 Tickets .... $45
>
>
> Make a donation!
>
>
> Your tax deductible donation blah blah
>
>
> Suggested donation
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>
> [$10] [$20] [$50... | Based on work by Sam Ham with the Galapagos Conservation Fund and elsewhere, and my own unjustified opinion, I'd estimate that you'd take more money from suggested amounts rather than a pick-your-own-amount field.
However, it sounds like they're trying to protect the reputation they believe they have with the ticket ... |
93,326 | <p>I have a site that will be used by people in various time zones. On this site, there is a table of information, with one column containing a date and time. To circumvent time zone confusion, I'm going to be displaying all dates in UTC. I want to convey this to the user by tacking it on to the label, in parentheses.<... | [
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So... | UTC became the official standard back in 1972. It's also based on atomic clocks and takes into account the necessary leap seconds every few years. GMT is a time *zone*. I'd always go with UTC, though, as you mention, as long as you're consistent ...
Note: StackExchange goes with UTC. |
93,415 | <p>I'm working on a (web) design that implements both an identity (user) context, and an organization context -- similar in the way that GitHub allows you to log in as yourself, then be a member of one or more organization and switch between them.</p>
<p>The site design as it currently exists today has a side navigati... | [
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The site design as it currently exists today has a side navigation, and a ... | >
> Is there a behavioral or psychological benefit to placing the identity control in the top-right?
>
>
>
### Reading Gravity - Top-right is a 'strong fallow' area
[Various models that describe reading gravity](http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/3-design-layouts/) (for languages that read left-to-right) make the... |
93,586 | <p>I have a series of criteria required to get a permission. These criteria can be met by taking a class (this is for a hackerspace website I'm making). Some criteria have multiple classes, where any class can grant you access to said criteria. This is only for displaying the data, as criteria are checked off by instru... | [
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[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HKduM.png)
Alternatively, if you wish to show the progress of subtasks as well:
[![enter image description here](ht... |
93,622 | <p>I have an unusual question regarding how displayed data should look as opposed to how to code the solution. I really don't know where to ask this.</p>
<p>I have a table that contains settings for a web application and an admin page where these settings can be updated. Some of the settings contain values (ie. days_t... | [
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I have a table that contains settings for a web application and an admin page where these settings can be updated. Some of the settings contain values (ie. days\_to\_displa... | I see several points where your solution can be optimized:
1. The most important column in your table is setting state. If a setting is disabled the rest of the values are irrelevant. Therefore, I suggest to put that column first.
2. The most common way of displaying boolean values is checkboxes. So you may use them i... |
93,624 | <p>If in my project someone buys a membership for 1 month, how long should that "month" be?</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Always 30 days, no matter the month of the year (e.g 23/2/2016 => 25/3/2016)</p></li>
<li><p>The same day number of the next month (e.g 10/5/2016 => 10/6/2016)</p></li>
<li><p>Or another?</p></li>
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* Always 30 days, no matter the month of the year (e.g 23/2/2016 => 25/3/2016)
* The same day number of the next month (e.g 10/5/2016 => 10/6/2016)
* Or another? | Stick to conventions and consistency
====================================
This is really simple: if user is charged on day 5 of the month, he should be charged on day 5 next month. Most users plan in anticipation and they know that every fifth day of the month they will be charged for a service. Otherwise, see what wo... |
93,630 | <p>I'm developing an exercise app in which the bottom half (right half in landscape) of the screen is the "live" portion of the app. It runs a timer, along with a donut graph and counter showing elapsed time for each exercise. The upper half (or left half in landscape) shows instructions.</p>
<p>Having looked for simi... | [
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Having looked for similar questi... | I encountered an issue similar to this with a shopping app where the cards for items were a perfect fraction of the page space meaning that the last item on the page in its default state ended just clear of the fold (page break). During user testing most users reported that there was a lack of items available because t... |
93,647 | <p>I have a list or rows (from 20 to 120K, incrementally loaded as the user scrolls down), each showing n columns. The list is sorted by default using one of the n columns and I have a sort dropdown which can be used to change that. I wish to let the user sort that list of rows using a criterion that is not displayed w... | [
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93,989 | <p>We have a fairly simple credit card form on a public website for users to add a new card, but in the process of adding support for American Express we found they require the collection of the "Name on [the] card" and validate this data.</p>
<pre><code>┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ ... | [
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```
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Ca... | **Short Answer**
Ask for the name **after** asking for the credit card number, adopting either idea 2 or 3.
**Long Answer**
I recently did some admittedly basic research into this question.
The reason for this research was that I had noticed the incidence of online credit card forms **not requiring** the "name on ... |
94,076 | <p>I want to try a new layout for my products page. It would involve a new layout and new color scheme on every products page. There are hundreds of product pages.
My question is, how do you a/b test when the change is for more than one page?</p>
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My question is, how do you a/b test when the change is for more than one page?
I am calling a class products.php, and I have created a new design at products1... | It depends on how your "b" variant are implemented. Separate pages are difficult to test, whereas javascript transformations are much easier.
Here is some general advice, hope it helps:
**Javascript method:**
All of your product pages should share similar CSS selectors.
For example, if you are changing all buttons... |
94,119 | <p>I am working on an enterprise app that returns quite a few results from search. The users wanted to have lazy loading on the search results but also require sorting. My devs tell me the sort will not be accurate until the user has scrolled through all the results so they are all loaded.</p>
<p>I'm out of ideas on h... | [
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I'm out of ideas on how to deal... | Not actually an UX question... Your devs are half-wrong, since sorting & pagination might be actually performed by DB. When using LINQ, for example the following expression:
```
var persons = (from p in container.Persons
where p.Age >= 18 && p.Sex == Sex.Female
orderby p.Distance ascendin... |
94,127 | <p>I'm looking for a specific navigation pattern I saw some years ago, which I can't find anymore. </p>
<p>In this pattern the same navigation is repeated multiple times on top of each section on a single page. The links in the navigation are anchor links which scroll you to the other sections.</p>
<p>It looks like t... | [
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In this pattern the same navigation is repeated multiple times on top of each section on a single page. The links in the navigation are anchor links which scroll you to the other sections.
It looks like this:
```
[sectio... | I would try something like "Top bar", "Navigation top bar", "Scrolling nav" or something like that. I don't know if it is official name, but it describes it good.
These pages are using something like it:
<http://andy-hook.co.uk/>
<https://2015.avocode.com/> |
94,398 | <p>In an interface that supports multiple languages, is it reasonable to show them by their language code, or should the full names be used?</p>
<p>eg:</p>
<pre><code>Select Language:
En ❘ De ❘ Es ❘ Fr ❘ Pt ❘ Ru ❘ Zh
</code></pre>
<p>Or is it better to use:</p>
<pre><code>Select Language:
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eg:
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Select Language:
En ❘ De ❘ Es ❘ Fr ❘ Pt ❘ Ru ❘ Zh
```
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```
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... | It's a common pattern to **use both**, with following points in mind:
### Design for the lowest common denominator
Assume that in the mix of language use and comprehension, many users will get confused with *just* the two letter codes
### Avoid making the user think unnecessarily
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94,434 | <p>We have a modal window that should always have content when opened via a mouse click on a web page, however, it's possible that since it's delivered dynamically from a database, it may not be available.</p>
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What text should I display in this use case? I can default to something in the code and I was told to use something ... | **Nothing.**
If you have no content, **you shouldn't display a modal at all**, simply create a conditional like
```
`if $content=true -> $modal=true;
else $modal=false`
```
otherwise you'll be creating unnecessary friction. Remember that **modals are intrusive, so they must be used sparingly**. If you don't have ... |
94,482 | <p>My web application has various types of objects the user can interact with (projects, items, features, devices, kind-of-device, files, ect). They can delete these objets, however it's a soft delete so it's really just hidden. In the setting page, a checkbox allows them to see deleted objects.</p>
<p><img src="htt... | [
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![mockup](https://i.stack... | ### Don't limit yourself to one word
There are lots of instances where less is more, but in this case, you're partially creating the problem by looking for just one word, especially when you've shown through research that the word doesn't exist.
If this was a button, the argument would be different, but it's an instr... |
94,564 | <p>We provide customizable sample data for users of our application. It is basically a text file that takes the form:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>ObjectName - human readable name</p>
</blockquote>
<p>All our system cares about is the object name, but the friendly name is provided so that users know what the object represe... | [
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>
> ObjectName - human readable name
>
>
>
All our system cares about is the object name, but the friendly name is provided so that users know what the object represents. Over time, though the "human... | Whenever possible it is best to help guide user (defaults, or suggested naming conventions, etc.) configurable data for consistency.
It will in turn help keep this part of the app looking professional where it merges with your UI structure.
For example let's say you provide the users with the ability to create custom... |
94,819 | <p>In HTML, if you have an input with an <code>onchange</code>, it doesn't register the change until you leave (or lose focus) that input. There's an <code>onKeyUp</code> function as well which would have the function run as they type. In my case, this input is affecting a graph that can be quite large at times, and ty... | [
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Essentially what this means is that you set the event to trigger on both keyup and blur, but limit the speed at which repeated triggers are tak... |
94,889 | <p>I have a part of a system used for searching for / viewing recent or past transactions. The system will be used in more than one store, and transactions could have happened in any of the stores. You should be able to view a transaction from any store, regardless of the store you are currently in, therefore when sear... | [
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```
[o] Search current store (188)
[ ] Search a different store [___]
```
And when searching the current store yields no results, you could flip the radio button to the second option and display a message:
```
No results found in current store.... |
94,892 | <p>Should I consider the font <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetica">Helvetica</a> to be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web-safe_fonts">web-safe</a> font, i.e. is it a reliable source to set in my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets">CSS</a> that will be acc... | [
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As a matter of fact, **there are no 100% safe web fonts**, since it will depend on the fonts the user have on his/her device, and different operative systems have different font sets. Henc... |
95,035 | <p>I was recently request to change all our action button labels from 'Add' to 'Select', simply because the action happens <em>after</em> clicking “Done” on the screen footer.</p>
<p>So, I was wondering… while “Select” is very clear, how should we label the button after selection was made?</p>
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So, I was wondering… while “Select” is very clear, how should we label the button after selection was made?
I have 3 options:
Negate the label, so the ... | **(Select/Deselect)** is the well established standard. You'll see it both in many interfaces and the Microsoft Manual of Style, which is the style guide used by technical writers in many companies, and many interfaces.
<https://www.amazon.ca/Microsoft-Manual-Style-4th-Corporation/dp/0735648719>
"Remove" and "Clear" ... |
95,111 | <p>I'm working on a multi step process in an Android App and I wonder if there is good solution out there to enable the user to access all (3 maybe 4) steps without wasting too much screen estate.</p>
<p>My process is like this:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/7aj34.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://... | [
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My process is like this:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7aj... | The header bar which shows the current step (Title "Step X" in your mock-ups) can have a representation of the previous and next steps. Maybe stacked frames which also indicate how many steps there are (done as well as upcoming). The top frame contains the number of the last and the next step. Like so:
```
[1] St... |
95,325 | <p>My team is discussing how we should indicate, in a logbook, whether a specific action ended with success or not. I started putting it like </p>
<pre><code>timestamp | action name (fail) | description
timestamp | action name (success) | description
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timestamp | action name (fail) | description
timestamp | action name (success) | description
```
One of the team members suggested replacing fail/success with OK/NOK:
`... | It appears that the biggest problem is being able to find the status indicators within a large group of text.
Barring some significant technical limitation, I would say your solution should be to **display the status of each action in its own column**.
This makes your question of exact terminology much less important... |
95,399 | <p>This is a bit hard to explain but let's say I have this hierarchy for a checkbox list:</p>
<p>->Item A<br>
---->Item 1<br>
---->Item 2<br>
->Item B<br>
---->Item 3<br>
---->Item 4</p>
<p>I need to be able to cover both these cases:</p>
<ul>
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->Item A
---->Item 1
---->Item 2
->Item B
---->Item 3
---->Item 4
I need to be able to cover both these cases:
* Select Item A and Item B so that you see a chart with data for Item A and Item B
* Select Item A, Item... | Typically with a hierarchy tree (even just one level deep) there are two scenarios you can model.
Either the top level is a "parent" to the "children" or the top level is just a convenience "grouper" for the items under it.
In either scenario there is an inherent expectation if you provide a top level checkbox that i... |
95,474 | <p><strong>Question:</strong> In the UX community, is there an agreed best practice to represent table data in textual format?</p>
<p><strong>Desired outcome:</strong> If the answer is yes, then I would propose pushing for support in <a href="http://commonmark.org" rel="nofollow">Commonmark</a>.</p>
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**Desired outcome:** If the answer is yes, then I would propose pushing for support in [Commonmark](http://commonmark.org).
Background
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I’m writing most of my documents in [Markdown](https://en.wi... | There is no "agreed best practice" in this, so I can't give you a definitive answer. However, I've had to deal with exactly this and had to do some user testing on a number of styles.
The style that won out was [GitHub flavoured markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/organizing-information-with-tables/), which is ... |
95,485 | <p>I want a read and write to device icons -- in this case RFIDs but that should not matter at all.</p>
<p>There generally tends to be an arrow to (write) and an arrow from (read) but what about specific colours? Is there is a colour standard, or best practices, for a "read from device" and "write to device" icons?</p... | [
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There generally tends to be an arrow to (write) and an arrow from (read) but what about specific colours? Is there is a colour standard, or best practices, for a "read from device" and "write to device" icons?
This is wha... | You might be good just switching arrow directions (pardon the ASCII art):
```
Read: arrow points away from the icon []->
Write: arrow points towards the icon ->[]
```
I'm basing the suggestion on the data flow direction (when reading, data "goes out", when writing data "goes in") |
95,664 | <p>I am creating a quiz and one of the questions needs to have a list of options for the user to select one. But also, if the answer is not in the options, I need to allow the user the write the answer in using a text input.</p>
<p>At the moment I have a list of radio buttons like so:</p>
<pre><code>() Option 1
() Op... | [
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At the moment I have a list of radio buttons like so:
```
() Option 1
() Option 2
...
() Option ... | Guidelines are not the same as standards. Guidelines will depend on the needs of the solution and there are no guidelines for the situation you describe.
There will only be guidelines for Radio buttons, e.g. If there is a obvious default value then make this radio button selected when the page renders.
As for the bes... |
95,706 | <p>I need to use colour to indicate priority. Say, there are 20 priority levels. What is the best way to use colour to achieve this? My thoughts so far are:</p>
<ul>
<li>I'm leaning towards using shades of a single colour (say, red - from lightest to darkest); using different colours might make sense when the colours ... | [
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* I'm leaning towards using shades of a single colour (say, red - from lightest to darkest); using different colours might make sense when the colours are shown in t... | I would split the 20 priority levels into 4 distinct sets (for the sake of colour coding at least). For example on Microsoft TFS (collaboration tools for software projects) there are 4 severity levels you can set against a bug.
**Critical, High, Medium, Low.**
You could break your priorities into these groups then se... |
95,848 | <p>In my diary iOS app, the user can search their diaries for specific texts. To avoid getting too many results, I added a "Time Range" search option. The user can select whether to only search the diaries of the last 7 days, the last 30 days, the last 365 days or not to have a limit.</p>
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If I display these options in a `UIS... | |**All**| or last | **365** | **30** | **7** | days |
95,869 | <p>For answers in digital questionnaires, is there any reasonably well understood form widget between a horizontal group of radio buttons (or check boxes) and a slider gauge that lets the user input a seemingly linear value instead of an obviously discrete value, but doesn’t need a default that would be submitted if th... | [
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I would suggest having a similar control where sliding all the way to ... |
96,034 | <p>I'm working on porting a website copy from old system to new. One item of content has me flummoxed as to what to do with it. </p>
<p>It is a mathematical formula, written in english. <em>However</em>, it is saved as an image. (Note: this is just an example; it's not actually a valid formula).</p>
<p><img src="ht... | [
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It is a mathematical formula, written in english. *However*, it is saved as an image. (Note: this is just an example; it's not actually a valid formula).
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/AjeiE.jpg)
You can go through different Q/A over there, you will find what exactly you are looking for.
The solution to this is **from bo... |
96,122 | <p>I'm working on an admission application page and in one section of it there is a list of checkbox controls indicating the user has read/agreed to various policies or conditions and certifying the information is correct. Some of these labels can be rather long wrapping to 2, 3 or 4 lines depending on the screen size.... | [
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E... | I don't believe it's an issue, however, if you're worried about it, you could rephrase each statement to have the assertions ("The above is correct and yada yada...") followed by the checkbox with "I agree" as the label.
I'd watch how people use your page and see if any of them have this problem before trying to fix a... |
96,366 | <p>In my iOS app, there is a text editor thingy. In the editor tab, the user can write stuff in Markdown and he/she can see the rendered Markdown in the preview tab.</p>
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Now I want to add a feature that allows the user to select an image to add to the document. I know there is already a feature like that in Markdown, but tha... | Is it possible for the app to add the IMAGE placeholder *automatically* at the point the user selected to add an image?
In other words, whenever I wanted to add an image, I would expect the app to add the IMAGE placeholder for me at the current location of my cursor (and most likely, the desired location for my image)... |
96,452 | <p>I can't give the exact purpose of the app (under NDA!) but I'm trying to design an interface that lets you explore data about various data objects that are all interlinked. I have an idea of how to do this but want some feedback on other approaches.</p>
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Some example objects, one of type person and one of type project (whe... | I personally feel the **Second approach** is a lot better.
This ensures that the party doesn't get to extend a call each time. Think of how many Consultants might extend time if you give them the control. It is biased towards both parties and might take a while to educate both of them to know who can extend the call a... |
96,578 | <p>I have a website with a block of text available only for registers users. The structure is something like this:</p>
<pre><code>-Title available for all users
-Text available only for registered users and panel alert to notify unregistered users
</code></pre>
<p>Here is a screenshot of what I have now:</p>
<p><a h... | [
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```
-Title available for all users
-Text available only for registered users and panel alert to notify unregistered users
```
Here is a screenshot of what I have now:
[.
For the unregistered user you can show the title and a short excerpt (let's say, a 3-lines paragraph), followed by a Call2action/button prompting them to register: "Register to read entire article", "Full article available for registered users", ... |
96,885 | <p>Consider an application that displays a table (of arbitrary length) where the table is comprised of a header that includes an "expand-all/collapse-all" button, and each row in the table includes a local expand/collapse button. That is, the "expand-all/collapse-all" button is NOT expanding and collapsing the list its... | [
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[![enter image ... |
97,127 | <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hrrmd.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Hrrmd.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
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We are having a hard time figuring out how to allow users to drill down within these filters with only their keyboard (typing in the search query and pressing enter) when there are also folders. Any suggestions ... | The most common typing based interfaces rely a lot on [autocomplete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete) features (ex: link search in your browser, coding, etc.). Although it seems like a pretty straightforward technology the truth is you can customize it a lot. Let's say you build a search line:
[![Autocomple... |
97,261 | <p>I am task with shading the table cells containing ratings: Good (1) , Better (2), Best (3), Gold (4) or blank (as in not rated). It is possible that in the future another rating would be added - either 0 or 5. </p>
<p>Here is a sample table of the ratings:
<a href="https://jsbin.com/ratavipuzo/1/edit" rel="nofollow... | [
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"text": "<p>Interestingly enough, I think the answer I provided to a similar but slightly different question applies here as w... | 2016/07/26 | [
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Here is a sample table of the ratings:
<https://jsbin.com/ratavipuzo/1/edit>
our app consists of mainly blu... | Interestingly enough, I think the answer I provided to a similar but slightly different question applies here as well. I have provided the link and the summary here:
[Colours that represent beginner, intermediate and expert](https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/96840/colours-that-represent-beginner-intermediate-and-... |
97,532 | <p>Okay, so you have a website with lots of web pages on it. It has a header/nav and a footer that show up on every page, obviously. And you have a bunch of other unique individual pages.</p>
<p>You want to run some A/B tests on several different pages on the site. However, we also want to run some A/B tests on the na... | [
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"text": "<p>Multiple A/B tests not only are very common, but they are extremely useful, way more than simple A/B. However, it has a... | 2016/08/01 | [
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] | Okay, so you have a website with lots of web pages on it. It has a header/nav and a footer that show up on every page, obviously. And you have a bunch of other unique individual pages.
You want to run some A/B tests on several different pages on the site. However, we also want to run some A/B tests on the navigation. ... | Multiple A/B tests not only are very common, but they are extremely useful, way more than simple A/B. However, it has a different name: [**Multivariate Testing.**](https://www.optimizely.com/resources/multivariate-testing/)
Just imagine this: I run a test for **page A** and **page B** and decide **page B** performs be... |
97,661 | <p>We want to know/measure if users prefer variation A over variation B. Therefor we run an paired comparison experiment that needs to be completed on a mobile phone.</p>
<p>They will see/experience two variations after which they have pick one, and then rate the concepts on two aspects.</p>
<p>The problem we have no... | [
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"text": "<p>If I understand it correctly, this pattern seems to assume that the choice between A and B is a zero-sum comparis... | 2016/08/04 | [
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They will see/experience two variations after which they have pick one, and then rate the concepts on two aspects.
The problem we have now is how to displ... | I think you need two sets of labels:
1. the labels to describe the relative like/dislike scale
2. the items the user is expressing relative like/dislike for
If the item names are reasonably short you should be able to combine and put the labels above the control.
For example:
```
Prefer Prefe... |
97,665 | <p>We have a Windows desktop application used by engineers with a mix of experience levels. We have several sample files that we ship with the program. We can install them more or less wherever we want. </p>
<p>How should we provide users with a way to find these sample files?</p>
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<li>Do we place them in "an obv... | [
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] | We have a Windows desktop application used by engineers with a mix of experience levels. We have several sample files that we ship with the program. We can install them more or less wherever we want.
How should we provide users with a way to find these sample files?
1. Do we place them in "an obvious location", and ... | I think you need two sets of labels:
1. the labels to describe the relative like/dislike scale
2. the items the user is expressing relative like/dislike for
If the item names are reasonably short you should be able to combine and put the labels above the control.
For example:
```
Prefer Prefe... |
97,673 | <p>is it ok to put the side nav menu on application for the iOS?
Because I can't find it on iOS guideline design.</p>
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] | is it ok to put the side nav menu on application for the iOS?
Because I can't find it on iOS guideline design. | I think you need two sets of labels:
1. the labels to describe the relative like/dislike scale
2. the items the user is expressing relative like/dislike for
If the item names are reasonably short you should be able to combine and put the labels above the control.
For example:
```
Prefer Prefe... |