A No Click Interface?
How long can you go without clicking on a website interface is the question asked by this user interface experiment posted today on Ajaxian. The website experiments with building a clickless interface and it pulls it off fairly well. It doesn’t take long to figure out how to navigate menus pages with only movements of your mouse. Thier idea comes from the fear of a mouse with ever an increasing number of buttons. They have clickless experiments and and games to show that mousless interfaces are functional and even suggest a humorous product that would help ween you away from clicking a mouse:
The site is fun although its less of an academic experiment and more of an art exibit trying to make a point. It looks like click statistics are measure possibly to come to some type of conclusion but the experiment is presented almost like a game: see how long you can go without clicking. Of course, when there is a button that your told not to push we tend to have an urge out of curiousity and defiance to push it to see what happens.
My mouse has four buttons and a scroll wheel that clicks like a button. I’ve actually have grown accustomed to using all of them but think that any more would be excessive.
Interfaces should always be simplified, but I doubt the definitive action of a click can be fully replaced by mouse movements. However, after playing with this site I can see how interfaces could be simplified by using less mouse clicking.
