This has definitely sparked some interesting responses. I think the best thing to do is to always go with what your users are saying. I am so amazed by everyone's response and I am totally better off because of it (I'm sure we all are). For me, I deal with highly educated and complex users who absolutely hate clicking and know how to rip through applications because they simply want to set something up.There is a lot of data entry and setting of devices. (Oh by the way guys, at this time in my life I'm working on internal/ external web apps and not websites. I should have said this from the beginning. This is important to know) It appears that everyone brings a substantial amount of experience and evidence as to what goes where. For me, I'm very interested in reducing interruptions and getting the user to use the system rather then focusing on setting it up. For most, it appears that they are focusing on North American public facing users who are logically interpreting flow from left to right and top to bottom. Both make sense. As always, test your own system against your intended users and calculate the results. I have learned something from everyone's input over the last few days...I love this stuff.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Steve Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'm really enjoying this discussion. Thanks to all. > > If we're talking specifically about a wizard style form, I tend to > position the controls so that "Next" is on the right and > "Previous" is on the left. This helps reinforce the notion of > progression to my users. As others have suggested, I typically make > Next a submit button and Previous a hyperlink so the Enter key > performs the appropriate action. This also promotes "Next" as the > primary action on the screen. Previous is typically a secondary > option. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=32945 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Brett Lutchman Web Slinger. ________________________________________________________________ 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
