It sounds as though your concerns are about vertical space, with your Items ending up too close together but not wanting to make them taller for fear of hurting scannability. A tree might not actually be the most effective way of displaying the hierarchy of the information.
Are you able to use your horizontal space more effectively? For instance, you could make each Category the heading of a column, with the Subcategories and Items displayed in tree form within. Then it's more possible to make the Items larger (taller) without feeling like your page is ten feet long. Jennifer Berk On 10/5/07, Alan Wexelblat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to use Fitt's Law properly to > increase the targetability of a dense tree structure, as displayed on > a browser page. > > There are about 5 Categories, each of which has 3-10 Subcategories and > each subcategory has 1-15 Items. > > Displaying these data in a conventional tree leads to a display that > is a grand pain to target on. The left side is nice and large and > clear, but the right column of Items is dense and packed so that > targeting becomes quite slow. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe Questions .................. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
