Questions tagged [ordering]
Questions having the [tag:orderning] tag regards the act of ordering certain elements in a particular way that affect User Experience.
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Help me choose the simplest way to have have 3 order types in one single checkout (without confusing users)
The main challenge is that the user has the option to make one or 3 types of orders - but they should have a single checkout experience. For an order, the process in quite complex: they have to select ...
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Is there research about the impact of ordering options in a dropdown menu?
I'm looking particularly in the context of data annotation, but any scientific sources would be helpful really. The following options I can think of: The potential options (annotation labels) in the ...
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We're getting complaints about order confirmation emails. Should we make them opt-in?
This is a weird issue. I think it has to do with user experience, but let me know if I should post it on another SE site. One one hand, we have many customers who tell us they didn't receive their ...
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Enabling fields in general section (at top) based on details selection (at bottom)
Is it bad UX to display/enable or mark mandatory fields in the general section (at top) based on details selection which is placed at the bottom? If yes, what are the options we have in this situation?...
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Best way to sort a multi-column list: Top to bottom or left to right first?
I'm creating a long list of countries that span across 3 columns and initially I ordered them left to right and then top to bottom but a colleague of mine said it would be more natural to sort it ...
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Is reversing the menu order on mobile navigation a good idea?
I work at a place where they are keen on reversing the order of the navigation items on mobile menus. The menu is at the bottom of the screen, and the order is reversed, so Home (basically the three ...
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Product sorting order in the shopping cart
What do you think is the best way to sort products in the shopping cart: newest added on top or at the bottom? Especially on the mobile version of the website, I think that newest on top will give the ...
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Should the pagination be reset when changing the order?
Take this paginated data set as an example. The user can change the order, and changing the order doesn't affect the total number of results returned. If the user changes the order, is the any ...
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Which of these is the right way to let people reorder columns in a table
I have a data table where I present live sensor data for comparison. There are atleast 10 columns on the screen at all times and the user can add upto 100 columns by toggling them Some columns are ...
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How to show the user has "grabbed" an element?
I'm working on a mobile drag and drop feature, where users can rearrange the order of list items by dragging and dropping them in a new place in the list. So far the flow is as follows: the user ...
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Sortable Checkboxes for Ranked Options
A user profile form has a set of checkboxes that determine which departments the user belongs to. The data is stored in a comma-delimited list. We now have a new requirement: order the comma-...
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How should I handle multilingual content in Medium Publication?
So I'm writing at Medium, and I'm planning to create a publication, which is a kind of collection. But here comes the question, I write content in two languages, English and Chinese, and every story ...
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Order of radio button options and default option
I am currently putting a form together for subscribing to email notifications. One of the options called 'Frequency' allows the user to select how frequently they want to receive notifications. At the ...
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How to provide ordering and sorting functionality in a table for creating reports
My purpose is to create a report which shows the size of set/s. For this, I am taking in minimum size & maximum size for each set. Along with it, I am supposed to capture the order type and the ...
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Is displaying tags and categories on recent posts unnecessary?
I am creating an online community platform where users can post blog-like items. I currently have made a design that displays recent posts, along with a sidebar where users can filter existing posts ...
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