I don't know if I understand why we often try to find special descriptions to call things. The more that Rich interfaces become common, designers will make attempts to create interactions and UI elements that "work" to solve "the problem". In the example you sent, it looks to me like a series of "tabs" that have menu items under each tab. I assume you see the same thing. No? Wouldn't that, then, be the description of what it is?
As UI's become more custom and we are not always forced into using out-of-the-box UI components and patterns, the community is going to have a consistently harder time describing what "something is" or what to call something specifically. I'd suggest you just call it like it is, and not waste a lot of time trying to define it under a specific "official" description. dave On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Jason Zietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apologies if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything > related in the archives. I checked my Designing Interfaces book as well and > came up empty, so now I seek the guidance of the collective. > > http://anxiousplanet.com/ixda/SubmenuOrSubnav.gif > > What would you call "Current Design" in this example? Clearly "Design" is a > tab, but "Current Design" and its siblings don't look like tabs, though they > do *behave* like tabs. I started calling them "subtabs" but then switched > to "submenus" and now I can't decide between either or something else > altogether. > > Thanks! > > jason > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. -- Albert Einstein ________________________________________________________________ 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
