Progressive disclosure is a great idea fraught with implementation
issues.
For starters, you usually need client side scripting to do it, which
reduces its accessibility.
The other big problem is what you've touched on - user attention. On
the one hand, you need to avoid people missing the 'new'
ate but related
tasks.
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I'd like to get some opinions on the su
Adam,
I've done some initial tests and found that a slight majority of the
> individuals prefer it always be displayed. They were almost surprised
> when it suddenly appeared after selecting someone else. Also, younger,
> more web savvy individuals didn't mind the dynamic display.
The decision i
As usual the decision to do this would need to be case by case. For
example if there are many fields that need this behavior it may not be
suitable, or if the need for whole fieldsets are determined by user
input this probably wouldn't be optimal (may want to go with a more
wizard-esque approach t
I think it's important to be both internally consistent and to have a
good rationale for choosing one way over the other. Sorry if that's
stating the obvious. The dynamic method seems better to me because it
advances the process in a logical way, opens a door as you approach
but keeps it closed if
On 13 Feb 2008, at 16:19, Adam Connor wrote:
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> I've done some initial tests and found that a slight majority of the
> individuals prefer it always be displayed.
[snip]
I'm wondering:
a) how many of your total users ever need the optional fields, and so
know that progressive disclosure w
I'd like to get some opinions on the subject of dynamically displaying
form elements depending on user selection.
For example assume I have an HTML form to enter a contest, and I can
fill out this form on my behalf or someone else's. For this scenario the
form might have a field labeled someth
