: Design pattern for assigning items to two buckets/lists, where items can be in both, one or none I'm sorry I could not name this question any better -- if anybody knows of a better term to

@XinRu324

This clearly fits better in UX.SE. But I'll give my two cents in either case.

There are some flaws with the question, one of which being what the carrier of this system you're designing is. Whether it's mobile, desktop or both.

I also read it like you want the list to be consistent, and not be separated between the buckets. Therefore I would suggest to simply use a selection control in that list which clearly tells the user what bucket(s) an item belongs to.

In this mockup I've used a segmented selection control, which is usually used for featured filtering in lists. It really works the same way as a checkbox selection group, but with a much more vibrant visual feedback of state to easier read out how a list's items are distributed state-wise.



This is just a quick mockup to show a design suggestion of how to solve your problem and to give you an idea of what you could do.

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