A while back I asked about affordances related to drag-and-drop. Here's more of me trying to figure out the right ways to cue users for certain operations that could work for drag and drop.
The interface in question has a hierarchical tree on the left. On the right is a details area. Because the user's tasks may require comparing details of several items at once I want to enable people to move more than one item from the left tree to the details area simultaneously. In effect the right side is a "details workspace" that the person populates by selecting one or more names from the tree view and somehow getting them to the details area. Now drag-and-drop is one option. As is a context menu. But both are somewhat hidden. The question is do i want to also add visible affordances such as << and >> buttons between the two parts of the display to indicate that people can select things and move them back and forth? What's the best practice for this kind of thing, if there is one? Regards, --Alan ________________________________________________________________ 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
