Hi Greg, The answer to your questions from my point of view:
1. A rollover could be annoying for users when the mouse hovers over the menu unintentionally. For that reason I used a short delay between rollover and showing the menu in http://www.vanluin.nl 2. Yes, I think the arrows on the right site of the label are a clear visual clue for the hidden dropdown menu. 3. If the label and arrow are part of the same gui-element, then they should have the same interaction. The LinkedIn example is different from the other two examples in the way that the label and arrow are two separate gui elements. A click on the label opens a new page, a click on the arrow shows the dropdown menu. Flickr does the same. I presume that the clickable label is meant as help for novice users -not used to dropdown menus- or for accessibility / easier keyboard interaction. That would make sense to me. LinkedIn made a strange choice however: using the keyboard label and arrow do act as one single gui element. - Yohan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39123 ________________________________________________________________ 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
