Cindy, you mention that
> "I observed users > setting the page limit to > max whenever they started an application and > complained why the default was > not the max. When they log in, they want to quickly > scan how their clients > are doing, so they scroll down all the clients' > records and glance some > key data in columns and rows. Perhaps this behavior is because of a poor design of the current system that does not reflect an understanding of end-users? What are the "key data" you are talking about? With the solution you described, you still are leaving it up to the users to scan the data and identify the key information - a potentially frustrating experience with financial professionals. If you understand what the key data are, would it be difficult to display these first, thus mininizing end-user effort? --- Cindy Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I thought this thread of discussion was interesting > so I would like to offer > some comments. > > I am working on an application used by investment > professionals. Some users > we visited did not like paging. I observed users > setting the page limit to > max whenever they started an application and > complained why the default was > not the max. When they log in, they want to quickly > scan how their clients > are doing, so they scroll down all the clients' > records and glance some > key data in columns and rows. > > We recommended the continuous/infinit search similar > to Microsoft's live > search to our product team. Our product Beta has > launched. We receive some > positive reactions. However, we also observed some > problems: > 1) Performance. As you scroll down the page, there > is a delay for the system > to load the data. Filtering and sorting can be slow > too. > 2) Showing the user the total records and where the > user is (see Live > Search). The development team has difficulty in > capturing the total records > and showing where the user is because the records > are dynamically generated. > 3) The jump of the scroll bar. As you move the > scroll bar to the bottom, the > scroll will jump back after a short delay and more > records are shown. > > Currently, the team is in the process of improving > the performance and > resolve the total record issue. We are in the > process of testing it with > users. > > If you have designed such feature for enterprise > applications and have > lessons learned for both designs and usabilty > testing, I appreciate it if > you could share them. > > Thanks! > > - Cindy > ________________________________________________________________ > *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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ________________________________________________________________ *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
