Timeline for Is there a good alternative to zebra stripes when rows use drag-and-drop reordering?
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| May 19, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | supercat | If one can make existing rows move smoothly to their new locations once the drag and drop is complete, how about having the rows move while the stripes stay put? | |
| Jul 5, 2014 at 9:43 | comment | added | Franchesca | @DA01 yes, that's why I suggested that the rows not be restriped until the user saves the changes. I imagine a user clicking save will be done with needing a "visual anchor", since they are done dragging rows about. | |
| Jul 5, 2014 at 1:47 | comment | added | DA01 | @Franchesca it may work, but I think that will actually cause the problem. If you are moving rows around, the zebra striping is likely giving you a visual anchor. They're likely not looking at the row being dragged, but rather where they want to drop it. And if upon dropping it each time, the zebra stripes flip, that could get disorientating. | |
| Jul 4, 2014 at 8:20 | comment | added | Franchesca | @DA01 did you read my answer? I said to give dragged rows a 3rd colour, and to only restripe when done rearranging. A parallax error is when our stereoscopic vision causes us to misread something so small / narrow that the difference between what each eye sees is larger than the scale of what you are looking at. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 22:24 | comment | added | DA01 | Also, I don't think parallax is the right term here. Parallax refers to stereoscopic site and distance. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 22:23 | comment | added | DA01 | I think in this case re-striping is the problem. With repositioning rows, it's important that the row the eye is fixated on stays consistent as that is their landmark they are using to rearrange items. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 22:02 | comment | added | Franchesca | Re-applying stripes is fine. You only want to make sure that users can scan a single line without parallax errors. Users are not going to be in the middle of reading a line if they just completed a drag drop operation. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 21:56 | comment | added | Dan Hulme | The re-striping is exactly the problem I'm thinking of. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 21:55 | history | answered | Franchesca | CC BY-SA 3.0 |