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Monday, May 2, 2011

Get the arrows right!


Simple and obvious, from Citrix's job search website. The Previous arrow is pointing the same direction as the Next arrow. And -- as a side note -- the Preview button has an arrow, which begs the question, does it need one?

This violates the concept of Convention. Traditionally, in a left-to-right reading culture, a left arrow means to return or go back ("Previous") and a right arrow implies going forward ("Next").

Since the Preview button launches a new page (or updates the current page with a new format of the recently input data), there is no particular direction to apply, so no need for an arrow.

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