Questions tagged [help]
Increased detail and explanation for users to gain understanding on certain topics.
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Is short help in a modal dialog a good idea?
I want to show some short help in modal dialogs. For example, a user works with some tool and doesn't know how to do something. He clicks Help button and short help is displayed to him in a modal ...
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Best approach for displaying assistive and error text together in a text field for a design system?
I’m working on different states of text fields for my design system and I’m trying to decide how to handle the combination of assistive text and error text in the error state. I’ve come up with two ...
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UX guidelines for Employee Mandatory read/ Reading confirmation on Intranets
I'm currently working on a feature for an intranet called mandatory read or reading confirmation. There are two group of users. 1- Admin who sets up and track the mandatory reading page. 2- Employees ...
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Adding links to Help Center of SaaS product
I need to add more information about how our product works and link to our Help Center, the requirements for this task are: to link to an outside help center make it quick to develop it needs to be ...
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Should tooltip icons appear before, or after the element they refer to?
I have a field label with its associated value but am unsure whether the tooltip icon should display before, or after either of these items. (Also, it could potentially appear after the label but ...
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Should help articles be part of the program itself or be available online?
We are creating a web tool and one of the functionalities are not very clear for a small percentage of the users. So far, we have implemented very simple one-sentence long on-hover tooltips. Yet, a ...
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Users are confused and think search filter are input boxes. How best to indicate that they are for filtering search results?
Users are confused and don't understand the boxes on top of the summary page are for further filtering the results. Some think the boxes are to enter new values. What is the best way to indicate these ...
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Best Practice for placement of Help / Save / Cancel icons
I'm designing a UI where sections will become editable, and there are also quite a few help icons for users to get further information about each section. Originally, I put the Help icon in the top ...
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good place to add recommendation section
We are designing an insight section where user can see all the critical status products or campaigns. we are providing a "recommended section" at bottom of the vertical scroll page. i have a ...
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Better layout of many checkboxes with help text
I have a page for configuring access rights in a website. There are a number of checkboxes in the form. Each of these checkbox have a help text hover tooltip that provides a more detailed explanation ...
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How can I distinguish status cancel internal and cancel external? [closed]
I have three statuses to display on a table (delivered, cancelled internal and cancelled external) as the title says, how can I distinguish cancel internal and cancel external so the users see the ...
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Placement of More Information/Help Icon button for Radio Buttons
Throughout our system we are going to standardize when and how more information/help is used on specific input fields. In general the standard will be to have the icon/button follow the field like so:...
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Using detail disclosure buttons on section headers
My colleague is suggesting to add a detail disclosure icon to a section header in a mobile app. It seems rather cluttered to me given the density of info we already have on the screen. Are there any ...
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What's the widest character ever? [closed]
This doesn't have to be English, it could also be a symbol or some other language.
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Help text for pressing buttons on the web
I am reviewing some help text on a web page that says... Press Submit button to submit the form [blah blah] or press Cancel to return to the previous screen. Although they're using the <strong&...
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