OK. Here are the data properties. These are search results in software application. They can contain one to hundreds entries. The presentation has to facilitate data comparison. Sorting might help here. It presents 11 distinct characteristics. Ten of the characteristics might have multiple values. The data is descriptive text, and diverse in nature (cannot be grouped into facets). Efficiency and accuracy are important for the task (obviously both would take a hit if "Multiple.." were used to show the data).
My recommendation to the team is to use a link for cells with multiple entries. Provide the ability to expand all multiple entries (this can be useful and practical, if the set is small). Link formatting has to be distinct from single entry cells. Lorem ipsum Dolor sit amet Consectetur (5 v) Adipiscing elit (2 v) Cras lectus v represents a small image of an arrow pointing down. I have done a quick usability test with this and three variations. Tested variations were: Multiple... Consectetur (5) Consectetur (+5) Consectetur (5 v) All of them were formatted the same way. Consectetur (5 v) was clear winner. Thanks, everyone, Oleh Kovalchuke Interaction Design is design of time http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Santiago Bustelo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for arriving so late to the discussion. > > Oleh, I am a little puzzled about your need to display more than one > value in a cell. There are several ways to display data, with their > own properties that can fit or not the needs. One of datagrid's > properties is, precisely, that one cell equals one value. > > Displaying more than one value in a cell would not only add > complexity, but also break other datagrid properties, as sorting > values by column. > > Perhaps another way to display the data can be more appropiate, but > without a sample of the data I won't be able to suggest one. Feel > free to contact me in private. > > -- > > Santiago Bustelo, Icograma > Buenos Aires, Argentina > > // IxDA Buenos Aires: http://www.ixda.com.ar > > ________________________________________________________________ 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
