I'm looking for a solutions for a form that includes a very long list of items, where user needs to select one or more items in the list. User needs to have a sense of what has been selected (or number of items that have been selected). User needs to be able to jump quickly to items in the list that they want.
Traditionally, this is solved by a listbox where multiple items can be selected (using Ctrl-Click). Or the pattern that Tidwell calls "List Builder" that has 2 listboxes - you pick items from box on the left and click an arrow button to move them to the right, so you can easily see what you've selected (Example: http://welie.com/patterns/showPattern.php?patternID=parts-selector) I think that these are difficult to use, and it is hard to navigate to the item you are interested in. And the List Builder takes up a lot of real estate. Do you have examples of good alternatives? One option we are considering is putting the list of items is in an iframe, alphabetically sorted, with a checkbox next to each item. There could be a "jump to" text entry field above it. As you type in letters, the list jumps down to the first item that starts with those letters. You can check/uncheck items. There would be a way to check all or uncheck all items. Above the list it would say how many items are selected. Does anyone have examples of something like this? Thanks! Rachel ________________________________________________________________ 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
