Hey folks,

 I've been working on some new interactions and was looking for a little feedback on this one.  It's a "draggable" list like the ones used throughout the iPhone, and although it isn't perfect, the interaction is about as close as I can get to the real thing.

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on how to improve the simulation, or if it even makes sense :).  See here: http://www.acleandesign.com/m/AxureCarousel/Home.html. Click the images in the center to make it work.

[self plug alert]   I also wrote up how this was made and posted the .rp file at: http://www.acleandesign.com/2008/09/click-and-drag-simulation-in-axure [/self plug alert]

Hey Loren,

why didn't you post this message under your original post:
http://axure.com/cs/forums/thread/3288.aspx

???

Hi Loren!

That's damn cool. The only suggestion I'd have is that instead of clicking on the image to activate the drag region, maybe an OnMouseOver instead? In a prototype test, people wouldn't click and release to drag, they'd just hold it down.

If OnMouseOver of a dragable object two arrows were to appear on top of it on either side, OnMouseOver there would kick off the drag event. You'd probably have to set this up as a custom widget or something to make it easily repeatable.

I *really* like how you've faked the animation. : )

F.

Thanks Fred :)   You're right about the user test, I've already had people (even Axure users!) show me that the "drag behavior on this thing is broken".  I tried your solution and it's pretty slick, but the user loses the ability to decide when to initiate these interactions, and ends up accidentally doing it.  Basically, neither way is perfect.. Axure isn't ready for user testing of click-and-drag behavior.  In Version 2 of the library, I simply tagged the ones using this behavior as "beta".. best we can do right now, I think.