Re: [Usability] Options, Check, Toggle, Exclusive

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On May 14, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Amaury Chamayou wrote:
> ...
> You are probably right on this. I'm not much of an expert, I just 
> thought it would be interesting to make the exclusivity of the choice 
> obvious. It's not entirely clear with current radio buttons ( ie "why 
> can't i have multiple black dots in those small holes") and if they 
> are not positionned corretly (for example sometimes they are in two 
> rows), you might click on something that will actually deactivate an 
> option you have selected earlier because they are exclusive. It would 
> be less of a surprise if there was a slide, a kind of movement from 
> the place where something was deactivated to the place you have 
> chosen.
> ...

That's a really interesting idea. Perhaps, on either mousedown or 
mouseup (but not both), the black dot could take ~0.25 seconds to 
visibly fly from one radio button to the other.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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