On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Amaury Chamayou wrote: > ... but I think we are not > trying to improve speed here, but usability. What we are aiming for is > making the "multiple choices, yet exclusive" obvious at first sight, I > believe.
Interesting you would think of speed not being part of usability. > Maximum speed of use remains the same for users who have some experience > already (ie : they clicked somewhere, and observed the ribbon positionned > itself, with a fast, yet percievable move, on that option, and now know they > can do that every time). It's about avoiding bad habbits. If one ever gets used to one way to operate something, it takes effort to switch to another way. Compare: Position cursor over desired option, click vs Position cursor over current option, press and hold mouse button, move cursor to desired option, release mouse button -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Design for Free Software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
