Where to put a spinner on android next to a search box

I am trying to design a screen with a spinner drop-down to select a term of school, and then a search box to search in, but I cant seem to figure out how to get everything to look nice together.
To me no matter what I do it…
Material Design: Adding to table 2 different ways

I’m building a responsive web app based on the material design principles. I have a data table that has an ADD function. There is two ways to add to the table. You can either input the values you want to add manually or you c…
What to do when process diagrams become too big?

I use process flow diagrams and find that the value they provide – the ability to scan, parse, and understand a system – starts to diminish when they become too big and unwieldy.
Can anyone suggest ways of using this diagramming style (or even entirely alternative methods) to visually represent complex systems in a way that is more likely to retain value when they systems get large?
How to layout a page with very long list of sub-navigation items?

We have these few pages that have an inner navigation but for some pages, the number of items is very large. For some pages, the number of navigation items is small.
See below for the ones with a long list of navigation (sma…
Where to place a "Add Car" button

I am really trying to make it simple and elegant but I can’t decide where to place this button where a user can add there car to there profile.
I attached a screenshot of my mobile app, any answer will be very helpful.
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Mobile Chat UI – Color of the bubbles

I’m wondering why in most mobile chats the message I write has a color background and white text (example: blue background and white text, like facebook) and the response is on grey background with black text.
The bubble wi…
Reason for Android onscreen keyboard not disappearing on outside touch event

Some UX expert at my job noted that the Android onscreen keyboard should disappear once the user taps any UI component but the focused EditText (or the keyboard itself of course).
Apparently Stackoverflow has multiple people …
Using Javascript popups to create a workflow for legal experts writing and editing legislation

I suppose this is a ui-flow question.
I’m currently working on a project where a couple of the stakeholders are suggesting the use of popup windows, i.e. browser tabs, to create a workflow to switch between and compare mul…
Shopping UX where pressing the "price" turns into "buy-confirm" then "checkout"

I’m trying to optimize the in app purchase for my users who only want to buy, and checkout as quickly as possible.
Current situation
My store offers other things for sale, but when a user only wants on thing, I’d like to st…