Nice example. This one works well since the user is likely to be moving the
mouse over at least one of the results at some point, so discoverability
isn't much of a problem. I'm not sure it'd work as well for a media player
though.
Has anyone seen in user tests whether people understand the
Yahoo Local has a contextual action bar at the bottom of each search result
that only shows up on mouse-over:
http://local.yahoo.com/results?csz=94043stx=coffee
And of course the new Facebook feed has a close button that only shows up on
mouse-over.
I'm a big fan of this sort of UI, especially
Good topic. I am not a big fan of Microsoft but,,Windows operation
system has function of auto hide-taskbar. So as the inactive icons at
bottom right corner.
By the way, in Office Word 2007, the scale tab won't be present
until your mouse point stop at left side/top for one or two seconds.
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This is an interesting article about 'contextual interfaces'
http://alexiskold.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/the-rise-of-contextual-user-interfaces/
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Thanks for all the examples contributed here!
Can anyone see any downsides fading out the controls of your content?
While it is a nice transition which supports a rapidly shifting
context (control content to consume content) - what we lose is
glancability of controls. That is, if the set of
James,
From the examples that have been given, I would say that the set of
controls is typically very low complexity. The other trend is that
this pattern is used when the content takes up all of the available
screen space: video, slides, photos, etc.
Best,
Jack
On Mar 19, 2009, at
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:44 AM, James Haliburton
james.halibur...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for all the examples contributed here!
Can anyone see any downsides fading out the controls of your content?
One problem would be if the user wasn't made aware that the controls were
there in the
I'm a bit curious about the emergence of a pattern in recent years.
In embedded Flash movie players it has become pretty common to see
player controls (play, ff, rw, etc.) fade out after some time of
inactivity or mouse out, and fade back in on action, mousein, etc.
We can also see this when you
Google Earth has its controls fade-in upon rolling over. However, in the
off state, an outline of the controls remains.
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A basic example of this might be the alert for apps like Thunderbird
or Entourage which notify you of new emails. Hover over the alert to
keep it from fading out and click it to go directly to the email.
The Android OS includes a touch overlay feature which provides a
contextual menu upon
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There are situations where a screen or viewport needs to be scrolled
or panned. In some cases the interface provides controls that become
visible in order to enable this behavior.
An example of this is the LovelyCharts UI. http://lovelycharts.com
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Apple's DVD player, not surprisingly, works in full screen mode very
much like QuickTime player.
In another fashion, selecting text in nytimes.com 's article pages,
brings a control to look up said text. There was a nifty script for
blogs allowing users to add a quoted comment of selected
Apple's MobileMe photo gallery slideshows have controls that fade in
and out.
There was a version of Powerpoint that had a button that would fade in
during a slide show, providing access to options.
The iPod controls on the iPhone and iPod Touch are displayed over the
album art and
When viewing images on the iphone the controls fade away, you must tap the
screen again to see them.
Some people are starting to use hovering to reveal additional options like
'edit', 'delete' or 'save' on objects.
This is the only example I could find (from a previous email thread):
Some of the open source video players (MPlayer, VLC) do this in full
screen mode. I'm fairly sure Windows Media Player does the same
thing too. Eye of Gnome also does this when viewing pictures in full
screen mode. However, the transitions are not gradual but sudden.
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