To be or not to be modal
Some interesting thoughts on use of modal windows in your UI design from the Signal vs. Noise blog. Interested in your thoughts…
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Gary Brooks:
I think that Modals do have a place when it is appropriate that content “should be reduced to substates of other screens.” As long as the substate screen info is pretty much self-contained (and does not need any clarifying reference or info from the containing page) I think that Modals can be a useful tool in a Web Design arsenal. As with any other such tool, Modals can be abused for the sake of trying to bring a “cool” factor to a web site’s UI.
Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 12:58 pm