Brett: Thanks for the reply, and no, I definitely don't mind your using my sample for your mockup, and yes, I agree your layout is yet another solution to the problem that works great in a lot of situations. I could see using your layout in a form where Previous is not a very likely scenario and the overwhelming direction of a process flows from first to last.
I don't design many wizards (primarily due to the complexities identified here), but the few I have designed were a lot more free-flowing and haphazard than what your layout dictates. In one such case, the "wizard" was just a series of preference pages that could be completed in any particular order. We just provided the Next and Previous buttons to give people a sense of linear direction, so making them almost equally prevalent was important (to let people know you don't HAVE to go forward and backward). Also, in that process, you could land on any step in the process without having started on the first page. Perhaps my process wasn't a wizard after all =]. Just goes to show how perspective makes a big difference in the approach to a design problem, and that there is never one right answer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
