Re: Visible controls - Design canvas exception

Hi Alastair

I agree these are tough edge cases and we can expect an array of results on
pass/fail on some of these (low inter-rater reliability).

However, for me the big takeaway from this exercise is the concept of
"primary function" of the control.

- The usual category of failure of this SC would be when there is nothing
there at all identifying that there is a popup, and you discover it by
hovering around.
- Then there will be a category of failures where the text, image or icon
has another primary purpose which can be confusing for some users.
- Then there will be some squishy ones, where we need to carve out
exceptions around known conventions (i.e, considerations for these could be
hovering over a video, table editing, or perhaps a tile)


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On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 9:04 AM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
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> Hi David,
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> I won’t comment on whether I agree or not (I think it will be a survey
> question soon), but to clarify some of the examples:
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> > 6) its a menu, text identifies the popup content
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> What about the items in the same menu that don’t have a pop-out menu?
> (E.g. comments.) How can it be an indicator when it works, but not an
> indicator when it doesn’t have the pop-up?
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> > 8) tick control: the purpose of the image is to be selected
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> If you click on the image (not the tick), the image opens full screen, so
> I’d say the selection-ticks are not the primary purpose.
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> > 9) Hover over thumbnail to play. Pass because thats a primary purpose
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> Play is one option, but it also has ‘edit’, ‘select’ and ‘more options’
> controls, do they pass as well?
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> > 12) Fail: Heading text has a different primary purpose
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> It is also functionally a link and takes you to a ‘show all’ for that
> category, so it is multi-purpose.
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> (I think it’s a band-aid feature making up for the headings not looking
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> 13) Hovering over initials in Teams: I think we need a convention that if
> there is a headshop or initials, that interacting with that head shot will
> tell you more about them.
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> I’d also argue that hovering over rows in a table (the next two) to show
> more options is a convention.
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> > 16) Edit a table
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> The last example is tricky, you get some controls on-hover (on the left),
> but clicking into the cells allows editing.
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> Thanks for reviewing the examples, I’ll update the notes around them.
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> -Alastair
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