A menu is a list of commands presented to an operator by a computer system
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Measuring Keystroke Against Click Count
Currently working on bettering our internal tool/ticketing system's UI. We have several products - broken up by category, of course. Each product has an email template that a technician will wend in ...
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Adding “Select…” as first option (placeholder) of dropdown list
Would it be considered a good practice to add the word "Select..." as the first option of a dropdown list? I think it's redundant and not at all necessary and what is in the dropdown list should be ...
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What is the best name for login/logout button [duplicate]
About the system:
Web application with users like WordPress.
The question:
What is the best name for this "login" toggle button?
Options:
Login / Logout
Log in / Log out
Log In / Log Out
Sign ...
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How to make other tabs more noticeable?
We have a dialog that allows the user to choose the "type" of a shape: text, pop up and link. Changing the type also changes the modal's body. Our current design uses an underline to indicate the ...
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Help menu - “?” or “Help”?
It is a very simple question, but it has been bothering me for quite some time: when creating an application, should the help menu (in the menu bar) be called "?" or "Help"?
I can see a few ...
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What shall the recent tab consist of?
I have a site which creates activities and perform various functionality in it. It consists of two tabs, current and recent.
Current activity -shows the name of current activity on which user is ...
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3-state control on/off/suspended
I’m creating a prototype for a system which will give the user to control a specific feature in the system by switching it on and off. To control the feature we have a 3-state control:
on
off
...
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Do “add” or “edit” functions need a confirm button?
I am designing a UI that includes a list of items that you can add to or edit. When you click on an item it turns into a text dialogue. When you click off or hit "enter" it saves the changes. Does ...
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Why do menu labels behave differently in desktop applications and websites?
In a desktop application when you click a menu, you see all the options which reside within it, in a drop-down/pop-up list.
In many websites with a navigation menu which has sub-categories, I have ...
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Toolbar buttons - to be or not to be?
I need to create a toolbar for my application, and let's assume that due to external constraints it must be a regular toolbar, not a ribbon. The application itself has a significant number of ...
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Massive menu on website, how to solve it?
I must change the following menu in some web site.
This menu contain almost 30 items!
Screenshot:
Any idea?
Categories:
Home, Games, Leisure Children, Openly Software, Recipes, Study Lessons, ...
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Is the upper-left logo an acceptable place to put a master site nav menu?
For a number of reasons, having a number of main nav dropdown menus in the top bar isn't feasible. I'm considering making a master site navigation dropdown by clicking a down arrow right next to the ...
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Replicated bars and menus consistency
So, using Google tonight I noted, in the results page, some links get duplicated among two bars, one anchored at the top, and a second one below the search box.
You can compare the initial page with ...
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Icons and colors on menus
I wonder when (if at all) it is appropriate to use icons next to menu entries (drop down menus, right click contextual menus etc).
I have noticed that pretty much all of the menus I have seen only ...
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Maximum usability for purely text-based menus?
I'm designing a 'retro-style' video game, in which the user has to navigate relatively complex (around six or seven options on the screen at a time) text-based menus very often (once every minute, ...