Questions tagged [toolbar]
a menu bar with many items to perform common tasks in an application, often visible from the main window or all windows of an application.
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Is there a recommended distance between an action icon in the toolbar?
See example from Outlook.
I know the answer may vary, so I'm looking for an answer which is backed up (not sure if anyone researched it). I want to show my team and try to convince them of the current ...
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What should be on the top bar of a Web site?
The top bar of a site shows links that the user uses a lot.
Here is Stack Exchange's top bar:
This shows links that are of interest for the user:
Stack Exchange homepage
Search box
Link to user ...
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Why are toolbars at the bottom of screen for video-conferencing applications?
All of the leading video-conferencing solutions like Google Meet, Teams, Zoom, Whereby, etc... have the main toolbar at the bottom of the screen. What is the reasoning behind it?
Shouldn't it be more ...
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Communicate that an object in the toolbar cannot be added to the document a second time
I'm working on a toolbar containing objects that can be dragged into documents. You can also click on these objects to add them to the document. Some of these objects have restrictions and can be ...
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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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Showing more information while decluttering the screen
I'm designing an educational app with gamified elements to it. The way the app has evolved the left side is what we consider the most important information for the user. The items to the right are all ...
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Rationale for persistent UI elements that is overlayed onto video windows
With a lot of people now using video conferencing tools, there has been a lot of articles highlighting the usability of these applications.
Microsoft, which boasts a very large research and design ...
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Having external links (hyperlinks) and multiple actions in the same dashboard page
I am working on a huge system which is meant to provide internal user to manage products' lifecycle. Thus, it's like a complicated dashboard containing lots of information and data grid and ...
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How to choose the best type of controls to use in a toolbar?
I have a 3D view displaying two objects. One is the reference object, the other the user object. Displaying the two objects together allows the user to compare its own object to a reference object (...
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Based on what criteria do you add/not add icons to labels within a toolbar?
Some toolbars have icons for each label, and some toolbars do not have icons for any label. There is enough discussion about that.
However, some toolbars will attach icons to label selectively, and ...
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Desktop app status bar: Notification vs error message
I'm working on a particular feature that requires messages to be shown in the context menu when user clicks on it.
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Display different icons for different events (Upgrades and errors for ...
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How to choose between a Popover, Inspector, or Toolbar to edit properties?
macOS apps have the following patterns (and possibly others) for editing properties of selected items:
Popovers (See here)
Inspector Panels (Right Sidebar)
Toolbars
In the following example, the ...
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Toolbar at the bottom of texts/numbers busy screen
I have a screen in my app as shown below. The requirement is to place a toolbar with 2 buttons:
One button displaying the currently active list/deck of drugs (it is the one with 'Pediatric Drugs' ...
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Can I customize app bars on each destinations in a bottom navigation bar?
I am designing an Android app with 5 destinations in the bottom navigation bar. The main screen is one of them. It's a list of events and the app bar there is pretty custom - prominent with the logo, ...
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Is a 'single tab-stop' a valid goal for a toolbar which is almost the whole of the UI?
This W3C best practice document says
To optimize the benefit of toolbar widgets...
Implement focus management so the keyboard tab sequence
includes one stop for the toolbar and arrow keys move
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