Mountain Doody
Brave Bunnies Brave Collective
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Posted - 2014.04.08 00:44:00 -
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TL;DR: i would like to be able to navigate from 'Help>Instructions' to the adjacent 'System Operation> Log Out' by pressing Up twice (switching the menu category from Help to System Operation at the same time).
Right now I have to navigate Left to Help, Up to System Operation, Right to Options, Down to Log Out.
Pressing 'up' on the first entry of a submenu or 'down' on the last entry of a submenu does nothing right now.
I spent altogether too much time coding a demo to explain what I mean so click here and press your arrow keys: http://jsfiddle.net/5GpNA/1/
Background: I found myself trying to rapidly navigate the neocom with the D-pad to switch characters. I was trying to get to "Log Out". I scrolled all the way down to the bottom and tried to go up one entry, but I fat fingered it and hit "Right" instead on Help. This navigated into the submenu. Now to get to Logout I have to hit Left Up Right Down. This is punishing my fat fingers, so here are two suggestions to improve the UI:
1. put System Operation at the bottom of Help so I can just scroll all the way down 2. Let me use Up/Down while I have the cursor on a submenu, to skip up and down to its sibling categories. See the demo I linked above. Here's my keystroke by keystroke UI suggestion:
I just pressed Right to go into the Help submenu by accident. Key 1: Up Current: nothing Desired: Play an audio cue and add a visual hint that you're trying to go up (in this case, it would be to the bottom entry of System Operation, which is Logout. Perfect!) Two implementation ideas: - Your visual cue could be the cursor moving to some block above Instructions but still inside the Help menu, possibly just Gū¦/Gū+, possibly these are hidden until you try to scroll out of bounds - On this first Up press you fade in a hint of the menu above that you are about to scroll through (in this case, System Operation)
Key 2 case 1: Down Desired: This cancels the operation, you stay within the Help submenu. If you showed hinting for 'you're about to go up' you now remove it.
Key 2 case 2: Up Navigate to the bottom entry of the prior neocom item (i.e. to Logout).
Key 2 case 3: Left Go back to Help neocom entry, close any hints
Key 2 case 4: Right Do nothing |