[IxDA Discuss] Users ability with slider controls

[Kam Stewart]

Oops, it appears I only sent my post to Robert,  instead of the group.
cheers, /k

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From: Kam Stewart <kamstewart at gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Users ability with slider controls
To: "Robert Hoekman, Jr." <robert at rhjr.net>

I have to agree with Robert on the placement of the affordance in
relationship to the primary content being the largest factor to whether
users see and use the sliders. I was looking for them on kayak and almost
missed them. On the other hand, I did an application for Apple, that used
sliders at the base of the main content, to page through it, and it was very
warmly received.

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I hope you like (and can read) my ASCI mock up. As the user dragged the
slider the page number updated and page contents refreshed. (It may have
also had next previous arrows at the outsides I don't recall) The point
being it was clear, obvious and easy to manipulate. It also reinforces user
location within the content. The one other touch that it had, and
scipt.aculo.us has available, is the thumb snapped to page indexes instead
of being continuous. This helped a lot when the number of pages in different
content blocks changed.

/Kam

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/Kam