The flapper is the symbol of the “modern” woman, who breaks out of the rigorous criteria of the Victorian Pre-War female model. As Joshua Zeitz says, the flapper was most certainly a type, a “caricature”, one part fiction and one part reality, with a splash of melodrama for good measure. Flapper brings up the image of slender women in short, straight dresses, long beaded necklaces, and bobbed hair, drinking gin and dancing the Charleston 20s. Thinking about women in America in the early 20s, we tend to immediately identify them with the iconic character of the flapper. They inspired the change for generations of young women to come, of how women were perceived and how they could act. Colleen Moore, Clara Bow and Louise Brooks were the 3 most famous flappers in Hollywood in 1920's. Clara! Clara! Yes! Yes! Yes!’ ” The Akron Beacon Journal from Akron, Ohioįlappers made huge leaps forward in economic, sexual and political freedoms for women. All together now, boys, ‘Has she got IT? Well, I guess. Chevrons and triangles are often displayed on the same page, perhaps even doing similar things, but their visual difference helps communicate a different level of information.“Flippant flapper, trim and dapper, naughty, haughty, chic man-trapper.

Chevrons can function the same a triangle, but are visually easier to see which direction it's pointing.

Once clicked, there are several ways the new content can be displayed, including a drop-down menu (point down, then up to collapse), a nested vertical nav (point right, then down to collapse), the next panel on mobile (point right, then left to go back), etc. Typically the page defaults with some content intentionally hidden for the user to optionally reveal. Chevrons are flexible, can point in any direction, and need the rest of the interface for their function to be specifically understood. They're typically pointing up so would hardly ever be confused with a 'v'.Ī 'chevron' is a graphic element used by interface designers and front-end developers to communicate to end-users that they can change the interface themselves. It's always paired with something else already visible the words to be inserted. So the bottomline remains that it depends on your requirement and the design choice you make based on at least the first two considerations stated above.Ī 'caret' is a handwritten or typed (shift 6) shape used by proofreaders to communicate to writers where new words should be inserted. In case of modern web UIs, the third point may not be relevant, as people have been seeing the chevron's as open close for a while now. But it does boil down to the design standard and the user's mental model. I do not have backing data for these points, but they are more of a thought based on my experience so far. However, in case of drop-downs or accordions, it is just one which indicates a direction and not part of the chain. A chevron indicates there is one before it. A chevron is considered to be a part of a chain. This is more from the graphics and art side. A chevron may not be as quickly identifiable there. To stand out and register quickly in user's eyes, it is imperative that they have sizable color variation to spot the difference. It is black and it sits on fairly dark shade of blue. That is the Facebook's choice of a triangle. At the same time, a triangle may appear as a blob and may have hard presence which is not needed.īut if you are designing for dark on dark because your color palate demands it, you have to create enough distinction and reduce the visual load on your user so as to understand the difference between the tiny shape and the background. Material Design recommends copious amounts of white spaces and that makes the tiny chevron easy to spot. If it goes very close to the chevron there will be a chance of confusion and while writing a design language, this needs to be thought so the design fits in most of the considerations.Ĭontrast in this sense it the ability of the user to distinguish the shape from its background.

It is possible that the selected value of the dropdown list will be longer. That is why the proximity of white space makes a difference.

A closed dropdown widget may have a chevron and if there is not enough white space it can be confused with the English letter V or W. In the case of drop downs or accordions, when you have huge white space between the content and the shape, it is easy for the user to differentiate between the title of the accordion or the selected value of the dropdown and the shape which opens or closes the widget. So based on that I can think of the following considerations before you make a decision, The difference lies in the aesthetics and visual impact. I don't think there is a functional difference between the two.

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