Re: [Usability] HIG: Fixing the sort arrow direction guideline



On Sunday 17 May 2009 8:58:10 am 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.

There's supposed to be logic to those?  As far as I'm concerned, they could've 
used a blue circle and a red square to indicate sort direction for all the 
sense it's ever made.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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