Bug? Home Page: Is cursor consistency important?

PetahChristian
PetahChristian Member Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I would expect that all Explore cards would be clickable. Yet some show an arrow pointer (with a tooltip) while others show a hand pointer.

Is there some human interface or design guideline which determines that [opening the] Psalms Explorer [tool] should use an arrow pointer, yet (opening a) Word Study (Original Language) [guide] should use a hand pointer?

8.0 SR-2 (8.0.0.0591) on macOS 10.14.1 (18B75)

Thanks to FL for including Carta and a Hebrew audio bible in Logos 9!

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,757

    from Microsoft:

    Pointers

    Shape Name When used
    screen shot of pointer with arrow shape Normal select Used for most objects.
    screen shot of hand with index finger pointing Link select Used for text and graphics links because of their weak affordance.
    screen shot of pointer with i-beam shape Text select Used for text to indicate a location between characters.
    screen shot of pointer with large plus-sign shape Precision select Used for graphic and other two-dimensional interaction.

    "affordance" the thing indicates how it is to be used

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • PetahChristian
    PetahChristian Member Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭

    Ok, so the image cards (verse of the day and the videos) use a hand to indicate that they are clickable graphics. That makes sense.

    Why would Start a new Workflow use a hand -- it doesn't look like an image -- since it looks similar to Explore the Psalms and Study with the Greek Alphabet Tutor cards.

    Thanks to FL for including Carta and a Hebrew audio bible in Logos 9!

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,757

    Hey, I just gave you the guideline ... I didn't say that Logos did a good job of following it [:P] 'cuz they didn't [8-|]

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • PetahChristian
    PetahChristian Member Posts: 4,636 ✭✭✭

    Heh, thanks MJ! I will appreciate that some cursor choices make more sense now, rather than hoping for all the choices to make sense.

    Thanks to FL for including Carta and a Hebrew audio bible in Logos 9!