Using a Google Spreadsheet to feed input to a web application
I am building a mathematical web application, that gets as input a large matrix of numbers, and does some mathematical calculations on it. The common ways to feed input into such an application are:
An HTML table widget, where the user ca…
Should there be any input restrictions on first/last name such as numbers?
I’m building a sign up form and I noticed that a lot of companies allow me to put in a number when I enter my first name, such as "alks82734" being a valid first or last name.
How should I handle user sign up when I need the firs…
Hyphens vs. parentheses in form field labels
Link Color
Link Color – Hover
Header Items – Left
Header Items – Right
vs.
Link Color
Link Color (Hover)
Header Items (Left)
Header Items (Right)
vs.
Link Color
Link Hover Color
Header Left Items
Header Right Items
Are there any rul…
Is it an anti pattern to have two UI input element for the same value?
Does having two different UI elements for the same input value considered an anti pattern? Both inputs represent the same thing, changing the value of one will update the other.
For example, I wanted to have a slider that the user can sele…
Tap takes you to next screen VS Tap enables "Continue" button
I’m designing a flow that contains screens where the user has to select an option among the available ones. For now we will not allow to select more than one, but maybe in the future it will be possible only in some of the flow screens.
I’…
Value can only be assigned to one item per category in a table (Radio button-like use case without using Radio buttons)
I have a table with a list of items & various columns.
One of the columns is Type, of which the possible values are A, B, C etc…
The user is able to assign a binary value Is X?=YES or NO via a dropdown.
At any one time, only a single…
Hide already selected options in the dropdown
In the case of a multi-select field, I would like to know the best practice:
Hide the choices that have already been selected (the list gets smaller as you go along)
Leave the choices already selected with a "selected" status
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