Meredith, I have to ask about the value of displaying all the labels in your example. Obviously you have insight to the application . Do you feel this detail is critical for a user's understanding of progress, especially when balanced with the cognitive load this may induce.
>From your initial post I took the key design directive 'how to design progress bars for some nested flows' to translate roughly in to; 'A method of displaying overall progress when a user has the ability to change between two work flows' -If- completion of the wizards is a requirement and the progress bars cannot be used as a navigation tool. Is it necessary to have such detailed labels on the bars?? In my mind, progress bars are arbitrary, they have no basis in work load or time. If, for some reason, a user needs to know they've complete Step A.2 when they're on B.5 then I think you need something more sophisticated, the progress bar pattern wont help. Either way - fascinating design problem. Thanks for sharing! -pauric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23155 ________________________________________________________________ *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
