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You can use that. Also you can use "Rate the App" option in which you may provide the radio buttons of " 1, 2, 3, 4, 5" and the use can select any one option.
In this case the design will be slightly different.
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When wondering if something is globally understood, my first instinct is to look to interfaces that people are used to, globally, e.g. Windows. There, they do use arrows, but intriguingly enough they aren't placed next to items (where they draw too much attention to themselves and you might not know which row they represent) but above them. See the "Startup ...
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Two answers:
1 Arrow heads (triangles) mean sorting when they are set inside column headers. When set at the left of a list mean display or hide sub-items. In multimedia controls then mean "play" or "fast forward". It's a common idiom.
2 Different users might have different preferences for the arrows looks.
Like for example corporate colors, or general ...
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three lines with increasing or decreasing length -> can you show me an example? I don't remember seeing that pattern. – John Assymptoth
This is it:
But it is interesting how this pattern is perceived in right-to-left reading countries?
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I'm trying to figure out, if my developer tool, should assume everyone will want an arrow, or if this should be configurable.
If you're allowing for taste, you should keep it configurable. Arrows are used very often, but sometimes you see three lines with increasing or decreasing length to symbolize sort order.
Since you're building a web-app, leave ...
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Arrows are not intuitive but discoverable (a down arrow may be confusing - see comments to Igor-G's answer). If sorting takes only a wink, the user can find out the order suiting her best in only two clicks.
You can also try (for alphabetic languages, at least) the intuitive A->Z vs. Z->A,
and, mostly universally, 0->9 vs. 9->0.
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UI patterns suggests that the arrows are established conventions:
Each column headline/label is a link. When the label is clicked, the rows in the table are ordered ascending by the specific column’s values. If the same label is clicked again, the order is reversed: the rows in the table are now ordered descending by the specific column’s values.
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Regarding your question on stars vs smiles for product reviews, stars are much better as more people are familiar with them. Refrain from smiles as they may make you seem silly, unprofessional and make you lose sales.
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Both! Since you're not opening Excel as a software, you're making an Excel formatted file. But if this was a general action as optional exporting to a number of different output formats looking like "Export to [Excel|Text|Access|SharePoint]", I'd use just an export-icon since the next dialogue would let me make a choice of which output format to use for my ...
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I'd advise caution; a red X can be ambiguous. In a lot of systems, this symbol is associated with a deletion behaviour.
I work on a system with this symbolic meaning. In situations as you describe, we've used a white X in a red circle to indicate error/violation behaviour (like Visual Studio's Error symbol), and a sufficiently different white X in a red ...
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The "i" seems a little out of place replacing the "pixels".
Part of the problem seems to be that you have both "Pixels" and "Megapixel" as units for the number field, and I'm not sure that the "Pixels" is actually needed.
I assume that the value is the number of megapixels the user wants, so losing the word "Pixels" is a good thing.
The "i" (represented ...
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I did a really small study on this last year, nothing too solid. I gave two versions of the same screenshots to users, one with coloured icons and one with greyed-out ones (a database management app it was). I asked 200 of them which one they preferred and why.
80% of the users preferred the coloured version, the general feeling being that they provide a ...
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I have to agree with the consensus that greyed out icons indicate locked or unreachable functions. @Ben Durnell makes a good point that it works on Wordpress because of the blue text that indicates a hyperlink.
However, I definitely find full colour icons distracting and believe that colour is one of the strongest ways to focus attention on something. As ...
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