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Should the radio button have a default value selected
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jerome Ryckborst Jun 13, 2011.

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Jerome Ryckborst replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

I agree: what are the consequences of providing a default? Alan Cooper, in his book About Face, talks about how we shouldn't treat data as holy when fixing the data—capturing perfect data—is at the user's expense. He…

Jun 13, 2011

David Shapiro replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

It depends on the client's design goals. In one of the applications I recently designed, check boxes and/or radio buttons were left blank when they were related to a required field. This insured that user had to make a decision for…

Jun 13, 2011

Christine Oberholzer replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

There are two sides to this, I think. I understand what you are saying and I do agree, especially when it's an option/action that you want the user to think about before choosing and when it's mandatory. I think the decision if…

Jun 13, 2011

Rona Sotaski replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

One important thing to consider is whether it is an opinion item. If it is, definitely no default value should be selected. For other scenarios, see comments from Ashley Rovenski and Cam Beck.

Jun 10, 2011

Raju John replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

Hi Sachin, I totally agree with the description given by wiki; my question is why it is called radio button, what the term "radio mean here. So to avoid confusion MSTP says call it option or round button. As a user when i view the GUI I will…

Jun 10, 2011

Sachin replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

@Raju:By wiki: A radio button is a type of GUI element to choose only one of a predefined options. They were named after the physical buttons used on older Car radios to select preset stations - when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons…

Jun 10, 2011

Raju John replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

Hi, The term radio(has relative meaning to it) button itself is wrong; According to the MSTP it should be called as option button or round button. The term "radio" allows an user to perceive something else other than the actually…

Jun 10, 2011

Trupti Patil replied to Trupti Patil's discussion 'Should the radio button have a default value selected'

Hello All, Thank you for sharing your experiences and views. Finally it was decided to have a default button preselected for all the radio buttons to be consistent. We have yet to check from SME's which option they think is mostly…

Jun 7, 2011