Comments on: Designing learning interactions that no one wants to use http://udon.nudoru.com/2010/01/19/designing-learning-interactions-that-no-one-wants-to-use/ flash, elearning, random thoughts Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:52:25 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: matt http://udon.nudoru.com/2010/01/19/designing-learning-interactions-that-no-one-wants-to-use/comment-page-1/#comment-203 matt Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:42:55 +0000 http://udon.nudoru.com/?p=229#comment-203 Thanks for the comments/ideas! I'll try to work these in to it. Thanks for the comments/ideas! I’ll try to work these in to it.

]]> By: Ben http://udon.nudoru.com/2010/01/19/designing-learning-interactions-that-no-one-wants-to-use/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Ben Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:45:31 +0000 http://udon.nudoru.com/?p=229#comment-201 Interesting... I didn't think the slider design was difficult to use. Some visual clutter, sure. But, this could be improved through visual design without changing the interaction at all. Since the sliders are aligned vertically, perhaps the number labels only need to be shown in a header. Given "1" and "6" at the extremes, perhaps only tickmarks, and not labels, are needed to suggest 2—5. The background color of the rows could be consistent, horizontally (still alternating shades, but not darker on the right). The thickness and border around the slider's track could be reduced to lessen the visual weight. In the drop downs example, you can't see the possible answers ahead of time. Not much of a problem, if you are rating each criteria independently, but the slider design allows you to see a consistent scale across all criteria at a glance. (Inspiration: Edward Tufte. See "chartjunk" and "smallest effective difference") Interesting… I didn’t think the slider design was difficult to use. Some visual clutter, sure. But, this could be improved through visual design without changing the interaction at all. Since the sliders are aligned vertically, perhaps the number labels only need to be shown in a header. Given “1″ and “6″ at the extremes, perhaps only tickmarks, and not labels, are needed to suggest 2—5. The background color of the rows could be consistent, horizontally (still alternating shades, but not darker on the right). The thickness and border around the slider’s track could be reduced to lessen the visual weight.

In the drop downs example, you can’t see the possible answers ahead of time. Not much of a problem, if you are rating each criteria independently, but the slider design allows you to see a consistent scale across all criteria at a glance.

(Inspiration: Edward Tufte. See “chartjunk” and “smallest effective difference”)

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