Questions tagged [overflow]
Questions relating to there being 'too much stuff' in a user interface. Creative ways to reduce.
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What’s the common UX behavior for dependent filters when one is mandatory?
I’m working on a filter component with this scenario:
One filter is mandatory (single select) and the second filter is optional (multi select).
If the second filter is empty, it currently means “all ...
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How to best handle many breadcrumbs with overflow menu
We have a well-developed breadcrumbs component in the design system. Its logic is that breadcrumbs containing more than 5 elements are reduced and a drop-down menu appears. Currently, we show the ...
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Overlapping div in left side when turning off the collapse on the left sidebar [closed]
I built a dashboard that contains sidebar with collapse. When I try to put chartjs and make it display:grid, it turns out it is overlapping the right side when turning of the collapse.
Here is my html ...
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Handling text overflow in wireframes
This is something that has bothered me a lot on how to approach.
I like to use "ugly data" in my wireframes since my goal isn't to have pretty wireframes, but functional ones. Using simple ...
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How to show a huge amount in a small pill?
I have come across this challenge where a developer is asking me as to how to show a large account balance in a small pill.
In case of webapps, we show ellipsis and tool tips in order to show the ...
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How to choose menu animation style?
We have a bottom bar menu in one of our mobile applications with an overflow icon which currently opens the overflow menu.
Here is what it currently looks like:
We are updating our application UI ...
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Action Overflow VS. Command Menus for primary and secondary actions on a datatable
I'm currently researching what are the best practices for handling a lot of actions on a data table.
The two that I'm familiar with are grouping actions together in a command menu, using the action ...
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How to make long headings easy to copy inside a card?
When somebody hovers on the heading "Thanksgiving", the full text appears as tooltip. The problem here is the Heading must be easy to copy so that user can send it to another user for particular ...
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Expand truncated table cell content on hover
I'm working on a project using Google's Material Design and am running into an issue where we need to truncate table cell content. There is a spec for truncating table headers and showing the full ...
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How can I improve add entry tab?
I'm making a UX/UI for Telenor software that we are developing as summer project. How to do the navigation/controls for this Software style:
I'm stuck on how best to do the Add Entry for this tab.
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Is the cognitive load of using both vertical dot and horizontal dot menus worth hinting at how the menu will appear?
For overflow and more menus, Google Material Design seems to favour vertical dot menus, see
Apple seems to favour horizontal dot menus (see https://i.sstatic.net/qEdr3.jpg).
On desktop applications, ...
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Step UI when the list of steps is wider than screen width?
So I really like Semantic UI, and take a lot of direction from them when I can. I have a stepped-process checkout, and have taken after their "Ordered Step" UI.
However, sadly, even their component ...
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Is it ok to let users scroll for more information on the main elements?
I know that your suppose to have the most important content and information in front view. In other words, users shouldn't have to scroll to get to the content. However, what about the content of ...
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Marquee or Ellipsis for song name in music player?
I have a music player where song that is being played is displayed on top side. Often there is a case where name of the song that is being played is long enough that it can't be shown completely due ...
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How do you deal with too many bullets in a slider?
I have an issue with a simple image slider on a mobile application. The slider uses bullets to indicate the pages of the slider. Now, it became quickly evident that the navigation bullets could easily ...
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