Wow. I'm late to the party, but I'm really happy to see this topic being discussed because I've been losing faith in the "people read from left to right" rule. If this problem were as simple as that then we wouldn't have buttons floating all over the place.
I think it really depends on the layout, but my casual observation tells me submit buttons work very well on the right. There seem to be overwhelming examples of previous(left) next(right). I can't see how or why to change that. The mental timeline puts the past on the left and the future on the right. I think it might be wrong to think of the submit button as the "first choice" (because it's the primary action). It could be thought of as the "final choice" (after all other page elements, including "Cancel"). Seems like everywhere I look I see the primary button on the bottom right (computer monitor, phone, calculator, enter key...) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32945 ________________________________________________________________ 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
