[IxDA Discuss] select exact number widget?

[Todd Zaki Warfel]

We did something similar to this on the Bankrate.com redesign. The  
customer can select up to four different providers to compare. We had  
a "meter" that included four dots. As they selected on, the first dot  
in the meter filled in. They picked a second, and the second dot  
filled in and so on. Once they selected all four, the checkboxes  
became disabled until the deselected one.

The key difference here is that the choices can be made across a  
series of tabs (5 year, 15 year, 30 year). The contents of each tab  
is siloed from the others. To compensate for this, we indicated on  
each tab how many the customer had selected - recognition rather than  
recall.

It works pretty well.

On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:40 PM, Esteban Barahona wrote:

> Why not use a container with a list of empty spaces (maybe with  
> stripes, so
> that users can count easily the total number of options... or a  
> numbered
> empty list)?
>
> It can be filled just clicking at the option. But it won't accept more
> options (than the predetermined max) once filled. At the right  
> (...or left)
> of each item there's an 'x' or '<' or 'trash can' to delete the  
> item and
> have one empty space.

Cheers!

Todd Zaki Warfel
Partner, Design & Usability Specialist
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