[IxDA Discuss] Users ability with slider controls

[Parth Upadhye]

>>Actually Roberts right - all the social networking stuff I designed
goes unused and I've learned a lot since then.

The sliders get lost because there is a lot of real estate given to
the ads that populate the page (business decision). In lieu of
sliders, if you used a Clock-like interface for timings, users may be
more likely to use it. The response is amazingly fast. If the filters
of narrowing results were laid out at the top horizontally, users
would be more likely to use them. Also adding color to highlight some
very valuable information on these pages would increase readability;
e.g. Stops and Airlines results are important enough to validate
different background colors. Also the Airports control is somewhere
between between sliders. It could be a different color too so it
stand out - but not very sure what purpose it serves. Great idea; but
didn't work too well for me Toronto to Vancouver.

Google ads are great but I find that in this case they drive the user
to pages/sites in direct competition with the results I am looking at.



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