It seems Amazon has joined the slider band wagon. Amazon now has a “create your own ring” page. The first step in creating your ring is searching for a diamond, which uses sliders to filter price, shape, carat, color, clarity etc.
I think sliders are a far more intuitive interaction for selecting a range of options than any combination of checkboxes, radio buttons or drop down menus. I also like Amazons use of icons within the sliders to further encourage understanding of the options.
Has anyone else found a good implementation of sliders? Do you think they are just “eye candy” or a useful interaction tool?
I have seen sliders used. Just recently on CNN’s Democratic Super-Delegate Death Match Widget they used sliders to show who will win the Death Match between Obama and Clinton.
We live in exciting times. Hanging Chads and Super Delegates make the world go round.
Designing Web Navigation chapter 1, page 8
…for a working example of the filter model for providing access to information go to http://www.philipglass.com/html/pages/glass-engine.html#
SLIDERS!!!!
Two more examples of sliders
The Financial Times
(click on “Click to refine by date.” to see the slider)
Google Finance
Hey Chris nice find.
I think that is my new favorite way to view a collection of well.. anything. I wish I had the time to organize my projects, resources & references that way.
If you post a link to an example of a slider please include a screenshot to ensure we always have the reference even after the page is gone. Below are screenshots of the sliders posted earlier.