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Which interface is better for users asked to make relative allocations? (buger.github.com)
3 points by john_horton on March 31, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Just a thought, but how about an interface that shows all the values as stacked columns (or concatenated rows) and you can only drag the border between them?


That's actually one of the more popular suggestions on the StackExchange question I asked that motivated these prototypes:

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3736/how-to-build-a-bu...


Voted for standard.

Auto-resizing after an adjustment is made is unintuitive, as the user dragged the bar in the first place to a point that "looked right". So you're essentially undoing his own intuition.




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