On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 08:58 -0400, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > For those who want to know more about this proposed change, here is a common > rational for the arrow position in Windows, Mac, and the web: > > v users perceive arrow as bigger on top so the list should contain the > "biggest" items first (decreasing, e.g. reverse alpha, 10-1) > > ^ users perceive arrow as smaller on top so the list should be sorted by the > "smallest" items first (increasing, e.g. alpha, 1-10) > > Also, the language "natural" order is very strange, does the GNOME HIG mean > "logical" order? There should never be a table that isn't sorted in some way. > Usually a good default is the first column is increasing by default unless > there is a better column to sort by.
So the traditional triangles can be read as pointing in sorting direction, or to indicate where large and small are. A while ago I drew some alternatives. One was a little A and Z, but that only makes sense for names, not size or date. Another one can be seen on http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/list_view_01_a.png Small to large bars, in a triangular shape, but one that doesn't point up or down. Of course, just 2 bars could do. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
