Why not just use auto-save and get rid of the "save" and "cancel" buttons altogether? Then all you need is a single print button that only does something when one or more lines are checked.
Dante Murphy | VP/D User Experience| D I G I T A S H E A L T H 100 Penn Square East| Wanamaker Building, 11th Floor | Philadelphia, PA 19107 | USA Email: dmur...@digitashealth.com www.digitashealth.com -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Julie Stanford Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 1:40 PM To: disc...@ixda.org Subject: [IxDA Discuss] text changing on buttons I wanted to solicit people's advice/examples on a small but interesting interaction we're working on. Here's the scenario: User launches a dialog that has a list of people who they need to handwrite checks to (it's a payroll application; don't worry about why they are handwriting and not printing checks). The dialog has a table of the people and the amounts. For each line in the table, the user can do up to two things: - Add/Edit a check number for that person's check - Print a paystub for that check They can do any or all of these things, it is up to them. To support this, we have two buttons on the dialog -- Save and Cancel -- however if someone selects to Print a stub, the Save button changes to "Save and Print"'. Here's what it looks like in ASCII (the actual is obviously not in ASCII): In the example below: [] = checkbox field ____________ = text field Print Stub Name Amount Check number [ ] John Doe $500 ______________ [ ] Mary Smith $200 ______________ [ ] Billy Bob $300 ______________ [Save] [Cancel] As soon as someone selects to print a stub (by checking of a box in that column) the Save button changes to be Save and Print. Questions: - What do people think about this interaction? - Another option would be to have three buttons to start - Save, Save and Print, Cancel and just disable Save and Print till you've checked something. I think that is just more cluttered and annoying. What do other people think? - Do you have examples of other UIs where the button name changes based on your selection? Julie _____________________________________________________ Julie Stanford Principal, Sliced Bread Design 650-969-0400 x706 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org 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 ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
