[Sigia-l] Form Usability - Search & Cancel location

[Anne Hjortshoj]

Hm, I've had the opposite experience. When you are dealing with a form,
not a wizard (context makes them different creatures, I would argue),
users seem to treat the button that occurs first in a left-to-right
arrangement as the default.

Therefore:

submit|cancel

would be preferable.

I've seen users get pretty upset when the buttons are in the opposite
order.

-Anne

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Mike Combs wrote:

> I'd agree with you.  I always put the button that will take a user forward
> in the process on the right side of the button grouping.  Conversely any
> button that will halt progress, or take a user back would be on the left
> side.
> 
> I've watched people in usability labs and they favor moving the mouse to
> the lower right.  I have no science to back up my claims, just
> observations of users.
> 
> 
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