On 21 Nov 2007, at 19:35, Susie Robson wrote:
You are right. I should have said, based on your personas, you should
know which applications or browsers your users use and if they are
primarily Windows users, even on a web page, you should follow Windows
conventions.
[snip]
Even when (as
This doesn't surprise me.
Enter (and other keyboard actions to activate form/dialog controls)
are a power user activity. (So I'll bet no one exited with Esc or
tabbed through controls, either.) There's a level of trust (for
lack of a better word) that has to be established before users
-Original Message-
I think Luke W's article (posted on this thread previously) answers a
lot of our questions based on research and statistical data. Primary
button should be on the left, secondary button on the right. Buttons
should be left aligned.
-Juan
[Brian Hoffman]
All of the participants (23) used the buttons on all of the options
(6). So 138 times out of 138 tested, no on used hit Enter to
complete a form.
The options we chose were based off an audit of Web forms not desktop
apps. Hence why you don't see some of the variations you are asking
saw some but much higher amount of primary button on the right alone.
Or primary button on the right secondary action on the left (of the
page).
We didn't test the first, cause no secondary action. We tested the
second.
On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
On the web
Got it. Looking at the results, looks like you focused on transaction
based sites. Any specific type (e.g. shopping, account management,
travel, hotel booking)? What was the make up of the sites you sampled
for the models for testing? Also wondering if these were UK vs. US or
another
: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] OK/Cancel [wrong heading - Jaiku ]
Susie wrote
I have not done extensive research but the standard has usually been:
If it's a PC, Ok is on the left, Cancel on the right
If it's a Mac, Cancel is on the left, OK
US. e-commerce, registration, data entry mix.
On Nov 21, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
Got it. Looking at the results, looks like you focused on
transaction based sites. Any specific type (e.g. shopping, account
management, travel, hotel booking)? What was the make up of the
this way, it makes sense to be
consistent.
Susie
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Prasad,
This has
On 20 Nov 2007, at 01:26, Bryan Minihan wrote:
For performance reasons, we almost always settled on OK on the
left, Cancel
on the right in web forms. It sped up completion of the form (in
tests) by
being the first button you wind up on when you tab out of the last
field
(saves a
and should are 2 diff things...
Bryan
http://www.bryanminihan.com
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On 20
Luke W's article (linked to earlier in this thread) was good.
Given that placing the buttons at the bottom right of the form is the least
usable position, I wonder if the rule OK on the left if buttons are left
align, OK on the right if right aligned illuminates anything. Are things
placed
There was a great presentation that addressed this question given by
Luke Wroblewski at this summer's An Event Apart in Chicago. Best
Practices For Form Design presents the analysis of eye tracking data
to conclude that these things do matter.
I posted the PDF handout for anyone interested.
Susie wrote
I have not done extensive research but the standard has usually been:
If it's a PC, Ok is on the left, Cancel on the right
If it's a Mac, Cancel is on the left, OK is on the right
This assumption is correct if we are designing desktop applications.
But, what about online apps? We
Except that that research didn't test one of the most common models
found in application design over the past couple decades: primary
button at the right, secondary at the left with buttons aligned to the
bottom right corner. Just about every other model available was tested
as shown in
: Monday, November 19, 2007 7:58 PM
To: Prasad Perera; IxDA Discuss
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] OK/Cancel [wrong heading - Jaiku ]
Prasad,
This has been a conversation that has been posted in the IxDA and SIGLIA
mailing lists many times, and it has come to this: it depends. I am in
favor of the action
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