[Bf-taskforce25] Proposal for number buttons.

[William Reynish]

Hi Ted,

You've hit the nail right on a dilemma we have regarding our UI widgets.

I agree with what's stated in your email, but the issue is this:

Putting text outside number buttons solves some issues, and works  
quite wonderfully in exactly the case you've illustrated: A single  
column. For multiple columns it starts to become unclear what widget  
each label refers to.
For 2.5 we were at some point discussing moving to a single column  
layout, and this would have made many things in the UI easier to read,  
and made it much easier to do layouts, too.

The reason we went away from that idea was because the user is then  
required to scroll up or down a lot more to see all settings, and you  
can only see half as many items at a glance.

Additionally, text outside makes the widgets, and also hit targets,  
smaller. For sliders you also get less precision.


Now, with that said, your middle option looks like a good compromise.  
Can't think of any situation where this wouldn't work, so +1 on that  
one.

Cheers,

-William

On 7 Jun, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Ted Nielsen wrote:

> I posted this at BA, but getting the feeling it will get lost among  
> all new posts, I wanted to see if I could get a response here. There 
> ´s something thats bothering me with the current buttons design in  
> 2.5 (maybe it´s just me) - the number buttons. I find them hard to  
> read and glance over, mainly because they´re not aligned. I had a  
> brief look at Williams UI proposal and it seems that it is  
> intentional(?). If they were just aligned that would be an  
> improvement, but I´d also like to see the option to have the text  
> outside the buttons for better clarity, here´s a lazy mock-up  
> (copy&paste):
>
> http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/2108/ideaslayout.png
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
> Ted.
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