I like the auto-zoom-out idea. Here's how to refine it: When you approach the view border, zoom out. When the user slows down/stops his mouse movement (after a delay of, say, 200 msec), zoom back in to allow precision placement.
It hews to the user's mental (well, physical?) model -- look at the whole sheet when doing major reorganization, then get in close to carefully position. Would work well in a Visio/Photoshop/Illustrator-type situation, with a well-defined canvas... less so with the Thunderbird folder organization example. -Jonathan On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jakub Linowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about sticking to auto-scrolling but removing the acceleration > component. Often the acceleration is what confuses people as the > dragged items speed up too much and users lose control. > > What about two fixed scroll speeds. One could have a reasonable > scroll speed assigned to the default drag operation. The other could > be a bit faster, and could be activated during a HOLD SHIFT event, > for the more advanced / hasty people. ;) > > Cheers, > Jakub > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=36058 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
