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Because voting is a multi-step process often involving more than one action. I have experienced all the below votes at governmental level, they are not hypothet
by Y-bar 3y ago
Because voting is a multi-step process often involving more than one action. I have experienced all the below votes at governmental level, they are not hypothetical to me:
Sometimes the voter has the ability to add arbitrary options to the ballot.
Sometimes multiple values are allowed.
Sometimes there are positional votings.
Sometimes there is ranked-choice.
Sometimes you do not even want to submit the vote.
Looking only at "these are the options available, choose one and only one" is not a valid strategy for reaching the conclusion on what UI idiom to use.
I protest against the default assumption that radio buttons (no matter how much I like them) should be the default go-to for voting interfaces because of the context of voting is too complex.
- arrrg 3y agoThat is such a weird perspective not at all relevant to this discussion. Obviously all the examples you named are not a good fit for radio buttons. Except maybe the last one where you can just add an “invalid vote“ radio button choice. But that doesn’t mean that for a fairly standard “pick one” vote radio buttons aren’t a good choice! You don’t have to be consistent within the concept of voting, you just have to be consistent for the one relevant use case!