Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Combo boxes as "action initiators"

If there's one obvious bone-headed UI mistake that developers make it is putting actions, which are typically buttons or links, inside of combo boxes.

Combo boxes are for selecting an item (a piece of DATA) from a list, not for selecting an ACTION from a list.

WRONG

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RIGHT

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1 comments:

mike said...

Programmers are wacky like that. I've had similar issues with business sponsors campaigning for this approach.

Show them a user struggling... priceless.

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