Usability - How to edit favorites?

Question

Hi,

I'd like to get some opinions about about usability in the following case:

1. Target group people from 30-50, low to middle internet affinity.

2. App: I have a website with login. Visitors can save interesseting pages in their fav-box for fast access.

3. Here the actual question: How to edit this favorites? Is it better to give the visitors direct access to drag/dropn and delete their favs or is it better to have an edit button so they have to activate the edit mode before? The fav-link would look like this >

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| link text to click | icon-drag | icon-delete |

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thx for input TC

Answer 1

For low-middle internet affinity, I'd say KISS. Have a VERY visible and easy to trigger "Edit My Favorite Links List" button.

Not a link - not only is having links for actions is a bad idea in general (see Nielsen and assorted SO link vs button discussions), but for the target audience ease of clicking is even more important.

I would also make the editing mode either a pop-up or a modal sprite (large size) so that the editing functionality elements can be made large and obvious and easy to access.