This doesn't surprise me.
Enter (and other keyboard actions to activate form/dialog controls)
are a power user activity. (So I'll bet no one exited with Esc or
tabbed through controls, either.) There's a level of "trust" (for
lack of a better word) that has to be established before users are
only going to engage in power activities. The first time in a given
form or in a given app, they are going to act cautious and
conservative and will not use such shortcuts, because they aren't sure
that the app will behave like it should in non-power scenarios.
(Exception: if they are "testing" the form rather than "using" it, if
they are looking for problems, then you may get power behavior right
out of the gate.)
-- Jim Drew
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On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Luke Wroblewski wrote:
> All of the participants (23) used the buttons on all of the options
> (6). So 138 times out of 138 tested, no on used hit "Enter" to
> complete a form.
>
> On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
>> Excellent question. Luke, any insights into this? I don't think this
>> was mentioned in the article.
>
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