10 Free Plugins for Customizing the WordPress Dashboard
These WordPress plugins feature creative and practical customization ideas for lessening the learning curve for new users and saving administrators time.
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Designing The Perfect Slider
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When we think about a slider, we usually imagine an image gallery slider, or the infamous carousel, or perhaps off-canvas navigation, with the overlay sliding in from the side. However, this article is not about those kinds of sliders. Instead, we’ll look into the fine details of designing better slider controls for selecting a value or a range of values. Think of price range sliders, 360-degree-view sliders, timeline sliders, health insurance quote calculators, or build-your-own-mobile-plan features.
In all of these use cases, a slider is helpful because it allows users to explore a wide range of options quickly. For precise input, a slider can never beat a regular input field, but we can use a slider to nudge our customers to explore available options and, hence, aid them in making an informed decision.
After a close look at perfect accordions and date and time pickers, let’s turn our attention to sliders, with do’s and don’ts and things to keep in mind when designing one. But first, we need to figure out when a slider makes sense in the first place. (Please note: that article is quite large, and contains many animations and videos.)
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Things To Keep In Mind When Designing A Transportation Map
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For many people, a map of a transportation network is a given, an expected part of the system, something that just is — like a fire-escape plan in a building. So, when I say that I design transportation maps, they don’t understand. What is there to design even?
Well, let’s take the London underground map as an example. Designed by Harry Beck, it was the world’s first transportation map to use the principles of electrical circuit drawings. All line segments were put to the angles of 45 or 90 degrees. The distances between stations were equalized.
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Integrate multiple forms as optional steps in one form
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I’m working on a CMS portal that supports content in a set of categories. The categories important for this questions are in particular;
Media
Pages
When adding media, the users has to complete a form containing the following …
Designing The Perfect Date And Time Picker
What could be so difficult about designing a decent date picker? Basically, we just need an input field and an icon that represents a calendar clearly en…
10 WordPress Plugins for Importing and Exporting Data
A collection of powerful WordPress plugins that you can use to import and export various types of data within the WP Dashboard for free.
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How to show a consumer products in a eCommerce Site with only filters?
I have an eCommerce site that sells baby clothes. When i think of the different ways i can arrange/organize the main menu i get frustrated on trying to make sense. I start to think of how a physical store is organized. Usually they are sep…
Designing The Perfect Accordion
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Design patterns. An almost mythical phrase that often inspires either awe or resentment. As designers, we tend to think of design patterns as generic off-the-shelf solutions that can be applied to various contexts almost mechanically, often without proper consideration. Navigation? Off-canvas! Deals of the day? Carousel! You get the idea.
Sometimes we use these patterns without even thinking about them, and there is a good reason for it: Coming up with a brand new solution every time we encounter an interface problem is time-consuming and risky, because we just don’t know how much time will be needed to implement a new solution and whether it will gracefully succeed or miserably fail in usability tests.
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Tabbed navigation in search result templates: Can users appreciate it?
Google.com has tabbed navigation in their main search result template (although they don’t style the tabs as such). However, my UX colleagues believe these tabs are not in much use, and they believe this is common for all search UIs: Peopl…
How to Handle Indescribable Uniqueness in Design
We discuss weird and indescribable uniqueness in design, share how you can handle it, and whether or not it’s necessarily a good thing.
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