[IxDA Discuss] Users ability with slider controls

[William Evans]

Well thank you very much - I tried to do a good job. Glad you like  
it :-)

will evans
user experience architect
wkevans4 at gmail.com
617.281.1281


On Nov 1, 2007, at 3:08 PM, "Mike Scarpiello" <mscarpiello at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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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