Re: Red Button - O MY! (end of that story - for now) - and NEW question

[voxwoman <voxwoman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Deborah Hemstreet <
dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com> wrote:

>
>
> Are there any usability studies about how users prefer to see data
> displayed on screens? Specifically, if a user has a choice of seeing
> several headings collapsed, all of which can be expanded to enter the
> desired data, as opposed to all headings on a screen open, but
> necessitating a lot of scrolling down... which would the user prefer?
>
>
It would depend on the task I needed to perform. Ideally, I would like to be
able to configure which columns to display and have it persist. (I am
getting spoiled by Adobe's configurable workspaces) Sorry for only giving
you one data point :)

-Wendy
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