Questions tagged [controls]
an object used to operate a physical or virtual device. For questions regarding how to present and implement controls for a particular interface or interaction.
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Aligning Edit Controls
Here is one of the many forms in this WebApp for a small airline. This is the View Mode (hence all the controls are greyed out), it also has Edit and Insert versions.
The form is too long, so I want ...
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What's a less binary alternative to sliders?
I am working on a project that has a slider that allows a user to select their preference between two things (let's call them A and B).
It is perfectly possible for them to get both A and B but the ...
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Hiding layer of player controls automatically after audio playback ends
For our app (media guide app for museums), we are implementing an "inline audio player", which should look like this:
When the user clicks or touches the gray field, the control bar below ...
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How to expose statistics like a filter buttons
Basically I have a pane with some basic statistic. It shows how many elements have been added, removed or changed and I would like to use it also a buttons to turn on and off filters. But ...
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"UI components" with "GUI components" with "UI/UX components"
Depending on the framework, the name of these ones (buttons, input fields and also non-interactive ones like admonition blocks) is different. I am thinking which term I need to use being the developer ...
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Could elevators not have call buttons?
Do elevators need call buttons? Shouldn't the elevator be called if someone stands in front of the door? I see many questions about people pressing the buttons for different banks of elevators and so ...
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Segmented control vs toggle switch
We have a dashboard that allows a user to see all jobs belonging to their firm. These jobs are split into two tabs:
Upcoming jobs
Requested jobs (but haven't been yet been confirmed by us. Once it's ...
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Should a "New Item" action immediately select the added Item?
Scenario: I have a button labeled "New Item" which adds a new Item to a list (for example, in the image below, "New Signal" adds a new "Signal" to a list of "Signals&...
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Choosing sub-categories of a category to be observed or ignored
I'm working on an AI that can detect people and certain vehicles from a camera feed.
The user can configure which of these "objects" they want to monitor. They can choose either people, ...
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Best UX for incomplete date
Situation: The user entered an invalid or incomplete date into a date picker. For example, the user entered 01/01 then exited the field.
Question: How should the date picker behave?
PrimeNG controls ...
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What is the name of this control that looks like a floating toolbar called?
Google Forms uses a nice context control that looks like a toolbar, but floats towards the selected element (question):
It behaves similarly to a context menu (activated when clicking on a certain ...
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Design of an open/closed interval selector
I have a idea to make an "open/close interval selector" to select the value range such as "[0,24)"or "[-1,1]" in mathematics.
[0,24) means "Greater than or equal to ...
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Options for manual camera controls on a phone app
I am making an advanced camera app for Android. Right now, I have come up with 2 ideas for implementing 3 manual controls (focus distance, sensor sensitivity, and exposure time) on a touch screen:
Put ...
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How to design a control when you select any 3 of 4 parameters to get the remaining one
I am thinking from the UX perspective about implementing a control where there are four parameters (see example below). The user can select the values for any three of them to get the value of the ...
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Exploring alternatives to a tree view for selecting a person's race
I work for a company that is software as a service for the social services industry. We're redesigning the race selection so that we can conform to the standard necessary for data exchanges in the ...
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