Responses below. Thanks for the questions, they are helpful! On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Chauncey Wilson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 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? > Answer: very rare task > > 2. How long is long? > Answer: from 1 to 250, depending on the situation - If 1, we will show read-only text, not as checkbox - If list is short, will show as a list of items w/ checkboxes - if list is long, need a special control (as I've described) > 3. Will the items have more than on attribute on which you might want to > search? > Answer: Maybe, but it is not critical. 5. How many items might be in an average sample? > Answer: few. It is very rare that you would see a long list (only a few users of the system would see a long list) > 6. Will the first letter or "starts with" search approach work or will > users possibly remember something that is "contained" in the list item. > Answer: "Contained" within feature would be nice, but not sure if it is critical. (I notice that endless.com, mentioned by Marijke, has that feature in the brand selector) 7. Do you operate on the items in any way other than selecting them > (delete, rename, etc.)? > > Answer: No, it's just selecting. Another wrinkle is that in the future, the list of items may become hierarchical - but we don't need to cater to that possibility now. 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
