[IxDA Discuss] iPhone Human Interface Guidelines

[Joe Lanman]

What about having a layout like:


Main ingredients:
[select]


clicking [select] and choosing more than one option would result in:


Main ingredients:
  chicken    x
  tomatoes  x
  pasta       x
[select]


Selected options could be removed by clicking the x.

This would push following content further down the page, but would make
selections clearer.



On 01/10/2007, David Gee <david at mode3.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Jeff Stevenson wrote:
> >> You'll find a page that describes a "multiple select element". It
> >> looks like
> >> a drop-down list, except I guess you can select more than one
> >> option.
> The <select multiple> element has been around since at least HTML 3.2,
> possibly longer. For as long as I can remember, it's universally been
> considered a usability nightmare - if you have any significant number of
> items checked, it's very difficult to quickly determine what is and what
> isn't selected. The default HTML implementation of the multiple select
> widget also requires Ctrl or Shift clicking to select multiple items.
> But then again...
>
> Jeffrey D. Gimzek wrote:
> > google uses this in their new - hard to believe - recipe search thing.
> >
> > see:
> >
> > <http://tinyurl.com/2ox7xw>
> >
> >
> I guess once Google and Apple do anything, usability concerns magically
> disappear. To be fair, Google's implementation is different - this is a
> Javascript pull-down menu cleverly disguised to look like a select
> element. It's a bit better, as they use checkboxes in place of
> ctrl/shift clicking, but there's still no at-a-glance way to see what's
> selected under that pulldown. They've done the best they could by
> setting the mouseover tooltip to show everything that's selected. Still,
> I'd never use this method for more than 10 options.
>
> david gee
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!
> To post to this list ....... discuss at ixda.org
> List Guidelines ............ http://beta.ixda.org/guidelines
> List Help .................. http://beta.ixda.org/help
> Unsubscribe ................ http://beta.ixda.org/unsubscribe
> Questions .................. list at ixda.org
> Home ....................... http://beta.ixda.org
>