GUI style guidelines proposal

Alexandre Franke alexandre.franke at gmail.com
Wed May 20 22:23:51 CEST 2009


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org> wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone know where this convention comes
> from ? It always struck me as extremely counter-intuitive, at least
> as someone who writes from left to right, to have the button that
> basically says "go back" on the right side and the one that says
> "move on" on the left.

Most of the time, the first thing you want to do is "move on" (hang up
on an incoming call, validate a menu entry...) so I think it makes
sense that the first thing you want to hit is the first one you read
(which is on the left as you read from left to right).

-- 
Alexandre Franke



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