On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 10:35 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:21:31AM +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:12 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 07:39:02PM +0200, arne anka wrote: > > > > > Then where do you have any "OK" button? > > > > > > > > ok, it's called "quit". > > > > > > And it's utterly useless, in fact I'm thinking of writing up a > > > few small-screen usability recommendations for our friendly apps. > > > > > > One of them is: don't use "quit/close/..." buttons, they waste valuable > > > eral estate and you can close the windown easily in an alternative way > > > (panel, click on close). > > > > > > Rui > > > > Hooray - sense at last. Coming up with a user oriented interface, not a > > programmers idea of what he personally likes will be a great step > > forward. I like close buttons, but consistency is more important I > > think. And please, please get rid of those dumb sliders used where > > radio buttons are used :) > > A slider makes more sense (at least to me) than a radio button with > two options :) > > Rui >
Might be cultural preference perhaps? To me a slider means an analog value, on/off and similar are discrete, unconnected values so should be represented as such. Also, I cant remember any other HCI interface that uses sliders like this. I am also biased in that the slider designs used in shr dont work well - when using a finger they often require multiple swipes before they work, or you "miss" the active area all together - especially when moving and you are trying to set a slider while walking/carrying other items, ... Practical issues. BillK _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community