Thursday, May 28, 2015

design - Alternatives for Radio Button?


Both Radio button and Switch button does the same job - Selecting one option at a time. Is there any other way for choosing between the two given options other than Radio/switch buttons?


In my case, the list of options will display only after selecting either of the given choices. So i dont want to use Radio button. Currently I have a switch button. Please suggest me an alternative. Thanks


enter image description here




Answer



Toggle switches or radio buttons are both good choices for this use case. Unambiguous, familiar, effective. Good job!


Option 1/2 rendered as a toggle switch Option 1/2 rendered as radios


Of course you can set the radio buttons to default to option 1, so that there is always one selected.


I would avoid using buttons with active/inactive states, as when you have only two options it becomes ambiguous which of the two is selected, You see this a lot (particularly in DVD menus, amiright?) and it's not helpful:


Two options rendered as buttons - avoid!


Hope that helps :)


No comments:

Post a Comment

technique - How credible is wikipedia?

I understand that this question relates more to wikipedia than it does writing but... If I was going to use wikipedia for a source for a res...