Saturday, October 24, 2015

What is a more intuitive way to present a 3-option toggle?


Stack Exchange's tag popup card/thingy has a star which you can toggle between "Favorite" (gold star), "Ignored" (red cross), and "Normal" (grey star).


Favorite:
gold star before the word


Ignored:

red X cross before the word


Normal:
grey star before the word


This is not intuitive at all, thanks to the grey star meaning "Normal." One would expect a 2-option toggle when clicking on it results in the star becoming gold.


What is a better way to present this?




For those who are interested for accessibility reasons, here's the HTML code:


 

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(The anchor tag has a class that cycles through tm-favorite, tm-favorite-ignore, and tm-favorite-clear.)




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