Back to the interaction... You are also able to drag the label to the message when the message is in the list or when you have the message open. I have actually moved to using this interaction more as it allows me to "label" the message without having the message get tagged and archived all in one step. For those that don't know when a message is archived it is removed from the main list of messages. Currently if you drag the message to the label using the drag handles it will do both a "label" and an "archive". I often want to label a message but have it remain visible in the list, i.e tag it.
Even though you can drag the labels to the messages there are no drag handles on the labels. I'm interested to hear discussion about certain drag-able items having drag handles and others not. And then, if the labels had drag handles how should the interface communicate that dragging labels will only perform a "label" steps, but dragging a message with perform "label-AND-archive" steps? Or is this a case where the context of what is being dragged will dictate what steps are performed? (Personally I would disagree with the last statement because I was surprised that it archived my message when I drug it to a label, but maybe that's just me.) Perhaps the reason that drag handles are not on the labels is that the design rationale is meant to direct users to drag messages and not labels. Perhaps the design rationale is providing a 'hidden alternative' so people like myself aren't locked out of an inverse interaction, inverse meaning drag 'label to message' instead of 'message to label'. Thoughts? Rex Kilian Human-Computer Interaction Institute Carnegie Mellon University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44073 ________________________________________________________________ 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
