Re:Show HN: My 7th Grade Young Entrepreneur Project -- inter...
by ronilan on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:02AM
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> you might want to add the mouse pointer back when hovering clickable icons.
@cronix thanks. Good observation and interesting point.
The missing "hand" pointer is a side effect of BlockLike. The clickable icons are not image elements wrapped by anchor elements with href. Instead they are Sprites with a click listener attached in JavaScript via their whenClicked method.
My first reaction was to say "yep, let's change the cursor and help the students" and I was thinking I would modify BlockLike so that any clickable entity will have a pointer cursor. Then, after reading around the web [1][2][3] I realized that I shouldn't, as in most cases, the click on the Sprite is an action not a link. Those four icons on the homepage are the exception not the rule.
So, to come around a full circle, changing the mouse pointer to a hand is indeed the developer's responsibility. That being said, this project is both relatively complex and wide in scope with a lot of moving parts, thus it is bound to be rough around the edges. UX, like learning is a never ending job...
@cronix thanks. Good observation and interesting point.
The missing "hand" pointer is a side effect of BlockLike. The clickable icons are not image elements wrapped by anchor elements with href. Instead they are Sprites with a click listener attached in JavaScript via their whenClicked method.
My first reaction was to say "yep, let's change the cursor and help the students" and I was thinking I would modify BlockLike so that any clickable entity will have a pointer cursor. Then, after reading around the web [1][2][3] I realized that I shouldn't, as in most cases, the click on the Sprite is an action not a link. Those four icons on the homepage are the exception not the rule.
So, to come around a full circle, changing the mouse pointer to a hand is indeed the developer's responsibility. That being said, this project is both relatively complex and wide in scope with a lot of moving parts, thus it is bound to be rough around the edges. UX, like learning is a never ending job...
[1] https://medium.com/simple-human/buttons-shouldnt-have-a-hand...
[2] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/109739/should-anchors...
[3] https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/36871/whether-to-use-...