This doesn't surprise me. Enter (and other keyboard actions to activate form/dialog controls) are a power user activity. (So I'll bet no one exited with Esc or tabbed through controls, either.) There's a level of "trust" (for lack of a better word) that has to be established before users are only going to engage in power activities. The first time in a given form or in a given app, they are going to act cautious and conservative and will not use such shortcuts, because they aren't sure that the app will behave like it should in non-power scenarios.
(Exception: if they are "testing" the form rather than "using" it, if they are looking for problems, then you may get power behavior right out of the gate.) -- Jim Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soundskinky.com/blog/ On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Luke Wroblewski wrote: > All of the participants (23) used the buttons on all of the options > (6). So 138 times out of 138 tested, no on used hit "Enter" to > complete a form. > > On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote: >> Excellent question. Luke, any insights into this? I don't think this >> was mentioned in the article. > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help