[Sigia-l] Ok -Cancel [it was Canberra IA cocktail hours...]

[Juan Ruiz]

First of all, sorry for the wrong subject heading of this thread.

> What is it that you want to achieve? A rapidly used system or one that
> slows people down deliberately?

We want to create a pattern for this type of situation. But as you say,
Andrew, it depends. So far, we have gathered that it depends on the type
of the form to be displayed:

- Non wizard forms (single page forms)
The order of the buttons is arbitrary (it 'depends') :) 

- Wizard / step through type of applications.
The 'ok' button (it could have other labels such us: 'save', 'continue',
'next', depending on the context of the form) should be on the right.

Any thoughts?



-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Boyd [mailto:facibus at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, 9 November 2007 1:16 PM
To: Juan Ruiz
Cc: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Canberra IA Cocktail Hour: Thursday 15 November
2007

Hi Juan,

the answer is "it depends" :)

There is an argument with going with what people are used to - that
said, we're adaptable.

Some systems deliberately mix the button order to ensure that the
reader/user is both awake and human.

There is no best practice. Best practice isn't. The closest thing I
can think of is "match the user expectation consistently unless there
is a specific reason not to" but this is so vague as to be useless :)