For reference, do a search on the www.kayak.com site. They do a great job with sliders.
On 11/1/07, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I wonder, does anyone know of / carried out / read any research into > users' > familiarity and ability with slider controls? > > This sort of thing for example: > http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SliderDemo (although I > don't > particularly like their implementation of them). > > My feeling is, as long as it looks a lot like a slider and that the > control > affords horizontal movement there enough real, physical sliders in the > world > that people would have an understanding of how they work? > > They feature in the Energy Saver in System Preferences in OS X for example > so guess at least a few people know how they work... > > I'm trying to put together a rating tool, users rate a product on a scale > of > 1 to 10, and it seems to me that a slider fits the bill perfectly. > > Clearly there needs to be graceful degradation for clients without > javascript but aside from that, does anyone have any comments? > > Thanks in advance, > Tim > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://gamma.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://gamma.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://gamma.ixda.org/help
