[Sigia-l] Scrollbars

[Eric Reiss]

James wrote:

"Although the user would not have a clear indication that 'I have
scrolled about 40% of the way down this page' does this matter?"

Yes. Absolutely. Particularly for web-savvy users. Sit through some
usability tests with real users and I don't think you'll question
your designer's suggestion to use standard scrollbars.

Eric

---- Original Message ----
From: jarmes at gmail.com
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Scrollbars
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:38:06 +0100

>I've just had an inverse discussion with a designer who strongly
>favours standard scrollbars over any other solution such as dhtml. I
>was arguing that various other approaches could give powerful ways of
>navigating, whilst keeping the user sufficiently informed about the
>content list (length, position etc) - which admittedly a browser
>scrollbar does very well.
>
>Context:
>We're working on a site targeting young, mostly web savvy people and
>trying to maintain a clean feel (no scrollbars littering various
>overfowing divs) without affecting the usability. The current version
>of the site is here: http://www.m-buzz.com - we're defining the next
>release now.
>
>The whole site is AJAX driven, and I want to keep with the
>application-like feel of no page relaods, and no clunky scrollbars
>dynamically appearing as new content loads. For example, if we have
>blog-like content, I would prefer to have AJAX next and previous
>arrows rather than a long scrolling page. We can add contextual info
>such as which item the user is viewing, how many items there are - as
>well as 'Back to start' or even jump to date perhaps. Although the
>user would not have a clear indication that 'I have scrolled about 
>40%
>of the way down this page' does this matter?
>
>Does anyone know of any interesting research on this, or have any
>comments or examples?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jamie
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