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Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
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Sun, 23 Apr 2000 14:07:44 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Richard Franks writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:

If we're down to just three choices, suggest that each choice get its own
submit button. That's faster even than a radio button, and WAY faster than • the
current drop down list. And that improves usability from a human factors
perspective.

That's already been asked and answered (in the depths of this thread!) - • reason
for not doing it is because when you use the list view (>1 post on same page)
it's more efficient just to have one submit button.

Easy fix... Different views, different UI.

In the list or tree view, use radio buttons and a single submit. In the single
article view, use multisubmit.

++Lar



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) I think the UI should stay as consistant as possible.... (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) Tradeoffs of that nature (increased speed in exchange for decreased consistency) can certainly be an improvement from an HCI POV when the UI item in question is or should be used frequently. But that's not the case here. --Todd (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) You're right. Now that we're only using one watered down dimension with a meaning such that only 1 in 10 articles deserves highlighting and one in 100 deserves spotlighting, you're absolutely right, "recommending" won't be used all that (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) That's already been asked and answered (in the depths of this thread!) - reason for not doing it is because when you use the list view (>1 post on same page) it's more efficient just to have one submit button. (...) True, but if we did it (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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