On 6 Nov 2008, at 19:30, Cyrus Karbassiyoon wrote:
[snip]
Explorer Paradigm:
Our first thought is to recreate the explorer paradigm on the web.
In order
to select the pictures, the user could rubber band select the 100
pictures
or press [ctrl + a]. The user could then [ctrl + click] to deselect
pictures.
Can't recall ever seeing this used for image selection on a web app.
Check box paradigm:
Another option would be to turn the thumbnails into "checkboxes"
such that
if the thumbnail was clicked, it would be selected. If the
thumbnail was in
a selected state and then clicked, it would be deselected. This is
somewhat
similar to what SmugMug does at their buy pictures page:
https://secure.smugmug.com/cart/batchadd.mg?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moonriverphotography.com%2Fgallery%2F634937_G88Gj%23104246074_2sxSN
Seen this used several times (e.g as well as SmugMug it's used on
Flickr when organising images).
- Has any research been done on this topic and are the results
publicly
available?
- Do non-technical people get [ctrl+click] to deselect? If so, do they
understand that on the web?
[snip]
I don't know of any research - but I've generally found when user
testing web apps that require right/ctrl-clicking folk tend to get
confused quite quickly. It's not something folk are used to doing.
Cheers,
Adrian
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