Is accessibility a requirement for your application at all? If so want
to consider how you will be implementing your lightbox. Most but not
all implementations I have seen could be 'tabbed out' of. E.g. when
a non-sighted user navigating vie keyboard, they can easily tab out of
the modal and end up
Has anyone in the list any thoughts on linking to a lightbox directly
from an email for instance. Here's my scenario. I create a marketing
email to push people to contact our office for a personal
consultation. The user opens the email and clicks the link to contact
us, what is the ideal.
Do I lin
The sign in/sign up process is one place where I've seen lighboxes misused.
There should be a clear, easy way for people to cancel out of the lightbox.
Imeem.com, the music/media site, used to have a login lightbox that was like
quicksand; if you didn't want to register or remember your login, ther
Ah, gotcha. We're working on encapsulating the entire sign in/sign up
process within a modal box :)
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Amy Silvers wrote:
> Celeste, just to clarify, it's not ideal only in the sense that I'm
> leery of interrupting the user in the sign-in/sign-up process at all.
>
Celeste, just to clarify, it's not ideal only in the sense that I'm
leery of interrupting the user in the sign-in/sign-up process at all.
But the information is necessary, so it has to be presented to users
somehow, and the lightbox seems to be the best way to do it.
2009/3/11 Celeste Cefalu :
> A
Amy I'm curious why you think it is not ideal, I don't disagree. I'm
embarking on a registration project and weighing the options. I'm in favor
of a modal box because like you say the user is not derailed from the task
at hand. I'd like to hear the down sides (aside from technical hurdles.)
"I'm
As Amy said, they work well if you use them appropriately.
The big problems I have seen with them in usability tests is when the
lightbox taxes up too much of the screen. Then users still think they
navigated. As a rule of thumb, at least 50% of the screen at your
target resolution should be visi
My sense is that as long as it isn't overused, the lightbox dialog
works well for providing essential information and/or interaction
without taking a user out of their primary flow. There are some good
examples in Designing Web Interfaces by Bill Scott and Theresa Neil,
and I've seen additional exa
I'm working on a shopping cart, and at a couple of points we either
have to:
- Force someone to sign in for credit card security purposes, or...
- Want to present options attached to a particular shopping cart
item.
The question is what do you think about using the lightbox dialog
boxes for this?
