Websites

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• Cool features don’t make your app easier to use
• When do you apply certain features
  • Simpler is sometimes better

Examples when filling in forms and using menus is easier than direct-manipulation

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• When you have a lot of specific kinds of data
• Searching is better with an input box
• When you need high precision

How can we allow users to select things

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• Binary menus
• Radio buttons
• Check boxes
• Trees
• Sliders
  • Range of input
• Pull-down menus / combo-box
• palettes
• ribbons
  • Allows for context specific actions
• shortcuts
• gestures
  • size of screen matters

Considerations for smaller screens

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• Data Entry
  • Don’t make things too small
  • Easier to overload the user
• Font size
• Layout
• Interruptions
  • User can get a text or a call in the middle of working through a form
  • Need to save state
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Webby Awards

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• See website
• Hilariously hard to navigate

Audio Menus

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• You can’t have to many submenus
• It’s not visible
  • You don’t know if your option is even there

Filling out forms

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• If you fill out a field incorrectly, it might highlight it
  • Does it happen immediately or after submit, etc
• E-mail for closure
• Modal vs non-modal forms
  • modal won’t let you do anything until you’ve interacted with it.

Vocab

Term	Definition
inputs for selecting	binary menus, radio buttons, check boxes, trees, pull-down menus, palettes, ribbons, shortcuts, gestures
when filling in forms might be easier than direct-manipulation	when there is a lot of data or when you need high precision
considerations for smaller screens	data entry, font size, layout, interruptions