Contents
Should I use accordions?
Conclusion. Accordions may seem to be a good solution for shortening long content pages. However, in many situations when all the page content is relevant to users, it is more advantageous to show all the content at once, even if doing so results in longer pages.
Which of the following accordion signifiers is most likely to signal to users?
Summary: The caret icon most clearly indicated to users that it would open an accordion in place, rather than linking directly to a new page.
What takes advantage of physical analogies and cultural standards?
Taking advantage of physical analogies and cultural standards, leads to immediate understanding.
What are the advantages of using an accordion?
In theory, it is a useful way to present content. By allowing people to control what content they see and what remains hidden, the information feels less overwhelming. There are other advantages to applying accordions to long, content-rich pages: Collapsing the page minimizes scrolling. The headings serve as a mini-IA of the page.
How to handle very long accordions in Excel?
How to handle opening accordion sections with lots of content that are near the bottom of a page (this accordion has varying height internal sections). My initial idea would be to scroll the page up so that the clicked section moves up to the top of the viewport, showing as much of the opened section as it can but not going off the top.
How many items are in the accordion pattern?
If you’re still forced to apply the accordion pattern, consider the accordion on the right hand menu on UI-patterns.com. Some of the headings there contain around 25 items, and even though the bottom headings disappear from view when you’re looking at it, it’s not confusing.
Is there an accordion for newyorkcares.org?
NewYorkcares.org: There is not enough content here to warrant an accordion. Exposing all of the content at once might make the page slightly longer, but doing so would reveal helpful information that otherwise people will miss. If your pages are extremely long, perhaps the accordion is not the appropriate widget.