Questions tagged [screen-real-estate]
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Screen size when designing an iPhone mockup in Figma?
I used Figma to design our iphone app. What iphone model should I use for designing iphone apps?
For what it's worth: I'm asking for iphone model instead of resolution since I can specify the model in ...
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How to have a form and a preview of what the form generates on a small screen? [closed]
I am looking at this webcode.tools page:
You find this pattern a lot, like with codesandbox and other places.
I am thinking of putting ads on the left and right as persistent (320px width each), so ...
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How to use up more screen real estate in this onboarding flow?
I have this onboarding screen which is supposed to guide you through the creation of a dictionary term (define the term, add pronunciations, add recordings, etc., finish).
The design is not fully ...
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Designing a home screen for a mobile app
I'd like to show the current day's load-shedding schedule on the home screen, but the design I have looks too empty to me. Any suggestions for things I can add to the screen ?
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Shall I set an expiration mechanism for a dismissible info banner?
I'm adding a new data column to a table on a back office page (the interface is desktop only) and I want to highlight this new feature by displaying an info banner on top of said table that spans the ...
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Simple way to determine the percent of various screen real estate commitments in competition?
In short, I want to analyse a number of web pages, let's say, specifically homepages of Vox and HBR (but also a dozen others).
1) I want to figure out how much screen real estate they're giving to ...
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Why would users prefer to use a diluted layout when given the choice?
Some web apps from Google such as Gmail and Drive offer a "comfortable" option with lots of wasted white-space, which I'll refer to as being diluted for lack of a better term.
I'm creating a web app, ...
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How can I improve this master detail/grouping UI?
In my application, I have to represent a Work Order entity that has N Work Order Sections and each section has M sub-items. Currently, I'm representing this like so:
Each Work Order has a bunch of ...
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Why are desktop/laptop screens horizontally oriented?
Desktop/Laptop Screen Orientation
One obvious difference when we design for desktop versus mobile is the orientation of the screen. Laptop screens are typically 16:9 or 16:10 screen ratio, which are ...
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Reducing data entry density
Here's a common situation: you need to capture input from the user about some complex entity, so you have a data entry field for every possible attribute of the entity:
And the tabs each have even ...
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Display multiple options while preserving as much screen real-estate as possible
INTRODUCTION AND RELEVANT INFORMATION:
I am designing user interface for entering test results. Number of tests performed range from no tests performed at all, up to 12.
Let me try to explain this ...
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Real estate for "What is this" help text?
The web application I work has "What is this?" for most of the pages. Currently we place them at the top right corner.
Tab occupies only 70% of available space and help text occupies 30% and the ...
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How do I decide whether my app needs a landscape mode? Is landscape mode good to have as a best-practice?
I am building an app(for the phone), my dilemma is that am not sure whether I want to have landscape orientation or not.
Since by default we hold our phones in portrait mode, isn't the expectation to ...
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how to deal with dynamic long forms going off the screen?
I'm working on a new feature that allows people to share items. To do this i'm overlaying a modal on our site with 10 e-mail address input fields.
As you can see, because of the spacing on this ...
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Why do we waste so much Screen-Real-Estate? [closed]
Border around the screen
this basically boils down to why dont make the whole front of device a screen and why have borders around everything on the screen too.
Why not replace the material around ...
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