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- smartK
life?
sorry
... making buttons that don't turn the mouse cursor into a hand? that's just stupid. like http://www.nike.com/main.htmldear flash developers, just cause flash mx enables you to do this doesn't mean you have to.
- ********0
;)
- ********0
I disagree. Create Online had and article(before they went under) on usability/conventions/standards that alluded to automobile manufacturing: The horn of a car could literally be anywhere on the car but it is placed on the horn because that is what people are used to. Same goes with the gas/brake pedals, etc.
In the web world, if you have blue-underlined text then most people are going to assume that's a link.
HOWEVER, the point is intuitiveness; one way to go about this is via the cursor changing from an arrow to a hand(glove?)
I think the nike,com link you referenced is just as intuitive without the hand cursor change.
J_red argues that this is a creative step toward changing convention.
What do you think about that?
- smartK0
good point, and you're right, the nike.com site is intuitive.
However I still don't see the advantage. Everyone's used to the hand cursor, which tells everyone he is mousovering a button - why change that?with nike.com I probably didn't post a proper example ... there are far worse, don't remember a url though.
- ********0
I agree with you, I really hate all that, I was just pointing out that this was an exception... Remember Jakob Nielson's Flash is 99% bad article? Then someone said something like flash is 99 proof and all the designers were drunk and designing stupid stuff...something like that, it's late.
- quamb0
its not intuitive to keep the cursor static.
just odd.
like that left scroll bar thing posted earlier- why would you do that?
dabble dabble
- ********0
"its not intuitive to keep the cursor static.
just odd. "
That's a very elementary statement that the industry has been agreeing with for 4-5 years...
Did you feel like the nike.com example was unintuitive?
The point was that it was an exception to the rule. Necessary? not really, but the designers chose not to use that feature and were successful in achieving all that the 'hand cursor' accomplished.