is the act of arranging elements that obeys a certain set of rules or specifications
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Log add to top or bottom
In my WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) application I have a log that display important events in the application.
I'm unsure where to add new events? Or in other words, how should I sort the ...
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4answers
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Best order for the company history page?
I'm making a company history page for 2005 to today.
Each year has a paragraph about what happened that year.
I'm conflicted as to whether I should show 2005 first (and let the user scroll down to ...
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How many steps should a checkout process have?
I'm currently auditing an e-commerce website, and I noticed that the checkout process has 3 steps:
Login/registration
Delivery address/payment
Verify/place order
The page of the step 2 is quite ...
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1answer
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Ordering a short list of images with HTML input elements
I want to create a quick survey in Amazon Mechanical Turk for an image sorting task, say from brighter to darker images. I know that I can even create an external website and design a drag-and-drop ...
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Insert New Item - Before or After Selected?
For a list that allows the user to control the order of items, where should new items be inserted?
Hamlet
**Ophelia**
Polonius
After hitting "New Item", where should it go?
Before the ...
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2answers
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Order of items in a checklist vs the order those items are checked off
I have a modal with a sidebar of checkboxes that, when checked, append options to a panel on the right for the user to customize.
Example:
My question: I currently have the items being ...
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2answers
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What impacts the user's visual flow on geometrically non-traditional web layouts?
I'm interested in making pages that don't conform to the traditional layout of a rectangular grid, for example:
Using a grid of hexagons or triangles.
Placing the title in the center of the page ...
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votes
1answer
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Order of items in admin panel?
When editing a product, its variants are shown as accordion headings using twitter bootstrap; clicking on one reveals the form to edit the variant.
My question relates to the ordering of the items, ...
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4answers
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Threaded messaging, simplicity
I am building a many to many messaging system, which means that one user can send a message to 35 other users, and any one of these users can reply, to this message, which then again everyone else can ...
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1answer
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Order of fields in contact forms
I'm looking for evidence to support changing order of fields in various contact forms.
The first is a general form with:
Enquiry details - textarea
Where did you hear about us? - textarea
...
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votes
3answers
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What is a good visual cue for drag and drop? (for reordering a list of items)
I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on what is the best visual cue to indicate to the user that list items can be reordered via drag and drop?
Here are a few options I've been playing around ...
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How to prevent bias toward top filter results?
We have a part of our intranet that lists all the foreign language speakers within the organization that fellow employees can reach out to if they need translation assistance. Naturally, there are ...
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2answers
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Best way to reorder a list on a web page
I started using the Careers site in the StackExchange group of sites and came to entering my list of publications. I had my initial set of 15 or so that have already been published. The list widget on ...
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2answers
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Level selection on dropdown
Designing a radio button interface for selecting how many sub-levels you would want to display for a website main menu dropdown.
The options are:
OFF
1 level
2 levels
Considering that the default ...
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2answers
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In a grid should I allow rows to be moved or use in place cell edit?
What is a better trade off:
Allowing users to move rows around within a grid by dragging them and placing an "Edit" button on each row (see image)
Giving users an in-place cell edit capability and ...
