Your survey appears to be closed. The main difference between an accordion and closable/collapsible panels is that with an accordion only one panel's contents are visible at a time, thus if you open another panel, the first panel closes, whereas in closable/collapsible, you can view as many panels as you'd like at one time. If you open another panel, it opens but the first panel also stays open. Check out www.welie.com. I found his site very helpful when creating our design pattern library.
Courtney -----Original Message----- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Christian Crumlish Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:14 PM Cc: disc...@ixda.org Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Accordion Interaction As promised a month or so ago, I've put together a survey about the accordion user interface element to help inform a design pattern I'm writing. If you have opinions about what makes an accordion an accordion (and whether it's really anything different from stacked panels or a reskinned tab interface or a tree widget), please come by and share your thoughts. The questionnaire is here: <http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lGHKygw2YwMI8yoom00Tzg_3d_3d> ...and my blog post about it is here: <http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/23/survey-when-is-an-accordion-not-an-a ccordion/> (hoping those links don't break) Thanks! -xian- -- Christian Crumlish I'm writing a book so please forgive any lag http://designingsocialinterfaces.com ________________________________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________________________________ 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
