Pay EXTRA close attention to what you are paginating. Sometimes a big-ol-list of items page after page is the wrong fit. In the app I am working on, for example, there is a big old list of all the articles released in the last forever. The obvious thing to do was to paginate them into 10 or 20 item chunks, but what is the use of such a list. really?
We decided that our users were using this mainly to get a handle on what everyone was doing that day, and to scan back to items they knew were released recently but weren't sure what they were named. So we paginated by day. However many came out that day, are shown. The idea being that should there ever be THAT many items on a single day, we'll look into ways to filter it, but for now there are only 10-30 articles released a day, so it isn't a big deal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48156 ________________________________________________________________ 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
