De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls(usabilitypost.com)

13 pointsby puns18 anni fa7 comments

De-clutter Your Interface With Hover Controls

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/11/19/de-clutter-your-interface-with-hover-controls/

4 comments

jcl18 anni fa

This technique would render your site unusable in mobile browsers, where it is unintuitive or impossible to hover a cursor.

jwilliams18 anni fa

Also it's terrible for accessibility.

jotto18 anni fa

ie6 doesn't support hover on anything other than anchors

darkxanthos18 anni fa

Yay! Mystery meat! :-|

unalone18 anni fa

Only if it's used in a context that you wouldn't expect to have to edit. Here it seems like a logical approach.

yan18 anni fa

I like the idea of edit controls being extremely faint and low-contrast, to spring up on hover. That way, there's hints that there's functionality hiding there and does not interrupt the eye as it travels through the interface.

Otherwise, users who don't track their eye movement with their mouse might not find editing controls.

bprater18 anni fa

Agreed, if it's invisible, it won't be obvious that anything can be done. Also, I'm not sure that :hover is supported in all browsers. Might want to use something like jQuery to cover compatibility issues.