I think it depends on what the actual task is and what users need in order to make a choice. It might not serve you well to make a decision based on best practices and rules of thumb rather than actually addressing the particular set of assumptions and expectations at hand. -joanie
------ Original Message ------ Received: 09:06 AM PDT, 05/11/2009 From: Jonathan Abbett <jonat...@abbett.org> To: IXDA list <disc...@ixda.org> Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Pagination best practices > Can anyone recommend resources (or offer advice) addressing how best to > paginate data on the web? Specifically looking for info on when to paginate > and how many items to show per page. > > There may have been a time when retrieving more than 10 items from your > database at a time was too much of a load, but there's no technical reason > why we can't show the user 100+ items per page. > > Is it easier for the user to click "next" 10 times, rather than scroll down > a long list? > > Thanks in advance, > Jonathan > ________________________________________________________________ > 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
