Re: [TFUI] A really bad UI concept

Ron Jeffries wrote:
> There may be some fundamental truths about how the mouse is best
> used, and I do like having buttons to click and various popup and
> other options. But I also suspect that many of our preferences about
> the mouse come from our specific experience and habits, not from
> some capital-T Truth of what's good and not so good.

In this case, though, and really in many complaints I hear about mouse 
movements in web apps, it's about click versus hover. I liken it to a 
door. In some cases I want to be able to walk up to it without it 
opening. In fact, I want to have to take a manual action in order to 
open it. But, in well-defined circumstances, I'm perfectly Ok with the 
door opening, say when I'm walking out with my groceries.

Honestly, in my opinion, in comes down to trust, something I always harp 
about to designers. Your users should be able to trust your UI that it 
won't change out from underneath them. Clicks to a left menu can change 
the main content, as long as the menu either stays as is, or perhaps 
expands. Clicks to sub-navigation shouldn't change the main navigation. 
In other words, your users should be able to trust that the UI doesn't 
have unintended side-effects from normal user interactions.

I had a hard time trusting that web site. Maybe that is because I'm used 
to a level of control from my mouse and from countless other web apps.

Cory


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