Here's a nice example:
http://www.biocompare.com/
Mary Keitelman
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:57:18 +0530
From: he...@conetrees.com
To: kpkle...@gmail.com
CC: disc...@ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Usability of accordions
The best way to go forward would be to get a good number of representative
or actual users and simply do two simple A-B tests on the same users. I'm
not or expanding on participants and numbers because there is no information
given about what your site is about, who does it target and whether it's
live or not.
Test 1- accordion without auto-switching and and accordion with
auto-switching
Probe the participants in context of what you want to accomplish through the
auto-switching and choose which way to go.
Test 2- accordion with 'open panel' upon MouseOver and accordion
without 'open panel' upon MouseOver
Observe more and probe to validate whether users find this confusing,
irritating or just fine/ needs minor adjustment to suit their taste.
But otherwise, in my opinion, points 1 and 2 could be implemented as
mentioned or the other way round, without any major concerns to users. The
only points to take note would be:
Point 1- Accordion auto-switches to the next part after every 5 seconds when
mouse pointer is outside the box.
It's fine if it does or doesn't. But you should consider avoiding the slide
transition while showing changing panels. This will avoid the accordion from
distracting the user from the other content on the page (you said this is
not very important content). Instead, you would like to use the slide
transition to help the users are operating the UI so they realize the change
in state of the changing panels more easily.
Point 2- OnMouseOver any part-title bar opens this part (with latency
200ms).
It's fine if it does or doesn't. But in case it does, the latency could be
decided by testing it out with 10-15 folks across departments in your
organization to what seems natural and fit.
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Kordian Piotr Klecha
kpkle...@gmail.comwrote:
No, I don't mean harmoshkas, but boxes with sliding parts, e.g.:
http://www.stickmanlabs.com/accordion/
We are going to use such box on the main page (in the bottom of column -
not
very important content there, but still) and just wondering about
interactions. Current proposition is:
1. Accordion auto-switches to the next part after every 5 seconds when
mouse
pointer is outside the box.
2. OnMouseOver any part-title bar opens this part (with latency 200ms).
3. Clicking on part-title bar opens it too.
Especially point 2 is a manner of doubt.
Any advices, examples, opinions?
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