Your concern about deleting something the user can't see is valid but some testing of how people expect to interact with the feature is in order. I would be interested to know if anyone has a design pattern for this situation.
A few years back I worked with a similar problem in which the user could select items in a shopping site's search results and add them to a product comparison table or a shopping list. The results were paged like Google search results and the question was when they select compare or add to shopping list do we add all items or just the ones on the current page. We decide to add the items to compare or the list regardless of which page the user was on when they selected the action. Since your situation involves a delete function you want to probe your users' expectations to make sure you get it right. If there are similar sites to yours that have this feature you should look at them to see how they handle to see what people's expectations may be, assuming they also use or are familiar with those sites. I'm not a fan of deleting things you are not looking at when you click the delete button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48916 ________________________________________________________________ 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
