Questions tagged [standards]
Standards are officially sanctioned guidelines for design.
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What factors are most important when deciding the standard behaviour of a digital UI component with an analog origin? [closed]
When standards bodies like the W3C decide on how a user interface element should look and behave - particularly when the element is a modern interpretation of something that used to be common in the ...
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Are there such things as ethical design patterns?
We should all probably be quite aware of dark patterns by now (whether you believe they exist or not is another thing), and I am curious as to whether there is such thing as the opposite of dark ...
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Will a Global Design System improve accessibility of web applications?
I read Brad Frost's post on A Global Design System with interest. After all, Atomic Design is one of the most popular concepts in UI Design since Bootstrap came out years ago, and there hasn't really ...
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Create vs Edit mode in a web form
I am creating a web form where people are asked to fill in their work time daily. Since it's a daily task, I'm providing the option to set default values in the user settings. This could make it ...
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What is a good aria-label for a button that opens a modal to pick a region and/or language for the webpage?
I have a <button> element that opens a modal to change the webpage region and/or language. The <button> element needs an aria-label that gives the user information about what the modal ...
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Is there an industry standard on how many decimal places to display on an HMI screen?
I can't seem to find anything, I'm trying to come up with a justification for how many decimal places to display on this Ignition SCADA system I'm building for a client. The answer might simply be ...
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Form Unsaved Changes
Which of the modals shown below is more align with best practices for the following scenario? Scenario: A user is filling out a form. There are [Save] & [Cancel] buttons on the form. The user ...
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Does the windows key only operate on release?
I noticed that the windows button only activates when you are no longer pressing down on it. However, I have found no documentation or article to verify that that this is either inherently true, or ...
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How do I make a split input that is regex friendly?
I have a web application that requires the user to enter text that is used to split another string. While I want it to be regex-friendly, I don't want it to confuse new users. For example, if the user ...
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How to show tree structure indentation?
We can show hierarchical relationship either using simple spaces, or using dash lines: Spaces parent child Dashes parent --- child I have seen both of them. But now that I have to design ...
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Why google material design has Import icon which is used as export in other design system?
When my teammate and myself were discussing the Import option for our application which adopts Material design Icons & Components. We founded that there is a slight variant of the Import Icon is ...
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Guidelines for GIS and map based interface design
Map based applications are becoming a part of our daily life, from using Google Maps to find locations to booking a Uber. However, there doesn't appear to be a set of standards and guidelines when it ...
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When to move on to the next unit prefix, e.g. 900 kB vs 0.9 MB
Is there any established standard or research about what the cut-off point should be for moving to the next unit prefix e.g. moving from "kilo" to "mega"? I assume it may depend on ...
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Stating obvious interface facts in requirement
I am working on a requirements document regarding the design of a user interface that someone will build. The structure and contents are clear. No problem with that. But I need to mention, at the ...
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How should overriding a checkbox field be displayed?
Within our software we need the ability to override fields. Our standard is the following: Original field must be read-only with an "Override" checkbox next to it When checking checking "Override" a ...
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