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A switch decision between two or more options where only one can be selected.

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Is there a better way to design switches than I/O?

What was the thought process behind whoever designed the I/O on/off button? To me, it seems extremely confusing whether or not I is on, or O is on, and I still get pretty confused today as to which is which. Why was this designed this way? From a…
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What is a more intuitive way to present a 3-option toggle?

Stack Exchange's tag popup card/thingy has a star which you can toggle between "Favorite" (gold star), "Ignored" (red cross), and "Normal" (grey star). Favorite: Ignored: Normal: This is not intuitive at all, thanks to the grey star meaning…
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Toggle switcher explanation. Use or don't?

Is it necessary to use toggle explanation? In my case toggle have 2 options: YES or NO. Which one would you use and why?
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How to show a toggle that's on but disabled?

I'm trying to use the toggle to indicate the on and off state of a feature. One of the features will be turned on by default and cannot be turned off. See below. Feature 1 is turned on by default and cannot be turned off. Feature 2 and 3 can be…
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Toggling UI Mode, Show/Hide

I am currently working on an enterprise web app. In the invoice entry screen, I had some UI trouble. Basically the current invoice entry screen is something like this: Default mode/state Item Input mode/state (when the "Toggle Item Input" button is…
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Using Switches for Yes/No Checkboxes

I have a large form and many questions are simply Yes/No questions. In the system it's simple a checkbox, checked means yes, unchecked means no. To make this visually more interesting than a standard checkbox I've used switches, specifically ZURB…
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Toggle Switch on Navbar

Is it good to add a toggle switch on a navbar. I need to switch between the 2 contents in a page by a toggle-switch. If not suggest me a good way to toggle the content
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Proper way to handle radio buttons that deals with batch jobs

I would like to seek for your help regarding my certain use case on the following. The following UI below allows the user to toggle the status of an auto-archiving job, and the days before data will be archived. The business rule is simple. Once…
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Text for button toggles

I am currently creating a Grasshopper 3D component that parses XML data from a particular URL. Taking into account UX principles, I have some questions in-regards to my wording. The functionality of the parser involves: A HUD that overlays…
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"Hide" options for the lines in the table

We have a data table with rows. All these rows can be opened on a new page. Also, users can hide some rows if they do not want to use them. Now, this "Hide" feature toggles between different states. We have the following flow: User opens the page --…
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Toggles awaiting response

I have toggles in my app that communicate with the backend. Is it bad to show a loader on click of the button until you have a response? It somehow doesn't feel right. Is it an option to just switch it on and if it fails turn it back to off? That…
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Toggle switch vs other solution

In my project I'm redesigning a search engine. As a default user is working in a Search mode, but when it turns out something does not exist a user can quickly change to "Create new item". Requirements: desktop app choices are mutually…
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Simple selection between two values, but not boolean

I'm looking for an intuitive, user-friendly way to enable users to select (and switch between) two possible values. Normally, in a form, this would be done with radio-buttons, but I will have table with this choice in every row. Using radio buttons…
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Choosing checkbox over toggle switch for focus order?

Should I choose a checkbox over a toggle switch due to focus order? I personally prefer Option B because it's less eye catching than A, and I know a toggle switch is a metaphor for turning something on or off, but in this context, I'd like to make…
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Is a single or bi-positional indicator better for a binary state?

I have a set of entities (notes) whose content can be either visible or hidden, independently for each note. There are two possible states for that property and I was wondering whether it is generally better to use a toggle switch that will move…
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