Nice example. This one works well since the user is likely to be moving the mouse over at least one of the results at some point, so discoverability isn't much of a problem. I'm not sure it'd work as well for a media player though.
Has anyone seen in user tests whether people understand the implication of the controls appearing at first, then fading? -Dan On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:12 PM, David Cortright <[email protected]> wrote: > Yahoo Local has a contextual action bar at the bottom of each search result > that only shows up on mouse-over: > http://local.yahoo.com/results?csz=94043&stx=coffee > > And of course the new Facebook feed has a close button that only shows up > on > mouse-over. > > I'm a big fan of this sort of UI, especially when it is exposing contextual > actions on a single item in a list. Rather than repeating the UI on each > item, or having a single toolbar at the top that requires a selection > first, > this pattern keeps the UI in close proximity to the item, and only exposes > the UI when needed. > > Regarding the issue of discoverability or glancability, I think the > controls > should be shown for the first item in the list when there is no item > moused-over. Once the mouse is over an item, it goes away (unless of course > it is the first item). > > ·Dave > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
