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- From: bpirie@bpecomm.pinetree.org (Brian Pirie)
- Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
- Subject: Re: Seperation of Church and Elevators
- Message-ID: <1igJuB4w165w@bpecomm.pinetree.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 07:57:48 EST
- References: <palmer.722190827@news.larc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: BP ECOMM Systems, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- > Well, er, yes. You may find it natural for text to grow rightward, but
- > people who read right-to-left (Hebrew, etc.) or bidirectionally (can't
- > remember this one) may not find it natural at all. Up/Down may not be
- > the best, but in this case it is a less restricting choice, especially
- > when you consider how internationally these products are marketed.
- >
- > I agree that there's got to be a better way, and I'm sure someone will
- > design something that makes us all feel pretty stupid for not thinking of
- > it before. :-)
-
- Perhaps a more intuitive approach would be to replace the up and down
- arrows with the '+' and '-' symbols. While there will always be some
- people who will misinterpret any symbolic representation we choose to
- use, this is the best solution that I can come up with.
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