Hi all, How do you decide whether to include a means to control how many list items to display?
In an earlier thread (http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=46070), someone pointed to 37Signals' "Getting Real," in which they suggest that preferences like these are a cop-out, a little decision that one shouldn't force on the user. Jut simplify and choose a smart default. And in a recent round-up of best practices in search results (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/28/search-results-design-best-practices-and-design-patterns/), it seems to me that most of the example sites the author points to do not use this UI control. Yet the author calls the use of this control a best practice. So, how do you decide whether to include it? Do you follow a general principle (give the user more control/take away little decisions), or do you decide based on the users' needs in a given project? And if so, how do you define those needs? ________________________________________________________________ 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
