Answer by Nikita Dvornikov for What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
Regular tree-view with drill-down on double-click and breadcrumbs.Check out Workflowy, it has the same behaviour.
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Show only the current level of the hierarchy, and breadcrumbs
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Mac OS column view is cool, but it takes huge screen space. iPhone and iPod hierarchical screens use the same concept, but split the columns across many screens because of the devices small size. They...
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One simple way to show a hierarchy is to combine a tree with 2 lists. One list shows just the leaf nodes for the selected tree node, the other shows all leaf nodes but grouped by their parent node.It...
View ArticleAnswer by scunliffe for What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
A few considerations:What OS is this for (or is it for multiple)?Are there any constraints or known limits on your hierarchy?Is there a search option provided?No. 1 is important as you noted... because...
View ArticleAnswer by Lukas Oppermann for What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
I think it depends on the typical tasks.For just seeing a hierarchy and clicking on links, I do agree with lucasrizoli, that tree is very similar.If user have to go through folders a lot (forward and...
View ArticleAnswer by igor for What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
The best way do not do so deep hierarchy or use slices, shallow views (deep 2 max).
View ArticleAnswer by lucasrizoli for What's the best way to view a deep hierarchy?
1) Tree widgets (as in Windows Explorer) and drop-down menus (mega or otherwise) I would say are the most familiar.2) "Get" is vague, as are "users," really. This is not an answer to your question, but...
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I've been pondering the best way to show a deep hierarchy for a desktop application I'm working on. Here are some alternative designs I'm considering...Mac OSX Finder:If you understand what you're...
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