Friday, July 13, 2012

Pulldown buttons are not user friendly

Firefox now has a pulldown button for selecting whether or not to save a password for a site.

Kubuntu / KDE has a pull down button for selecting whether to reboot or suspend.



How am I supposed to tab between the options?

Keep your dang user interface compatible with keyboards please!
I have miss-selected so many of these buttons, and have had my computer shutoff or save a password enough times that I know this is a design defect.

Pull-down buttons are cute... but should only be used for trivial additional actions.
It is not ok to use them where any data might be lost, or security be compromised.
It is not ok for major decisions.  It is ok for added sub-features related to that button, but not features that are the same logical decision level.

No comments: