We could try that, my original concern with that was that it wouldn't be clear what clicking a rabbit means. A check is used everywhere to mean: Select me.

But maybe the added background treatment renders that concern irrelevant. We'll have to see.

Mimi

On Feb 15, 2006, at 5:06 PM, Reid Ellis wrote:

ow about getting rid of the checkmarks altogether? e.g.

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Reid

On Wed Feb 15 2006, at 13:58, Mimi Yin wrote:
I have put together 2 treatments of icons for the Sidebar collection icons. The goal is to plop them into 2 different builds and test them with users.

+ On top is a rounded "tongue" that slides out upon rollover.

+ Below is a highlight treatment which creates a "checkbox" area on the left and highlights the entire row with the "color of the calendar".

On the left: the collection - row is selected (with or without focus, the collection icon will look the same).
On the right: the collection - row is not selected.

Issues that needed to be addressed:
+ Need a way to display collection-specific icons, so that users can differentiate between People-based, Project-based, Date-based collections, just to name a few.

+ Rollover effect is too subtle and some users I tested didn't notice it or understand it to be "separate" from clicking on the row

+ Need to tie the various states together (Un-checked, Rollover, Checked, etc) better, so that they're clearly related.

Mimi
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