We do a very similar thing, except instead of hiding the buttons completely we dim them. We also use hover to show contextual content for an item in a popup box, and it works very well.
You can see these techniques in action at http://opl.bibliocommons.com/collection/show/4922901_emenel/library On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Jack Moffett wrote: > >> You could certainly point out situations where it is inappropriate, but I >> don't see how you can argue that best practice is to not use this technique. > > Exactly. We use the hover technique to reveal additional options like Edit > and Delete in most of our webapps. Imagine a list of 30 items on a page. If > we had Edit and Delete next to every single one of them, that's a lot of > visual noise on the screen. Instead, we only reveal these additional actions > on hover — it's conditional and contextual. And besides, you're going to > have to target that item w/a mouse anyway to perform the action. So, it > works pretty well. > > > Cheers! > > Todd Zaki Warfel > President, Design Researcher > Messagefirst | Designing Information. Beautifully. > ---------------------------------- > Contact Info > Voice: (215) 825-7423 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blog: http://toddwarfel.com > Twitter: zakiwarfel > ---------------------------------- > In theory, theory and practice are the same. > In practice, they are not. > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Matt Nish-Lapidus -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] twitter: emenel ________________________________________________________________ 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
