[Design] Renaming or eliminating the 'triage' button

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Dan,

I agree the Triage button is not very clear.

Is your suggestion to just have the user click on the Triage status  
column header again to file/sort items? That seems like a reasonable  
alternative, but I wonder how many people know to click on the column  
header to sort. Wouldn't it just flip the sort order from ascending  
to descending and vice versa?

Mimi

On Oct 31, 2006, at 10:18 AM, Dan Steinicke wrote:

> I find the current name of the 'triage' button confusing, I didn't  
> know what it did until I talked to Grant and Priscilla about it.  I  
> was thinking 'sort triage' or re-sort would be more appropriate.
> Once I realized that all it was doing was sorting on triage status  
> I wondered if we need a button at all.  The idiom of clicking on  
> column headers to cause sorts is widely used and understood, maybe  
> it would be better to not have  this button at all and just expect  
> people to click on the column header when they want to re-sort on  
> triage status.  To me this seems less confusing than having a  
> special button to sort one column, while the other columns are  
> sorted by clicking their headers.
>
> Dan
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