On 1 February 2013 10:21, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 February 2013 01:28, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
X-equals-kill is fairly standard on the Windows platform at least,
And on web pages that get fancy in general, and web-based Flash applications and so forth. Often with weird styling, but something that's definitely an X in the top-right corner to kill it.
(My test subject, btw, is a 5yo girl who expects me to make websites work for her. Basically: look at what flash games are doing, look at the MMOs for kids like Club Penguin or Bin Weevils. Seriously, play these things with a kid around and you'll learn *so much* - they have to entice the kids in with a fantastically usable interface to get them addicted enough to nag their parents into buying a paid membership. You don't mess with the visual language the kids pick up automatically. Kids are perfect test subjects, because they show every human cognitive bias, all at once, really strongly, in pure and unadulterated form. "Desktop model" = "website model" = "the computer is a box of magic but I know what the X up there does".)
- d.