Hyperlinks indicate that clicking on a piece of text or image will take you to related information.
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How should I design a table with clickable rows?
I have a table with information about all loans a client had. This table looks like this
Book_Id | BookType_Title | StartDate | EndDate |
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Linking items from lists that also contain slide down information
I have a page for a doctor's practice. In the summary page for the practice there is a list of subsections. Some of these sub sections are very large, others can be a paragraph or 2 with a short ...
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Tile UX: Is there too much information in these tiles?
I'm working on a flashcard application - I really like the UX of skydrive.com and want to apply the tile paradigm to this app. In the app, Cards belong to Sets belong to Folders. A Folder is ...
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When to display a link as a previously visited link?
Websites of today contains a variety of links including logo link, global and local navigation links, supplementary or related links, other header links, footer links, inline related links and more. ...
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Is it better to have more links to the homepage on your website?
Is it a good idea to have more than 2 or 3 links to the homepage on your website?
Think about something like:
Link in Footer
Link in Header (obvious)
Link in content
Link the headerlogo to homepage
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Is it better to offer 2-3 links to access the same page or one single link?
I'm currently working on an events website. On the events landing page, there is a list of upcoming events. Here is how each event is presented:
The banner, title and 'more details' button lead to ...
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Unintentional link clicks in table rows
The problem
In a desktop application, our users browse a lot of tables. Some cells contain links. Link texts look the same as other cells', except from when hovering, when they turn blue and ...
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How I can make primary navigation links look more like buttons?
I've recently revamped the navigation bar on my website and I'm trying to explore simple changes that will make the links appear less like flat text, and more like clickable buttons. I've added icons ...
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What should we do with external links on a Reddit-like social news site?
Basically, we are working on a site that is similar to Reddit (but not exactly a clone). Users are able to post images, links and text posts (what Reddit calls "self posts") and we believe links will ...
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On news apps, how does using a different colour for each category help the user?
On news websites and news apps, a specific colour is often used for the link to each category (background colour or underline colour), and I would like to understand how this is helpful for the user, ...
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1answer
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Link destinations
If the interface that I am working on has 3 lists:
A) Top 10 performing companies
B) 10 recent transactions across those 10 companies
C) Top 10 performing promotions across those companies
The ...
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How to know what should be a button and what should be a link? [duplicate]
I implemented a webpage that in practice was a dead end and it just said "Your registration is complete. Please press the button to go back." and there was a button to go back to the page from where ...
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How to make a website usable on an iPad? [duplicate]
I'm currently wireframing a website and I was recently asked to make sure this website is usable on an iPad as well.
My first thought is to check if all the links/tabs/buttons are easily clickable, ...
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Why does twitter opted for red colour for links and hashtag instead of blue? [closed]
Twitter recently has changed colour the all links and hashtag colour to red instead of blue(previously). With Blue usually the colour used to representing url's and links and red being generally used ...
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Links inside a dropdown
I'm wondering if links inside a dropdown provides a valid user experience, if it isn't part of the main navigation of the site.
For a news website I'm trying to come up with a nice way for the ...
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2answers
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How to link to faceted search results when using AJAX/async UI?
When you have a traditional faceted search that uses AJAX the user experience is generally good because there is immediate feedback on the current state of the system. The user will know what other ...
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Are mailto: links a problem? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using mailto: links for email addresses…what is the practice these days?
What percent of the US sees a dead Outlook popup when they click a mailto: link?
Most amateur ...
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What is the best way to display linked text?
I always was curious about the following question:
What is the best UX way to present a text that act as information and also as a link (for example to more detailed information).
I always ...
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2answers
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Evidence of Button-action and Link-action in the same scope?
When I started to know GUI in the early 1990s there were always the same type of control to perform an action of the same type, even though the action was different as in [OK] [Cancel] and [Yes] [No]. ...
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What is an acceptable word to indicate a link?
We're working on an application in which users can add hyperlinks. However, we're having a hard time finding an acceptable word that is easily understood by our users. We've asked about 10 users and ...
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Web Based Portal Dashboard - the age old button vs link
I'm very aware and in agreement with the buttons for actions and links for navigation practice but I have come stuck on this design.
It is an internal company portal, and this is the dashboard for ...
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4answers
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When (if ever) should links be opened in a new window?
I have seen a lot of discussion on this topic but it all seems to be opinion based without any research backing up the assumptions.
It seems that there are times that it is particularly relevant to ...
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Visual differentiation between in-site links to outbound links
I'm trying to solve the differentiation between in-site links vs. outbound links. Currently I'm using for all links the blue from my palette and underline on hover. Due to the nature of the site, that ...
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Links or button to open a modal window over a datatable
I work in a usability team and in our applications we allways use links to open new pages (navigation), and a buttons to do an action, submit a form, for instance.
But now we face a dilema: we have a ...
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Should tags be buttons or links?
Are there any guidelines on how tags should ideally look like? Are they links, buttons, or visual "tags" with a link?
I personally find tags that mimic a physical tag or strip of tape appealing, but ...
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Is it good to strike through visited links?
I've seen in some websites such as http://twomovies.name/watch_movie/Shutter_Island that visited links are striked.
Is this good practice?
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Should printed graphics of a domain start with www, uppercase/lowercase? How to make the user understand that it's a domain?
Consider a car used by a company which has "advertising" printed on it regarding the actual company.
How should domains be displayed on such a car? Is there any research regarding this? With a wide ...
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Identify different types of clickable shapes?
We're building an application that is like an interactive flow chart. When users are viewing the flow chart, they can interact with certain shapes:
Link to another flow chart.
Link to an external ...
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0answers
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When it is appropriate to use url as link text? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When should hyperlink text be used?
What it says on the tin. I have a client who has a strong tendency to use urls as links in his texts. Example would be:
For more ...
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2answers
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External links and duplicate content
How one should link to pages that are outside the current domain?
Do, i simply make them target="_blank" and give them a different background color or add some icon to them to differentiate them from ...
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link color contrast with non-link text
I have read a lot about color contrast with regard to the text and background color (snook's tool), however is there a similar tool for validating the contrast of linked and non-linked text?
There is ...
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1answer
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Why does MediaWiki put little padlocks on HTTPS links?
Does anyone know why MediaWiki puts little padlock icons next to HTTPS links? For example, if I put this link in a wiki article: https://twitter.com/harry_wood it would get a little yellow padlock by ...
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How to resolve lengthy hyperlinks?
When you’re editing content and have links to organizations or frameworks that has many words, the link might exceed an entire row or break a row. These lengthy links look ridiculous and could ...
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How much of the related text should be included in a hyperlink?
When adding hyperlinks to the markup in paragraph-sized runs of text, how much of the text relevant to each link should be included?
So I know links that just say "here" or "this" are bad, but what ...
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1answer
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One button or two for sign up and log in?
What do you think? Should sign up and log in links be split into two buttons or is it OK to have them in one?
N.B.: sign up form and log in form are on the same page.
Thx,
Alex
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Link to homepage in breadcrumbs/logo in subfolder?
We recently launched our company blog. We created a new design for it to distinguish it from our regular shop design and give a more "blog experience". The blog is located at ...
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Buttons replacing a link for a consistent style
In general, I use buttons for ajax calls that update the UI but am thinking whether a button is a good metaphor for links also. I am using Twitter Bootstrap. Not a designer by trade and would like any ...
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4answers
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Single 'Edit' link or two 'Edit' & 'Add' links for insert/update/delete operations
I have a dropdownlist and the user has the ability to delete and edit the selected option, or add a new option by clicking a hyperlink which brings up a popup with a form.
Would an 'Edit' link be ...
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Hover state for Step-based navigation
I'm stumped on figuring out what the proper hover state for a step-based navigation workflow should be.
The navigation appears below. There are 3 states. Completed, Active, and Not-Yet-Completed. The ...
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Is using an entire banner as a link bad usability?
I am working on a eCommerce site which has a large hero banner space which scrolls through a number of 865 X 450 px banners. Each of these banners is linked to a specific offer in the site. When I ...
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How can I indicate that images can be clicked on a mobile site?
I've created a mobile site with a portfolio page. On the desktop version, hovering the mouse over the images changes the mouse pointer to a finger indicating the image is hyperlinked.
To try to get ...
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Linking a Navigation menu item to external URL
3 of 7 links on my navigation menu are external links to others websites (same company but other services/not the same domain). Those websites are not the core of the business.
Linking a navigation ...
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1answer
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When is it considered a link and when is it already considered a button?
I mean take a look at the http://ux.stackexchange.com homepage. There is a yellowish link "Ask Question" =: missing the, big Letters like in headings etc.
However, there is also a link like "read the ...
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Nested Creation Forms
This question is about how to create objects in a relational database without a ton of popups.
I'm working on a web app that has forms within forms. That is, you can create linked objects within the ...
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1answer
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How to render text that contains a tooltip / hover state?
I'm wondering about the best way to represent text that contains a flyout / tooltip (similar to Foursquare - see image below) but is not a link to another page.
In my case, there are a number of ...
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Should the “reset” option be a button or a link in crm?
I'm having to make the page as it was in the initial state, and this includes having a form reset link or button.
Should the reset be a button or a link?
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What ways are there to highlight a selected option or link without using bold?
What is the best way to highlight a selected option in text/link format without using <strong> or <b>?
I cannot use underline as they are already links and are therefore the underline is ...
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'Sponsored Links' impact on conversion rate
It seems it's cool to share useful links and bump a bit ranks of the sites that were useful for you.
Probably putting 'Sponsored links' or 'Useful links' section to your website makes you a pal but ...
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Does a list of links constitute a good user interface? [closed]
I'm working with another department on an intranet design:
My criticism is that the page just looks like lists of links in boxes, and that it's not obvious what this page is for or what you're ...
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Should Wizard steps be clickable links?
I'm designing a reusable Wizard that will be used in multiple places of my web application. It is designed to be truly modular - we detect the number of stages and whether each has been completed by ...
