[Design] Re: [Cosmo] Add/Remove Collections buttons

[eggfree at eggfree.net]

Right clicks are not necessarily discoverable, but they can be  
useful. They help with that pesky "fitts law stuff" i.e. the closer  
and larger the target, the faster and more easily a user will execute  
the action.

That said all web apps constitute a compromise-- is the browser the  
application, or is the "web app" the application?

I would not worry too much about the browser context menu  
personally-- in my experience (the apps I have led design/HCI effort)  
users (typ. 20-40yr old businessfolk  accessing an app a couple of  
times a week for the 20,000ft demographic) seldom use the context  
menus. They usually look for a toolbar, and the power users look for  
the keyboard.

(Thats also a generational thing btw)

just my .02
Jeremy



On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:12 PM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:

> Travis Vachon wrote:
>> Like a right click context menu? How would that work? Are you  
>> suggesting catching the right click event and not popping the  
>> normal browser context menu? I always find that ugly and not what  
>> I want, but I suppose I'd be open to being convinced otherwise.
>
> I'm not normally in favor of the right-click in Web apps either,  
> although I suspect more than a small part of that is my developer  
> hat talking (not wanting something to keep me from getting to the  
> right-click browser menu).
>
> As long as it's not trapping right-click for the entire page, and  
> it's confined to specific, obvious parts of the UI (the Collection  
> Selector, the lozenges), I think it might be workable.
>
> We got fairly consistent commentary from the FLOSS Usability Sprint  
> that a context menu could be really helpful for certain common  
> actions. Granted, it's UX people talking, not normal end-users, but  
> the feedback was pretty universal.
>
>
> Matthew
>
>
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