Re: start menu vs classic menu.
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:41:43 -0800
Just to chime in and say that's my feeling about the two kinds of menus, as
well. The more automated something like this becomes, and the more
supposedly user friendly it gets by presenting as little as possible so that
a user can avoid going through any steps to arrive at a destination, the
more disoriented I become. the design of the newer style start menu seems
to be predicated on this idea of treating the user like a baby so you can
get into rooms in your computer's house without having to walk down the
connecting hallways and actually know where the doors are. I'll bet these
developments contribute to making more and more users computer illiterate
and more easily befuddled than ever before. The one time I switched to the
newer menu system and explored it, I was really grateful that I was able to
guess that I might find the start menu options listed in its version of the
Control Center, so I could switch back.
Daniel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Francis Daniels" <fdaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: start menu vs classic menu.
> Hi Jack,
>
> I personally like knowing as much as I can from a menu. That's why I like
> the classic Start menu and also why I like the classic menu system in
> Word.
> My concern is that I might miss something in a menu if it is only showing
> me
> my most recently used menu options, not all of them. Yes, I know some
> people like the other way of doing that, but Windows does give you those
> options if you want them. I like that.
>
> Francis
>
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