Hi, A few questions and comments here: 1. What is the frequency of use of the long-list-selector mechanism? Is this something that will be a rare task or one where people will be using many times a day? 2. How long is long? 3. Will the items have more than on attribute on which you might want to search? 4. You might want to brainstorm on metaphors where there are many items in some kind of list. 5. How many items might be in an average sample? 6. Will the first letter or "starts with" search approach work or will users possibly remember something that is "contained" in the list item. 7. Do you operate on the items in any way other than selecting them (delete, rename, etc.)?
Chauncey On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Rachel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
