Wednesday, April 20, 2016

usability - Affordability for clicking


I'm making a screen for a charging station for a IOT device. The screen displays charging status, and that will be a functionality initially. Moving forward it will have more functionalities such as configuring the IOT devices.


I was wondering if having a container (box) on the representation of each device a creates affordability on whether something is clickable.



Answer



The box indeed invites the user to click, whereas without the box it looks like a simple status with no possible interaction.


To decrease user cognitive load of having to match which status correspond to which device, I would make the boxes larger to occupy the entire screen real estate, so that each box corresponds to a physical slot as much as possible.


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