Yahoo Local has a contextual action bar at the bottom of each search result that only shows up on mouse-over: http://local.yahoo.com/results?csz=94043&stx=coffee
And of course the new Facebook feed has a close button that only shows up on mouse-over. I'm a big fan of this sort of UI, especially when it is exposing contextual actions on a single item in a list. Rather than repeating the UI on each item, or having a single toolbar at the top that requires a selection first, this pattern keeps the UI in close proximity to the item, and only exposes the UI when needed. Regarding the issue of discoverability or glancability, I think the controls should be shown for the first item in the list when there is no item moused-over. Once the mouse is over an item, it goes away (unless of course it is the first item). ·Dave ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
