"If it's worth the user entering, it's worth the program remembering"
(chapter 15 of About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design, By
Alan Cooper and Robert Reimann)
All of this has brought up the question of implicit saving of data vs.
user initiated save.
For example if I'm on one form, complete it and click a "next" button to
move to the next form, should the data I entered be automatically saved.
Most seem to expect it to be? What about the situation where I complete
one form and then jump to another in the process, not the previous or
next one, but say 5 steps away? Should my data be automatically saved?
And how about if I want to stop filing in the forms now, because I don't
have any more data to provide right now and need to go gather it so I
can fill it in later. Should there be an explicit "save" button for that
situation? And if so, doesn't having a save button for that situation
raise some consistency issues with the fact that the other two
situations don't require the user to manually initiate a save?
--
Guillermo Ermel
Responsable de usabilidad
MercadoLibre.com
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