[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Liz) wrote: > One aspect of "previous" and "next" that bears mention here is > that conceptually they could be considered a pair. If the design > situation calls for both regularly, it's sort of like the situation > with "rewind" "play/pause" and "forward" wherein they're > hardly even separate controls. (And of course time moves on to the > right.) Multiple control options within a set could be visually > designed to appear as much like one as possible, and placed together > in the best optimal-for-the-user-to-see location. > It's worth reflecting that that's what the browser controls are like.
As an aside, I'm sending this from my web-based version of home email (it gets complicated). I fill in a text field to write this, then if I go bottom left, the most obvious button is actually 'inbox', which loses my inputs. I've done that more than once. So why am I looking to the bottom left? I don't think I do that on other forms. The 'send' button is placed more to the right. They are both html buttons. If the 'send' button had a stronger design to make it stand out, then I think it would work better. It goes to show that often you can't just take individual dimensions, but it's the interaction between elements that makes the whole (e.g. positioning, colour, size, etc) Nick ________________________________________________________________ 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
