How about using an explicit zoom button, rather than going into zoom mode from clicking anywhere on the image?
An image is a big, appealing target, especially in a sea of text. It sounds like it would easy to click it accidentally. Lots of e-commerce sites use magnifying glass buttons (or a button that says "Enlarge"). Diana On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Lizz<[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering if you have any thoughts on usability best practices > for clicking on a picture to enlarge it. > > The context is a newspaper-type article (as opposed to a gallery or > photo site - which, I think, is an important difference in regard to > user expectations), and it's one where the image opens on top of the > article, blacking out the rest of the screen (like with Picassa). To > return to the article and browser, you must close the image. > > Some examples I've seen seem to take you by surprise and take > control out of the users hands. > > Because this is neither a traditional pop up nor a new tab/window, it > makes me wonder whether a mouse over effect is enough to indicate that > it's clickable and/or if the the text "click to enlarge" is > necessary/sufficient to indicate the type of interaction that is to > come. Maybe it's just a question of getting used to seeing this > type of image? > Is there an icon that people have seen to work? (e.g. the "+" > sign). > And finally, how good/bad can this type of increasingly common > interaction be for accessibility? > > Many thanks for your thoughts! > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
