And I'll add to the discussion that Google docs uses similar arrows. Not as pretty, no color differentiation and they don't dim at the beginning and the end of the Undo stack. (Damn, Google is both very cool and really half-assed at the same time.)
But both of these apps are in the context of Word Processing, so I don't think that it's really applicable.
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- Eli On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Eli Cochran wrote:
Already did! - Eli On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Michael S Elledge wrote:Remember to include "alt="Undo"" and "title="Undo"". :-) Mike Allison Bloodworth wrote:Yup, that's definitely the plan. :) We're actually trying to decide what to use (which icon, or text) for user testing in Eli's prototype and will definitely be ready to make changes if the functionality isn't clear to users.On Aug 27, 2008, at 6:24 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:On 26-Aug-08, at 8:09 PM, Paul Zablosky wrote:I think there's something to be said for familiarity. The arrows that Eli copied from MS Word looked quite familiar to me, and would to many users, I imagine. It may not be a standard, but that kind of backwards-I did a bit of hunting around to see if I could find something better than a semi-circular arrow.... Anyone else have ideas about this?sweeping arrow seems to be becoming a 'de facto' standard. More importantly, I think user testing should inform this decision. Let's get some people looking at our sample, and find out if theyunderstand an arrow! Isn't that the point of doing user testing? ;-)-- Anastasia Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-workAllison Bloodworth Senior User Interaction Designer Educational Technology Services University of California, Berkeley (415) 377-8243 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work<elledge.vcf>_______________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list [email protected] http://fluidproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eli Cochran user interaction developer ETS, UC Berkeley
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