[IxDA Discuss] Clickless Web Interface?

[Diarmad McNally]

Although it's not smart to force a final selection through a clickless
interaction as you mention, I have recently noticed an increased use of
flyouts for second level navigation which appear on the mouseover event and
revert to standard left-hand nav on the click event. e.g. the naviagation on
these sites:

 

http://www.johnlewis.com/

http://www.marksandspencer.co.uk/

 

One advantage of this is that it shortens the user journey by one click per
menu exploration. 

One downside is that it's harder to make accessible.

 

Plenty more of both.

Diarmad McNally
Interaction Design Studio <http://www.ixdstudio.com> 

 

 

 

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of W Evans
Sent: 17 September 2007 19:23
To: Mike Scarpiello
Cc: discuss at ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Clickless Web Interface?

 

Immediately reaction - and I can pull down the heuristic about this - when a

form pops up to ask me how I felt about the interface - i accidentally

selected something and voted -

There was no user feedback - and no way to cancel a bad selection. The

ability to get reinforcement from an action, and to escape from a bad one -

or Undo -  it a critical human factors flaw in the clickless interface.

Also - there is only one way to navigate and select things. This is very

poor for all non-gestural user navigation interfaces - Kiosks, hand-helds -

etc. I could see an implementation of this working for an iPhone, but not to

retrieve my airline tickets from the kiosk at the airport.

 

I only had 30 seconds to look at it though... so my opinion isn't even worth

2cents.

 

On 9/17/07, Mike Scarpiello <mscarpiello at gmail.com> wrote:

> 

> I randomly came across this site (though it may have been out there for a

> while)  and found it quite interesting.

> 

> Comments, opinions on a clickless interface?

> 

> http://www.dontclick.it/

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