[IxDA Discuss] Users ability with slider controls

[Mike Scarpiello]

For reference, do a search on the www.kayak.com site.  They do a great job
with sliders.

On 11/1/07, Tim <tim.minor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wonder, does anyone know of / carried out / read any research into
> users'
> familiarity and ability with slider controls?
>
> This sort of thing for example:
> http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/SliderDemo (although I
> don't
> particularly like their implementation of them).
>
> My feeling is, as long as it looks a lot like a slider and that the
> control
> affords horizontal movement there enough real, physical sliders in the
> world
> that people would have an understanding of how they work?
>
> They feature in the Energy Saver in System Preferences in OS X for example
> so guess at least a few people know how they work...
>
> I'm trying to put together a rating tool, users rate a product on a scale
> of
> 1 to 10, and it seems to me that a slider fits the bill perfectly.
>
> Clearly there needs to be graceful degradation for clients without
> javascript but aside from that, does anyone have any comments?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tim
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