http://www.webia.info/articles/usability/buttons-and-usability/ Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:01:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.webia.info/articles/usability/buttons-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-1185 Impressive web forms. From coding to validation! Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:39:38 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=1043#comment-1185 [...] 7. Buttons and usability [...] http://www.webia.info/articles/usability/buttons-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-1142 Awesome Slider demo and source codes Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:05:29 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=1043#comment-1142 [...] 5. Buttons and usability [...] http://www.webia.info/articles/usability/buttons-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Make your own jQuery slider using XML Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:16:28 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=1043#comment-1132 [...] 5. Buttons and usability [...] http://www.webia.info/articles/usability/buttons-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-1118 Bogdan Pop Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:17:59 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=1043#comment-1118 Hi Rob and thanks for your comment. I agree with you. Visually aiding the buttons and links are a good improvement, placing contrary actions apart from each other further enhances the interface. But people who use computers can get tired, and they will accidentally click something they don't want to, and it is our job to allow them to easily fix their unfortunate actions. I assume you refer to the sliding button when you say about users having a jarring experience. Indeed, such a button would feel at least awkward in the beginning, but I feel it could be useful in some interfaces that deal with serious matters - banking for example; I wouldn't want to send money by mistake, lose commissions and possibly never have them back.
I agree with you. Visually aiding the buttons and links are a good improvement, placing contrary actions apart from each other further enhances the interface.

But people who use computers can get tired, and they will accidentally click something they don’t want to, and it is our job to allow them to easily fix their unfortunate actions.

I assume you refer to the sliding button when you say about users having a jarring experience. Indeed, such a button would feel at least awkward in the beginning, but I feel it could be useful in some interfaces that deal with serious matters – banking for example; I wouldn’t want to send money by mistake, lose commissions and possibly never have them back.]]> http://www.webia.info/articles/usability/buttons-and-usability/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 Rob Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:27:44 +0000 http://www.webia.info/?p=1043#comment-1115 I would like to see that idea in action. I have never tried a button like that with a mouse and feel it might be such a jarring experience to long time computer users but that doesn't mean it would not work good. I have used in my designs icons for detrimental or important actions on buttons to highlight their usages visually. I think the visual cue prevents miss clicks. I think it would be interesting to see web apps / sites implement more sophisticated or unusual interface techniques but i think it's just one of those desires that doesn't pan out on a global user scale. Change is good / innovate or die... The whiners will always be there.
I have used in my designs icons for detrimental or important actions on buttons to highlight their usages visually. I think the visual cue prevents miss clicks.

I think it would be interesting to see web apps / sites implement more sophisticated or unusual interface techniques but i think it’s just one of those desires that doesn’t pan out on a global user scale.

Change is good / innovate or die… The whiners will always be there.]]>