I don't think this can be accurately tested until there's some provision
for explicitly explaining what the lightbulb means and does (this could
be a tooltip of some sort on hover as well as a bold simple explanation
when someone is first learning how to use the site). The problem with
the lightbulb is that it represents an action that people rarely need to
conceptualize, so it's nearly impossible to symbolize it in an intuitive
way without that little hump of a learning curve. An "X" is a very
common symbol that represents an action that people use all the time and
intuitively means /delete/ when in the context of a list of content and
/close/ in the context of a UI element like a window or a modal dialogue.
Joshua Bronson wrote:
Yesterday Julia and I went over the Melkjug demo we'll be giving to
CMU students on Thursday. It turns out I'm not the only one without
enough imagination for the click-the-lighbulb-to-close metaphor to
make immediate sense. I suppose that brings us up to $0.04 in the
lets-just-stick-to-the-good-old-fashioned-tried-and-true-x pot?
