Hi Cyrus - As you pointed out, I think SmugMug does a good job of selection with the checkbox paradigm. It's somewhat more discoverable than ctrl-click but only marginally, especially for non-experienced users.
I think that a couple of ways you could [minorly] improve on the SmugMug implementation would be: 1) A more noticeable media treatment to distinguish selected from unselected photos. Perhaps graying out or some kind of media treatment over the photo itself (as opposed to just the outline) 2) Perhaps include a status line with some simple instructions: "Click to select or unselect a photo." This could even go away after the user clicks around a bit. 3) Use that status area to indicate how many photos are currently selected. SmugMug does this, but it's lumped in with the purchasing information on the right-hand side. It may be more noticeable if it's co-located with the Select All / Unselect All buttons ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35348 ________________________________________________________________ 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
