Bamboo species list form confusing
Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:24 am
The "Go" button for plants and the "Browse" button for products are a problem on that page because the "Browse" button is far more prominent at a glance as it's in the exact area you'd expect a button to be after filling out the form whereas the go button is smaller and offset to the right.
Several times when I was new to this site I kept hitting the Browse button after filling out the form for bamboo parameters and wondering why I was getting a list of suppliers.
Personally I would move the products to an entirely different page. I find it to be counterintuitive being on the same page.
If it's not possible to put it on another page perhaps make the Go button more (equally) prominent, perhaps relabel it as "Search Plants", rename the other one "Search products", move it to the far left aligned with the Browse button and move the products section much further away from the plants section.
I only bring this up because I've recently sent some people from other forums to that page and I want to make sure they have an easy time searching there and if it happened to me as a very experienced web user it's undoubtedly happening to a lot of other people as well.
Several times when I was new to this site I kept hitting the Browse button after filling out the form for bamboo parameters and wondering why I was getting a list of suppliers.
Personally I would move the products to an entirely different page. I find it to be counterintuitive being on the same page.
If it's not possible to put it on another page perhaps make the Go button more (equally) prominent, perhaps relabel it as "Search Plants", rename the other one "Search products", move it to the far left aligned with the Browse button and move the products section much further away from the plants section.
I only bring this up because I've recently sent some people from other forums to that page and I want to make sure they have an easy time searching there and if it happened to me as a very experienced web user it's undoubtedly happening to a lot of other people as well.