we could also test the lighbulb superimposed with an "X"
Philip Ashlock wrote:
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?
