Way back sometime in 2004, SONY were making Palm OS based PDAs. The
UX50 model's screen were small and packed the maximum pixels then
and due to their mini size they designed the outer shell that
supported the screen border - black in colour while the whole device
was in a metal shade. This helped
lin
- Original Message -
From: "Martin"
To: "Oleh Kovalchuke"
Cc: disc...@ixda.org
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 1:49:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Greyed background for popups
Do you think the change to semi-transparent black would
Do you think the change to semi-transparent black would be more acceptable
(less jarring) if it happened gradually? That's what happens when you
activate the dashboard in Mac OS X (though the background is not darkened
very much).
Cheers,
Martin Polley
Technical writer, interaction designer
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Brandon, would love to hear why you hate modal popovers... can you
elaborate?
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Welcome to the I
Launching videos from the side bar at Facebook utilizes this semitransparent
"white screen" effect. It is indeed much less jarring than semitransparent
black.
Oleh Kovalchuke
Interaction Design is design of time
http://www.tangospring.com/IxDtopicWhatIsInteractionDesign.htm
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009
Depending on the app, lightening the bg could be akin to greying-out
the controls. For me, the lightbox, or darkening of the bg indicates
an important change. I hate using it for modal pop-overs (I hate modal
pop-overs anyway), but I LOVE to use it for videos, images etc. - the
purpose of t
That would be an interesting thing to see in a demo!
On 10-Aug-09, at 11:30 AM, Jack Moffett wrote:
David,
I have lightened the background, rather than darkened it, which is
closer to what you are suggesting. I prefer this to darkening the
background because it is a subtler change (if the
One advantage of this pattern is not having to write client-side logic
for what happens when a user navigates away from an input form after
making changes but not indicating to save or cancel. Since some
users may assume that clicking another link is a safe way to get out
of a form without saving
David,
I have lightened the background, rather than darkened it, which is
closer to what you are suggesting. I prefer this to darkening the
background because it is a subtler change (if the app has a white
background), while still getting the "disabled" point across.
Best,
Jack
On Aug 10
It's true that the 'lightbox' pattern is probably a bit of design
overkill, but there is another benefit to the greying out of the rest
of the page, which is that it gives more of an impression that the
underlying window is disabled. I think that's a good thing, since
earlier attempts at do
I'm a former perceptual psychologist but I don't see the need for
this method. A simple fat border with a drop shadow would make it
clear enough that the popup is in front the main window -
interposition is a very powerful depth cue. I've also heard
rationale along the lines that it focuses attenti
Technically, those are not pop-ups but pop-overs - at least, this was
language used when they first appeared. The gray-out is because of
lost functionality. Here are the differences:
Pop-ups set off browser pop-up warnings. They do not stop
functionality on the preceding window - they are simply
It's sometimes referred to as a "lightbox", if that helps your search at
all. It seems to have been made popular by an implementor named Lokesh
Dhakar in November 2008. I wouldn't say it's a standard as much as it is in
vogue, useful, and aesthetically pleasing. It's often attributed as one of
the
You can also look at Modal Windows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_window
"many interface designers have recently taken steps to make modal
windows more obvious and user friendly by darkening the background
behind the window or allowing any mouse click outside of the modal
window to force the
> Can anyone tell me where the convention of greying the background page
> when showing a popup window came from?
It's generally called "lightbox"ing, you might want to search on that term.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbox_(JavaScript)
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:18 AM, William
Hudson wrote:
Graying out backgrounds to change focus was very common in multimedia
training design, back in the days when the web was static and graying
out pages was challenging from a coding perspective.
Some high-traffic e-commerce sites have resurrected the practice in a
way that multiple browsers can und
Can anyone tell me where the convention of greying the background page
when showing a popup window came from? It seems to have become something
of a de facto standard - is it published as an actual standard or
guideline somewhere? (I could not find out on Google.)
Regards,
William Hudson
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