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

[Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>]

Wow, I like this thread. How about instead of sliding, which seems to have 
spread some controversy, the age-old chain-link symbol is used?

Another way to avoid people wanting to drag/slide and/or click on just the 
checkbox itself would be to put the selectors on both sides of the text.

On Monday 14 May 2007 03:31:11 Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Amaury Chamayou wrote:
> > ... but I think we are not
> > trying to improve speed here, but usability. What we are aiming for is
> > making the "multiple choices, yet exclusive" obvious at first sight, I
> > believe.
>
> Interesting you would think of speed not being part of usability.
>
> > Maximum speed of use remains the same for users who have some experience
> > already (ie : they clicked somewhere, and observed the ribbon positionned
> > itself, with a fast, yet percievable move, on that option, and now know
> > they can do that every time).
>
> It's about avoiding bad habbits. If one ever gets used to one way to
> operate something, it takes effort to switch to another way.
>
> Compare:
>
> Position cursor over desired option, click
> vs
> Position cursor over current option, press and hold mouse button, move
> cursor to desired option, release mouse button