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Luke Tucker wrote:
I think "hiding" does have a learning curve no matter how we choose to
present it and overall we need better materials and explanations.
Lately, I've been thinking a short screencast would go a long way for
a lot of the kookier bits of melkjug's UI.
That said, for me, of all the alternatives "a button with the word
hide on it" is probably the clearest we can be for an initial
experience, followed by "x-as-in-close" (say... a non-red X).
Lightbulb on/off is fine once you know what it does, but for me it
initially says "tip" or "information" without suggesting action. I
agree "x-as-in-delete" suggests too much overall.
I'm willing to give "a button with the word hide on it" a go as long
as it isn't ugly and distracting. Longer term, I'm concerned that
even presented with the word "hide", it's not initially obvious why
you would want to do that anyway...
- Luke
On Sep 16, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Sonali Sridhar wrote:
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?
