Re: What do you call the triangle-twist-open thingie?

[John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com>]

Further research (something someone sent me) has turned up the Microsoft UX
Style Guide which uses "rotating triangle".  I'll go with that for now.

And ... accordion was never a possibility, especially since the guy who
suggested it had no idea who Myron Floren was.



Thanks ... and keep 'em coming!


JG

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Lynne Wright <Lynne -dot- Wright -at- tritech -dot- com>
wrote:

> Yeah... "twist control" and "accordion" would make no sense to the average
> person.
>
> And most people by now know what the triangle icon is for.
>
> But if I had to include the action in a procedure, I'd go with: "Click the
> triangle to display options" or "Click the triangle to expand the section"
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> I probably wouldn't refer to it at all. Knowing how to expand things is
> assumed knowledge for most audiences.
>
> If for some reason I had to call it something, if the control had a
> tooltip, I'd use that name. If no tooltip, I'd look at the alt text for the
> image. Barring that, I'd probably say "expand the whatsit by clicking the
> triangle icon," or if being verbose to make up for a particularly confusing
> UI, maybe use a triangle dingbat.
>
> I'd never use "twist control" or "accordion."
>
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 11:10 AM, John G <john -at- garisons -dot- com> wrote:
> > Many web sites these days use a triangle-shaped icon ... click it, and
> > it rotates 90 degrees to display something (text, links, etc.) that
> > was previously hidden.
> >
> > I call them "twist controls" but one of my SMEs says they are "accordion"
> > controls.
> >
> > What do my fellow tech whirlers refer to these as?
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