User-accustomed interaction design: How to interact with drag-and-drop

Article Description: Drag and drop the trilogy-from "Put the elephant in the fridge".

First of all, Zhao Benshan and song Dandan's sketch joke: To put the elephant into the fridge a total of a few steps? It takes 3 steps to cram an elephant into the fridge: 1 to open the fridge door, 2 to load the elephant, and 3 to bring the fridge door. This is a brain-teasers joke, but it refines the 3 steps that we normally take to put an object into another object in our lives.

1. The world of combination of actual and reality

With the advent of the information age, our life is not only limited to the touch of the natural environment, but also expand to the intangible virtual environment. Then, real-life behavior, such as shopping, making friends and entertaining, can also be mapped to virtual environments. In the virtual world, the mouse, keyboard and even part of the body can help us accomplish things in our natural environment. Our life has also been enriched by the "combination of reality".

2, the virtual world "into" the operation of the course

Just now, the way people behave in nature is mapped to virtual environments. The question is, does the behavior in the virtual environment coincide with the natural environment? If not, should there be a different trait in the virtual environment?

Since the use of the mouse, keyboard operation of the computer, we have been taught the operation of the habit of experiencing such a process: the right mouse click (copy, paste)-keyboard shortcuts (CTRL + C, CTRL + V)-mouse drag and drop. Every innovation has made us

Realize that the computer becomes more and more intelligent and understands the human language more and more.

The desktop environment as an example, talk about how to achieve the virtual environment, "Put the elephant into the fridge," that is, to put an element into another element.

Factor set: Element A and Factor B.

Goal setting: Put factor A into factor B.

According to the different operating habits, this article lists the following steps:

The action of the diagram above maps out:

The "right mouse button" operation requires the user to spend a lot of time on the right mouse button click selection;

The "Double click and Keyboard" operation is more focused than the right mouse button, and can be done quickly for people who are familiar with the keyboard.

The "mouse double-click + drag-and-drop" operation is straightforward, and the user can witness the whole process of factor a entering factor B.

The evolution of the operation mode from left to right is the progress of the Man-machine interface to more and more natural and simple interactive ways.

3. Drag and Drop Trilogy

"Double click + drag and Drop" must be the most direct, natural and convenient way for people to put an object into another object.

Maybe you can do this:

The above three steps are only for the "drag and drop" process, omitting the mouse double-click to open and close. The user simply drags the icon to the specified target's icon and completes the operation of putting an object into another object. Because in the computer's virtual space, as long as the power supply, the computer is an open space, almost no closed area. Users also do not need to have the same action as "open" in real life. Only from the icon of Factor B (folder), it implies that it is not completely closed.

But this is very simple, direct action, the user how to know can drag? What can I do to drag? When to drag, drag to where?

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