[Sigia-l] Grayed Out Nav Elements vs. Changing Nav Menu

[Dan Saffer]

I was using the MS adaptive menus as a worst-case scenario of this
phenomenon. As Todd and David pointed out, those menus hide things even
if they are active, just unused for a certain period.

Todd, I'd be interested to hear any more detail you can give us about
your user testing on this.

Aside from menu location, I think the other main argument for having
items remain grayed out is that it shows affordance: i.e. If the context
was different (or you were in a different mode), you could do X.

Dan

ps. AF 2.0 is worth a read, although surprisingly light on Web. There's
a great book to be written about the ID of web applications...


dan saffer
sr. interaction designer, ameritrade
http://www.odannyboy.com

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