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Design patterns or strategies for complex or large table data in Mobile phones

I want to display a table with 4/5 columns and possibly 100 rows (as in desktop app right now) in smartphones. The table cells are also editable. Now we want to port this desktop app to smartphones (Android / IOS), what will be the most optimized…
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How to organize a form with many fields?

Where I work, we have a system that has a screen with several fields. There are approximately 50 fields and all are important and should appear. //edited in gimp :D Any suggestions on how to arrange the fields so that it does not look so ugly and…
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Are Flat Buttons Unusable?

What is your experience with the usability of flat buttons? The common critique against those buttons is that people can't distinguish them, and they only look like headlines with a background. But if the rest of the UI also is very flat, wouldn't…
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Is this hard to read?

This is a snippet on a site i have just been building. I considered the readability etc, and the corporate colours, and tried to work with them. Actually, I find it quite relaxing to read and view, and I have not had any comments from the testing…
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Odd click behavior where my users are clicking non-linked headings

Issue: Site users clicking the title tag of my website's product pages. Over the last six months a total of seven percent of my customers who visited product pages decided to click on the product title expecting some additional result. With heatmaps…
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How to indicate a checkbox/toggle is "always on"

I have a group of toggles (styled checkboxes) in my interface to activate/deactivate the visibility of input fields in a form in he front-end. Two of those inputs are required for the form to work so they are always on. I would still like to display…
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How to explain to director that a multilevel dropdown menu isn't a good idea

My director and designer want to make a big drop-down menu on our site. Multilevel menu : | MENU 1 | MENU 2 | MENU 3 | MENU 4 | -----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| | …
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UX impact of standard stock photos

It's pretty clear to me that standard stock images (examples 1 / examples 2) don't help to build a brand or identity. Are there any studies about the impact of stock images? Any other thoughts? In case you are wondering: Our marketing division loves…
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Icon for "factory reset"

I'm having a hard time finding an appropriate icon for "factory reset". At the moment, I have a "warning" icon, but I am looking for something less aggressive and more to the point.
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Which is a good color for a pause button?

We have an application with a built-in stopwatch. If the stopwatch is running the pause button is shown and if it is stopped the play button is shown. Currently the stopwatch itself as well as the button are in neutral colors. It would be great if…
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Are required indicators necessary for radio buttons?

Simple question, is an required field indicator (ex. *) necessary when presenting a set of a radio buttons in a form? Caveat, one radio button will be already pre-selected. Technically the field question is indeed required, but does the fact that…
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Disable the save button until changes are made?

We have a list of complicated things, which the user can click on to get a new view in which they can edit all the details stored for that thing. The edit view already has a Cancel exit mechanism (default for all our edit forms) and it has a save…
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Background for black and white chart

I have a plot where I stack the color white and black as values by month. I would use white as background color but the data is black and white as the color is. I'm using blue which I don't like. Any suggestions what I can use for my background? Or…
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Symbol for "Swipe Left"

I'm working on an app that displays a list of ten items (text items) on the screen at a time. If there are more than ten items, the user should be able to "swipe" from right to left to see the next 10, or left to right to see the previous 10. Is…
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Phased re-designs

I have worked on several projects(line of business web applications) in my career that involved a complete UI overhaul. Most of these projects were enterprise web applications that took a substantial amount of time to re-design. Some of them were…
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