Good examples of transitions
30 Jan 2009 - 11:52am
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Baruch Sachs
2007
Hello all,
Have a tabbed interface where a user will be doing work on a tab and
submitting that work. Problem is the tab just goes away and goes to the next
process they are working on and this has the tendency to confuse people.
I am looking for examples of elegant transitions that dont require a person
to to click anything or accept anything but lets them know that that
something has happened and they are moving on.
I have seen some good examples, but need more...
Thanks,
Baruch
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HI Baruch,
They'll be loads of jQuery solutions... http://jquery.com/
Nik
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Hello all,
Have a tabbed interface where a user will be doing work on a tab and
submitting that work. Problem is the tab just goes away and goes to the
next
process they are working on and this has the tendency to confuse people.
I am looking for examples of elegant transitions that dont require a
person
to to click anything or accept anything but lets them know that that
something has happened and they are moving on.
I have seen some good examples, but need more...
Thanks,
Baruch
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Why do the tabs go away? Is it a, "You did it, so you can't undo
it" thing? That's normally bad. But if it is 'right' in this
case, Why not just grey out the tabs they did and vividly highlight
the tab they are on?
Guessing a wizzardy step-by-step thing here...
A transition normally won't prevent users from being confused if it
shouldn't be moving on to new items. If by tabs you mean something
like articles in the CMS. Then just blindly moving on the next one is
likely a poor choice. Either show a confirmation of what they did with
options to move on to a new tab and other things, or stay on the same
page and confirm what they did.
Users really only get confused when they aren't sure what they did
really happened.
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The site of the Dutch Railways uses a tab metaphor with a color
transition if the user clicks one of the tabs.
http://tinyurl.com/tab-transition
I think they implemented this to draw the user's attention to the
fact that the content has changed. A better example is in their
planning module. They always offer several alternatives, but these
alternative look so similar, that you might not notice that the
content has changed.
If you want to try for yourself: go to
http://www.ns.nl/cs/Satellite/travellers and plan a trip from e.g.
Amsterdam Centraal to Rotterdam Centraal.
- Yohan
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