Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preferences to show the number of items to display per page
In 37signal's Getting Real book there is a great page titled Avoid Preferences: Decide the little details so your customers don't have to %u2014 preferences are a way to avoid making tough decisions Removing preferences also removes the need to design extra UI, test additional code, and add additional perceived complexity to your application. Perhaps a spot of testing with the users would reveal an optimal per-page number that works for everyone regardless of the data view? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46070 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
Re: [IxDA Discuss] Preferences to show the number of items to display per page
I haven't used both types before. But my opinion is that it generally is not a good idea to show specific list to show different number of items if the items in the list is changing constantly. For example, logs. If your goal is to have users quickly find items in a pagination design, the best way I've found is to design a good filter/search feature. A good filter design can help user identify exactly what kind of list they want to see, and customize to their liking at anytime. If you want to go even more advanced, you can allow user to save their customize filter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46070 Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
[IxDA Discuss] Preferences to show the number of items to display per page
I have noticed several threads on pagination, but no mention of saving a user's preference for the number of items to display per page. In our application, a user can specify the default number of items to display per page in their application preferences. I feel this control is too hidden to be useful, so we have recently introduced an additional control to set the items per page at the list level. (Updating this does not affect the application preferences.) This means a user may have their application preferences set to 'show 25 items per page', they can also set the display on a specific list to show a different number of items. One of our developers thought it was confusing to enable changing the number of items at the list view, without having this change also update the application preferences. Does anyone have experience in using both types of preferences? Should changing this setting at the list view update the overall application preferences? Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .. http://www.ixda.org/help
