Re: Interface/usability question
Re: Interface/usability question
- Subject: Re: Interface/usability question
- From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:00:55 +0000
On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 03:13 pm, Chilton Webb wrote:
Howdy,
I have a checkbox in my app's preferences that is giving me
philosophical problems.
The button denotes the visibility (or invisibility) of a particular
object in a window when the window is first opened. The object it
refers to will be invisible by default, but that's my preference, and
doesn't have to be that way. And of course, I wouldn't offer the
checkbox in the prefs if I thought I was always right ;-)
My question is, if there's no 'right or wrong' way the object should be
by default, and I decide to make it invisible because it cuts down on
screen real estate or some other moral high ground, should I mark the
button as 'Visible', and have it unchecked, or 'Invisible', and have it
checked?
Speaking from a user's point of view, I'd mark it 'Invisible' and have
it checked, unless it's completely obvious what the checkbox does, in
which case it's pretty much arbitrary - flip a coin for it.
-Jeremy
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