Questions tagged [sidebar]
element that displays various forms of information to the side of an application or desktop user interface
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Precise UX term for the Opera browser-style menu?
The (original) Opera browser introduced a left-sidebar which would appear on screen upon clicking anywhere on the left edge of the application window: https://app.box.com/s/...
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Inability to create responsive side panel with a fixed header & footer in a web dashboard
I always struggle with creating responsive designs using the correct combination of constraints, auto layout & prototype settings.
I am trying to create a side panel with the following expected ...
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Showing sidebar based on the context?
When the user logs in to my website, they see the main dashboard. They can navigate to the Projects page and see a list of projects.
I am planning to put the Dashboard, Projects, global Settings etc ...
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Optimizing API Calls for Multi-Select Filters in a Sidebar: Best UX Practices?
I have a filter sidebar with 5+ filters. Each filter allows to select multiple options. For now it is implemented using multi-select(not native one, you need to select items one by one).
The issue is ...
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How should a sidebar behave when using top and bottom sticky elements?
I'm designing a complex software interface which has a sticky-top element that contains tabs, and a sticky-bottom element with some CTAs. I'm adding a sidebar and I wonder if it should be placed over ...
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Hidden sidebar feature on desktop Saas apps
I am currently designing a B2B Saas application for a startup, and I am having confusion while deciding the collapsable states of the sidebar - either collapsed with icons or completely hidden with ...
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Sidebar exit or collapsing
Well I am here in situation where on a button inside toolbar user would open this sidebar with some filters and it has tabs on the top,filters below it etc. Now problem is how to create some way of ...
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How to position the two panels
I have a question about how to arrange 2 panels for one section.
Situation: I’m navigating through the settings and the page with user settings is causing me problems. Because there is a hierarchy ...
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In an app with a left sidebar for navigation and a hideable right sidebar for contextual info, how contextual should it be?
Our navigation sidebar is on the left. We also have this right-hand sidebar to provide contextual info based on the feature that a user is looking at. Within a given feature, Cohorts in this ...
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Add a separate filter for items that are already listed in a sidebar, but not explicitly as a filter?
I have a question regarding a filter.
I have a grid with cards that represent pages in a document. There are rules for these cards about when they should be displayed and when not in a generated ...
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Duplicate link names in the navigation
I have a sidebar navigation where I need to seperate orders into two types - maintenance orders and service orders. Each order type has 4 statuses by which it should be separated - it has different ...
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Multiple switchers in sidebar
I am working on a design framework that is used by multiple applications and I have a sidebar which need to include following things:
User can change application
User can change company and name of ...
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How to let users know that they can save more images in history bar?
I'm designing a UI for an image editing tool. Right now the history bar looks like this. Users can decide whether they want to "save" (button) or "delete" (button) the image when ...
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Conflict between sidebar and tables with many columns
I am designing an internal tool for a client. This tool is very information dense and most of its content is tables with a lot of columns.
When designing the navigation I had thought of a sidebar, but ...
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Quick navigation between courses in an LMS
I have a webapp LMS whose workflow, for students and teachers alike, goes like this:
the home page has a list of cards representing the courses available, with a button to enter the course. When ...
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