Perception

[pauland]

I think having the arrow on the button isn't a great idea. It almost seems to invite you to switch states - which it shouldn't do. It doesn't have a meaning, does it?

On mobile these sliders are OK, but for the desktop I'm not so keen. On mobile you can slide the button, but not so easily on a desktop ( it's clunky).

Radio buttons are quite succinct, but tickboxes are the clearest, universally understood and in tune with many of the Xara icon efforts.

[wizard509]

I totally agree with Paul. My first thought of the arrows was ti could be confusing unless you made an animated button that when it was in the other position would switch arrow direction and saying on or off whatever the case would be. Personally I like the idea of check boxes best, they are clean and simple, easy to understand.

[gracehjs]

OK, just to show you what we have at the moment. I will play with checkboxes.

[gracehjs]

Also, with check boxes we are back to the problem I was trying to solve - showing that the second column cannot be changed.

[pauland]

The low contrast of that white text on a purple gradient makes the page quite hard to read. I think red is a colour to avoid - because it's associated with danger and is very dominant on that page. I think the usual convention for such slide indicators is to have a weak colour, or no colour for 'off' and a stronger indicator for on.

Moving the descriptive text (labels) so far from the setting makes this page very hard to process visually - you have to scan back and forth for each setting. The description and settings should be near to each other.

In the past when trying to indicate an unchangeable value, I've put a tiny padlock next to the item, which might be an idea here.

[wizard509]

The low contrast of that white text on a purple gradient makes the page quite hard to read. I think red is a colour to avoid - because it's associated with danger and is very dominant on that page. I think the usual convention for such slide indicators is to have a weak colour, or no colour for 'off' and a stronger indicator for on.

Moving the descriptive text (labels) so far from the setting makes this page very hard to process visually - you have to scan back and forth for each setting. The description and settings should be near to each other.

In the past when trying to indicate an unchangeable value, I've put a tiny padlock next to the item, which might be an idea here.

I agree that the white text there is difficult to read as well as the distance between text and sliders. I am not so sure about the red color, your point about danger is well taken, but, it could also mean on off. Kind of depends on the mindset of the viewer. Personally I think off probably should have low or no color so I guess here I more or less agree with Paul. Here is a thought, what if the sliders were moved to the left of the text with a shorter distance separating slider and text.

[gracehjs]

OK, Here are plain buttons moved closer to the description. I am just starting to learn XAML, so I haven't figured out yet if I can make two columns. And I know some more of the text needs changing from white.