[IxDA Discuss] columns of alphabetical checkboxes: across or down?

[Juan Lanus]

We are used to search downwards. Like, for example, in the telephone directory.
Users are likely to scan a column vertically, then move to te next
just to perceive a lack of ordering, and then notice that the words
are sorted in lines.

For a programmer it's much easier to set the data in lines. It's the
typical decision: have the programmer work more once, or the users
work more many times? And later on have the programmer redo the work,
this time the right way.
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Juan Lanus
(programmer)