Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Friday, October 21, 2005

It's not about size, it's about context - radio buttons or drop-downs

Use of drop-downs vs. radio buttons is a matter of context ...

"I've spent an extraordinary amount of time this week thinking about radio buttons. And I'd like to tell you what I've concluded.

I'm designing a complex web form with lots of fields to fill in, most of which are text fields or mutually exclusive option lists. My decision, for a public-facing website, is between drop-down lists and radio buttons.

The popular guideline, and I have found this written in many many places, is that it depends on the size of the list. If the list is long use a drop-down, if it is short use radio buttons."   continued ...   (Via DonnaM)

Radio Buttons - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Radio Buttons.

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