I agree with Phil on this - I dont think its worth going down the
complex route of symbols (the eye, bulb etc.) as its really not
universal. Just the simple word "HIDE" will be helpful. I think its
important that we start moving away from "X" as that really might make
the user feel like they are deleting the reading vs. closing it.
On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Philip Ashlock wrote:
I'd be in favor of a button that just read "Hide" over an "X", the
button could possibly be styled the same way the "Edit" button for
filters currently is.
Rolando Penate wrote:
Though I certainly think it is clever, I can see how the lightbulb
could be confusing. For clarity, I suppose what we're looking for
here is a 'hide' metaphor then?
On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:18 PM, 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?
