On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:49:16PM -0800, Seth Nickell wrote: > ==Context and confusion== > > Given adequate cues, humans make contextual changes very quickly and > naturally. Thank you! This piece of information really cleared things up for me quite a bit. Now that I think of it, I think I've practiced this behaviour personally, never even realizing it :) So, as long as the dialogs as a whole are different enough from Windows/KDE/GNOME1 dialogs, so that you can make the (subconscious) distinction at a glance, there really is no problem. Basically because the whole dialog already is (noticeably) different, the different button ordering simply blends in, I assume. The user tests you described in the other mail, although not focused on the matter, were enlightening, thank you. The following is not an argument, I'm convinced that there will be no significant confusion about the new button ordering, just thought to share this. I had a short discussion today with Irmeli Sinkkonen from HUT Usability Groupš about this particular matter. Her response to the question was that the order in which Windows lays out the buttons is better, because of left-to-right reading etc., basically the same reasons that have been presented here already. She also told me that it has been studied and the way Windows lays out the buttons turned out to be better. But.. now, here comes the trick, the users had been more used to Windows than Mac. Come to think of it, what are the chances that a fairly arranged test would actually have more Mac users than Windows users? But that's a topic for another discussion. Had the test been made with people with no previous experience with computers, it could've ended up favoring the Mac.. or not. In related news. I quickly tried a few GNOME2 programs today and the first two games I run already had inconsistent exit dialogs˛. Funny coincidence? :) btw. I really could've read the older threads too... :) 1. http://usability.hut.fi/group/index.html.en 2. http://tko.wox.org/screenshots/gnome2-buttons.png -- Tommi Komulainen Tommi Komulainen iki fi GPG 1024D/68388EE6 6FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6
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