[IxDA Discuss] select exact number widget?

[Dean Wilson]

Great thread! And just the kind of stuff to keep an interaction designer
distracted for days :)

Here's a crazy thought that follows on from Adamya's suggestion of making
the action of choosing the limiting factor...focusing on the basic
requirement that we want the user to select two options(no more no less),
what if you were supply two drop-down menus prompting the user to select an
option for each?
However, might be unwieldy for long lists of options and would probably not
scale beyond 3 selections. Ideally, you would also want to remove each
selection from its opposite list.

Dean Wilson

Senior UEA, MRM Worldwide
http://www.mrmworldwide.co.uk/





On 1/8/07, adamya ashk <adamya at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been following this thread with some interest.
>
> The solutions with check boxes are not always the best since there can be
> as
> many checks as there are check boxes. So any action which causes the check
> boxes to become disabled say after n checks can cause confusion based on
> the
> intention. It works in the writeboard example because we're simply
> comparing
> (delta between two) snapshots. However, if the list of snapshots was long
> and scrolling there would be chances for confusion.
>
> There are issues with showing empty slots as well. It is often difficult
> at
> one glance to figure out how many options can be chosen if the number is
> above 5 or 6.
>
> How about (since Ajax is a possibility) if we turned the problem on it's
> head and made the action of choosing the limiting factor. So on one side
> you
> could have the choices  and on the other, n flags that the user had to use
> (drag-drop?) onto the choices?
>
> Would that work?
>
> HTH,
>
> -Adamya
> IA and usability | Staples Inc.
> http://www.staples.com
>
> On 1/5/07, Victor Lombardi <victor at victorlombardi.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, January 5, 2007 2:52 pm, Liya Zheng wrote:
> > > Victor,
> > >
> > > Do you have specific limitations to only using standard form widgets?
> If
> > > this is a web application, what is the technical space you're working
> > > in? Plain HTML? Flash? Ajax?
> >
> > It's for the web, and Ajax is a possibility.
> >
> > Incidentally, this is an area where IxDA could play a leadership role,
> by
> > developing interfaces that fill gaps in our standards, testing them, and
> > promoting them. Just saying.
> >
> > Victor
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