Hi, I am new to this list so sorry that my first post have to disagree with this implementation.
uI am really concerned about the user expectations. What I observed from rapid usability tests is that users are confused by the initial size of the page and as mch confused by the end size of the page. "How a page so small can contain all the blog posts ? Oh, I can read that I have to scroll to make them appear... But how many posts are they in this page ?" This does not seem like a natural reaction to me. I think the problem with these "infinite" lists is that they are not displaying something infinite. Time is infinite, number of blog posts is not. Let's rethink the whole thing from the beginning. I want to have a single page that displays all my blog posts. I want that page to load quickly although my blog currenlty holds 1877 posts. How can I do that ? Maybe I can send to the user a page that has enough space for 1877 posts to be displayed as just couting them is trivial. I can then use asynchronous loading to load posts that are in the user viewport, like the first 13. Then my user can scroll in the page wherever he wants and I will asynchronously load any content that its viewport should be displaying. I remember a similar widget capable of loading Yahoo search results. The nice thing was that you were able to jump anywhere you want in the result list and the results would just show up, meaning that you could jump at the end of the list and get the last result without waiting for the previous results to load. I don't mean to be dogmatic here but I really think that web pages should not change their size, unless the user manually activates some expanding button like on the iPhone UI Alexander Baxevanis described. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25287 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
