Hey Courtney, Turi, Thanks for the responses :)
The idea is that the text field is still a normal text field, it just has an attached tumbler. If the user clicks in the text field, it just selects the text in the text field as normal. The up/down arrow actions only occur if the field is in focus. You're right, a real date could allow the user to skip over the date and proceed as normal - not good. To circumvent this, we could use a fake date, such as 1980.02.31? If they skip over it, the validation should kick in and say that it's an invalid date. Another option would be to use a mask (e.g. CCYY as year). When the user puts focus on the text-field, the mask disappears. If the user set's focus to the field and the field is blank, and they subsequently use the tumbler or press an arrow key, the field jumps to the top number? Interestingness :) Ciao, Shaun On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Jordan, Courtney <[email protected]> wrote: > <from your site> > Now imagine you need to set your birthdate using the above control. > > We could initialise the date with an arbitrary date such as: 1980.06.15. > > > One of the problems with setting an arbitrary date is that users might > not change it to the appropriate date unless it actually behooves them > (they get some sort of reward for being below or above a certain age), > thus if you are trying to track the age groups of your users, this would > skew your results. Since they won't get an error when they try to submit > the form and if they don't get some type of reward, then why would they > take the time? > > Another problem would be that it might make people think that the dates > start at 1980, thus no one older than 27-28 could sign up for whatever > service/product you're offering. This would skew the age group that you > end up with. > > In looking at your tumbler, my first thought is what happens when I > click the tumbler? There seems to be no way to go up or down as in a > normal up/down arrow spin button control, so if it starts at 1980, does > clicking it once move is to 1979 or 1981. > > Courtney Jordan > ________________________________________________________________ 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
