Styling of SDSS icon is misleading

[alexbfree]

There are three equally sized and styled icons on the classify screen: SDSS, Favourite, and Invert. The right hand two are buttons that respond to a click, and the SDSS button does not. Presumably this is just providing information on the source of the image... as such it should be styled differently from the buttons that are actually clickable - OR, it should be clickable and send you somewhere when you click it (e.g. http://www.sdss.org/ )

[willettk]

Yes - it changes based on the telescope used to classify the active data
set (SDSS, UKIRT, Hubble, etc). No objections to a moderate change; just
put a border or something around it? Should ask @heathv what might be best
...

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:56 AM Alex Bowyer [email protected]
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There are three equally sized and styled icons on the classify screen:
SDSS, Favourite, and Invert. The right hand two are buttons that respond to
a click, and the SDSS button does not. Presumably this is just providing
information on the source of the image... as such it should be styled
differently from the buttons that are actually clickable - OR, it should be
clickable and send you somewhere when you click it (e.g.
http://www.sdss.org/ )

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[heathv]

Looks like that icon is part of a sprite, one that has a green version of that icon. Easiest solution would be to use that one, but it may still look clickable. Otherwise I'd probably have to make a new icon.

[vrooje]

Could it be clickable (or mouseover with no delay, i.e. not just a Title
tag) with a pop-up that explains the SDSS in a sentence?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Heath V [email protected] wrote:

Looks like that icon is part of a sprite, one that has a green version of
that icon. Easiest solution would be to use that one, but it may still look
clickable. Otherwise I'd probably have to make a new icon.

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[heathv]

Yeah, a little mouseover tooltip could work.

[willettk]

I'd vote for clickable rather than hovertext; I think users would get
mildly annoyed if it kept popping up as they moved around the screen.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:52 PM Heath V [email protected] wrote:

Yeah, a little tooltip could work.

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[murraycu]

If it's not clearly a link then the user might confuse it with an action button such as the Invert button. Then they would click it the first time, get taken to a separate web site, and lose their classification in progress. Not the end of the world, but not ideal.

[heathv]

Another simple solution would be to remove the icon and add a line of text below the subject explain (very briefly) and linking to the SDSS.

[willettk]

I'd be OK with either clickable text popping up (brief explanation +
hyperlink to SDSS site), or the text example above. @heathv and @alexbfree

• what do you think is best from a design/UI perspective?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:37 PM Heath V [email protected] wrote:

Another simple solution would be to remove the icon and add a line of text
below the subject explain (very briefly) and linking to the SDSS.

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