https://hashbang.ca/tag/hci Recent content in Hci on Hashbang.ca Hugo en-us Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:07:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/consistency-and-direction-in-pagination Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:07:00 -0400 https://hashbang.ca/post/consistency-and-direction-in-pagination/ <p>Today, I discovered yet again one of the cardinal sins of user interface design &ndash; inconsistency. A blog had two pagination interfaces on one page - and they had opposite directionality. For one, older posts were to the left; for the other, older posts were to the right. This is an obvious and egregious error, and the solution is to make them operate in the same direction, or better yet, remove one.</p>