On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 20:44 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > What I meant to express is that I can't remember the direction mapping, > even though I tried. I have memorised dozens and dozens of shortcuts > for several applications, but this doesn't stick at all. I expect it > to be no different for most users. > So if I use sorting, I have to check the list itself to determine > the direction, often clicking a second or third time. This takes > time, maybe not much, but it _feels_ so inefficient. > > An alternative to what's in my mockup would be to write out > A - Z, Small - Large, Old - New > flipping the order on clicking. There's a space problem, > but seeing the first half only should be enough. Actually, this is a pretty interesting idea. It reduces the user's cognitive load because he or she doesn't need to map the > relation onto the column type. The mockup looks a little "warty," and it may be better to just show the sorted column's "wart." An opposing viewpoint might be that clicking the column again is such a cheap operation for the user to perform that letting him or her distribute the cognition into (effectively) the widget is "good enough" and not worth attempting to fix. > -- Michael R. Head <burner suppressingfire org> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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