As Amy said, they work well if you use them appropriately. The big problems I have seen with them in usability tests is when the lightbox taxes up too much of the screen. Then users still think they navigated. As a rule of thumb, at least 50% of the screen at your target resolution should be visible.
The next issue is with the back button. Users still want to click them to 'close' the light box. Finally, lightboxes can not be taller then the core content on the window, so you need to keep the content able to fit in a single window... or work on a good scrolling implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=39865 ________________________________________________________________ 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
