Re: [Usability] Re: Button ordering

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 03Nov2001 06:13PM (+1100), Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Joel Becker">
> 
> > The entire point is to make the default button the one the eye hunts out
> > and finds.  For "OK", my left-is-first bias is possibly just as valid as
> > the eye-travels-to-bottom-right theory.  I can't say without actual user
> > testing :-)
> 
> Oh man, I did an excellent video ages ago that 'proves' the edge-hugging
> rule. My computers teacher and I had an argument about where buttons should
> be, after he kept swearing at one program for putting them in the wrong
> place (very obvious on the Macintoshes we used in class).
> 

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> 
> The video showed that almost everyone rested their cursor to the bottomish
> right of the dialogue whilst reading, which led to everyone agreeing that
> the Mac way was better. The mouse was never hugging the centre because no
> one puts their cursor over the text. (Duh me.)
> 

Holy shit - you actually cited research and user testing!

 - Maciej