Jennifer, If you've designed a small target area for the arrow and not given it separate treatment you then you may have a situation where the user could overlook the arrow's function entirely.
What's more, a user might have the expectation that the menu behaves a certain way e.g. a click opens the accordion menu. All it takes is one click to destroy that expectation e.g. when their click on the text, whose target area is larger, produces a jump to a new page. Of course, this is subject to your own testing. At the very least, separating the behaviors by creating two distinct UI elements and aligning your interface with user expectations up front is a good course of action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
