Comments on: Forget Select – it is Browse, Browse, Browse

By: Hey Raena » Interface confusion: Don’t break users’ brains

Hey Raena » Interface confusion: Don’t break users’ brains — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:35:00 +0000

[...] Forget Select – it is Browse, Browse, Browse from Gary Barber [...]

By: Gary Barber

Gary Barber — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:09:32 +0000

@Alex – Yes we tried the instruction first off. That totally failed. Comments like “select what..”

@Ruth,, @Donna – The radio buttons, that was interesting, people selected a button and it worked well if you didn’t have to press anything else.

Problem was the amount of screen real estate was also in high demand.

But the amount of room for radio buttons was 30% more than the list which is doing the same thing at the end of the day. So the list wins

It was just amusing to see the web used in a totally different way.

All test results where 100% over all subjects.

By: Alex Graham

Alex Graham — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:15:37 +0000

Interesting post Gary. I always put a small instruction as the first entry in a drop-down select box along the lines “Select an [insert option here]” – was this tried for your case above?

By: Ruth Ellison

Ruth Ellison — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:14:25 +0000

lol I was just about to suggest radio buttons too!

By: Donna Maurer

Donna Maurer — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:44:24 +0000

Neat insight for something we take for granted. Did you try radio buttons (given it was a single-select?)