RE: Help button location in dialog boxes

["Karen L. Zorn" <k -dot- zorn -at- zorntech -dot- com>]

> I would like to know if there are any standards on where to 
> add the Help button (question mark) in dialog boxes. Is it 
> normally positioned on the top-right hand corner or on the 
> bottom part of the dialog box?

If you put Help buttons in places users are not accustomed to finding them,
you can cause frustration. Yesterday I was working with an online
conferencing application and needed Help. I used the Help menu on the top,
then realized it was for my browser. I finally found Help at the *bottom* of
the application menu, a very small round button with a question mark.

I was frustrated when what I was looking for was not obvious, but I
survived. Consider your users.

Karen L. Zorn
Zorn Technologies, Inc.
Mesa, AZ


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