History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces
  • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    I repeatedly wonder wher the toggle switch comes into play here. Is it more intuitive than a on/off checkbox? Often these things still only have one label (and not one for each state), so where’s the difference?

    Any opinions here?

    • sjpwarren
      23·
      11 months ago

      With the wrong color scheme its really hard to know if its’ ON or OFF

        • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
          43·
          11 months ago

          The background (green in the image) is usually a darker shade than the knob. That’s how you can tell the moving thing apart from the depressed background even if you’re color blind.

          Edit: Just realized that that wasn’t the point… Thanks, downvoters!

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
        51·
        11 months ago

        Whatever the colour scheme. Because you’re not in the designer’s mind. Unless they add redundant text, there’s just no way to tell.

        I fucking hate those things.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      11 months ago

      No, fuck these. Especially when you have to actually click and drag them. Even more especially when it isn’t obvious whether it is on or off. Check boxes inherently lack the issue of colour blind difficulties too.

      • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        when you have to actually click and drag them

        Huh? That exists? I didn’t think I’d have to specify that a toggle should work in a non what-the-fuck-are-you-actively-trying-to-repel-me way

        • Grass@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          11 months ago

          I suspect some gui frameworks work this way. I’ve seen it in a few places and when it happens, every single other thing I can’t stand also happens.

    • watty@lemm.ee
      7·
      11 months ago

      A checkbox is for a form that requires clicking a submit button to apply the change.

      A toggle switch should apply the change automatically and immediately without a separate save or submit button.

  • Oisteink@feddit.nl
    10·
    11 months ago

    Back in the days when I was in school apple was constantly brought up for their consistent and intuitive user interface. Except for the drag-disc/floppy-to-thrashcan-for-eject.

    Those days are long gone - there’s no tech heads left in charge there now, only accountants :(

  • dbx12
    10·
    11 months ago

    This post resonates so much with me. Fuck “unique style”, adhere to conventions and don’t surprise the user by “being clever”.

  • ExperimentalGuy
    2·
    11 months ago

    I never thought about these changes but it’s interesting how there isn’t a centralized convention for web stylization(unless there is I don’t really do that)

    • fidodo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      There’s the OS and browser default, and plenty of UI frameworks. The change isn’t a trend, it’s more that bad UI designers are more likely to incorrectly override default now that applications are now expected to have unique styling.