On 20 Nov 2007, at 01:26, Bryan Minihan wrote: > For performance reasons, we almost always settled on OK on the > left, Cancel > on the right in web forms. It sped up completion of the form (in > tests) by > being the first button you wind up on when you tab out of the last > field > (saves a tab), and was more obviously the button that would respond > when you > pressed "enter" on the keyboard within the form (this last is > subjective, > but someone mentioned it in a test, and it kind of makes sense). [snip]
Interesting :-) We almost always settle on OK on the right since (in tests) users made fewer errors with it this way round. This was with a couple of different web apps. We didn't look at speed of completion though. I have to admit I wasn't expecting the result we got - because I assumed most folk would be more used to the Windows conventions. (as an aside the tab problem could be resolved by either using CSS/ HTML to render the buttons differently from their order in the source, or by using tabindex to alter the tabbing order) Cheers, Adrian ________________________________________________________________ *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://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
