I have actually started using a similar treatment on some work I'm doing at my company. Our use of this button is such: below the button is a column of check boxes relating to certain line items (similar to an email inbox). The intended interaction is that the user checks off one or several line items and then clicks anywhere on the two part "select a task" button and sees menu options (delete, assign a tag, etc). The reason we went for these feature is 1. our users only considered the button over the checkbox column to relate to that column, so when we had multiple buttons they didn't realize these all related 2. In order to combine the actions and still have the users see them as "actions" we used a button like treatment with a down arrow to cue them that there were more choices.
This treatment actually did fairly well in usability and we'll be continuing to monitor it's progress in production. It enabled us to clean up the page quite a bit actually. ~ Lis http://www.elisabethhubert.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=27578 ________________________________________________________________ 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
