My sense is that as long as it isn't overused, the lightbox dialog works well for providing essential information and/or interaction without taking a user out of their primary flow. There are some good examples in Designing Web Interfaces by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, and I've seen additional examples in the wild recently. I think it's a familiar enough pattern that users understand it right away and know how to interact with it, though I haven't yet tested it myself.
I'm designing a process at the moment that uses a lightbox dialog at a critical point in the sign-in/registration process. It's not ideal, but after experimenting with a bunch of different approaches, it's the one I'm most comfortable with. We'll find out whether or not users agree when we test it. 2009/3/11 Patrick Neeman <[email protected]>: > I'm working on a shopping cart, and at a couple of points we either > have to: > - Force someone to sign in for credit card security purposes, or... > - Want to present options attached to a particular shopping cart > item. > > The question is what do you think about using the lightbox dialog > boxes for this? > > I really don't want to take people away from the shopping > experience, and we're trying to guide the user more philosophically > than give them more options so they don't drop. Comments? > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
